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Staff
Kim McCurdy Waag, Executive Director
Hired in January 2018 as Membership Manager, Kim moved into the Program Manager and Fair Director position later that year, and was named Executive Director in November 2020. Kim earned a Bachelors Degree in Business Management with a specialization in Information Technology from the University of South Florida (Tampa). Her 40+ year career brings both corporate experience and non-profit expertise to all aspects of Tennessee Craft. In addition, she is a champion for persons with disabilities and has advocated on state and local levels for accessibility and diversity in the arts for persons of all abilities in all aspects of arts advancement and engagement. Before relocating permanently to Nashville, Kim provided years of volunteer support to Tennessee Craft.
Todd Herzberg, Marketing Director
Hired in August 2022, Todd received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Central Michigan University and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Kentucky. After graduate school, he taught at Murray State University as the Assistant Professor of Drawing and Foundations Coordinator for four years before moving to Nashville in the summer 2022. Todd is an accomplished artist and printmaker who works primarily in the processes of drawing, relief, lithography and animation. His work has been exhibited in many solo and group exhibitions both domestically and abroad. Prior to starting at Tennessee Craft, he won a Merit Award at the 51st Annual Spring Tennessee Craft Fair.
Trish Tallon-Blanchard, Director of Programs & Community Engagement
Hired in August of 2023, Trish received a bachelor’s Degree in Studio Art from Francis Marion University in Florence, South Carolina with a focus in painting. Trish has worked in a variety of roles in highly creative profit and non-profit organizations. Shortly after graduation, Trish moved to Los Angeles, California where her non-profit art experiences began at The Craft & Folk Art Museum. In 1996, she moved to Nashville, and later joined the staff of The Office of Cultural Enrichment at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. At both of these organizations Trish was involved in all aspects of exhibition planning; conferences; special events. Experiences at these organizations have been bookmarked by many years where Trish also shared her passion, knowledge and relationships with many local artists as an art curator providing art on sets for film and television including ABC’s series NASHVILLE.
Governing Board
We thank our Board for their dedication and leadership. As a member-driven organization, we elect our Officers and Members-at-Large with approval from our membership. Chapter representatives are elected by the members of each respective chapter. Click on the arrow by each Board Member’s name for more details.
2025 Board Members
President: Sue Mulcahy (Nashville)
Sue Mulcahy has been a practicing artist and educator for over 40 years. Originally from Buffalo, where she received a B.F.A. from Daemen College, she received her M.F.A. from Wayne State University, Detroit. She now lives in Nashville and is Professor Emeritus of Art, Volunteer State Community College. Her work with non-profit art organizations spans decades. She served as Co-Founder and Board Member of the Detroit Focus Gallery, Co-Founder and Board Member of the Visual Arts Alliance of Nashville, Artists Advisory Board Member for the Frist Art Museum, Juror for Tennessee Craft Fair, and Grant Panelist for Metro Arts Commission.
Her work has been shown nationally in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Nashville area exhibitions include Frist Art Museum; Sarratt Gallery at Vanderbilt University; Belmont University, Leu Gallery; Cheekwood Museum; Parthenon Museum; Zeitgeist Gallery. She has also exhibited at the Detroit Institute of Arts; Cincinnati Academy of Art; Schuwirth van Noorden Gallery, Maastricht Netherlands; and B Deemer Gallery, Louisville, KY; as well as a permanent installation at the University of Illinois Chicago. Sue joined the Tennessee Craft Board in 2025.
Past-President: JoEl LoGiudice (Ashland City)
JoEl Levy LoGiudice has a long history with Tennessee Craft as a volunteer, juror, and supporter. Though a resident of Middle Tennessee, her relationship with the fine art and handmade craft community is broad within Tennessee and nationally. As a practicing weaver/designer/jewelry maker and bead maker, JoEl is a prolific artist, and an in-demand workshop leader at numerous craft schools nationally, sharing her technical and creative skills. She is well known in the art/handmade craft community in Tennessee (and beyond) and is actively engaged with individuals and art-based organizations.
JoEl is also a seasoned arts administrator who served as a Vanderbilt University art force for over 30 years. In this role, JoEl oversaw and developed programs that provided students, faculty, and the public with a multitude of creative art and craft workshops and exhibitions, as well as performing arts, musical, and cinematic experiences. Within this realm, JoEl is well known and respected among her higher education peers, artists, and members of the community within Tennessee and beyond. She joined the Tennessee Craft Board in 2021.
