Recognitions
- Arizona Governor’s Choice Award 2024 - Cowgirl Up!
- Director’s Choice Award 2024 - Cowgirl Up!
- Grand Award - Indigenous Collection, Santa Fe Indian Market, Sept 2021
- Best of Show - Choctaw Nation Indian Arts Show 2013, 2015, 2016
- National Resistance Art Contest Winner, Artspan, Oct 2020
- First Place - Painting Mixed Media Painting Category - Santa Fe Indian Market 2022
- First Place - Painting Mixed Media Category - Heard Museum Market, 2016, 2021
- First Place - Drawing - Sedona Arts Festival 2011, 2012, 2013
- First Place - Painting - Choctaw Indian Arts Show 2006, 2013
- First Place - Drawing - Bosque Conservatory Arts 2005
- First Place - Fine Arts Division Powwow.com 2004
- Honorable Mention - Santa Fe Indian Market 2019
- Honorable Mention - Heard Indian Market 2020
- People’s Choice - Choctaw Nation Indian Arts Show 2015
- Heritage Award - Choctaw Indian Arts Show 2006
- Second Place - Painting Division - Heard Museum 2023, 2024
- Second Place - Painting Division - Santa Fe Indian Market 2022
- Second Place - Other Media - Dallas Artists' Showplace 2005
- Second Place - Painting - Choctaw Nation Indian Arts Show 2006
- Third Place - Prescott Indian Art Market 2012
- Third Place - Drawing - Choctaw Indian Arts Show 2005
- Third Place - Painting - Choctaw Indian Arts Show 2005
- Native American Art Magazine, Artists to Know Right Now, Market Guide 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
- Acquisition: 12 original art pieces by the Choctaw Nation Judicial Center in Durant, OK, 2019
Publications
- Southwest Art Magazine - Cowgirl Up!, Featured Artists March 2024
- Western Art Collector Magazine - Cowgirl Up!, Featured Artists Article March 2024
- Native American Art Magazine - “Inside Look” Heard Museum Featured Artists, March 2024
- Native American Art Magazine - "Decolonizing the Map”, Feature Article, May 2023
- Bird Conservation Magazine, “Lessons from Indigenous Lifeways”, Feature Article, Winter 2022-23
- Southwest Art Magazine - " Celebrating Women Artist, Feature Article”, Nov 2022
- Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, Collector’s focus, - The Choctaw railroad: A Story of Land and Blood, August 2022
- Phoenix Home and Garden Magazine - “Native Spark”, May 2022
- Native American Art Magazine, Front cover, SWAIA 100 years edition of Santa Fe Indian Market, August/Sept 2022
- Native American Art Magazine, “Inside Access” Six artists exhibit at the Museum Shop during the annual Heard Museum Indian Fair and Market, March 2022. Recipient of first Indigenous Collections Grand Award
- Reporters Notebook - Santa Fe Indian Market 2021 - Featured Artist
- Interview with Karen Clarkson - Artspan - June 2021
- 5enses Magazine profile portrait of Naiomi Glasses by K. Clarkson, June 2021
- What’s Going on in Indian Country -Native News Online May 21, 2021 Portrait of Naiomi Glasses, “The Wild Wild West"
- Native American Art Magazine, Artists to Know Right Now, Market Guide 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
- The Age of Art OnLine Art Markets, profile on Karen Clarkson, Native News Online, Oct 2021
- "What’s Going on in Indian Country", Native News Online, Nov 2020
- New Mexico Magazine, The Low Down, “Spirit Unbroken” August 2020
- Native News Online “Strength and Sky” by Karen Clarkson, “What’s Available at the Virtual Santa Fe Indian Market, July 2020
- Power of the Storm, by MariJo Moore, contributing artist, Oct 2020
- National Resistance Art Contest Winner, Artspan, Oct 2020
- Native Artists Adopting their Crafts and Marketing for Virtual Success, Native News Online - Featured artist, 2020
