A new organization – the Property Masters Guild – has been formed “to provide professional continuing educational opportunities, cultivate future generations of property masters, and foster greater collaboration amongst property masters and the craft.”

Joshua Meltzer, whose many credits include Dexter, Will & Grace and 2 Broke Girls, is the guild’s first president. With 78 founding members, the guild was started by Meltzer and three other veteran prop masters — Gregg Bilson, Hope Parrish and Chris Call — who first met to discuss the formation of the group in 2017.

The new nonprofit professional association is not a labor union, however. For collective bargaining purposes, prop masters are covered by IATSE Prop Local 44, and the newly launched guild says that it “believes strongly in the union’s authority and leadership.”

“The Property Masters Guild has long been a dream for many of us in the craft,” Meltzer said. “The property master is arguably one of the most...