2007- 08              Tacoma Artist Initiative Grant from Tacoma Arts Commission
2007                     Swanson, C. J., City Arts, featured in The Curator’s Eye, November-December 2007
2006                     Accepted by jury as one of 75 artists for the Northwest Artist Registry.
2002                     Camera Club of New York National, Honorable Mention, one of six finalists invited
                               to exhibit, Alfred Lowenherz Gallery, New York, March 9 – April 6,  Andres Serrano - juror
2001                     Masello, David, Art and Antiques Magazine, Spring 2001 – Photography Edition, June    2001, feature article:
                               Betty Sapp Ragan: Emerging Artist
2000                     Keegan, Salima, ed., Hayden’s Ferry Review, Fall-Winter 2000 issue, publication of two photo collages from the
                               Buttoned Down Series (Temple Garage, Uptown Theater)
2000                     Afterwards. Inside cover photograph. New York: Chinatown Manpower publication
1989                     Selected for the Washington State Arts Commission Resource Bank, a slide resource registry for art commissions
                               and purchase of artwork for public buildings
1988                     Jo-Anne Ard, Women Artists News, Vol. 12, No. 1, Spring 1988, review of Studio 218 and reproduction of photo etching,
                               Irish Madonna