Co-Vice President: Dick Markus (Antioch)
Dick Markus is a Nashville resident whose professional career has been in the Music Performance and Music Instrument Industry. During his management career, within the Music Instrument Industry as an experienced Brand Builder and Sales & Marketing Consultant, he has held numerous senior and executive-level management positions with prominent manufacturers and distributors, primarily in the Percussion marketplace.
Markus received his Bachelor of Music (Performance) degree from Indiana University. As a university student and for the subsequent 20 years, following his tour of duty in the US Navy Show Band, Markus was a professional musician touring with national acts, recording in studios, and performing in all manner of ensembles including Rock/Pop, Jazz, Opera and Symphony orchestras. He has toured throughout the US and Canada, even performing in the Catskills.
Markus currently provides independent sales, marketing and operational coaching and management to medium and small manufacturers and distributors on a Global basis. Dick joined the Tennessee Craft Board in 2025.
Co-Vice President: Kelly Hider (Knoxville)
Kelly Hider is a regionally and nationally exhibiting studio artist living in Knoxville, TN. She holds a BFA from SUNY Brockport in NY and an MFA from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. By altering found photographs using photo-editing tools and surface manipulations, Kelly highlights both the presence and absence of subject, and an exposed vulnerability to the passage of time. Her most recent solo exhibits have been in Nashville, and Knoxville. Her work is recognized as the recipient of numerous grants and an artist residency at the Hambidge Center in 2019.
Kelly has worked full-time at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts for seven years. Having recently been promoted to Director of National Programs, Hider has held two prior staff positions as their Youth Education Programs Manager, and Gallery Manager. Kelly joined the Tennessee Craft Board in 2021 and is the Chair of the Board Professional Development Committee.
Secretary: Paige Ward Moore (Jackson)
M. Paige Ward Moore is a multi-disciplinary studio artist, educator, and K-12 art education advocate living in Jackson, TN. Raised in rural Frog Jump, TN; her first love for art was expressed through building tree houses. Her childhood interest in constructing treehouses inspire her current multi-media work which serves as a vehicle to explore how her faith and worldview impacts questions she has about the transience of home, family, and relationships. Ward Moore received her BA in Art/Ceramics with a minor in Professional Education and TN K-12 Visual Arts Teaching Licensure from Union University in Jackson, TN, and her MFA in Studio Arts / Ceramics from the University of Florida in Gainesville. In addition to her formal art training in academia, Paige has been heavily influenced through nine summer workshop seasons of internships and residencies at national art centers like Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, CO and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, TN. She currently serves as Assistant Professor of Art (3D, Ceramics & Sculpture) and Gallery Director in the Department of Art at Union University in Jackson, TN. Paige joined the Tennessee Craft Board in 2020.
Co-Treasurer: Reneau Dubberley (Johnson City)
Reneau joined TACA, now Tennessee Craft, in 2003. He became a board member in 2004 as a chapter representative (Northeast Chapter) and has served on the Board every year since, except for three years. He was Board Treasurer 2009-2010 and again serves as the current Treasurer and chair of the Board Finance Committee. He supports Tennessee Craft as the mentoring organization for aspiring artists and accomplished artists.
Reneau holds Mechanical Engineering and MBA degrees. He is a tenured retired professor and a sports event director. He has broad experience serving as President, Vice-President, and Treasurer of many governing boards within his community.
Co-Treasurer: Louise Nuttle (Jonesborough)
Louise Nuttle is primarily self-taught fiber artist who uses locally-sourced natural animal fleeces to create small-batch hand-dyed yarns which she uses as the foundation for her one-of-a-kind woven and felted garments and accessories. Nuttle is formally trained as a research scientist and approaches every fleece, every new fiber blend, every dye lot as an experiment, the results of which she uses to inform the next. She carries this process of inquiry into her art to explore the interplay of color and texture and the physical qualities of natural fiber.
