Von Schulzenheim was the founder of Föreningen Svenska Konstnärinnor [sv] (The Society of Swedish Female Artists) in 1910. She also served as its first chairperson. She founded the society to make female artists, who were often not given as much attention as their male colleagues, a better possibility to be known and appreciated for their art, and not to actually draw the attention to their gender as such:" You do not actually think, that we female artists would wish to become known merely for being women?