Plum Nelly Depot 2024 Featured 40 Artists
Photos by Lydia Berglar
This year’s event brought back some of last year’s artists as well as newcomers, for a total of 40 vendors. Approximately 375 guests perused artwork that ranged from paintings, sketches, and pottery to jewelry, metalwork, and wood carvings, to greeting cards, onsite portraits, and more. Pictured here: Alyse Keith (first-year art teacher at Ridgeland High School) joined the depot for the first time.
Tracy Beamon makes jewelry from copper, brass, and silver and sells it through her company “Mirth and Metal.” This was her first year at Plum Nelly.
Tina Esparza’s painting style is called “impasto,” using a heavy acrylic to create textured paintings. She enjoyed Plum Nelly last year as a guest and returned this year as a vendor.
With the goal of offering something unique and affordable, Grace Wright offered onsite watercolor portraits for $5. This was her first year at Plum Nelly. She was one of two vendors making onsite portraits.
Originally from Samaria, Mahmoud Ghazal sold Bedouin rings that are about 80-100 years old. He also makes jewelry from 2,000-year-old wine glasses, bottles, etc. and sold those and wood carvings at his first Plum Nelly Depot.
Frazier’s Fabrication Coppersmith added metal craftsmanship into the mix of mediums and styles at the show.
A shopper talks with Debby Crump Dunn about one of Dunn’s ceramic pieces.
With many years as an architect under his belt, Peter F. Snyder is transitioning into selling his art as well as his book, “My American Heritage: Our Nation Under Attack From Within.”
