Guild Honors Craftsmen with Lifetime Achievement Awards
The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi will honor craftsmen and longtime Guild members Marcy Petrini and Andrew Young, both of Jackson, with the Lifetime Achievement Award at “Let’s Do Lunch” on Thursday, May 19 at 11:30 am at the Mississippi Craft Center in Ridgeland. Petrini and Young are receiving the Guild’s highest honor in recognition of their personal accomplishments in their mediums, their education and mentorship of others artists, and the leadership roles they both have played to further the Guild’s value. The luncheon will also remember Joseph Barksdale “J.B.” Keith of Clinton, the first recipient of the Guild Lifetime Achievement Award, J.B. Keith, who passed away October 31, 2015.