Meet the artists of Double Decker

Double Decker 2016 has a schedule jam-packed with more than a hundred art booths in the Square. Winfrey Works, Oxford Photo Works, Oxford Treehouse Gallery, Angels by Moni and Dell Clark are only a handful of the talented artists who will be vending. Head to doubledeckerfestival.com for a full list of vendors.

Jennifer Winfrey of Winfrey Works will be bringing an exciting addition to Double Decker this year.

“This is our fifth year of Double Decker and it’s going to be really cool,” Winfrey said. “I went down to Oxford to take pictures and look at monuments like the Faulkner statue, Colonel Reb and other things around the Square. Then I went home and drew up a table.”

Winfrey Works is known for the outdoor tables husband-and-wife team John and Jennifer Winfrey make. Jennifer is responsible for the ceramics, porcelain and graphic work, while John sculpts the metal.

“The Oxford table is going to look great. The base is an O and an M, with an O and an M on the top. We’re making it especially for Oxford and Double Decker.”
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Photographer Jim Hendrix specializes in photography for small towns and rural settings.

“I take photos of Oxford, Ole Miss and other Mississippi small towns like Calhoun City, Water Valley, Charleston and New Albany,” Hendrix said. “I shoot their courthouses, churches and other buildings. I also shoot rural settings. I aim to shoot with lots of details in my photos. I specialize in printing as well and print for other artists.”
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Vivian Neill of Oxford Treehouse Gallery said she is planning to bring works from six out of the 20 artists they represent to the festival, as well as her own work and work by Walter Neill. Ron Lindsey, Paul Fayard, Benny Melton, Trapp Tischner, Sarah Teasley and Valvespring Pottery will be featured at the Oxford Treehouse Gallery’s Double Decker debut.

“We’re bringing paintings, ceramics, jewelry, weavings and hand-forged metalworks. We will have a double tent, as this is our first time at Double Decker, so we’re diving all the way in,” Neill said. “Our gallery is just seven miles away from the Square. People come out and chill out with us. It’s a space also used as a party venue with a big screened porch. It is a very unique and unusual art gallery.”
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Angels by Moni is another business involving the art of sculpting beautiful things by hand, with this artisan operating out of Ridgeland. Moni McKee sculpts her angels by hand from clay, an art she has perfected over more than 30 years.

“I do rabbits in the spring, very whimsical stuff,” McKee said. “Now I’m focused on coming to Oxford. I’ll do my angels and some pottery, some trays. Everything I make is sculpted by hand out of clay. I don’t use any molds. I went to Double Decker last year, and I’m really looking forward to this year.”
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Dell Clark, antique jeweler extraordinaire, knows something about whimsicality. He was able to collect thousands of antique Victorian-era cufflinks years ago and now uses them to create jewelry.

“I’ve been working 16-18 hours a day making some 3,000 rings for this event,” he said. “Oxford is a town that honors the past and the Victorian era is a part of that. The Victorians were masters of art. I will have earrings made out of these old cufflinks and the best part about them is you know they’re going to last. Something that’s been on that long, since the 1870s and 1880s and so on, you know it’ll stay on another hundred years.”