Priscilla Messner-Patterson is an award-winning artist specializing in aviation-related subjects. She has been the recipient of the two American Society of Aviation Artists Gold Founders' Awards, two Simuflite/Flying Magazine Awards, two Aviation Week and Space Technology Awards and was featured in the Alaska Journal of Commerce 2002 issue of Women in Business. She is a member of the American Society of Aviation Artists, the Canadian Aviation Artists Association, the Alaska Watercolor Society and th eCoast Guard and Air Force Art Programs.