Louise moved to Northeast Tennessee in 2005 and established Dry Creek Alpacas in 2007 with the purchase of her first three alpacas. In 2010, she co-launched “Only the Finest,” a line of yarns and processed fibers produced from fleeces harvested from a consortium of alpaca farms in Northeast Tennessee. She left her career in higher education in 2019 and opened her solo studio, Nuttle Fiber Art & Design, in Jonesborough, Tennessee, where she offers individual and small group instruction in spinning, weaving, and felt-making. Louise has served as the president of the Northeast Chapter of Tennessee Craft, is the current Treasurer of the Northeast Chapter, and co-president of the Overmountain Weavers Guild. She is a member of the Handweavers Guild of America, Inc. and Local Cloth, LLC. In 2023 she was selected as a Master Artist for the Tennessee Arts Commission MAAP grant. Louise joined the Tennessee Craft Board in 2025.
Members At-Large
Erin Anfinson (Murfreesboro)
Erin Anfinson is a Professor of Art at Middle Tennessee State University where she teaches drawing, design, and digital art courses in the Foundations program. Her encaustic-infused collages and animated films are often inspired by an interest in science, conservation, natural history, and narratives of ecosystems in flux. She has been a National Park Service artist-in-residence twice, first in 2017 at Herbert Hoover National Historic Site in West Branch, Iowa and again in 2018-19 at Stones River National Battlefield in Murfreesboro, TN. Both residencies profoundly impacted her studio practice, resulting in the creation of works that reflect on the discovery, awareness and loss of diminishing native ecosystems. In 2021 she was an artist-in-residence at the Tallgrass Prairie Center in Cedar Falls, Iowa and presented her resulting work in a 2022 solo exhibition, Tell the Bees, at the Waterloo Arts Center in Waterloo, Iowa.Anfinson has exhibited her work nationally and internationally in galleries, museums, and film festivals, including the Gadsden Museum of Art (Gadsden, AL), The Frist Museum (Nashville, TN), and the Krakow International Green Film Festival (Krakow, Poland). She is been a recipient of several awards and grants from organizations including the International Encaustic Artist organization and the Tennessee Arts Commission. In addition to her creative work and research, she also regularly teaches mixed media encaustic workshops at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Erin joined the Tennessee Craft Board in 2024.
James “Keith” Biggs (Nashville)
Keith Biggs is a Nashville native who has been active with Tennessee Craft as a volunteer for several seasons. He has an economics degree with a minor in mathematics from Tennessee Tech and is currently pursuing a master’s in applied economics from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Keith is an enthusiastic learner who engages with his professors on research projects outside regular coursework.
Professionally, Keith works as a financial analyst for HealthTrust. His general workflow consists of monitoring medical device contracts and considering the financial impact and potential cost mitigation of projects affecting the company’s bottom line and the end patient. He has enjoyed encouraging his professional connections at HealthTrust and HCA to volunteer alongside him at the Craft Fair and looks forward to helping Tennessee Craft in more ways. Keith joined the Tennessee Craft Board in 2025.
Julie Boisseau-Craig (Rockford)
Julie Fawn Boisseau-Craig works primarily in porcelain and glass—utilizing metals and wood as needed to create her sculptural installations. Julie makes wearable art and many functional works in pottery and glass at Wild Pony Studio, located in Rockford, Tennessee. She received her Masters of Fine Arts in December of 2012 and has taught art at Western Carolina University, Southwestern Community College, and Oconaluftee Institute for Cultural Art. She has shown nationally and participated in many workshops and demonstrations. Julie is active on arts councils and collectives both regionally and nationally and has held memberships and offices with the Art Student League, The American Craft Council, The Potter’s Council, Glass Arts Society, NCECA (National Council on Education for Ceramic Arts), Smoky Mountain Clay Guild; and has been the Chapter Representative, Vice President, and President of Tennessee Craft East Chapter. Her work responds to the pieces and parts that make up our lives, observing the contradictions of our world and how those components come together to create memories. Julie joined the Tennessee Craft Board in 2024.
Audry Deal-McEver (Nashville)
Audry Deal-McEver is a working artist with a full-time studio practice. She is a Nashville, TN native who works primarily with clay. The majority of Audry’s income is earned from sales at high-end art and craft fairs; as a result, she has insight about how the Tennessee Craft Fairs compare to other regional events and how peer organizations function nationally. From her many years working in the arts professionally, Audry has developed curatorial, event planning, and management experience. As a self-employed small business owner, she has also gained insight into ways of supporting artists that simultaneously create opportunities to help foster growth in our state’s creative economy.
