Member Directory
Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi Members
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About Us
We are makers on a mission to preserve and promote, educate and encourage, the highest standard of excellence in regional crafts.
The work of our Members reflects a high degree of competence, professional standards, and artistry in their medium and category. Eligibility is determined by a jury review process which takes place twice each year.
Brooke Pumphrey
Brooke Pumphrey
Brandon, MS
Metal
Jewelry
Guild member since 2012
Chainmail was used in ancient Europe to make strong and impenetrable armor for knights. Today, Brooke uses it to create unique and highly imaginative jewelry and ornamentals. Although the material is ancient in origin, the techniques and results used by result in jewelry that is stylish and modern. Brooke has taught several people the art of chainmail weaving and would be glad to hold how-to classes for others who would like to learn the art.
Chuck Rhoads
Chuck Rhoads
Brandon, MS
Metal
Metal
Guild member since 2020
Chuck learned the how to do Repousse’ designs from a former professor of Mississippi College. He later taught the technique to his own art students. He retired after teaching for 28 years, and he now focuses on his art. Chuck has been a member of the Mississippi Arts Educator Association since 1992 and has exhibited in numerous exhibits. He draws his inspiration from architecture, music, nature, and the Bible.
Maxine Rogers
Maxine Rogers
Morton, MS
Metal
Jewelry
Guild member since 2014
As one half of Copper ‘n’ Rocks Studio, Maxine formed the studio with her lifelong friend as an outlet for two crafty Southern girls. It all started with a bag of glass beads from a flea market and craft store wire. People noticed her earrings and asked if she could make some for them. Now, years passed and many YouTube tutorials later, she has learned how to wire wrap, hammer, texture, torch, shape, etc. with various metals. She especially like to work with copper, producing earrings, necklaces, and cuffs mostly. Each of her creations are on of a kind, fueled by her creative energy and ability to fluidly work the copper into the organic and beautiful shapes she wants and embellishing the works with gemstones and glass or metal beads.
Martha Scarborough
Martha Scarborough
Brandon, MS
Metal
Jewelry
Guild member since 2009
Martha like ancient methods of jewelry making. Chainmail, once used to make armor, combined with other methods of jewelry making, creates exquisite and highly original designs. Martha finds it soothing to link together rings and watch a pattern unfold. It is fascinating that a ring can be put together in many different ways to create a variety of shapes. Where others see decorative ironwork, sewer grates, and scroll work, Martha sees patterns to create jewelry.
Robert and Debra Shinn
Robert and Debra Shinn
Scooba, MS
Metal
Jewelry
Guild member since 2005
Robert and Debra Shinn collaborate on their handmade jewelry designs and productions. They take special delight in updating powerful images from the past for today’s world. They are proud to have been chosen by the Mississippi Band of Choctaws as the first silversmiths in over 200 years to make their traditional silver combs. Their work has been called fantastic, gorgeous, playful, and elegant, but never minimalistic.
Cathy Talbot
Cathy Talbot
Tupelo, MS
Enamel
Jewelry
Guild member since 2011
Cathy Talbot is a life-long resident of Tupelo, MS. Always interested in the arts, and after raising only one son, time was found for not only enjoying the arts but creating art. Classes at the National Ornamental Metal Museum and Memphis College of Arts leads her to the ancient art of enameling, or the firing of glass to metal. After a day in the corporate world, the lights are on most every night in her backyard “Empty Nest Studio,” where unique jewelry and art objects are handcrafted out of copper, fine silver, and glass enamel. Depending on the desired effect, items are torch-fired or kiln-fired multiple times to achieve the high quality of glass fused onto metal.
Laura Teague
Laura Teague
Baton Rouge, LA
Metal
Jewelry
Guild member since 2008
Laura has been creating metal jewelry in her studio in south Louisiana for almost 10 years and still finds it almost unbelievable that beautiful jewelry that is easy to wear can evolve from and sheets of metal. It happens through experimentation, imagination, and determination in order to shape the metal into a form that is right for each piece. She is inspired by ancient metal patterns and designs, especially those used to produce protective clothing in another time and place. The patterns used in clothing were strong by necessity, with impressive texture but also beautiful and fluid, moving with the body- qualities that are shared with the classic jewelry Laura creates.
