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.
Gina Castle
Gina Castle
Slidell, LA
Fiber / Fiber
Guild member since 1993
Gina finds real excitement in batik with the magic of color. Batik, the Traditional process is the separating of color with wax to resist the over dye of the next color. When a new color is introduced to a piece of silk, the entire feel of the design changes. Some of the works change eight to twelve times before the work is deemed complete. Gina does a lot of custom work for interior decorators and specialty shops. The thrill for her is in seeing the finished work mounted and hanging in lobbies of condo complexes, offices, and restaurants.
Katie Clark
Katie Clark
Madison, MS
Fiber / Crochet Accessories
Guild member since 2013
Like so many before her, Katie learned to crochet from her mother. She learned the basics stitches, then continued to learn from books, diagrams, and experimentation, with a deep appreciation for the rich tradition in crochet. Katie is inspired by the variety of techniques crochet offers with the simplicity of only a few stitches, and she continues to be inspired to try something new with every book she picks up. With new discoveries come more ideas about how to fuse them with other techniques. Katie strives pass the appreciation for tradition and the innovative possibilities of crochet on to other people in hopes that they will recognize the artistic value of crochet, from the choice of pattern- traditional or inventive- to the choice of colors and fiber textures.
Sam Clark
Sam Clark
Madison, MS
Clay / Ceramics
Guild member since 2002
Sam’s designs come from his own active imagination mixed with year of drawing classes that focused on the figure and gesture. For Sam, there is a connection between the between the observer and the work of art. Making a figure or creature of unknown origin appear to have life the second you glance at it and away is what he wants to achieve. His sculpture requires an audience with an energy, for “only in their imagination will the clay take breath. For me this connection is as important as the piece of work.”
Susan Clark
Susan Clark
Louisville, MS
Clay / Sculpture
Guild member since 1988
Susan’s work has been called humor in clay. She sculpts miniatures based on Southern people, places, and events, often taking her inspiration from the literature and photography of Eudora Welty. One of Mississippi’s most well-know and admired artists, Susan creates works of art that reflect life as she sees it around her. She describes her work as seeing humor in life and putting it in clay, just inspiration and ideas... everyday, real life situations and circumstances. Her sculptures are painstakingly created and, although small, they are so realistic that you can almost recognize some of them as people you know in places where you have been.
Michelle Cleveland
Michelle’s art incorporates upcycled and repurposed items as well as fibers such as kudzu, bamboo, thistle, and coconut collected from nature. Whether foraging for natural plant fiber or hunting for unconventional items to repurpose, she enjoys every step of the process of converting raw materials to finished art. Her lamps, paper sculpture, and paper paintings are influenced by organic, contemporary, and steampunk styles. Her craft has evolved into using paper as a medium to create paintings on canvas. Paper mache sculpture is her latest passion where she creates life-size three dimensional sculpture, and she loves that paper fiber is a versatile and forgiving medium.
Jackson, MS
Paper / Sculpture
Guild member since 2011
Fellow since 2020
Cosmic Clay
Cosmic Clay
Dowelltown, TN
Clay / Ceramics
Guild member since 2008
With over 30 years as professional ceramic artists, Louis and Christine have enjoyed the experience of many clay, glaze, and firing techniques- from high-fire functional stoneware to low-fire decorative Raku, with which they have had national recognition. They particularly enjoy the challenge of testing the sensitive physical limits of clay, by building precarious shapes and forms into stimulating sound constructions. They strive to incorporate into all their works subconscious themes of mystical imagery, curious symbols, and lyrical patterns. Overall, it is their intent to stimulate the imaginations, evoke a mood of pleasure, for art in sharing the vision of the soul.
Donna Cowart Martin
Donna Cowart Martin
Waveland, MS
Glass / Fused
Guild member since 2018
An environmentally rich eco-system such as the Mississippi Gulf Coast and its many estuaries and associated habitats form the basic inspiration of Donna’s body of work. Her sights and experiences in daily life at the beach, near and in the water, and island life form indelible impressions that bring vivid imagery of colors, shapes, and forms. She describers her artwork in glass as a magical world that draws her in to its fluid colors and with its little light fractures as the light dances across the surface, glistening reflections in colors only envisioned before in her mind’s eye. Using beautiful glass colors, enamels, frits, and various firing techniques becomes not only her artistic expression but opens a tiny glimpse into her soul.
