Honors and Awards

 

• One-man show at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
• Smithsonian, National Museum of Natural History, Portraits of Great Saturniid Moths: January 15, 1990 – June 1, 1990, Washington D.C.
• Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera. In 1995, a  newly discovered moth, a chocolate-brown specimen found only in northern Pakistan,  was formally named Saturnia codyi in honor of Dr. John Cody (Hays, Kansas, U.S.A.) in recognition of his work through art, writings, and lectures to bring awareness to the public of the need to preserve habitats of Saturniidae.
• Governor’s Arts Award in 1997 for Individual Artist Lifetime Achievement Award in the State of Kansas.
• The Guild of Natural Science Illustrators Special Service Award 2012.
• Johns Hopkins, Department of Art as Applied to Medicine, 2013 Ranice W. Crosby Distinguished Achievement Awardee.