The Artist's Magazine selected Where's my WD 40? as a finalist in their 24th Annual Art Competition. The award winners and finalists will be featured in the December 2007 edition of the magazine.

Cahoon Museum of American Art has accepted Dawn's watercolor painting, Sycamore in the Tree-mendous exhibit, August 7 through September 30, 2007. There will be an opening reception and awards ceremony on Friday, August 10 from 5 to 7 pm. The Cahoon Museum of American Art is located at 4676 Falmouth Road (Route 28), Cotuit, Massachusetts. Visit http://www.cahoonmuseum.org for more information. The exhibition had originally been slated to be judged by noted artist, Charles Sovek, who passed away on June 8. The show was then juried by New Hampshire artist, Don Stone, a member of the National Academy whose work is represented in many museum collections.

Where's my WD-40? received an Honorable Mention in the Watercolor Magic Magazine Watermedia Showcase and is featured in the August 2007 issue of the publication. This piece received Best in Show at the Watertown Art Association 2006 Annual Exhibit and was accepted into the New England Watercolor Society 2006 North American Open Show as well as the Arsenal Center for the Art's inaugural exhibit, Transformations, in 2005.

Children's Hospital Boston's Waltham, Massachusetts facility has received several new artworks in the Art for Kool Kids program painted by Dawn. Space themed paintings in the Infusion department and sports figure paintings in the Sports Medicine department were recently painted by Dawn. The big attention grabbing installation is the multi-paneled hallway installation of work in the Center for Communication Disorders & Otolaryngology, titled Can You Hear Me Now? The piece was featured in an article by Jillian Fennimore in The Watertown Tab and Metrowest Daily News Tribune in April:

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The work features children using various forms of communication and has several "secret codes" to crack, including semaphore, Morse code and American Sign, historical modes of communication like smoke signals and cave paintings, children exploring the world of sound with new cochlear implants and colorful hearing aids, music, cell phones, TTY and closed circuit communication. Each mural features at least one mounted cut-away shape or tactile element that invites hands to touch the artwork. Many of the pieces are mounted below the chair rail to allow access by smaller children and children in wheelchairs. Physicians and patients alike have responded favorably to the pieces, with patients and their families often seeing themselves in the children depicted on the murals. One boy who uses a head pointer to operate his computer spotted a fellow Red Sox fan posting to a fan web-log in one of the paintings and exclaimed, "That’s me!" The mural was also featured in a video debuted at a celebration of 10 Years of Art for Kool Kids at Boston Children's Hospital on June 12.

The Watertown Middle School Community Mural Club received Third Place in the Blue Man Group's 2006 Vortex Boston art competition in the 12 to 18 year old category. Their winning entry, H2O Town Squared, will be a featured installation at the Boston Children's Museum. The winners were treated to an exciting awards night at Limelight Studios on Tremont Street hosted by KISS 108 DJ, Billy Costa. The club kids were driven by limousine from the Charles Playhouse to the trendy nightspot where they dined on tasty appetizers and sodas, and had a super time meeting the Blue Man Group and basking in their success.

Boston Cows on Parade to benefit the Jimmy Fund in 2006 proudly featured 5 cows painted by Dawn. She was featured on WCVB's Chronicle Magazine on June 2, 2006 with several of the cows. The Boston Herald and Herald Media were the media sponsors of the event, and featured Dawn in an Artist Spotlight in their Sunday June 18 color special insert covering Boston Cows on Parade. This supplement was also published in all of the regional TAB community newspapers. The insert profiled several artists, all 117 cows from the exhibit and featured a locator map to find them throughout the city. Patches, the Community Quilt Cow was painted with assistance from the Watertown Middle School Community Mural Club and was sponsored and ultimately purchased by Cumberland Farms. It was displayed in front of the Boston Public Library. Fanny, The Fenway Park Cow was painted with assistance from the art class at the Veronica Smith Multi-Service Senior Center in Brighton, and debuted at their cow themed Annual Exhibit. The cow was sponsored by the Mariott Copley Square and displayed in their lobby. It was signed by the 2006 Red Sox team. Observant viewers had no trouble finding the special "New York Yankee Entrance" - a fantasy door on the otherwise authentic and well researched Fenway Park fasade. Coral, the Ocean Reef Cow was sponsored by Chubb and Co. and happily welcomed visitors to Boston's waterfront and the entrance to the New England Aquarium. Emmy, the Emerald Necklace Cow educated visitors to Boston's famed "Emerald Necklace", the park system laid out by Frederick Law Olmstead in the 1870's that includes Boston Common, The Boston Public Gardens, The Charles River Esplanade and Commonwealth Mall, The Fenway, Jamaica Pond, Olmstead Park, Franklin Park and Zoo and The Arnold Arboretum. Her flanks featured a detailed map of the historic park system, and she sported a sparkling necklace and earrings in emerald hues of Swarovski crystals. This cow was also sponsored by the Mariott Copley Square and displayed on their second floor mezzanine overlooking the restaurant and cafe. The final cow was designed by the team at Staples, Inc. and painted by Dawn and her niece, artist Tiana Chase. Easy Bell featured colorful blocks with images of Staples products and greeted visitors to Boston Common in front of the entrance to Park Street Station. It was sponsored by Staples, and now lives in the window of Dawn's studio at the Arsenal Center for the Arts. The Boston Cow Parade opened with a gala on the waterfront in City Square, Charlestown on May 18, 2006 and closed at an exciting Cow Auction on September 22 at the Mariott Copley Square. Dawn's cows alone raised over $40,000 for the charity.

Where's my WD-40? received Best in Show at the Watertown Art Association 2006 Annual Exhibit at the Armenian Library and Museum of America. Her painting Good Fortune received 1st Place Professional Watercolor in the 2007 WAA Annual Exhibit held at the Watertown Free Public Library Watertown Savings Bank Room.

New England Watercolor Society accepted Where's my WD-40? in their 2006 North American Open Show at the North Shore Arts Association in Gloucester, MA. Her piece, The Sun Worshipper was accepted in the NEWS 2005 Regional Show at the Saco Museum in Saco, Maine. When two more pieces are accepted in future NEWS shows, Dawn will have achieved the requirement to be a signature member of the society. The New England Watercolor Society was founded in 1885 as the Boston Society of Watercolor Painters, becoming the Boston Watercolor Society in 1896 and subsequently the New England Watercolor Society in 1980. Its 27 charter members included some of the best known names in American Art such as Charles Curtis Allen, Frank W. Benson, George Hallowell, F. Childe Hassam, Louis Kronberg, Otis Philbrook, Maurice Prendergast, Charles Woodbury, honorary member John Singer Sargent, and more recently Andrew Wyeth. Their website is newenglandwatercolorsociety.org