Foreword / Judy L. Larson -- Sponsor's statement / Ingrid Saunders Jones -- Acknowledgments ; Introduction / Andrea D. Barnwell -- My mother, my father, my art: genetic links to boxes, buttons and the blues: an interview of Amalia Amaki / Gloria Wade Gayles -- Potent stuff: memory, imagination and meaning in the aesthetic life of Amalia Amaki / Leslie King-Hammond -- Amalia Amaki's Curio cabinet / Andrea D. Barnwell