Louisiana Crafts Guild Membership

The Louisiana Crafts Guild is a juried organization of fine crafts artisans located throughout the state of Louisiana and the southern region of the United States. The organization accepts applicants in the following categories:

Folk Craftsmen maintain traditional crafts learned within their own community, with skills passed down orally or by example. This includes ritual and festive crafts (voodoo dolls, Mardi Gras masks), Native American crafts (palmetto weaving, moss dolls, woodcarvings), domestic crafts (quilting, weaving, soap making, broom making), folk instruments (fiddle making, triangles, wash boards), and rural occupational crafts (blacksmithing, rope making, boat building).

Contemporary and Revivalist Craftsmen have acquired knowledge through books, workshops, or education. Eligible media include clay (thrown or hand-built forms designed by the artist), fiber (spinning, weaving, baskets, cane bottom chairs, painted and dyed fabric, needlework, quilting, leatherwork), glass (cold and hot processes including stained glass and blown glass), metal (enameling, casting, engraving, sculpture, ironwork), wood (furniture, carving, sculpting), mixed media (drawing and painting as part of original 3D pieces, collages, decoupage, beading), and papercraft (paper mache, cast paper, marbling, bookmaking, fabric dyeing, block printing). Louisiana Life category accepts original watercolor, oil, and acrylic paintings, and color and black and white photography representing Louisiana's urban and rural cultures and traditions. Photography prints must be limited edition (up to 100) and signed and numbered.

Entry fee is $30.00 for membership. Applicants must submit 5 images. National eligibility.