In addition to earning a BFA in Ceramic Studio Arts, Audry has studied abroad at Burg Giebichenstein School of Art and Design (Halle, Germany), and she has engaged in many short-term artist residencies at places like Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Haystack Center for Ceramic Arts, and Red Lodge Clay Center. Audry has also taught at many different institutions including Belmont University, Middle Tennessee State University, Vanderbilt University’s Sarratt Art Studios, Watkins College of Art Design and Film, and at workshop centers across the country. From 2018-2020 she served as VP and then President of the Midstate Chapter of Tennessee craft. She then joined the Tennessee Craft state-wide Governing Board in 2021 as a Member At Large and eventually became Co-Vice President from 2022-2024. She is currently serving as the Chair of the Fair Committee.
Richard Dwyer (Johnson City) Tennessee Craft—Northeast Representative
Jennifer Gagliardi (Nashville)
Jennifer Gagliardi is an art historian and curator based in Nashville. Her work focuses on new media and technology in the arts from the 60s through the contemporary period, particularly video and software. Originally from New York, Jennifer has taught art history at Pratt Institute and Manhattan College and worked at The Brooklyn Museum in Visitor Experience and Engagement as a private tour curator and guide. Her most recent curatorial projects include Hands on the Loom (2023) and Warhol x Scholder: Cowboys and Indians (2023) at the Museum of the Southwest in Midland Texas.
Jennifer currently teaches at Middle Tennessee State University, where she focuses on contemporary art and museum practices with her students. She also offers adult education courses in art history and theory at The Forge in Nashville and works as the editor for Number:Inc Magazine. Jennifer holds a B.A. in English from St. Joseph’s College, and an M.A. in Art Criticism with an advanced certificate in Cultural Studies from Stony Brook University. Jennifer joined the Tennessee Craft Board in 2025.
Donna Glassford (Nashville)
Donna Glassford has over 25 years experience in the realm of arts and arts engagement and her broad experience and expertise in the arts is a strong reason to consider her for your art needs.As an independent arts consultant she specializes in building private and corporate art collections and has earned a distinguished reputation in the selection and placement of art within healthcare environments. In 2011, she was awarded the honor of Distinguished Fellow in the field of art and health by the Global Alliance for Arts and Health and was the recipient of the Nashville Arts and Business Council’s Bowtie Award in 2012.She has served in many senior art administration positions and has produced arts-in-healthcare conferences in collaboration with MoMA, Sotheby’s, Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the Society for the Arts in Healthcare.Also a respected arts curator, Glassford wrote the chapter “ Managing Art Collections in Healthcare Environments” for the book Managing Arts Programs in Healthcare, edited by Patricia Dewey, Routledge Press in 2016.Glassford is a graduate of the Appraiser’s Association of America and graduated from their Comprehensive Appraisals Program (CASP). She is USPAP compliant. She has appraised fine art, prints and furniture. An international speaker on the topic of art, Glassford has spoken at conferences throughout the US, Australia, England, Italy, Lithuania and Scotland.Glassford has consulted with The Fred and Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, Omaha, NE, The Society for Arts in Healthcare, Washington, DC, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville TN, The University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, KY, The Levine Children’s Hospital, Charlotte, NC, Emory Medical Center, Atlanta, GA, and the Princeton Healthcare System, Princeton, NJ. Donna joined the Tennessee Craft Board in 2024.
Patrick Green (Sparta) Tennessee Craft—Plateau Representative
Patrick Green has been a part of craft art in Tennessee for 25 years. He received his B.A. in Philosophy from The University of Tennessee at Martin in 2003 and his M.F.A. in ceramics from Eastern Michigan University in 2008. Currently, he is the owner of Misty Mountain Studios and is Professor of Ceramics at Volunteer State Community College. Patrick joined the Tennessee Craft Board as the Plateau Chapter Representative in 2025. Donna joined the Tennessee Craft Board in 2024.
