- James Crafts
James Mason Crafts (March 8 1839 - 20 June 1917) was an American chemist, most known for developing the Friedel-Crafts alkylation and acylation reactions with Charles Friedel in 1876.
- Helle Crafts
Helle Crafts (July 4, 1947 - November 19, 1986) was a flight attendant who is famous for her brutal death at the hands of her husband, Richard Crafts. Her murder is sometimes called the "Woodchipper Murder" because of the method in which Richard Crafts disposed of her body. Her death brought about the first murder conviction in the state of Connecticut in which a body was never found.
- Nicholas Crafts
Nicholas F. R. Crafts (born March 9, 1949, Nottingham, England) is world-renowned Professor of Economics and Economic History at the University of Warwick, a post he has held since 2005. Previously he was a Professor of Economic History at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) between 1995-2005. His main fields of interest are the British Economy in the last 200 years, European Economic Growth, Historical data on the British economy, …
- Samuel C. Crafts
Samuel Chandler Crafts (October 6, 1768 - November 19, 1853) was a United States Representative and Senator from Vermont. Born in Woodstock, Connecticut, he graduated from Harvard College in 1790 and moved in 1791 to Vermont with his father, who founded the town of Craftsbury. He was town clerk from 1799 to 1829 and was a delegate to the Vermont Constitutional convention in 1793. He was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives in 1796, 1800-1803, and 1805, …
- Daniel Steven Crafts
Daniel Steven Crafts (born September 22, 1949, in Detroit, Michigan) is an American composer.
- Lisa Crafts
Lisa Crafts is an American artist and animator. Her independent animated films have been shown in Europe, Japan and throughout North America. She has created animations for music television, "Sesame Street" and American Movie Classics, as well as titles and animation for documentaries by Michel Negroponte and Cindy Kleine. She offered this description of her 19-minute film "The Flooded Playground" (2005): :In this digitally composed animated fairy tale, …
- Gustav Stickley
Gustav Stickley (March 9, 1858-April 21, 1942) was a furniture maker and architect as well as the leading spokesperson for the American Craftsman movement a descendent of the British Arts and Crafts movement. In 1901, Stickley founded "The Craftsman", a periodical which began by expounding the philosophy of the English Arts & Crafts movement but which matured into the voice of the American movement.
- Tradesman
A tradesman is a skilled manual worker in a particular trade or craft. Economically and socially, a tradesman's status is considered between a labourer and a professional, with a high degree of both practical and theoretical knowledge of their trade. In cultures where professional careers are highly prized there can be a shortage of skilled manual workers, leading to lucrative niche markets in the trades.
- Bricklayer
A bricklayer or mason is a tradesman who lays bricks to construct brickwork. The term also refers to personnel who use blocks to construct blockwork walls and other forms of masonry. In British and Australian English, a bricklayer is colloquially known as a "brickie". The training of a trade in European cultures has been a formal tradition for many centuries.
- Peter Voulkos
Peter Voulkos popular name of Panagiotis Voulkos, was an American artist of Greek descent. He is known for his Abstract Expressionist ceramic sculptures, which bounded the traditional divide between ceramic crafts and fine art. Born as Panagiotis Harry Voulkopoulos, the third of five children to Greek immigrant parents Aristovoulos I. Voulkopoulos, anglicized and shorten as Harry (Aris) John Voulkos and Effrosyni (Efrosine) Peter Voulalas, …
- Montague Summers
Augustus Montague Summers (10 April, 1880 - 10 August, 1948) was an eccentric English author and clergyman. He is known primarily for his 1928 English translation of the medieval witch hunter's manual, the "Malleus Maleficarum", as well as for several studies on witches, vampires, and werewolves, in all of which he professed to believe.
- Yanagi Soetsu
Yanagi Soetsu, philosopher and founder of the mingei (folk art) movement in Japan in the late 1920s and 1930s. In 1916, Yanagi made his first trip to Korea out of a curiosity of Korean crafts. The trip led to the establishment of the Korean Folk Crafts Museum in 1924 and the coining of the term mingei by Yanagi, potters Hamada Shoji (1894-1978) and Kawai Kanjiro (1890-1966). In 1926, the Folk Art Movement was formally declared by Yanagi Soetsu.
- Paresh Maity
Paresh Maity is an Indian artist. He lives and works in Delhi and is married to artist Jayasri Burman. He has a degree in Fine Arts from the Government College of Art & Craft, Calcutta and graduated at the top of his class with a Masters of Fine Arts from the Delhi College of Arts. He has had some 43 shows in twenty years. He gradually moved from atmospheric scenery to representations of the human form. His more recent paintings are bold and graphic, …
- Werner Drewes
Werner Drewes was a German-American painter and printmaker, born in 1899 in Canig, Germany. Since his death in 1985, recognition of Drewes's important role and impact on twentieth century American art has steadily grown among collectors and curators. A student at the Bauhaus during the 1920s, Drewes, along with Lyonel Feininger and László Moholy-Nagy, was one of the first artists to convey the groundbreaking concepts of that school to the United States via his painting, …
- Zainul Abedin
Zainul Abedin (1914-1976) was an artist from Bangladesh. Like many of his contemporaries, he was born in undivided India, and lived through the creation of Pakistan and finally the emergence of independent Bangladesh. Abedin's paintings on the Bengal famine of 1940s is probably his most characteristic work. In Bangladesh, he is often referred to as "Shilpacharya" (Great Teacher of the Arts).
