Pipia’s artwork is in the permanent collection of the Kentucky Folk Art Center in Morehead, Kentucky, the University of Kentucky Medical Center, Henry Clay Foundation,Kentucky Eagle Brewing, and Ruggles Sign Company, and many others.  Her work is also a part of several private collections, including  Dark Hollow Farm in Upperco, Maryland.

 

She has served on the Kentucky Folk Art Center Board for 10 years and was a member of the committee that developed the first fundraiser for the museum. Monica has exhibited her work at the University of Kentucky, Arts Place, the Kentucky Folk Art Center, the Lexington Arts and Science Center, and numerous galleries across the country from a horse-and-rider exhibit in Los Angeles to a juried show with the Academy of Equine Arts in Farmington, New Jersey.  Invited and displayed artwork as a solo show for both the Patron and Sponsor Tents for the Kentucky Three Day Event in April of 2022 and 2023.

 

She is a recipient of the Andy Warhol Fellowship Award, the Kentucky Foundation for Women Grant and a VIP award for her residency in Alaska with the National Park Service.  Pipia was nominated for the Kentucky Derby and Oaks poster image 2016 and was selected as the first Revel Artist at the Artisan Center in Berea Kentucky.  Her goal is to simply keep creating art and bringing it into the public eye.