Received the 1996 Arts and Business Education Award  for community contribution to the arts for the In the Heart of the Rainforest exhibit, prepared for the Pikes Peak Library District, and the Kennedy Center Imagination Celebration. 

CITES, Conservation Treaty Support Fund and the World Wildlife Fund-US commissioned a painting, Wild Treasures of the Caribbean, depicting endangered species of the Caribbean which was presented to Secretary of the Interior, Bruce Babbitt at the opening ceremonies of the Convention of Parties in Ft Lauderdale, FL.   The painting now resides at the Interior Department Headquarters in Washington DC. 

The El Pomar Foundation 1994 purchase award. El Pomar is a philanthropic foundation dedicated to promoting the art and education in the Pikes Peak region. The foundation was established at the bequest of General William Palmer and Spencer Penrose who founded the city of Colorado Springs and the Broadmoor hotel. The painting,  What You See Is What You Get, hangs at the Julie Penrose Center and will be part of the El Pomar, Colorado artists collection.

Associate Producer of Spirits of the Rainforest, broadcast worldwide in the fall of 1993.  Program filmed exclusively in South Eastern Peru, lowland rainforest depicting forest people's relationship to their environment through myths handed down generations in stories and rituals. The program was awarded two 1994 Emmys by the National Academy of Television and Arts & Sciences.  Spirits of the Rainforest, was honored as the top informational and cultural program and musical score for 1994, in competition with industry giants such as PBS, HBO, ABC Kane, CBS and National Geographic.

Featured Artist on Emphasis on Art, a 30-minute television program designed to feature outstanding artists in the Colorado area.

In January of 1991, Helsaple and Williams' documentary, Manu National Park, was premiered on Peru's National Television Network and was seen by over 9 million people.  The program continues to air and has been picked up by Brazil, and Venezuela.  The Peruvian government, in conjunction with their national tourism board, requested permission to distribute the 'Manu' program to all Peruvian cultural attaches in embassies around the world.

In March of 1990, SuperFlow Film & Video Productions assembled a documentary program illustrating the abundant wildlife populations in Peru's Tambopata-Candamo  area.  The program was shown to key government officials with assistance from the Association for the Conservation of the Southern Rainforest based in Peru.  The area is now an official protected zone of 4.5 million acres of pristine Rainforest called the Tambopata-Candamo Reserve that encompasses one of the most spectacular Macaw and parrot gathering areas in the world.

The Aqua Planet International juried competition selected Helsaple's work  in 1991 to be part of a published postcard book of artwork from artists all over the world, brought together, to focus on global environmental concerns and issues through art and communication.