- Santa Fe New Mexican, “Indian Market Tackles Subject of Missing and Murdered Native Women”, Featured Artist, 2019
- Santa Fe Indian Market Guide - “Indian Market Special Edition, Artists to Know Right Now”, 2019
- Choctaw Artist Presents history and Research Through Art , First Nations, 2019
- The Daily Courier, “Choctaw Artist to give presentation at St. Luke’s” March 2019
- Choctaw Nation, “Art of the Choctaw Nation Headquarters” 2019
- Santa Fe Indian Market Guide - “Indian Market Special Edition, Artists to Know Right Now”, 2018
- Northern Arizona Mountain Living - “Exhibits Not to Miss”, A Choctaw Story of Land and Blood, 2018
- The NAFOA Navigator - Cover photo and feature article, 2018
- Arizona Sun - Cover photo / featured article “Land Blood History: New Choctaw Exhibit Explores a Violent American Past”, 2018
- Cowboys and Indians, Autry Show Los Angelos, April 2018
- 5 Senses, Spotlight on Studio Tour, 2018
- Native American Art Magazine - Choctaw Story of Land and Blood, 2018
- Native American Art Magazine - “Art Explores Government Regulations”, 2018
- Flaglive - Feature Story and Cover “Choctaw Story of Land and Blood”, Jan 2018
- Choctaw Spirit - “Choctaw History Through the Eyes of an Artist”, 4 part series, Dec 2017
- Biskinik “Clarkson Wins for “Uncle Willie’s Birth”, July 2016
- The Daily Courier, “Native Artists Share Creations”, July 2016
- The Noise - “Native Roots, Tribes, Color, Symbols”, June 2016
- The Noise - “Honoring Ancestry Through Art”, Cover photo and Feature Article, Flagstaff, Nov 2015
- The Noise, “The Center Multiplies”, 2015
- Art Journey “Portraits and Figures” featured artist - North Light Books 2014
- Strokes of Genius 6 - North Light Books 2014, featured artist
- Southwest Art Magazine - 10 Artists to Watch, Featured Artist, 2013
- Saltypie, children’s book illustrator, 2011
Exhibits and Shows
- Cowgirl Up! Invitational - Wickenburg, AZ 2024
- Sovereign Santa Fe -curated contemporary Native American art exhibit Aug 16-21, 2021, 2023
- SEASAM Southeastern Art Show and Market - Chickasaw Nation Oklahoma - Oct-Dec 2020
- Gaylord-Pickens, Oklahoma Hall of Fame - “Ikbi: Chickasaws and Choctaw Sharing Our History and Culture, 2018
- Heard Museum Indian Art Show - Phoenix Arizona 2010-2024
- Santa Fe Indian Market - Santa Fe New Mexico - 2007 - 2024
- Coconino Center for the Arts - “A Choctaw Story of Land and Blood” solo exhibit, Flagstaff 2018
- Phippen Museum Western Art Show - Prescott Arizona 2011-2024
- Phippen Museum "The People Speak"- Prescott Arizona 2016
- Phippen Museum “Under Native Skies”- Prescott Arizona 2021
- Choctaw Nation Indian Art Show - Tvshka Homma Oklahoma, 2009-2018
- Choctaw History Through the Eyes of An Artist, Choctaw Spirit, 2017
- Mississippi Museum of Archives and History - permanent installation, 2017
- Coconino Center for the Arts - “ New Latitude” - Flagstaff, 2016
- Prescott Indian Market - Prescott Arizona 2011-2015
- Coconino Center for the Arts, “Unstill Life” - Flagstaff Arizona 2014
- Mountain Artists Guild - Prescott Arizona 2012-2019
- "Tis Art Gallery - “Journeys in Spirit” - Prescott Arizona 2012-2019
- Sedona Arts Festival - Sedona Arizona 2011, 2012, 2013
- Smokii Museum - Prescott Arizona 2012
- Best Fest - Arizona's 100 Best Artists - 2010
- Art of the Americas - San Rafael California 2010
- "Made in America" Solo Exhibit - San Leandro California 2010
- "Native America" Solo Exhibit - Napa California 2008
- "American Portraits" Solo Exhibit - Farmington New Mexico 2005
- Bosque Conservatory Art Classic - Clifton Texas 2005, 2013