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Brian Willis
![Brian Willis (photo by Tammy Greer for the Mississippi Arts Commission). Brian Willis (photo by Tammy Greer for the Mississippi Arts Commission).](https://msfolkdirectory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/FI-4-852x1024.jpg)
Brian Willis brings a deep knowledge of Choctaw tradition to his job of Communications Editor for th...
Edna White
![Edna White demonstrating tatting at the Mississippi Crafts Center in Ridgeland, March 2002. Edna White demonstrating tatting at the Mississippi Crafts Center in Ridgeland, March 2002.](https://msfolkdirectory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/FI-2-688x1024.jpg)
Edna White has had a life full of different experiences. She has worked as a florist, a furrier (fur...
Bobby Walters
![Bobby Walters (photo by Chris Goertzen for the Mississippi Arts Commission). Bobby Walters (photo by Chris Goertzen for the Mississippi Arts Commission).](https://msfolkdirectory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/FI-1-1024x1002.jpg)
Young Bobby Walters would comb the monthly magazines along with the Hattiesburg American for those a...
Terry Tjader
![Terry Tjader and bowl with natural edges from popcorn tree, or Chinese tallow (photo by Chris Goertzen for the Mississippi Arts Commission). Terry Tjader and bowl with natural edges from popcorn tree, or Chinese tallow (photo by Chris Goertzen for the Mississippi Arts Commission).](https://msfolkdirectory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/FI-768x1024.jpg)
It was in shop class in high school in California that Terry Tjader first employed a lathe, turning ...
Norma Thompson
![Norma Thompson of Conehatta making an egg basket. Norma Thompson of Conehatta making an egg basket.](https://msfolkdirectory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/MFA.2016-2.jpg.FI_-2-788x1024.jpg)
Norma Thompson is a Choctaw basketmaker who lives in the Conehatta community in Newton County (Coneh...
Frank Stewart
![Potter Frank Stewart of Louisville. Potter Frank Stewart of Louisville.](https://msfolkdirectory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Judy-Spiers-2.jpg.FI_-784x1024.jpg)
Frank Stewart comes from a long line of potters. Members of his family have been creating pottery in...
Judy Spiers
![Quilter Judy Spiers of Foxworth, Mississippi (photo by Chris Goertzen for the Mississippi Arts Commission). Quilter Judy Spiers of Foxworth, Mississippi (photo by Chris Goertzen for the Mississippi Arts Commission).](https://msfolkdirectory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/photo-3.jpg.FI_-3-861x1024.jpg)
Prize-winning quilter Judy Spiers was born and raised in Marion County and lives there now, on the w...
Susan Rogers
![Quilter Susan Rogers of Tutwiler (photo by Amy Evans for the Mississippi Arts Commission). Quilter Susan Rogers of Tutwiler (photo by Amy Evans for the Mississippi Arts Commission).](https://msfolkdirectory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/photo-22-1017x1024.jpg)
Susan Rogers is the youngest member of the Tutwiler Quilters. Born in 1977, she first learned to sew...
Hystercine Rankin (1929-2010)
![Hystercine Rankin (photo by Beth Batton). Hystercine Rankin (photo by Beth Batton).](https://msfolkdirectory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/photo.jpgFI_-834x1024.jpg)
Hystercine (pronounced “Her-teh-seen”) Rankin of Lorman has been making quilts since the...
Stuart Proctor
![Chair caner Stuart Proctor of Vicksburg, Mississippi (all photos of Proctor and his work by Wiley Prewitt for the Mississippi Arts Commission). Chair caner Stuart Proctor of Vicksburg, Mississippi (all photos of Proctor and his work by Wiley Prewitt for the Mississippi Arts Commission).](https://msfolkdirectory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/photo-2.jpg.FI_-2-674x1024.jpg)
While serving in the military during the mid-1960s, Stuart Proctor was stationed in Long Beach, Cali...
Geraldine Nash
![Geraldine Nash of Port Gibson (photo by Beth Batton). Geraldine Nash of Port Gibson (photo by Beth Batton).](https://msfolkdirectory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/photo-1.jpg.FI_-1-1024x1024.jpg)
Geraldine Nash is a native of Claiborne County, growing up on a farm outside of Port Gibson. She was...