More than 20 years of mural experience, Barnard offers a unique blend of painting expertise and
public art experience. Her murals are on display in schools, parks, churches, cities, towns and
residences across the Mid-South region.
She painted the King Biscuit Festival poster in 1997, and since then, has become a leading artist
for blues festival posters. The posters are created with acrylic paints.
Barnard also creates portraits in oil pastels and designs and creates jewelry and shirts which
she sells to shops in the Delta.
Barnard hails from Clarksdale, Mississippi, and has lived in Tutwiler, but is currently living in
Senatobia.
https://www.facebook.com/cristen.barnard
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Greg Birdsong is a professional fine artist. He specializes in portraiture, landscapes, murals,
signs, and custom artwork.
https://www.facebook.com/Birdsong-Artistry-118981054815460/
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Gerald DeLoach was born in Alligator, Mississippi, which is about an hour’s drive from
Clarksdale. He attended Delta State in 1966, initially studying bookkeeping, but then changing
majors to art. He met artist and teacher Sammy Britt while at Delta State, who helped him
develop his painting style. He moved to Provincetown, Mass. in 1969 to study with the color
painter Henry Hensche at The Cape School of Art.
DeLoach is a landscape impressionist painter, photographer, and he produces sketches and
drawings.
Hayden G. Hall was born and raised in Clarksdale, MS. After a career as a classically French
trained chef and restaurateur, Hayden decided to follow his passion of pursuing art as a full-time
career. He had no formal art education. Only by sheer determination and the osmosis of
observing the work of his father, a life long renowned oil painter, Hayden traded in the chef’s knife
for a paint brush. He can either be found in his country studio just outside of Clarksdale or city
studio in Midtown Memphis, TN. His works can be found in homes throughout the Delta, Memphis
and afar. Painting Southern Landscapes are where he finds the most inspiration and peace.
Hayden and his wife Erica have lived in D.C. and New Orleans, nurturing their creative souls with
new wonder, but something about the Delta and the South always seem to draw them back home.
He keeps rotating show in Erica's botanical living design shop, Oak & Ivy in Clarksdale.
https://www.haydenghallart.com
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Hayden Hall is a lifetime local artist, self-taught in fine arts. From landscapes to portraits to animals, his paintings are seen in
numerous Delta homes and beyond. Hayden is the father of the rising artist Hayden G. Hall.
https://www.facebook.com/hayden.hall.9
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Cajun chefs, bluesmen and red-haired women people the art of Stan Street. On his canvas, New
Orleans’s Delta and Florida’s Big Cypress Swamp blend into a stew of red hot licks and blazing
notes. was only after years as a recognized blues musician in Florida that he took up brush and
paint. Street’s earliest art celebrated the blues pioneers in wide slashes of brilliant color on slabs
of discarded wood, rescued from anonymity with portraits of the likes of Muddy Waters, Elmore
James, Robert Johnson. After some time in New Orleans, the juke joints and blues festivals of the
deep South started to breathe on his canvas. As he experimented with different styles, drawing on
the Impressionists and Expressionists, Street “took what he needed to know and went from
there”. Bold strokes and colors played out the sounds he heard and played as a musical artist.
“Being self-taught is an advantage, in that doors are always open for new development. My art
will always have a primitive feel to it and I try to give it movement and life.”
Joey is an artist, art teacher, booker of Indie bands and local waiter. Young can often be seen
working his pottery wheel in his shop, listening to some blues or other music at one of several
music venues in the area, or just chillin’ downtown.
Lambfish Art Company was opened in September 2008 at 114 Third Street in downtown
Clarksdale.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lambfish-Art-Company/178252968880416?sk=info
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Jason Bouldin, the youngest of four sons of portrait artist Marshall Bouldin III and physician Mary
Ellen Stribling Bouldin, grew up on a cotton farm near Clarksdale. The family home sits in a
pecan grove, which also shelters the studio where Marshall Bouldin III worked for more than half
a century. “Since I was a boy, my brothers and I all painted little projects in the studio,” Jason
said. “Dad encouraged us to be around the studio; he never barred us from coming in. It was
always a creative place to be. I learned as much by osmosis—just being around my father and
in this space—as I did from my more formal instruction.”
Bouldin attended the University of Mississippi, where he studied science, and received a
bachelor of fine arts degree from Harvard University in 1989. After a two-year apprenticeship
with his father, he began his professional career as a portrait painter in 1991. Since then, he has
painted more than two hundred commissioned portraits, among them public works hanging in
such varied locations as the US Department of Agriculture, the Judiciary Committee Room of the
US House of Representatives, Harvard University, Tulane University Law School, the Mississippi
State Capitol, Willcox House (London, England), and more than a dozen US federal
courthouses. He has also painted portraits of former governor William Winter for the lobby of the
William F. Winter Archives and History Building; Elise Winter, for the First Ladies Gallery of the
Old Capitol Museum; and Medgar Evers and Myrlie Evers-Williams, for the Mississippi Museum
of Art. The Evers paintings were unveiled in 2013 on the fiftieth anniversary of the civil rights
leader’s assassination in Jackson.
https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/jason-bouldin/
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Mississippi’s most famous portrait painter, lived in Clarksdale, has four children. His son Jason is
also an artist. Marshall Bouldin’s paintings hang in the White House and the halls of Congress.
He painted over 800 portraits including, among others, 20th-century Southern political leaders
such as John C. Stennis as well as President Richard M. Nixon’s daughters and William
Faulkner. In 2012 he received the Portrait Society of America’s Gold Medal Award at their “The
Art of the Portrait” conference held in Philadelphia, PA. In 2009 he received the Lifetime
Achievement Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters. Born Sept. 6, 1923, in
Dundee, Mississippi, he died in 2012 at the age of 89.
Clarksdale, MS 38614,
Born in Clarksdale, MS Bradley Gordon studied at The University of Mississippi (BFA, Art
Education, 2001) and was a resident artist at Scall Art Studios in Taichung City, Taiwan (2006).
After returning from a year in Narita, Japan where he actively pursued his two loves of painting
and music, he moved home to the Mississippi Delta to pursue painting as a career (2010).
Currently he lives and works in Oxford, MS.
Clarksdale, MS 38614,
662.313.3385
Nathan Mullins was born and raised in Clarksdale, MS. He has received his BFA in Painting &
Drawing from the University of Southern Mississippi and will graduate with an MFA in Studio Art
from American University in Washington, DC in May 2015. In addition, Mullins has studied
abroad in Rome and Florence with the University of Georgia and in Berlin at the GlogauAIR
Studios.
Mullins writes for the online and print publications produced by Mississippi Modern, Inc. and
served on the company's Board of Directors as Community Outreach Coordinator. He is
currently teaching at Savannah State University in Savannah, GA.
Clarksdale, MS 38614,