Wisconsin Designer Craftsmen records
name: label: Creator
content: Wisconsin Designer-Craftsmen
label: Names
content: American Craftsmen's Council
label: Names
content: Midwest Designer-Craftsmen
label: Names
content: Wisconsin Artists Federation
label: Names
content: Wisconsin Society of Applied Arts
topic: label: Topic
content: Arts and crafts movement
label: Topic
content: Decorative arts
label: Topic
content: Handicraft
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent 1973 by Sister M. Rosemarita Huebner, president of the society.
creator: label: Creator
content: Wisconsin Designer-Craftsmen
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Arts and crafts society; Milwaukee, Wisc. Founded as the Wisconsin Society of Applied Arts (1916-1936) then becoming the Wisconsin Artists Federation (1936). Its purpose is "to promote fellowship among the workers, and to raise the standards of beauty in objects of common use, to bring designer and worker into mutual relationship..."
function: label: Function
content: Arts organizations -- Wisconsin
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 800 Items ((on 3 microfilm reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1937-1973
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.wiscdesc
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 596-598 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Organizational records including those of the Wisconsin Artists Federation and the Society of Applied Arts, the two predecessors of the Wisconsin Designer Craftsmen. Records contain correspondence; constitutions; minutes of regular meetings and of council and committee meetings; financial records; membership lists; biographical data sheets on members; exhibitors' lists; lists of awards; bulletins; newsletters; a scrapbook; five calendars which include the work of Wisconsin craftsmen; and some material on related organizations such as the American Crafts Council and Midwest Designer-Craftsmen.