The Handicraft Guild

The Handicraft Guild was an organization central to Arts and Crafts movement active in Minneapolis, Minnesota from 1904 to 1918. The Handicraft guild was founded, led, and staffed primarily by women, making it historically significant to women's art movements nationwide.

In addition to creating stone and metal art works, the Guild was an egalitarian school with the mission " [to] give authoritative instruction in design and its solution in terms of materials; also to furnish complete training for students desirous of becoming Craftsmen, Designers and Teachers." Its pupils included Grant Wood. [cite book
last =Conforti
first =Michael
title =Art and Life on the Upper Mississippi 1890-1915: Minnesota 1900 (The Ameridan Arts)
publisher =University of Delaware Press
date =June 1994
pages =333
isbn = 0874135605 ]

The Handicraft Guild Building is located at 89 10th Street South, Minneapolis, Minnesota and still stands today thanks to the efforts of the Minneapolis Heritage Preservation Commission.

In more recent years, the term "Handicraft Guild" has also referred to a comic studio occupying space in the original guild's building. That studio and publisher, then led by Kevin and Zander Cannon, has since become Big Time Attic. [cite web |url=http://www.bigtimeattic.com/blog/2006/12/more-nostalgia.html |title=More nostalgia |accessdate=2008-04-15]

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