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Box 6

 Container

Staff Only

Contains 13 Results:

Reader's Report: Dale Rosengarten, "Social Origins of the African-American Lowcountry Basket", 1998

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Holds correspondence with report regarding making Rosengarten's dissertation into a book.

Dates: 1998
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art collection / Series 6: Grass Roots Exhibit Catalogue Publication / 6.1: Book Publication Reference and Resources

Typescripts and Notes on "Transcendent Traditions" Catalogue, 2005-2008, and undated

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Includes outlines and book drafts for the "Grass Roots" catalogue.

Dates: 2005-2008, and undated
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art collection / Series 6: Grass Roots Exhibit Catalogue Publication / 6.1: Book Publication Reference and Resources

Letter of Agreements for Catalogue Authors, 2006

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Series: Contains documents pertaining to the creation of the Grass Roots exhibition catalogue. The catalogue includes "photographs of baskets, sculptures, and paintings from the exhibition, and historical images and maps. Rosengarten as curator contributes chapters tracing the history of the Lowcountry basket and its African antecedents. Ethnographer Enid Schildkrout analyzes form and function over time in African basketry. Historians, anthropologists, art historians, a geographer, and a basket...
Dates: 2006
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art collection / Series 6: Grass Roots Exhibit Catalogue Publication / 6.1: Book Publication Reference and Resources

Grass Roots Catalogue: Judith Carney Images, 2007, and undated

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Holds DVD, color photocopied images, image descriptions, and email.

Dates: 2007, and undated
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art collection / Series 6: Grass Roots Exhibit Catalogue Publication / 6.1: Book Publication Reference and Resources

Grass Roots Catalogue: John Vlach Images, undated

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Holds a handwritten note and black and white photocopies of images to be published in the catalogue.

Dates: undated
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art collection / Series 6: Grass Roots Exhibit Catalogue Publication / 6.1: Book Publication Reference and Resources

Research Documents for Copyediting, 2008

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

Holds journal essays.

Dates: 2008
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art collection / Series 6: Grass Roots Exhibit Catalogue Publication / 6.1: Book Publication Reference and Resources

Various Bibliographies , April 2007

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

Holds: "African Influences on the Decorative Arts of Tidewater Virginia and Maryland, and the Carolinas Before 1800."

Dates: April 2007
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art collection / Series 6: Grass Roots Exhibit Catalogue Publication / 6.1: Book Publication Reference and Resources

Reference Maps, 2008, and undated

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

Contains photocopied maps focusing on Lowcountry South Carolina and West Africa.

Dates: 2008, and undated
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art collection / Series 6: Grass Roots Exhibit Catalogue Publication / 6.1: Book Publication Reference and Resources

Grass Roots Catalogue Production Schedule, November 2007

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

Holds email correspondence.

Dates: November 2007
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art collection / Series 6: Grass Roots Exhibit Catalogue Publication / 6.1: Book Publication Reference and Resources

Grass Roots Catalogue Correspondence , 2006 - 2008

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

Contains letters to contributors and emails.

Dates: 2006 - 2008
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art collection / Series 6: Grass Roots Exhibit Catalogue Publication / 6.1: Book Publication Reference and Resources
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