Each year following the Arts & Crafts Festival in Fairhope, artists and craftsmen are surveyed to determine their opinions of how well the event was organized and to acquire suggestions for future events. Each year they all say the same thing about the town's folk - they like the down home southern hospitality.
 Bryan Davis studied film history at the University of Colorado and, upon graduation, promptly moved to Los Angeles to work in feature film production. His credits include work on Pearl Harbor, Bad Boys II, and Garfield. In a transition to visual effects, he worked with Industrial Light + Magic on the films Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and Men in Black II. Bryan's credits also include several original short films inspired by the classics of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. With a passionate and creative soul and an eye toward the development of new talent, Bryan is a perpetual admirer of the arts. He recently moved back to Colorado and is currently studying French in his efforts to achieve a graduate degree in art history. He is a firm believer in art as a transformative experience - an experience that can lead us to find unexpected and profound connections to one another.
 Ward Doubet has been professionally focused on craftsmanship in the visual arts for over thirty years. After completing undergraduate majors in art and philosophy, he operated Wataga Stoneware, producing and marketing high-fired functional pottery. He earned the MFA in ceramics at the University of Oregon. He also studied art history and art theory and taught the history of art and ceramics at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He taught ceramics, design and art history at North Dakota State University, where he was coordinator for art and served as interim chairperson for the Department of Music and Art. He currently serves as interim director of Tennessee Tech University's Appalachian Center for Craft. Ward has exhibited ceramic sculpture, both nationally and internationally, most recently at the Pottery Workshop in Hong Kong and Shanghai, China. He has published numerous articles in American Craft, American Ceramics, the New Art Examiner, and other art journals. He has lectured in China, Canada and across the U.S. and served as a juror on grants-making panels for the Pew Charitable Trust, five state arts councils, and numerous regional organizations. He has juried exhibitions for the Artisans Center of Virginia, the Nashville Metro Arts Gallery, and the Chicago Center for Ceramic Art, among others, and has served on many juries for national and regional craft fairs.
 Brian Jones is a regional director with the Alabama Tourism Department and served as project manager for the award-winning Year of Alabama Arts tourism campaign. He also served as contributing editor for the book Alabama Arts. His early interests in the arts focused on theatre and literature. Growing up in Decatur , Alabama , he enjoyed afternoon matinees at the historic Princess Theatre and readings at the Carnegie Library (now the Carnegie Visual Arts Center). His interest in theatre continued as he acted in both high school and college drama productions. Brian's acting experiences led to an internship with the Disney-MGM Studios. At Walt Disney, he completed a specialized course of study in tourism marketing through the Disney Institute and the University of Central Florida . He graduated from the University of North Alabama with a degree in public relations and the University of Alabama with a masters degree in advertising and public relations. His research on the Year of Alabama Arts took him to arts events across the state, including Panoply, Bluff Park, the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival, Kentuck, and Monroeville's To Kill a Mockingbird. Some of his favorite arts activities include attending Alabama Shakespeare Festival productions, viewing exhibitions at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Arts, visiting the Alabama Music Hall of Fame, and exploring the art galleries of Northport and Fairhope.
 James Moss is an attorney by trade. He was born and raised in Los Angeles and is a graduate of U.C.L.A. and Loyola Los Angeles Law School. He is currently assistant district attorney for the state of Georgia. James began his fascination with art and antiques at the early age of 7. As an adult, he became a collector and dealer of antiques, with emphasis on art, silver, china, and American arts and crafts furniture, lighting, and pottery. He has conducted appraisal clinics and is the owner of Estate Sales Unlimited, an estate liquidation company located in Atlanta.
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