Public Art and Recognition
The holdings of the Koehnline Museum of Art at Oakton Community College include a collection of fifteen of Burroughs' linocut prints from the 1990s.
Taylor-Burroughs won the Paul Robeson Award in 1989, and in 2010 was granted The Legends and Legacy Award, a program of the Leadership Advisory Committee of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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