2007-02-26 Kevin O'Dwyer has been named to "Irish America's Top 100 for 2007". The Irish America Magazine honours people in the fields of arts and entertainment, community, education, medicine and science, politics and public service. The winners will be featured in the April/May edition of the Irish America magazine and they will be honoured at a gala dinner held at Broadway's Hilton Theatre, New Your City on March 11th. O'Dwyer will be honoured for his contributions to the Arts both as an artist and for his involvement in arts and heritage projects in Ireland and the USA. O'Dwyer has won over 40 international awards and his work can be found in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, The High Museum, Racine Museum of Art, The Ulster Museum, Sparta Teapot Museum and the National Museum of Ireland as well as the private collections of Nelson Mandela, King Carl Gustus, Sweden and the Imperial Family, Japan. O'Dwyer initiated the Lough Boora International Sculpture Symposium which won the prestigious Business2Arts Award in 2003. He now directs Sculpture in the Parklands which has recently received a national award for Best Public Art/Sculpture for 2007 (LAMA Awards). O'Dwyer's involvement in heritage includes the conception and direction of "Stories from a Sacred Landscape: Croghan Hill to Clonmacnoise", a coffee table book that looks at the rich monastic heritage of County Offaly. He curated the exhibition "Wild Geese- The Irish in America", which looks at the contemporary craftwork of Irish American artists. The exhibition will open at the National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny on March 30th, 2007.