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Welcome To The Traditional Artists Guild
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Our Master Artisans carry on ancient traditions as their spirit guides them. The Traditional Artists Guild holds this up as a gold standard when looking at work of artisans at any level.
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The Traditional Artists Guild is a pluralistic group of artisans joined together with the common goal of sharing the knowledge and prosperity of their respective arts. Guild members acknowledge their ancient roots, the history that is behind every art genre and share this knowledge with the world through their art and education. The artisans uphold Guild policies that protect the genre as well as the individual artisans right to prosper without fear of appropriation or imitation by others. We study, learn and teach one another through blogs, articles and apprenticeships about each other's work. Through the Popular Education model we co-create our Guild as a dynamic force for artists rights. Mary Ellen Hillaire, PhD and Lummi tribal ancestor once said, "Acknowledge the significant differences; find the similarities within those differences and there dialogue can begin." Here we can explore the past and the future as it manifests in the present. Here we are diverse as well as one.
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Membership
To become a member of the Traditional Artists Guild, fill out the membership application below and we will contact you with additional information. Yearly membership is $25. All Guild members receive quarterly newsletters and may enter into the Guild's Popular Education process.
Space on the traditionalartists.org website is available to Guild members. The basic package is $100 and includes:
- a cover page
- 8-image portfolio
- yourname@traditionalartists.org email account
Custom design and/or additional pages are available at additional cost. If and when the members wish, we will add a paypall to the website. Until then contact the artists directly.
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Levels of Membership
Guild members are encouraged to join the Popular Education process of the guild and work their way through the following levels of artistic achievement:
•Intern, a student whose interest is purely academic in nature, or would like to begin working but does not yet have the knowledge or skills to do so
•Apprentice, a student who has already begun working within a genre and wishes to further develop their skills with a highly skilled Master Artisan
•Craftsman, an artisan who has been working within a genre for at least two years, or has completed at least two years apprenticeship with a Master Artisan within the Traditional Artists Guild.
•Master Artisan, an artisan who has been working within a medium for at least ten years or apprenticed with a Master Artisan of the Traditional Artists Guild at a Craftsman level for at least two years.
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Practicing artisans may enter the Traditional Artists Guild at any of the three levels (Master Artisan, Craftsman, Apprentice) after a request has been submitted through a review process.
Apprenticeships and Internships are negotiated with the Master Artisan.
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