Jonathan Harwell-Dye (Nashville)
Working at the intersection of art and business, Jonathan Harwell-Dye is passionate about supporting artists and arts organizations, building equitable communities, and living a creative life. He aligns his passion and purpose as director of programs for the Arts & Business Council of Greater Nashville overseeing the overall strategy and day-to-day management of key programs that provide resources, opportunities, and education for Tennessee’s thriving creative sector. He was previously senior communications manager for a global art and design university and director of communications for a nonprofit arts organization and local arts agency. He began his career as a graphic artist in the newspaper industry and went on to be an online manager, creative director, and editor. Trained as an illustrator, Jonathan co-founded the Three Cities Group Artist Collective and curated the gallery at the Contemporary Arts Exchange in Macon, GA. Jonathan holds a B.F.A. in interdisciplinary studies/scientific illustration from the University of Georgia and certification in creative placemaking from The Ohio State University in partnership with the National Consortium for Creative Placemaking. He studied business design and arts leadership at the Savannah College of Art and Design completing graduate-level coursework in business, finance and accounting, and strategic decision-making. Jonathan is married to Stacey Harwell-Dye, pastor of mercy and justice ministries at West End United Methodist Church in Nashville, Tennessee. The two share their home in Nashville with a sweet dog named Cici and an adorable toddler who keeps them on their toes every day. Jonathan joined the Tennessee Craft Board in 2024.
Sherri Warner Hunter (Bell Buckle)
Sherri Warner Hunter is a sculptor, teacher, facilitator, author, manipulator of tile, and a big fan of concrete. She received her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute, and MA from Claremont Graduate School in California. In 2024 she was selected as a Master Artist for the Tennessee Arts Commission MAAP grant.
About 30 years ago she and her husband, Martin, settled in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, where she established her studio, SWH Art Studio Inc. She has given presentations and hands-on workshops for numerous international, national, and regional organizations. Her studio workshops series started prior to moving to Bell Buckle and are still going strong.
In 1995 Hunter received her first public art commission through a state-wide competition to create a sculpture for one of Tennessee’s Interstate Welcome Centers. Dozens of projects later, Hunter continues to create large-scale concrete and mosaic forms for exterior installations. More recent commissions include the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, Palo Alto, CA; Seasonal Tree of Life, Memphis, TN; and at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.
Hunter also has a passion for community-built projects. As a member of the Community Built Association (CBA), Hunter participated in the 2022 conference by collaborating on the design, and facilitating the construction of a multi-unit, vertical sculpture for the Comunidad Mayan Pixan Ixim in Omaha, NE, working with members of the Mayan community, local artists, and members of the CBA leadership workshop. Her other community-built projects have taken place in schools and with various non-profit organizations. Sherri joined the Tennessee Craft Board in 2025.<
Ashley Lusietto (Cookeville)
Ashley Lusietto is an artist and administrator based in central Tennessee. She received her BFA and MFA from the University of Wisconsin – Madison with an emphasis in painting. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Portrait Society Gallery, Marian Gallery, Arts and Literature Laboratory and in group exhibitions at the Saint Kate Arts Hotel, the Museum of Wisconsin Art, and the Trout Museum of Art. She has completed artist residencies at Gallery 224/ArtServancy, the Bubbler and Penland School of Craft’s winter residency. Her commissions include murals at the Madison Public Library and the Museum of Wisconsin Art. Prior to moving to Tennessee, Ashley was an adjunct instructor at Mount Mary University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and coordinated the Wormfarm Institute’s biannual event, the Farm/Art DTour in rural Wisconsin. She is currently the program manager at the Appalachian Center for Craft in Smithville, TN. Her work is represented by Portrait Society Gallery of Contemporary Art in Milwaukee, WI. Ashley joined the Tennessee Craft Board in 2025.
J Denise Miller (Estill Springs) Tennessee Craft—South Representative
Denise Miller works mainly in gel-printing, papercrafts, acrylics, and mixed media. Her painting Little Red Barn was selected for the Emerging Artist program at the Panoply Arts Festival in Huntsville, AL, in 2013. She also had work accepted in the Art for the Park show at the Trails and Trilliums event in 2014 and 2016.The artist has had exhibits at the Artisan Depot gallery in Cowan, Linebaugh Library in Murfreesboro, the Celtic Cup Coffee House in Tullahoma, the Tullahoma Fine Arts Center, and Sterling’s Coffee House in Sewanee. Denise is active in the Franklin County Arts Guild, the Murfreesboro Art League, and the Bell Buckle Arts Council. She has taught workshops and has taught art classes through the Healing Arts Project (HAPI). J Denise joined the Tennessee Craft Board as the South Chapter Representative in 2024.
