People of the Movement

Learn about the iconic and the unknown artists who crafted the unique works of the Arts and Crafts movement.

 Find the profiles of artists, business people, and more here. 

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Clara Pauline Barck Welles

Most known for co-founding The Kalo Shop in the year 1900, Clara…

Adelaide Alsop Robineau

Considered a top ceramist in the field of American art pottery,…

Gustav Stickley

Short Description: Named the Father of American Furniture, Gustav Stickley was one of five brothers specializing in American made furniture at the turn of the century.

Elbert Hubbard

Elbert Hubbard was an American publisher, writer, and philosopher who founded the community of artisans known as Roycroft.

Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene

Short Description: Greene & Greene was an architectural firm made of the Greene Brothers - Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene - influential to early 20th Century American architects.

George E. Ohr

George Edgar Ohr was an American ceramic artist who created innovative clay forms from pure organic local clay from 1880 to 1910. He proclaimed himself the "Mad Potter of Biloxi" in Mississippi.

Maria Longworth Nichols Storer

The founder of Rookwood Pottery of Cincinnati, Ohio and the first female business owner of a manufacturing firm.