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.
Laura Glen Lawson
Laura Glen Lawson
Ruston, LA
Metal: Jewelry
Guild member since 2000
Laura Glen is a creative jewelry maker whose love of nature’s graceful beauty is expressed through the art of sculpting various gauges of metals into unique pieces of jewelry. She uses gemstones and other objects to add color and create balance and harmony between metal and stone in a fluid, rhythmic, organic style. She travels a multi-state area participating in various shows and festivals and has won several awards. She has been interviewed by Louisiana Public Radio and has been featured in newspapers and magazines. A member of the Louisiana Craft Guild and the North Central Louisiana Arts Council, as well as the Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi, Laura Glen resides in a log home in the pine hills of North Louisiana with her husband who is a wildlife artist.
Christina Lemon
Christina Lemon is an artist, educator and metalsmith working in South Georgia. Christina teaches small metal design and 3D design courses at Georgia Southern University for the past 26 years. Her work features one of a kind, limited edition and production metal work/jewelry, enameling and jewelry made with gemstones and combinations of metal and non-metal such as laser cut fabrics and hand cut leather accents. Christina has work featured in many international exhibitions including the Alchemy- Enameling conference and exhibitions sponsored by the Enamelist Society and has been featured in numerous books and magazines including Lapidary Journal and Contemporary Art of Enameling: Art and Technique.
Statesboro, GA
Metal
Member since 2022
Thomas Lemons
Thomas Lemons
Tupelo, MS
Metal
Member since 2022
Thomas has been crafting full time since 2014. His craft differs from typical custom light builders. The most important part of building custom lighting creations is capturing the history of the item. Thomas draws most of his inspiration from antique/vintage items. His shop has a large collection of vintage items some over 100 years old.
Tres (Edwin) Lennep
Tres (Edwin) Lennep
Ocean Springs, MS
Wood
Carved/Turned
Guild member since 2004
Tres’s works include primarily birds and fish, but he also has a series of wooden Christmas ornaments that are hand-turned and original. Tres carved for pleasure for many years, then in 2001 he purchased a lathe and became hooked on wood turning. He joined the American Association of Woodturners, the Azalea Woodturners, and the Magnolia Woodturners. Tres has not had any formal instruction in woodturning, but has studied under a world class professional duck carver and has further developed his skills from books, videos, help from other club and guild members, and demonstrations from some renowned wood turners.
Rose Ellen Lindsey
Rose Ellen Lindsey
Brandon, MS
Pottery: Ceramics
Guild member since 2008
Rose Ellen Lindsey is employed full time with a telecommunications company in Jackson, but gets to build her pottery in the evenings and on weekends. With her husband, Ken, she has established the N_KREBEL Pottery Studio in Brandon. Rose Ellen uses nature themes in much of her pottery- sycamore leaves, nuts, sweet gum balls, even small ‘critters.’ She won a Blue Ribbon at the Tallahatchie Riverfest organization for placement in the New Albany Museum. Rose Ellen doesn’t stick to one theme or type of design. “My inspirations seem to come from all my waking movements. Everyone and everything in life has the potential for my using it in my pottery.”
Courtney Lipscomb
Courtney fell in love with wood burning in 2019 at the Mississippi Art Education Association Fall Conference. She loves the process of this medium and making permanent marks that can't be taken away. She also often uses watercolor in her wood burning. The focal point of most of Courtney’s work comes from nature and animals that display various textures and patterns. She has been an art educator for over 20 years, and currently teaches at Florence Middle School in the same community where she resides with her family. She was honored the Middle Level Art Educator of the Year for MAEA in 2019, and the MAEA Art Educator of the Year in 2023. She is the recipient of a Working Artist Grant for Mississippi Arts Commission and a proud member of the Mississippi Craftsmen's Guild since 2023.