Pat Moody (Memphis)
Pat Moody, retired owner of a Memphis retail casual furniture store, is a metal sculptor specializing in carbon steel welding. Her sculptures are in collections throughout the country, including the Tennessee State Museum Contemporary Craft Collection and the Christian Brothers University Collection. Pat has been a member of the Tennessee Craft Board since 2004 serving as President and Past President of the board and has also served on the Fair Committee and on the past two Executive Director Search Committees. She is an Honorary Member and a dedicated volunteer for the Spring and Fall Craft Fairs. Pat rejoined the Tennessee Craft Board in 2024.
Ben Paty (Nashville) Tennessee Craft—Midstate Representative
Ben Paty is a Nashville native, living in Williamson County for the past 25 years. He retired in 2005 from the foodservice industry and has been creatively turning wood since that time. He has studied more complex woodturning techniques with nationally renowned woodturner David Ellsworth, and, as a result, has focused his craft on turning bowls and hollow vessels.
Ben lives on the Harpeth River and finds many species of his wood along the banks. He looks for exotic and unusual wood, but otherwise is excited to enhance wood through multiple embellishing techniques, including painting, dyeing, carving, sand and glass bead blasting, steaming, ammonia fuming, texturing, inlay, polishing, wood burning, and of course sanding. Each piece of wood that is selected is an individual challenge. Selection of the wood and placement of the wood onto the lathe is important in order to display the grain or special qualities of the finished product. Sometimes the merits of the wood have enough qualities that little needs to be done to finish the piece. When the wood possesses minimal qualities, Ben will frequently decide to carve, paint, burn, ebonize, or dry brush the piece. Oftentimes, multiple layers of embellishment are necessary to make a complex work more pleasing.
As a member of the Tennessee Association of Woodturners, and current Board member (and incoming Vice President), Ben has served as a demonstrator at the Tennessee Craft Fair for the past ten years. This past year, he exhibited his wood at both the spring and fall Tennessee Craft Fair (Centennial Park) in addition to the Tennessee Craft Midstate Chapter at Arcade Arts Nashville and Sewanee Arts and Crafts Fair. Ben joined the Tennessee Craft Board as the Midstate Chapter Representative in 2025.
Lucy K Rymer (Cleveland) Tennessee Craft—Southeast Representative
Lucy graduated from Middle Tennessee State University in 2003 with a degree in Marketing and again in 2005 with her MBA. Prior to accepting the position of Executive Director at MCC5P, Lucy had a 9-year career in bank management, followed by a hiatus to stay home and raise her 2 children. She has been active in philanthropic work in Bradley County through her involvement with Rotary Club of Cleveland, TN, Junior Achievement, Cleveland Bradley Chamber of Commerce Arts in Education & Business Committee, Junior Auxiliary, and volunteer work within the Cleveland City Schools system. Recently, Lucy has enjoyed serving as a grant panelist for TN Arts Commission Arts Build Communities grants, TVFCU Idea Leap grants, helping to restart the Southeast Chapter of TN Craft, and serving as a representative for Tennessee at the Smithsonian’s Rural Initiative Summit. Lucy joined the Tennessee Craft Board in 2025.
Patricia Schwarz (Memphis) Tennessee Craft—Southwest Representative
Patricia is a working ceramics artist who enjoys showing her art and interacting with other artists to strengthen our creative community. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts – Ceramics and Printmaking from Sophie Newcomb College of Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, Master of Arts – Arts History degree from University of Memphis, and her MFA in Ceramics and Photography from East Carolina University in Greenville, NC. Her thesis show included a number of large, functional, soda-fired pieces. For many years she produced salt-fired and other high temperature pottery in her home studio, prior to opening and owning Clayworks Teaching and Production Studio in midtown Memphis. Detours from full-time creating included 15 years of service as a Paramedic for the Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation in Memphis, and 10 years as an Art Teacher in the Memphis City Schools. She feels privileged that she had opportunities to share her love of ceramics, teaching hundreds of students how to express themselves in clay. She now enjoys focusing on her own creations of non-utilitarian, sawdust fired, smoked pieces in traditional forms, demonstrating on the potters’ wheel, and helping at craft fairs. Most recently Patricia volunteered in various roles at the 2023 Fall Tennessee Craft Fair in Nashville. She has served as Past President of the Memphis Potters Guild and Past President of the Memphis Artists and Craftsmen Association. Patricia joined the Tennessee Craft Board as the Southwest Chapter Representative in 2023.