Terry Vandeventer
Terry Vandeventer
Byram, MS
Metal
Knives
Guild member since 1995
Because of the excellence of his handcrafted cutlery, Terry has been promoted to master bladesmith by the American Bladesmith Society. He is one of 112 masters worldwide and is the only one with that rating in Mississippi. In 2005, his was judged Best Bowie Knife in the Arkansas Knifemakers Show, and in 2013, he was given the American Bladesmith Society’s Journeyman Knife of the Year award. He also won honors at the Mississippi Knifemaker’s Association show in 2002.
Clayton Waddell
Clayton Waddell
Clinton, MS
Metal
Member since 2022
Clayton is a wood worker, jewelry maker, and tool maker. While occupying himself with wood working, he found significant interest in machine tools, paintings and sculptures. Clayton learned most of crafts in New Orleans at his shop on Magazine Street. He found refugee here in Clinton Mississippi during Katrina and has stayed here since.
Jeanne Wakeman
Jeanne Wakeman
Fort Walton Beach, FL
Glass, Metal
Fused, Jewelry
Guild member since 2016
Wells Studio
Wells Studio
White Pine, TN
Metal
Enamel Sculpture
Guild member since 2005
The Wells’ work as artists and sculptors has been a professional endeavor since 1966. Each piece begins with an idea, which Bob designs and creates on paper or in metal. The full pieces are joined by brazing and soldering the parts together. Color is then added using torch painting and enamel. Because the outcome of color depends on weather and humidity and how hot the torch is, each piece comes out unique. After all of this, Dolores applies a coat of lacquer to condition it to last through all sorts of weather. “We combine our separate skills to design, create, and finish each original piece ourselves with the hopes that the owners will enjoy it as much as we have had the pleasure and fun of creating it.”
Sue West
Sue West
Gulfport, MS
Metal
Jewelry
Guild member since 2013
After retiring in 2004, Mary Sue tried her hand at jewelry making. Some of what she does is self- taught, and the training that she has received at school has polished her skills. According to Mary Sue, fused glass is the most fun and possibly the most frustrating because you don’t what you are going to get until it comes out of the kiln. Sometimes it is breath taking and sometimes it goes into the scrap heap. Mary Sue teaches and really enjoy helping others who want to learn. Teaching is her way of giving back to something that has meant so much to her.
Lynda Williams
Lynda Williams
Bay Minette, AL
Metal
Jewelry
Guild member since 2013
A multi-talented craftsman and a historian, in addition to jewelry-making, Lynda has studied and worked with weaving, pottery, metal, casting, and sculpture. Lynda’s enamel jewelry is inspired by her knowledge and love of plants. Lynda says that enameling is “such a surprise every time the piece is removed from the kiln. There is something truly magical about enameling and the sense of anticipation as each piece emerges to take on new color.” Her work was selected for the White House Christmas tree in 2001, and her bas-relief sculptures of historic building can be seen throughout Arkansas.
Joanne M. McMullen
Greenwell Springs, LA
Metal
Jewelry
Guild member since 2008
Joanne has been designing and creating one-of-a-kind jewelry and accessories since 2000. She constructs unique works of wearable art and sculptured wire pieces using precious metals, freshwater pearls, Swarovski crystals, gemstones, and glass beads. She incorporates crocheting with wire, free-form wire working, and other beading techniques to fashion jewelry that will be treasured by the wearer as original and distinctly artistic pieces. Her work has been featured in magazines and in newspapers and exhibited at Shaw Center for the Arts in Baton Rouge, the LSU Rural Life Museum in Baton Rouge, and the Sheldon Museum of Art in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Maurice Milleur
Gulfport, MS
Metal (Pewter)
Jewelry
Guild member since 1987
Maurice, a master pewterer, is a native of Belgium who worked as a medical technologist before turning his pewter making hobby into a second career. He is self-taught and had no formal training in metal smithing before starting his own business, Pewter Graphic, and becoming one of the most well-known and respected pewter workers in the nation. Among his other projects and honors, Maurice produced the Ohr Private Collection, a line of pewter jewelry based on famed Gulf Coast potter George Ohr’s pottery. The proceeds from the sale of this collection went to bring Ohr’s pottery back into the Ohr Museum in Biloxi.
Anderson Square Studio
Anderson Square Studio
Laurel, MS
Metal /Jewelry: Guild member since 2011
Clay /Jewelry
Guild member since 2007