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Vernon Errington
![Vernon Errington. Vernon Errington.](https://msfolkdirectory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/MFA.2016-1-700x1024.jpg)
Unlike those who carve walking sticks or canes, Vernon Errington of New Hebron finds gnarled, unique...
McArthur Chism
![McArthur Chism of Water Valley working his signature item: a bottle cap birdhouse. McArthur Chism of Water Valley working his signature item: a bottle cap birdhouse.](https://msfolkdirectory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/MFA.2016.0016.0003-680x1024.jpg)
McArthur Chism was born in Glendora, Mississippi in 1942 and grew up in Water Valley. As a child, he...
Claudia Ka Cartee
![Claudia Ka Cartee (photo by Chris Goertzen for the Mississippi Arts Commission). Claudia Ka Cartee (photo by Chris Goertzen for the Mississippi Arts Commission).](https://msfolkdirectory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Goertzen-Cartee-Claudia-Cartee-1024x768.jpg)
Claudia Cartee is a skilled potter with an eclectic background. Her father’s family was and is bas...
Jesse Burge
![Jesse Burge hard at work (photo by Chris Goertzen for the Mississippi Arts Commission). Jesse Burge hard at work (photo by Chris Goertzen for the Mississippi Arts Commission).](https://msfolkdirectory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/photo-1-15-768x1024.jpg)
Jessie Burge lives near his family’s “old home place” in Lamar County; his father was a sharec...
Bubba Biggart
![Chairmaker Jett “Bubba” Biggart of Thomastown, Mississippi (photo by Wiley Prewitt for the Mississippi Arts Commission). Chairmaker Jett “Bubba” Biggart of Thomastown, Mississippi (photo by Wiley Prewitt for the Mississippi Arts Commission).](https://msfolkdirectory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/MFA.2016.0010.0060-2-692x1024.jpg)
Long known as a center of chair making in the state, Thomastown lies south of Kosciusko in Leake Cou...
George Berry
![George Berry with a large version of his signature owl carving. George Berry with a large version of his signature owl carving.](https://msfolkdirectory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/FI-8-856x1024.jpg)
George Berry was born in Oklahoma at White Oak Indian Hills, a Cherokee Indian village. His father w...
Gustina Atlas
![Quilter Gustina Atlas of Port Gibson (photo by Beth Batton). Quilter Gustina Atlas of Port Gibson (photo by Beth Batton).](https://msfolkdirectory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/photo.FI_-3-1018x1024.jpg)
Gustina Atlas was born in Claiborne County and has lived there all of her life. Her mother and all o...
Richard Kwaku Amoah
![Amoah carving a mask in his workshop. Amoah carving a mask in his workshop.](https://msfolkdirectory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/MFA.2016.0016.0174.FIFI_-1-785x1024.jpg)
Amoah was born in Ghana, a country on the western coast of Africa. He grew up in the village of Ahwa...
Fred Allsworth
![Luthier Fred Allsworth of Heidelberg in his workshop (all photos of Allsworth by Chris Goertzen for the Mississippi Arts Commission). Luthier Fred Allsworth of Heidelberg in his workshop (all photos of Allsworth by Chris Goertzen for the Mississippi Arts Commission).](https://msfolkdirectory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/MFA.2016-1.jpg.zz1_.FI_-1-852x1024.jpg)
Fred Allsworth was born in 1937 in Purvis, Mississippi. His father was a Methodist minister, and the...
Dewey Alexander
![Luthier Dewey Alexander of Foxworth in his workshop. Luthier Dewey Alexander of Foxworth in his workshop.](https://msfolkdirectory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/photo.FI_-2-1024x1018.jpg)
Dewey Alexander was born in Lawrence County in 1924 into a family of farmers. He worked initially ru...
Kenneth Adams
![Kenneth Adams of Tishomingo. Kenneth Adams of Tishomingo.](https://msfolkdirectory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/MFA.2016.0015.0385-1-684x1024.jpg)
Motorists driving on Highway 25 in far northeastern Mississippi will find it difficult to miss seein...