- Karlgeorg Hoefer
Karlgeorg Hoefer was a German calligrapher and typographer. Hoefer was born in Schlesisch-Drehnow, now Drzonów, in Silesia. He taught typography at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach (until 1970 Werkkunstschule). He held several calligraphy workshops for calligraphic societies in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Boston, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Portland and Washington.
- Nyotaimori
Nyotaimori, often referred to as "body sushi", is the practice of eating sashimi or sushi from the body of a woman, typically naked. As a result of being served on a human body, the temperature of the sushi or sashimi comes closer to body temperature, which some may see as a disadvantage or a benefit.
- Philippe Phebus Dubois
Philippe Phébus Dubois started painting at the age of 30. During several years he studied the art of painting and drawing. Between 1989 en 1990 he spent a lot of time in Amsterdam, studying the work of Vincent Van Gogh. In the nineties his work evolved to more abstract art. In December 1998 he exposed his abstract work for the first time in the museum of Tubize (Belgium). Phébus currently lives and works in Brussels. (Brigitte Descartes, Doctor of Philosophy/History of Art.)
- Eglantyne Louisa Jebb
Eglantyne Louisa Jebb (1845-1925) was a socal reformer. Born in Killiney, Ireland, she married her cousin Arthur Trevor Jebb (1839-1894), a barrister and landowner from Ellesmere, Shropshire. Her brother was the classicist Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb. A keen supporter of the arts and crafts movement, in 1884 she founded the Home Arts and Industries Association as a way of reviving country crafts and overcoming rural poverty.
- Kristen Baumlier
Kristen Baumlier is an artist living and working in Cleveland, Ohio. She is chair of the T.I.M.E. - Digital Arts department at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Previously she was schooled and worked in the San Francisco Bay area. Previous projects include: Buns of Butter, a performance based piece where the artist made herself a fitness guru.
- Clarine Harp
Clarine Harp (Born January 5, 1978) is a voice actor and producer specializing in anime television. Clarine was hired by FUNimation Entertainment in 2003 to voice the character of Tweedledee in Kiddy Grade. Since then, her work has included Sei in Burst Angel, Sanae in Akira Kurosawa's Samurai 7, Hibari Ginza in Speed Grapher and additional roles in Yu Yu Hakusho, Spiral, Fullmetal Alchemist, Case Closed, Desert Punk, Baki the Grappler, The Galaxy Railways, Negima, …
- John Murray Gibbon
John Murray Gibbon was a Scottish Canadian writer and cultural promoter. He was born in Ceylon and educated at Aberdeen, Oxford and Göttingen universities. Gibbon emigrated to Canada in 1913 to work for the Canadian Pacific Railway. In 1921, he became founding president of the Canadian Authors Association. A long-time enthusiast of folk culture, Gibbon organized a series of folk and crafts festivals over the years.
- Moshe Ziffer
Moshe Ziffer, (1902-1989) was a modern Israeli artist and sculptor. Ziffer was born 24 April 1902 in Przemysl, Austro-Hungary. He immigrated into Eretz-Israel in 1919. Between 1924-33 he studied sculpture in Vienna, Berlin and Paris. He created the stone sculptures at Tel Aviv University and Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Ziffer bequeathed his sculpture garden in Safed to the Safed Municipality.
- Carlo Giovanni Maria Misani
Bachelor in Fine Arts, i worked in an Art Gallery for four years. Now i am studying Marketing and Brand Communication.
- Fletcher Steele
Fletcher Steele (June 7, 1885 - July 1971) was an American landscape architect credited with designing and creating over 700 gardens from 1915 to the time of his death. Steele was born John Fletcher Steele in Rochester, New York, United States to a lawyer father and pianist mother, graduated from Williams College in 1907, and promptly joined the young landscape architecture program at Harvard University where Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.
- Susie Ghahremani
Susie Ghahremani (born May 31, 1980 in Evanston, Illinois) is a painter and performs as an indie pop musician under the moniker Snoozer. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2002 with a BFA in Illustration. In 2000, she launched a line of arts and crafts under company name boygirlparty.
- Red House
Red House in Bexleyheath in the southern suburbs of London, England is a key building in the history of the Arts and Crafts movement and of 19th century British architecture. It was designed in 1859 by its owner, William Morris, and the architect Philip Webb, with wall paintings and stained glass by Edward Burne-Jones. Morris wanted a home for himself and his new wife, Jane.
