Michael Taylor’s exceptional career in visual arts and education spans forty years. It is evidenced by peer recognition through scholarships and grants from such prestigious organizations as Fulbright-Hayes Research Grant to Sweden and Central Europe; National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Arts Fellowship; New York State Foundation for the Arts Grant; New York State Council for the Arts, Visual Artist Fellowship; Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant; The Thord-Gray Fellowship of the American-Scandinavian Foundation; Korean – American Cultural Exchange, Samsung – Corning Foundation; Grand Prize – International Exhibition of Glass, Kanazawa, Japan; Dansforth Foundation for Humanities Grant; United States Department of Information Services, Cultural Spet Award, Mexico; Portuguese – American Foundation Grant.