Carlton Wilkinson (Nashville)
Carlton Wilkinson is an artist, educator, entrepreneur, and art activist residing in Nashville, TN. He received his BA and MFA in graphic design and photography from Washington University at St. Louis and the University of California, Los Angeles respectively. Carlton has an extensive background as an artist and educator in higher education. He has taught courses in graphic design, photography, and African Art History in colleges and universities across the country ranging from Vanderbilt University and Watkins College of Art, Design and Film to the University of North Carolina Wilmington and Volunteer State Community College. In his current business, Wilkinson Arts, Carlton works as an art broker, artist representative, and collections manager for various clients. He currently serves on the boards of Leadership Nashville and The Arts Business Exchange in Nashville. Carlton joined the Tennessee Craft Board in 2023.
Donna L. Woodley (Nashville)
Donna Woodley is a visual artist and educator residing in Nashville, TN. Her paintings primarily discuss the relationship between Black and American culture and have been exhibited both regionally and nationally. She received her BS and MFA in Studio Art from Tennessee State University and Lesley University College of Art and Design in Boston, Massachusetts respectively. Since receiving her MFA in 2016, Donna has served in professor roles at institutions such as Belmont University, University of the South, Austin Peay State University, and Tennessee State University. Familiar with serving on boards of organizations; Donna serves on the boards of the National African American Literacy Institute and the Ron Settles Memorial Foundation. Donna joined the Tennessee Craft Board in 2023.
2024 Advisory Council
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- Kim Brooks
- Paulette Coleman
- Diane Hayes
- Jim Hoobler
- Jane Ann McCullough
- Alice Merritt
- April Mullins
- Alf Sharp
- Steve Sirls
Tennessee Craft Charter
Tennessee Craft By-Laws
Minutes from recent board meetings
2025
- August 2025 Board Meeting Minutes (pdf)
- June 2025 Board Meeting Minutes (pdf)
- February 2025 Board Meeting Minutes (pdf)
2024
- November 2024 Board Meeting Minutes (pdf)
- September 2024 Board Meeting Minutes (pdf)
- June 2024 Board Meeting Minutes (pdf)
- February 2024 Board Meeting Minutes (pdf)
2023
- June 2023 Board Meeting Minutes (pdf)
- February 2023 Board Meeting Minutes (pdf)
- August 2023 Board Meeting Minutes (pdf)
- November 2023 Board Meeting Minutes (pdf)
2022
- August 2022 Board Meeting Minutes (pdf)
- February 2022 Board Meeting Minutes (pdf)
- June 2022 Board Meeting Minutes (pdf)
- November 5 2022 Board Meeting Minutes (pdf)
2021
- February 2021 Board Meeting Minutes (pdf)
- June 2021 Board Meeting Minutes (pdf)
- August 2021 Board Meeting Minutes (pdf)
- November 2021 Board Meeting Minutes (pdf)
2020
- February 2020 Board Meeting Minutes (pdf)
- June 2020 Board Meeting Minutes (pdf)
- August 2020 Board Meeting Minutes (pdf)
- November 2020 Board Meeting Minutes (pdf)
2019
- February 2019 Board Meeting Minutes (pdf)
- June 2019 Board Meeting Minutes (pdf)
- August 2019 Board Meeting Minutes (pdf)
- November 2019 Board Meeting Minutes (pdf)
2018
- January 2018 Board Meeting Minutes (pdf)
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2017
- February 2017 Board Meeting Minutes (pdf)
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- November 2017 Board Meeting Minutes (pdf)
2016
- February 2016 Board Meeting Minutes (pdf)
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- November 2016 Board Meeting Minutes (pdf)
2015
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2014
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2013
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- November 2013 Board Meeting Minutes (pdf)
2012
- February 2012 Board Meeting Minutes (pdf)
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- November 2012 Board Meeting Minutes (pdf)
