artworker

English

Etymology

From art +‎ worker, influenced by artwork.

Noun

artworker (plural artworkers)

1. One who creates artwork.
   • 2014, Christopher Jessop, A Summer Break, Haverfordwest: Springboard Press, →ISBN, page 262:

     Cunningly now the carpentering amazons brought proper coffee and shortbread out to the artworkers; who, concentrations thus completely broken, wouldn’t mind helping bracket on the drum, then positioning the completed assembly…

   • 2014, Ken Reynolds, editor, The Careers Directory: The One-Stop Guide to Professional Careers, Cambridge Occuptational Analysts, →ISBN, page 12:

     Once an idea is agreed, the partnership manages and commissions artworkers, photographers, illustrators, filmmakers and designers to make the concept a reality.

   • 2016, Vera Kreilkamp, editor, The Arts and Crafts Movement: Making It Irish, McMullen Museum of Art, →ISBN, pages 72 and 123:

     The Guild of Irish Art-Workers was established in 1909 by the Arts and Crafts Society of Ireland for the enrollment of professional artworkers by election themselves for united self-help and the general promotion of their work. […] Deep in thought, he considers the past while the contemporary figures of male and female artworkers stand dramatically profiled behind him, poised ready for future hands-on action beside a symbolically flowering tree.

References

• “art worker, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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