Art Directors Guild
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| Full name | The Art Directors Guild |
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| Founded | 1937 |
| Members | 2,500 (2016) |
| Head union | International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees |
| Affiliation | AFL-CIO IATSE |
| Key people |
Nelson Coates, President |
| Office location | 11969 Ventura Blvd. 2nd Floor Studio City, California, 91604, United States |
| Country | United States |
| Website | www.adg.org |
Nelson Coates, President
The Art Directors Guild (ADG) is an American labor union and local of the International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees (IATSE) representing 2,500 motion picture and television professionals.
The ADG's sponsored activities include a film society, the annual ADG Excellence in Production Design Awards, an art gallery called Gallery 800, technology-training programs and the professional quarterly news magazine Perspective.
Local 800 has four main craft classifications:
In addition, the ADG is seeking to extend membership and subsequent union benefits to previs artists.
Individual crafts represented by the ADG:
The Art Directors Guild was originally named the Society of Motion Picture Art Directors (SMPAD), which was founded by fifty-nine Art Directors at a meeting on May 6, 1937 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
After World War II, many “below the line” industry labor organizations, including SMPAD, signed on with the IATSE for overall union representation. SMPAD became more active, grew in membership, and expanded opportunities as television developed. In 1967 the Society included "television" to their name before settling on its current moniker, the "Art Directors Guild" in 1998.
The creation of its own local (formerly known as Local 816) in March 1949 marked the first time the Hollywood Scenic Artists and Title Artists had its own local representing its unique needs. Previously, the members were part of Local 644 of the Conference of Studio Unions (CSU) working in film and theater. The overwhelming majority of Local 644’s membership, however, had been made up of set painters and paperhangers and included set designers as well. It was not until the dissolution of the CSU after a long series of bitterly contested strikes that the scenic artists were able to organize exclusively. Those artists had been pioneers in their field, responsible for devising and developing the methods used to create representational scenery unsurpassed anywhere in the world.
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