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.
Rosalind Roy
Jackson, Mississippi
Clay
Guild member since 2005
Children playing, that favorite aunt or uncle, Sunday church, clothes on the line or a chicken all come from the heart and life experiences. Roz Roy is a storyteller. Through paper collages and sculpture figures she expresses her thoughts, memories and emotions. Roz always liked art and was working as a graphic designer in Jackson, but it was her dad and brother’s passing that motivated he to pursue her craft in earnest. She has a real connection to the world around her working with clay and paper.
When creating clay characters pieces, organic clay is used to shape the figures. A concoction dubbed “magic water” made from vinegar, water and diluted clay is used to affix to various pieces together. The use of a variety of sculpting tools are used to further refine the figures. Bright vibrant color is then added to bring the piece to life.
Rosalind Roy Clay
Clark House Pottery
After getting married in Florence, Italy in 2000, Bill & Pam returned to Greenville, SC and built a wonderful studio together under tall trees behind their home and named it Clark House Pottery LLC. Their pottery is mostly influenced by the Mission Arts and Crafts movement of the early 1900’s and design directions of that time. Their work is one-of-a-kind, hand thrown, sculpted, and decorated art pottery. They make work using earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain clays on the wheel and sculpting, then hand glaze each piece with both commercial and special formatted glazes.
Bill has been making pottery 55 years, and apprenticed with Harding Black in San Antonio, Texas in high school. In 2003, Bill began a new path in clay when he saw a piece of pottery by George Ohr, the “Mad Potter of Biloxi, Mississippi.” He was determined to discover the technical mechanical throwing methods on the potter’s wheel that made those light and unusual shapes. Bill has now taken designs much further with his own interpretations.
Pam is best known for her twisted clay horse sculptures. Horses remind her of a very special time in her young life when she experienced her first taste of freedom and independence. Her horse “Shasta” took her into fields and streams to explore nature, study, design, and dream about making beauty. Pam enjoys those wonderful memories as she makes each wheel thrown body in stoneware and hand sculpts the remaining horse. Like that spirited horse, these can be both easy and a bit difficult to tame. Pam enjoys making original designs with flora and fauna using sculpting, carving, slip trail and surface texture techniques.
In 2011, the original George Ohr family descendants formally, in writing, welcomed both Bill and Pam into their family and thanked them for continuing this type of work. This was an incredible honor! The direct descendants of George Ohr have purchased more than 280 pieces of Bill’s pottery. They sold 386 pieces of their pottery at the Ohr-Okeefe Museum of Art in Biloxi ,MS.
Bill & Pam’s art pottery is in the following museum permanent collections:
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, American Museum of Ceramic Art in California, Dallas Museum of Art, Mississippi Museum of Art, San Angelo Museum of Fine Art in Texas, Newark Museum in New Jersey, Museum of Art and Science in Macon Georgia and in South Carolina the McKissick Museum of Art, South Carolina State Museum and the Museum of York County. Their work can be acquired at the Southern Highland Craft Guild Galleries, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, the Craftsman Guild of Mississippi Gallery in Ridgeland, MS, and South Carolina Artisans Center in Walterboro, SC.
They are thankful to many happy collectors and the Ohr descendants which have helped propel them to numerous good milestones in their journey in clay.
Greenville, SC
Clay
Guild member since 2024
Walter Mabry
Walter Mabry
Jackson Mississippi
Scrimshaw
Joined the Guild 1997
Walter does his own carving on both cow and buffalo horn, along with hippopotamus and boars teeth. Antler, bone, Ivory and mother of pearl are also included in the mix of materials he enjoys working with. His designs include old traditional folk art taken from 18th century originals, contemporary designs, wildlife and western art and portraits from some of the famous old masters.
Walters intrest in scrimshaw started while he was an artist/illustrator while in the Marines. In 1970, he began doing scrimshaw on powder horns for himself and friends. By 1990 Walter had extended his work to ivory, horn and teeth.
Walter has been featured in four articles in The Clarion Ledger newspaper, as a gun maker, horner and scrimshander. Walter has received first place awards in both Pennsylvania and Kentucky competitions.
Walter is a member of the Honorable Company of Horners
Susan Marling
Member of the Guild since 2015
Art is best when worn — a guiding philosophy in creating our hand-marbled art wearables.
Nature surrounds us with her beauty - wildflower, an ornate butterfly, the intricate markings of a peacock, a sunset. Primary inspiration in our marbling is translating this snapshots of beauty into unique color combinations. As we float the paints on the marbling base in our trays, we can express all the colors of nature through each season and give life to these colors as we rake the combs through the floating paints.
Ken Martin
Ken Martin
Brandon, Mississippi
Wood Turkey Calls Turned Bowls
Member of the guild since 2017
I began to make Turkey calls in the 90’s looking foe something better that the store bought option. My first attempts were turtle shell and slate. Not long after that, while hunting with a friend. I heard the call of my dreams. I was shown a “custom call” by Albert Paul. After that day I was on a mission to build my first double sided boxcar. In 2000 I was almost there but something was missing.
Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005 and I was given a load of cherry wood from a friend. After a few years of drying and combined with poplar I finally got the sound I was looking for. I have specialized in a single sided, glued together box. This allows me to make adjustments like changing the species or the width of the endblocks in the box to start the “turning” process by changing the dimensions of the well.
Nicolas Neese
Madison, Mississippi
Glass
Guild Member since 2024
During my Sophomore and Junior year of high school, I took glass blowing lessons from Mohawk Steel and Glass. I began working for Mohawk my Senior year and at that time I made the decision to major in glass. I am finishing my studies at the University of South Alabama this year with a Bachelor of Fine Art in Glass Concentration.
I took a class under Raven Skyriver, a sculpture glass artist at the Penland School of Craft. That is when I decided to focus my craft in glass sculptures. How my process comes together is deciding what piece I would like to create, by using reference photo to help me bring out the vision in my minds eye. Most of my inspiration comes from my passion about equatic life and I tend to focus my glass work around such.