Arpad-Cotta’s site-based practice includes work as Artist-in-Residence in AIRIE, Everglades National Park, and Land Arts of the American West, a field-study program at University of New Mexico. She received a Florida State Cultural Council Artist’s Fellowship and NCECA Emerging Artist Award. Exhibitions include the Shumen Biennial, Bulgaria and others internationally since 1996. Her work is featured in Land Arts of the American West by Bill Gilbert & Chris Taylor, Confrontational Ceramics by Judith S. Schwartz, and Ceramics: Mastering the Craft by Richard Zakin. She teaches Installation Art, a collaboration with the Wolfsonian-FIU culminating with an exhibit of student art in Miami’s Design District each spring semester.