Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art

Enid Schildkrout is chief curator and director of exhibitions and publications at the Museum for African Art and curator emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History. Her exhibitions and publications include “African Reflections: Art from Northeast Zaire” (1990) and “Body Art: Marks of Identity” (2000) at the American Museum of Natural History.

Dale Rosengarten is a historian and curator in Special Collections at the College of Charleston Library. Her exhibitions and publications include Row upon Row: Sea Grass Baskets of the South Carolina Lowcountry (1986) and “A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life.”

Theodore Rosengarten is an independent scholar, teacher, and writer with interests in Southern history, race relations, and the Holocaust. His publications include All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw (1974) and Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter (1986). He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Lyndhurst Prize.