- Theophilus Presbyter
Theophilus Presbyter was a Benedictine monk and author of a Latin text containing detailed descriptions of various medieval applied arts. The collection of his writings is designated "Schedula diversarum artium" ("List of various arts") or "De diversibus artibus" ("On various arts") and was written between 1100 and 1120. The oldest handwritten copies of the work are found in Vienna (Austrian National Library, …
- Christopher Dresser
Christopher Dresser was a designer and writer on design, now widely known as Britain’s first independent industrial designer and as a contributor to the Anglo-Japanese and Arts and Crafts movements in Britain. Dresser was born in Glasgow, Scotland.
- Philip Webb
Philip Speakman Webb (12 January, 1831 - 17 April 1915) was an English architect - sometimes called the 'Father of Arts and Crafts Architecture'. Born in Oxford, Webb studied at Aynho in Northamptonshire and was then articled to firms of builder-architects in Wolverhampton and Reading, Berkshire. He then moved to London where he eventually became a junior assistant for G. E. Street. While there he met William Morris in 1856 and then started his own practice in 1858.
- Henrietta Barnett
Dame Henrietta Barnett, DBE was a notable English social reformer and author. She and her husband, Samuel Augustus Barnett, founded the first 'University Settlement' at Toynbee Hall (in east London) in 1884. Born Henrietta Octavia Rowland, she worked with Octavia Hill who was instrumental in introducing her to the curate of St Mary's, Bryanston Square, London.
- Tonia Todman
Tonia Todman (born 19??) is an Australian television personality, who has appeared on Good Morning Australia, and also appeared on Rove Live. She is known for making craftwork, a kind of Australian version of American Martha Stewart. She is best known for her craft segments on classic Australian lifestyle show Healthy, Wealthy and Wise in the early to mid '90s. Todman was briefly married to Melbourne lawyer David Stagg, …
- Joseph Southall
Joseph Edward Southall was an English painter associated with the Arts and crafts movement. He was a member of the Birmingham Group school, one of the last outposts of Romanticism in the visual arts, and an important link between the last embers of the Pre-Raphaelites and the new Slade Symbolists. He lived and worked in Birmingham, England, and was long associated with the Municipal School of Art at Margaret Street, Birmingham, which is now BIAD.
- Herbert Tudor Buckland
Herbert Tudor Buckland (November 20, 1869 - 1951) was a British architect, best known for his seminal Arts and Crafts houses (several of which, including his own at Edgbaston, Birmingham are Grade I listed), the Elan Valley Reservoirs' model village, educational buildings such as the campus of the Royal Hospital School in Suffolk and St Hugh's College Oxford. Buckland was born in Barmouth, Wales and educated at King Edward's School, …
- Henry Van van de Velde
Henry Van de Velde (3 April 1863 - 15 October 1957) was a Belgian painter, architect and interior designer. Together with Victor Horta he can be considered one of the main founders and representatives of Art Nouveau in Belgium. Van de Velde spent the most important part of his career in Germany and had a decisive influence on German architecture and design at the beginning of the 20th-century.
- Ernest Gimson
Ernest William Gimson (Leicester, Dec 21, 1864 - Sapperton, August 12, 1919) was an English furniture designer and architect. Gimson was described by the art critic Nikolaus Pevsner as "the greatest of the English architect-designers". Today his reputation is securely established as one of the most influential designers of the English Arts and Crafts movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- Einstein Kristiansen
Einstein Kristiansen is a Norwegian cartoonist and co-founder of Singapore-based Earthtree Pte Ltd, who together with his two business partners Henry Steed and Mark Hillman, produces children's television programming, animation and image campaigns for MTV Asia, Nickelodeon and Singapore network Mediacorp TV12. Kristiansen initially rose to fame for his illustration work in magazines like "Vogue", "ELLE", …
- T. J. Cobden Sanderson
Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson was an English artist and bookbinder associated with the Arts and Crafts movement. He was born in Alnwick, Northumberland, as Thomas James Sanderson. Sanderson attended many schools including the Royal Grammar School Worcester before entering Owen's College (Manchester University) and then Trinity, Cambridge to study law. He left without taking a degree, and entered Lincoln's Inn as a barrister.
- William S. Hebbard
William Sterling Hebbard (1863-1930) was born in Milford, Michigan and was an 1887 Graduate of Cornell University. He is noted for his work as an architect in California, mostly San Diego county. He briefly worked as a draftsman and assistant for the Burnham and Root firm in Chicago and in 1888 for Curlett, Eisen and Cuthbertson in Los Angeles. By 1890 he was in private practice in San Diego. In 1891 he became associated with the Reid Brothers firm, …
- William Lethaby
William Richard Lethaby (January 18, 1857 - July 17, 1931) was an English architect and architectural historian whose ideas were highly influential on the late Arts and Crafts and early Modern movements in architecture, and in the fields of conservation and art education.