Dale Rosengarten Sweetgrass collection

Collection

Identifier: AMN 1192

Dates

Creation: 1940-2020, and undated

Creator

Rosengarten, Dale, 1948- (Person)

Access Restrictions

No restrictions.

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Biographical / Historical

Dale Rosengarten, an historian, curated the exhibition Row Upon Row: Sea Grass Baskets of the South Carolina Lowcountry, which opened in 1986 at the McKissick Museum, at the University of South Carolina, and has had a twenty-year run as a traveling show. Her doctoral dissertation, completed in 1997, traces the social origins of the Lowcountry basket and places the tradition in a global setting. Since 1995, Rosengarten has served as a curator in Special Collections at the College of Charleston library. In that capacity she built a major archive on southern Jewish history and culture, developed a national traveling exhibition, "A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life," and co-edited a book of the same name. Rosengarten co-curated the "Grass Roots" exhibition with ethnographer, Enid Schildkrout.

From the exhibtion catalogue Grass Root: African Origins of an American Art.