Mission Statement of the Guild is to research preserve and develop the Traditional, Rare and Contemporary Folk Visual Arts. The Guild was formed in April 2000 in Brooklyn by a group of philanthropic and community-minded Jews, who were committed to popularize and exhibit the Jewish Visual Folk and Contemporary Art. Since its inception the Guild has performed hundreds exhibitions, presentations and workshops in New York, dedicated to Jewish Folk Creativity.
| 2018 Art Committee | of the Guild | Honorary members of the | Guild Council |
| Chairwoman | - Gulnara Tsiklauri | Leonid Alaverdov | - Former Chairman | |
| President, Founder | - Ilya Nathanson | Wolf Chechik | - Founder | |
| Vice President | - Jenny Rozentsvit | Lydia Cutler | - Founder | |
| Artistic Directors | - Zina Kelebeeva, | Isaac Gogerman | - Founder | |
| Coordinator of Kings Bay Gallery | - Nina Tsypina | Yakov Kleynerman | - Former Treasurer | |
| Treasurer | -Yevgeny Veprinsky | *Boris Kontorets | - Founder | |
| Secretary | -Lyudmila Leybovich | Boris Lankios | - Founder | |
| Public Relations | - Faina Brodsky | Vladimir Lobanov | - Former Chairman | |
| *Moisey Natanzon | - Founder | |||
| Boris Nathanson | - Founder | |||
| David Nathanson | - Founder, VP | |||
| Michael Nemirovsky | - Member | |||
| *Ida Orel | - Founder | |||
| Mark Rabinovich | - Sr. Curator | |||
| Rudolf Rozenblyum- | First Chairman | |||
| Rabbi M. Tokarsky | - Member | |||
| Evgeni Tonevitsky | - Former Chairman | |||
| *Isaac Vaynshelboym | -Member | |||
| Henry Volny | - Founder |