Newly settled in the Seaport District, the Society of Arts and Crafts is hand-making a stand.

The gallery, late of Newbury Street, will formally unveil its new home at 100 Pier 4 with an inaugural exhibition opening Thursday evening. Titled “Radius,’’ the show will include furniture, pottery, sculpture, and other works from craft artists working within one mile of the new space.

“Really we want to create opportunities for craft artists to maintain a livelihood,’’ said Katy Myers, the society’s marketing and communications manager. “So we attack the mission from two ways: one, from interacting with the artists themselves; and then, two, by trying to draw the public’s attention to what we do and what we’re about.’’

That mission, Myers said, hasn’t wavered with the move. Founded over a century ago at the peak of the Arts and Crafts movement, the Society works to carve out a place for craft artists and their supporters in a constantly modernizing Boston.

Instead, the Seaport space, which the society won last year in an open competition through the Boston Planning and Development Agency, will provide room for new ventures that further those old goals. A multipurpose room, for example, will hold lectures, while a rotating artist-in-residence studio will let visitors watch a craft artist at work.

“We really want to develop our educational programming,’’ Myers said. “So we’re hoping to use the space that we have in a more multidimensional way.’’

To artists like Christopher Reitmeier, who is included in “Radius,’’ initiatives like that make a difference.

“We’re always looking for — I don’t know if the word ‘patron’ is apt, but support mechanisms throughout the community,’’ he said. “Obviously that helps in selling and being able to survive off the work, but then these organizations like the Society of Arts and Crafts also champion artists and allow the space for them to exhibit the work.’’

Reitmeier, though based in Boston, creates much of his work by assembling smaller items he collects while traveling. He’s something of an outlier as far as “Radius’’ is concerned — his “studio,’’ he said, is wherever he stops to show or sell his work, which could technically include the Seaport if not, say, the Greenway or Newbury Street. Creation and exhibition became much closer to one another.

“It was a way of bringing the work to folks who maybe wouldn’t have a chance to see it in a gallery, which is sometimes a more exclusive space,’’ he said.

Reitmeier’s DIY aesthetic, while a departure from more conventional gallery-oriented styles, can align pretty well with the tenor of the times.

“It has to do with this idea of seeing the beauty inherent in a lot of everyday things, so to speak, and resourcefulness as well, in terms of resources and materials, that stems from greater awareness of reuse and recycling,’’ Reit­meier said.

It falls on organizations like the society, then, to introduce craft artists to those gallery audiences. That comes through shows like “Radius,’’ which demonstrate just how accessible this art can be.

“I feel like there’s a huge pushback to simplification and, with that, community,’’ Reitmeier said. “That art that’s community-based and not so exclusive, I think more and more people are looking for that, and that also helps, in a way, open up the creativity of each individual that comes into contact with it.’’

Joe Incollingo can be reached at joe.incollingo@gmail.com. Follow him on Twitter @jk_inco.