Bachelor of Arts | National Science Foundation | Master of Arts (postgraduate) | National Endowment for the Arts | Master of Arts | American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Ford Foundation | Rockefeller Foundation | Electronic Arts | Contemporary R&B | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | Tisch School of the Arts | mixed martial arts | Institute of Contemporary Arts | École des Beaux-Arts | Museum of Contemporary Art | California Institute of the Arts | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | Electronic Frontier Foundation | British Academy of Film and Television Arts | École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna | Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | martial arts | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles | Academy of Fine Arts | Beaux-Arts architecture |
Awarded two poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Violi also received The John Ciardi Lifetime Achievement Award in Poetry, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Morton Dauwen Zabel Award, and grants from The Foundation for Contemporary Arts Poetry, The Fund for Poetry, The New York Foundation for the Arts, The Ingram Merrill Foundation, and New York Creative Artists Public Service Fund.