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Andrea D. Barnwell is the Director of the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art. She composed this essay while serving as a MacArthur Fellow in the Department of Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture (now the Department of Contemporary Art) at the Art Institute of Chicago. See also portfolio entries.

Kirsten Buick is an assistant professor in art history at the University of New Mexico. She is a former lecturer in the Art Institute's Department of Museum Education. See also portfolio entries.

Margaret Denny wrote her entries while serving as a research assistant in the Department of Photography.

Martin Fox wrote his entries while serving as the Photography Editor in the Publications Department.

Jennifer Jankauskas wrote her entries while serving as an assistant in the Department of Photography.

Amy Mooney teaches art history at Columbia College Chicago.

Dennis Nawrocki is a Professor of Art History at the College for Creative Studies, Detroit, Mich.

Mark Pascale is the Assistant Curator in Department of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Kymberly N. Pinder is the Director of the Master of Arts in Art History program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Susan F. Rossen is the Executive Director of Publications at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Daniel Schulman is the Associate Director of Valerie Carberry Gallery and a former Associate Curator of Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture (now Contemporary Art) at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Cherise Smith is an Assistant Professor of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. She was a MacArthur Fellow in the Department of African and Amerindian Art at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1994-1996.

Andrew Walker is now the Assistant Director of Curatorial Affairs and Curator of American Art at the Saint Louis Art Museum. He composed his entries while working for the Art Institute's Department of American Arts as Assistant Curator.

Colin Westerbeck is a curator-at-large in Los Angeles, California. He is a former Associate Curator of Photography at the Art Institute.