Meanings
plural artworkers
- One who creates artwork.
Once an idea is agreed, the partnership manages and commissions artworkers, photographers, illustrators, filmmakers and designers to make the concept a reality.
2014, Ken Reynolds, editor, The Careers Directory: The One-Stop Guide to Professional Careers, Cambridge Occuptational Analysts, →ISBN, page 122 more examples
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, Christopher Jessop, A Summer Break, Haverfordwest: Springboard Press, →ISBN, page 262The 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.
2016, Vera Kreilkamp, editor, The Arts and Crafts Movement: Making It Irish, McMullen Museum of Art, →ISBN, pages 72 and 123
Origin
From art + worker, influenced by artwork.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
artworker. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/artworker
“artworker.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/artworker. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “artworker,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/artworker.
Source: artworker on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.