Women’s Guild of Arts

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The Women’s Guild of Arts was an early 20th-century British organization that promoted and supported women practitioners in the Arts and Crafts movement.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf arts organization
professional association
women’s organization
activity mutual support among women artists
organizing exhibitions
professional networking
aimedAt improving recognition of women in the arts
associatedWith Arts and Crafts movement
surface form: British Arts and Crafts movement

women’s suffrage era in Britain
country United Kingdom
culturalContext British art scene
dissolved 20th century
field applied arts
crafts
decorative arts
focus exhibiting members’ work
networking among women artists and designers
women’s professional artistic practice
foundedBy Mary Elizabeth Turner
May Morris
genre Arts and Crafts design
hasGenderFocus women
hasOrganizationalForm guild
historicalPeriod early 20th century
inception 1907
languageOfWork English
location London, England
surface form: London
movement Arts and Crafts movement
notableMember Agnes Garrett
Evelyn De Morgan
Georgie Gaskin
Louisa Pesel
Mabel Esplin
Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh
Mary Elizabeth Turner
Mary Lowndes
Mary Sargant Florence
May Morris
operatedIn United Kingdom
purpose to promote women practitioners in the Arts and Crafts movement
to provide an alternative to male-dominated arts organizations
to support professional opportunities for women artists and craftworkers
status defunct organization
typeOfMembership women only

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May Morris coFounded Women’s Guild of Arts
May Morris founded Women’s Guild of Arts
Paula Modersohn-Becker educatedAt Women’s Guild of Arts
this entity surface form: Association of Women Artists and Art Friends (Berlin)