Lillie Adkins – Ms. Adkins, a Wallace resident, is a retired teacher who enjoys macramé and other crafts. She is a self-taught crafts person.
Cheri Ameen - My Boo Gourd Design Ms. Ameen lives in Burgaw in Pender County. She is a self taught mixed media artist working with natural materials like gourds, which she grows herself. Cheri has worked in this medium for 10 years.
Jerry Bardin, Bardin has been a wood carver for 12 + years. He uses palm tools, gouges, knives and mallets. Mr. Bardin is a self-taught craftsman and has attended some work shops in his area. He lives in Wallace.
Rebecca Boney – Mrs. Boney, a Pender County resident, creates homemade cloth dolls from muslin and makes their clothes from various fabrics. She paints each original face with acrylic paints and creates their hair with yarn. She learned to sew at an early age from her grandmother.
William Boney – A Pender County resident, Mr. Boney works in wood laminate construction using different species of trees. Some laminates are put together to fade from one species to another. He learned from family, formal instruction and lots of books. He considers his wood working talent a God given gift.
Carter Brown – Siren Studio Arts. Brown works in fiber and mixed media. She is self-taught and has an art degree from UNC-Wilmington. She hand dyes silk apparel and accessories and makes silk wall hangings and sun catchers. Her jewelry items incorporate found objects and silk components. Ms. Brown lives in Wallace.
Katherine Bunch – Ms. Bunch works with acrylic and pencil on canvas, specializing in portraits. She studied with David Sanderson and is also self-taught. Katherine also works in graphic design. She lives in Duplin County.
Maggie Casteen – Maggie works in oils, pencil and graphic design mediums. She is a painter, learning from classes in school. Her work is greatly influenced by Georgia O’Keefe. Casteen lives in Rose Hill, a Duplin County town.
John Cochran – Glass Carving Mr. Cochran, who lives in Magnolia (in Duplin County), works with a sand blasting technique to create images on glass. He served as apprentice to a friend in Texas to learn his technique and has worked in glass since 1994.
Terry Duff – Mr. Duff, a Wallace resident, is a self taught metal craftsman. He forges the metal using a gas forge and sometimes a sander. He heats the metal to a temperature that is malleable then shapes the metal with hammers by pounding on an anvil.
Lynne Dukes – Dukes lives in Sampson County and is an elementary art educator there. Her medium is primarily clay, but she also does book making and other forms of art. Her work is mainly hand built ceramics. She uses a combination of slab, coil and pinch techniques. Dukes received a BFA in Art Education from East Carolina University; ceramics was her concentration.
Theresa Brooks Elias – Looking Southeast Studio. The director of the LACG, Ms.Elias lives in Wallace and teaches high school art in Sampson County. She received her degree in art from Meredith College and a MAEd in art education from east Carolina University. Painting in oils is her preferred medium but she also works in fibers, clay and book making. Ms. Elias learned how to sew from her grandmother and mother and studied oil painting as a child with Margaret Cooper.
Wanda Faircloth – Country Roads Photography. Faircloth is a Sampson County resident and photographer. She enjoys nature and landscapes and does portraits. Her main focus is the rural lifestyle of North Carolina.
Julie Greene – The Scarlet Thread. Greene does stretched hand dyed fibers that are applied with rock salt. She turns the fabric into beautiful scarves and other clothing. She is a self-taught artist and a science teacher.
Pamela Greenough – Pam Greenough works in clay, metal and mixed media. She has a BA in art history and studio art from UNC-Wilmington. Her clay work is sculptural and functional. She resides and works in New Hanover County. Ms. Greenough is a former co-owner and partner in Port City Pottery in the Cotton Exchange.
Carla Hall – A painter and art teacher in Sampson County, Ms. Hall works in acrylics. She likes to work in the abstract. She received her BA in fine arts from Mt. Olive College.
Linda Anne Hartman –Hartman is an artist who incorporates many found objects into mixed media art. She combines copper, wire, beads, shells, wood, and other unlikely objects. Ms. Hartman attended VCU and has worked with artists at Fat Cat Pottery and the Pencoe Center at the Cameron Museum of Art.
