[7] A major address on his career as a designer of commemorative coins and medals, at the Museum of American Finance in October 2015, was aired on C-SPAN.

He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from Hunter College in 1968, and attended a summer session on a scholarship at Yale his junior year.

After a year on the West Coast as a portrait artist in San Francisco, he returned to New York City to work in the music industry designing album covers.

The research necessary to create believable period pieces helped prepare him for the exacting reference needed for his future philatelic and numismatic (coins and medals) works.

[10] In October 2015 he spoke at New York City's Museum of American Finance located on Wall Street, on "Designing Congressional Gold Medals: An Artist's Perspective".

[7] This talk, featured on C-SPAN,[11] was part of the fifth annual Wall Street Collector's Bourse,[12] and detailed his career evolution from medical illustration to designing Congressional Gold Medals and commemorative coins.

Most recently his design for the American Numismatic Association's Presidential Award won the 2008 silver medal in corporate illustration in the International Creative Shake competition.

Since that first stamp issue in 1977 his philatelic work continues to the present day, covering a wide variety of subject matter from flora and fauna to notable personages from heads of state to film stars.

[13] Inclusion is this elite team meant parachuting behind enemy lines during the Allied retaking of Europe in 1944 in order to attack key targets.

The reverse design for the Dolley Madison First Spouse Gold Coin was created by Iskowitz and was displayed in the East Room of the White House for the release ceremony which the artist attended.

His design for the District of Columbia quarter dollar reverse was displayed at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History.