Fletcher and Carol Cox
Fletcher and Carol Cox
Tougaloo, MS
Wood / Furniture
Guild member since 1974
A founding member of the Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi, Fletcher is the recipient of many awards, including the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. He designed and built the desk in the lobby of the Craft Center. His woodworking creations can be found in homes, churches, offices, and museums throughout the country. Fletcher loves to work with local wood. At present, he is working with several pieces of red oak which came from author Eudora Welty’s front yard. He was given the wood by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, and when he is done, the proceeds will help fund the Eudora Welty Foundation.
Kira Cummings
Kira Cummings is a multi-medium artist adept in an array of disciplines; painting, pyrography, photography, videography, graphic design, and animation. A Fine Art graduate of Jackson State University with a Minor in Graphic Design, Cummings holds a membership in the Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi and Louisiana Craft Guild for pyrography. Cummings is the Creative Director for The Works where she creates video and animation for musicians, interview programs, and corporate promotions as well as producing live events. Cummings is also an affiliate for Walnut Hollow.
Jackson, MS
Wood
Guild member since 2016
Ann Daniel
Ann Daniel
Clinton, MS
Paper / Sculpture
Guild member since 2003
Ann enjoys the tactile experience of creating artwork from handmade paper. She hopes to share her joy in the paper-making process with the onlooker and push the creative edge of what can be made with paper. Ann’s goal is to look at everyday items and see something that can be created into a piece of art. As her artwork has evolved, she finds herself drawn more to recycling or ‘repurposing’ old cloth. She says of her work, “Combining old and new in unexpected ways gives my work a sense of history and relevance to today’s world.”
Joe (Atley) Davis
Joe (Atley) Davis
Madison, MS
Wood / Kitchen Utensils
Guild member since 2017
After retiring from the corporate world, Joe Davis began woodworking as a hobby in 2010. He learned the craft through classes, the internet, and a lot of trial and error. Davis works with exotic woods from around the world to create a variety of pieces including cutting boards, charcuterie boards, and knife handles. He sells his work in various outlets throughout the state.
Kathryn Davis
Kathryn Davis
Starkville, MS
Glass / Stained/Fused
Guild member since 2008
Owner of Alley Kat’s Glass, Kathryn’s honors and achievements are far too many for this short space. Among them are donating her time and space to restore a 48 sq. ft. church window, dating from 1885, installing the fused figures in the ceiling of MSU’s Sanderson Center and being commissioned by McGraw Hill and National Geographic to make state flowers for the covers of social studies textbooks. She fashions her glass windows to be beautiful on both the inside and the outside, using a variety of materials and colors for her custom work.
Harry Day
Harry Day
Canton, MS
Metal / Metal
Guild member since 2006
After years of painting oils and acrylic as a serious trade, Harry started making metal sculptures when he moved back to Jackson from living on the east and west coasts. He is a naturalist, who loves trees, rivers, contours, and contours of land. He drives all over Mississippi to barns and farms and dilapidated structures, to common dump sites and roadsides to find the materials for his sculptures. He looks at metal pieces lying on the ground and sees animal replicas or other items that can be put together. He enjoys making these creations. Harry has sold hundreds of paintings and many metal pieces.
DCZ Designs
DCZ Designs
Madison, MS
Jewelry / Jewelry
Guild member since 2011
Marek Dlouhy is a former professional ballet dancer who started his DCZ Designs business in wire sculpture jewelry and hand beaded jewelry in 2005. The DCZ jewelry contains components reflecting the artists’ ‘euro-Americana’ origins; using hand-blown glass, crystals, woods, stones, and various metals. In addition to jewelry making, Marek does wood wire sculpture and photography, Shelagh paints and does interior/exterior design.