Tammy Howard – Tammy’s Panes. Tammy is a stained glass artist making suncatchers, panels, and lamps. All her glass pieces are hand cut and soldered together. She has taken stained glass art classes.
Betsy Johnson – Ms. Johnson lives in Wallace and is a fiber artist. She uses many types of yarns, buttons and fastenings. She learned to knit from her mother and the River Landing Knitting Group and has worked at her craft for 50 years.
Carolyn Kaler – The Magic Brush. Carolyn Kaler lives in Wallace and works with acrylics, glass and other mixed media materials. She studied at East Carolina University and is self taught. Kaler has been an artist for 45 years.
Burt Millette – Millette lives in Pender County in the Hampstead area. He works in wood, making kaleidoscopes, pepper mills, bowls and platters. All the latter are turned on a lathe and made from native wood. Burt is self taught and also attended the Campbell Folk School.
Joan Millette – Millette Art – Joan lives in Hampstead. She is a multi-medium artist who works in clay, glass, jewelry, oils, acrylics and watercolors. She learned from workshops and college classes. Ms. Millette is a member of the Wilmington Art Association, Artists of Southport and the Onslow County Art League.
Sharon Moore – Living in Wallace, Sharon Moore is a board member of the Longleaf Arts & Crafts Guild and a volunteer. Moore has been an artist since she was 8 and was a student of Margaret Blanchard Cooper. She later studied art at UNC-Chapel Hill. Sharon works in oil and acrylic paints. She features landscapes, animals, flowers and buildings.
Linda Nichols –Lin’s Original Oil Paintings and Photos. Lin is a resident of Rose Hill in Duplin County. Nichols works primarily with oil paint on stretched canvases. Her work is mostly landscapes, riverscapes and portraits. She has been painting since the age of 19 and is self-taught.
Larry Ogden – Ogden lives in Watha in Pender County. He paints in oils on large canvases, makes wooden frames and works in metal. He has been an artist and craftsman for 40 years. He is also a blacksmith.
Michael Deane Pistner – Pistner lives in Wallace. He is a photographer and works mostly with scenic and animal photos taken with a digital camera. He is self-taught and has been taking pictures since 1980.
Jane Polera – Polera lives in Burgaw in Pender County. She works with fibers and natural materials, making baskets, stools and décor items. Jane has been working in her craft for three years, taking instruction through the Pender Adult Center.
David Sanderson – lives in Burgaw in Pender County. He is a photographer and an art educator in Duplin County. Mr. Sanderson serves on the Longleaf Arts & Crafts Guild board of directors and volunteers in the guild shop.
Mary Saulnier – Saulnier lives in Wallace. She is a mixed media artist working in acrylic, fiber, paper and wood. She completed the Decorative Arts Program at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island and has been an artist all her life.
Alice Scott – Ms.Scott lives in Pink Hill in Duplin County. Working primarily in oils in canvas, she does seascapes, flowers and still-life. Ms. Scott took painting classes at James Sprunt Community College.
Claudia Compton Smith – Glassy Chic. Ms. Smith is a Wallace resident and a board member of the Longleaf Arts & Crafts Guild. She works primarily with fused glass but also with fibers, knitting and felting bags of all kinds. She is a self-taught artist who attends workshops and seminars. She has been working in her art for 12 years.
Hope Smith – Art of Hope. Ms. Smith lives and works in Wallace. Her work is done in acrylic, pen & ink and pencil. She paints street scenes and inspirational designs with a bright loose style. Smith majored in art in college. She is a board member of the LACG and owns her own Gallery, Art of Hope, on Main Street in Wallace.
John Wadsworth – Wadsworth resides in Duplin and Chadham Counties. He is a wood worker. Wadsworth turns bowls, pens, ornaments and salt and pepper mills. He also makes boxes, tables and cabinets. John is self taught and has turned wood for 50 years. He is a member of the North Carolina Woodturners Guild.
Vicki Worrell – Sarah’s Baskets. Worrell is a basket maker who lives in Rocky Point in Pender County. She learned how to weave baskets through the Pender County Extension Office and Cape Fear Community College in the early 1980’s. Ms.Worrell teaches basket weaving and has sold over 150 patterns nationwide. She has been featured in two national basket weaving magazines.
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