Florence MS
Wood
Member since 2023
Linda J. Livaudais
Linda J. Livaudais
Rossville, GA
Polymer Clay
Jewelry
Guild member since 2011
Sammy Long
Sammy Long
Brandon, MS
Wood
Turned
Guild member since 2007
Sammy Long is a native of Greenville, Mississippi. He has been turning for 20 years. Initially, Sammy was trained to use a metal lathe and worked in the ship building industry. He now uses these skills to create hand turned works from native and imported woods. Sammy has studied under Clay Foster, Todd Hoyer, Al Stirt, Grameme Priddle, John Jordan, and Lyle Jamieson. He is a member of the American Association of Woodturners, Magnolia Woodturners, and the Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi. His pieces include decorative and functional bows and hollow vessels. Many are embellished with piercing and carving. Sammy enjoys creating one-of-a-kind pieces by special order.
Blanca Love
Blanca Love
Bay St. Louis, MS
Clay
Ceramics
Guild member since 2012
As a clay artist for over a decade, Blanca finds joy and freedom in working with clay. The possibilities are endless, from the colors to the structures. The amount of fine details that a piece can have only depends on the creator of the work. Every one of her pieces is created with love and as a tribute to nature’s diversity and beauty. Nature has always been her source for my best work. One of the reasons she enjoys working with clay is that clay and nature share so many qualities. Many of Blanca’s latest pieces are sculptural yet functional pieces influenced by growing up on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast. Blanca also enjoys participating at festivals and events and connecting with art lovers.
Amanda Lovitt-Call
Amanda Lovitt-Call
Brooklyn, MS
Fiber
Weaving
Guild member since 1984
Amanda approaches her work with order, strength, and beauty in mind but most of all with a love for the complexities of the color itself, a devotion to the study of weave structures, and a desire to use the interplay of fiber, texture, and light. She especially likes to weave undulating surfaces which shimmer with reflective materials, creating illusions of light. She is fascinated with the elegance of textiles used in historic weaving and attempts to redefine them in her own work. She says this has been a gradual process of trying, learning, discarding, and accepting. She wants her weaving to be seen not as merely decorative, but suggestive of the venerable structures of ancient textiles.
David Lupton
David Lupton
Phil Campbell, AL
Wood
Turned
Guild member since 2000
Daniel’s basic tools are the lathe, band saw, and chainsaw. He gets a sense of accomplishment from making a product that other people admire and enjoy. His search for the right trees or pieces of wood are like a treasure hunt. Three stages of the process that provide inspiration. 1) The first chainsaw cut along the grain of the log starts to reveal the beauty of the wood. Each log is different. 2) The clearer definition of the grain that becomes apparent with the final chisel cuts and sanding. 3) The final definition and highlighting of the grain that is revealed when the finish is applied.
Ann O’Brien
Ann O’Brien
Abita Springs, LA
Metal
Jewelry
Guild member since 2007
The Ann O’Brien jewelry is handcrafted in both sterling wire and 14k gold wire. All of the pieces are hand twisted 10 or 20 gauge silver or gold wire finished by soldering, artistically hammering, and then polishing. Although Ann passed away in 2006 from cancer, her husband and her assistant decided to keep her dream alive by using her sketchbook designs to create jewelry with the quality and craftsmanship that was her hallmark. Her studio remains open and her work continues.
Tim Pace
Tim Pace
Finger, TN
Metal
Metal
Guild member since 2004
Tim is a metal sculpture artist working in the medium of found art. Found art is using an object that already exists and turning it into art. He designs and created natural and painted pieces by welding together recycled metals. He tried to retain the shape of the object, to keep it recognizable. His materials range from auto parts to toys, cutlery to industrial scrap. If it can be welded, he uses it. Each piece is unique, created one-of-a-kind, and is signed and numbered. The sizes range from tabletop to eight feet tall and include and assortment of people, animals, flowers, insects, and abstracts.
Cindy Pagan
Cindy’s lifelong passion of creating objects from scratch began in a summer craft class when she was in junior high. Her unique jewelry evolves from how the materials and her handiwork are combined, inspired by her creativity and vision. Her greatest reward is seeing some of her jewelry as a witnessing tool for her faith and God’s glory. “I strive for a positive attitude and have a passion for each piece of jewelry I make and hope others will find enjoyment wearing my Winsome-Creations,” says Cindy.
Pearl, MS
Mixed Media
Guild member since 2014
Fellow since 2024