Maysey Craddock is a contemporary American artist. She grew up between Memphis and the Alabama Gulf Coast, and got her BFA from Tulane University in New Orleans. Her work is inspired by the estuaries along the Southern coast of the United States, particularly the ephemerality of the terrain. As she writes in her artist statement, "We think of land as solid and immutable, heavy and dense with proscribed [sic] edges and borders (geological, political, cultural, personal), but it shifts as drastically and permanently as anything in our natural world. Coastlines are especially vulnerable to change: the ravages of storms, natural erosion, marshes’ and estuaries’ fragility and, of course, man’s manipulation of the land." To document this fragility of land, she works on carefully sewn together scraps of brown paper bags, adding thin lines of gouache that come from her observations and memories of the Alabama Gulf Coast's geography. Craddock has had solo shows in New York, Houston, Dallas, Seattle, Memphis, Stuttgart and Munich, and lives and works in Memphis, Tennessee.