"Delaware Crossing 5", Hudson Valley Art Association 78th Annual, Muriel Alvord: Memorial Award, 2009

"House at Field's Edge 1", Red River Valley Museum International Juried Exhibition, Texas, Judge's Merit Award, 2009

"Delaware Crossing 4", Cooperstown Art Association 74th Annual, Dorothy Bostwick Campbell Memorial Prize, 2009

Elected Member, Hudson Valley Art Association, 2008

10 Year Recognition Award, Colored Pencil Society of America, 2007

American Artist Magazine Award of Excellence, 15th International Exhibition, Colored Pencil Society of America, August 2007

Allied Artists of America Graphics Award for "Delaware Crossing 1"
92nd Annual Exhibition at The National Arts Club
New York, New York, 2005

"Best of Show" for "Delaware Crossing 3"
"I Can't Believe It's Colored Pencil, WOW!" Invitational Exhibition: Akron, Ohio, 2005

Award of Excellence, Arts in Harmony ’05, 10th Annual National Show: Elk River, Minnesota, 2005

Cecilia Cardman Memorial Award
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, 108th Annual Exhibition
New York, New York, 2004

Hudson Valley Art Association’s Graphics Award
New York, New York, 2004

Juried Member, National Association of Women Artists, Inc., 2003

Best of Show, National Juried Art Exhibition, Cedar Key Arts Center: Cedar Key, Florida, 2003

Five-Year Recognition Award, Colored Pencil Society of America, 1999

Signature Member, Colored Pencil Society of America, 1996

Best of Show, MEMPHIS MOMENTUMS,
Schering- Plough Corporate Gallery
Memphis, Tennessee. Juried by John Buchanan, 1993

Publications

Vera Curnow, The Best of Colored Pencil 4, Rockport Publishers, Inc., 1997.

Vera Curnow, The Best of Colored Pencil 3, Rockport Publishers, Inc., 1996.

Vera Curnow, Creative Colored Pencil Landscapes, Quarry Books, 1996.

Vera Curnow, Creative Colored Pencil, Rockport Publishers, Inc., 1995.

Vera Curnow, The Best of Colored Pencil 2, Rockport Publishers, Inc., 1994.

Sandra Angelo, “Colored Pencil: Secrets of Modern Masters”, The Artist’s Magazine, 1991.