Select Honors & Awards

2024 Selected Artist in Residence, Watershed Center for Ceramics, Edgecomb, Maine

2023 Best Sculpture Award, Clay Houston Exhibition. Falon Mihalic, Artist

Texas Society of Architects Design Award, XO House by LO/JO Architects

2022 Texas Society of Architects Design Award, Allston Residence by Content Architecture

2020-2021 Individual Artist Grant, Houston Arts Alliance, Houston, Texas

2019-Present Pre-Qualified Public Artist, City of Tucson AZ

Pre-Qualified Public Artist, City of San Antonio, TX

2019 Selected Artist in Residence. Mauser Foundation, Costa Rica

2019 Proclamation of Excellence, Houston City Council, Esquina de Musica Project

2018 Play Everywhere Project Grantee, Kaboom Foundation, Washington DC

Let Creativity Happen! Grantee, Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs, Houston, Texas

2016 Winning Competition Entry, Bastrop Culture Walk, Art in Public Places, Bastrop, Texas

Selected Artist in Residence, Sojourn Studio, Houston, Texas

2015 Emerging Artist Grant, Houston Arts Alliance. Houston, Texas

Winning Competition Entry, Land Art at Re: Gallery. Dallas, Texas

Select Press

“Meow Wolf Opens New Portal in 5th Ward”. by Andrew Dansby. Houston Chronicle. February 15, 2024

“Pursuit Of Happiness.” Paper City Magazine Design Feature. Inverness House. October 2023

“Falon Mihalic’s Sculpture Maps the Atmospheric Forces that Bind us” Zach Mortice. Landscape Architecture Magazine Online September 28, 2022

“An Environmental Revelation”. Ross Weinert. Cite Digital. July 12, 2021

“Making the Meander: Falon Land Studio’s Prototype Practice”. Haniya Rae. Landscape Architecture Magazine. February 2021

“Market Square Park glows with newest Public Art Installation” by Sam Byrd. Houston Press. January 6, 2021

“New Public Art in Houston’s outdoors brings cheer to a somber Year” by Molly Glentzer. Houston Chronicle. December 15, 2020

“Immersive new bayou-themed artwork takes Houstonians down meandering trail downtown. CultureMap. December 10, 2020

“Interactive and Immersive Art” Project Feature in CODA Worx Magazine. April 18, 2019

“A Map to the Music of the Place” by Zach Mortice, Landscape Architecture Magazine Online March 14, 2019

“You must experience the environmental wonder of Inuksuit” by Hannah Che, Houstonia Magazine February 13, 2019

“Gulfton Greens: Gulfton Park Master Plan” by Tim Schuler, Landscape Architecture Magazine September 2018

“The 5 must-haves Millennials look for when buying a home” Garden Design feature. Culture Map September 26, 2018

“the PINK sink by Falon Land Studio” World Landscape Architecture Magazine. June 2016

“Top Ten Arts Events- Artist Talk by Falon Mihalic”. Houston Chronicle. July 17 2015.

Invited Lectures

Colorful, Verdant, Fun. Invited Lecture. Department of Landscape Architecture. Rhode Island School of Design. April 2024

Growing Happy Healthy Kids: How outdoor learning environments support outcomes. Co-presenters Kathryn Lusk and Michelle Spencer, and Angel Harvey. Texas Nature Children in Nature Summit. December 2023

Landscape Theory and Practice. Lecturer. Rice School of Architecture. Rice University. Autumn 2022

Art as a Tool for Data Expression: Bayou Beacon. Prague City Data Congress, Center for Architecture and Metropolitan Planning. Prague, Czech Republic. October 26, 2021

Supporting Environmental Resilience and Health Equity through Green Playgrounds. Upswell Summit. October 20, 2021

Cultures of Place. University of South Florida. Department of Architecture & Community Design. July 7. 2021

Grow your Mind | Grow your Practice. Alumni Speaker, Landscape Architecture Awards Ceremony, Rhode Island School of Design. June 4. 2021

Imagination Into Practice. Opening Speaker, Oregon ASLA Design Conference “Nourish”. August 12. 2020, Portland, OR

Inside Falon Land Studio. Invited Speaker. DLR Group Design Days. July 15. 2020, Dallas, TX

The Business of Innovation: Three Case studies in unconventional practice. Invited Talk with Nina Chase and Sara Zewde. National Conference on Landscape Architecture. San Diego, CA November 15, 2019

Deep Work | Play | Time. Invited Talk. Texas Society of Architects Annual Conference. Galveston, TX October 24, 2019

Feeling the Weather. Next Practices in Landscape Architecture. Land8 Lightning Talks. June 26, 2019

Music of the Place, Inuksuit Roundtable. Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. February 15, 2019

Climate Pulse. CODA Summit: New Technologies in Art and Design. September 20, 2018 Santa Fe, New Mexico

Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, Prairie View A&M University. August 2016-May 2017

Sublime Landscape Experience. Invited Artist Lecture, Department of Art and Art History, University of Missouri. Kansas City, Missouri. April 21, 2016

Florida Edible Landscape Design. Course Presenter. Annual Conference, Florida Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Key Largo, Florida. July 2014