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Bold improvisation : searching for African-American quilts : the Heffley collection / by Scott Heffley

Author:
Heffley, Scott  Search this
Physical description:
124 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Place:
Missouri
Kansas City
Date:
2007
C2007
Topic:
African American quilts  Search this
African American decorative arts  Search this
Call number:
NK9112 .H44 2007
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_839782
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Cecil's signature collection

Title:
Mikala Inc
Cecil
Author:
Hayes, Cecil N  Search this
Subject:
Hayes, Cecil N  Search this
Physical description:
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 30 cm
Type:
Catalogs
Place:
United States
Date:
2003
2003]
Topic:
African American decorative arts  Search this
Furniture  Search this
Women interior decorators  Search this
Women designers  Search this
Call number:
NK1535.H39 A4 2003
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_701541
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Afro-American

Author:
Vlach, John Michael 1948-  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Date:
1978
Topic:
African American art--African influences  Search this
African American decorative arts--African influences  Search this
Call number:
N1 .A353
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_758270
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Afro-American folk crafts in nineteenth-century Texas

Author:
Vlach, John Michael 1948-  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Texas
Date:
1981
19th century
Topic:
African American decorative arts  Search this
African American folk art  Search this
African American art  Search this
Textile crafts  Search this
African American architecture  Search this
Carpentry  Search this
Call number:
GR1 .C153
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_758272
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African-American folk art in Kentucky / [foreword by] Adrian Swain ; essays by Amalia K. Amaki, Maude Southwell Wahlman, curated by Adrian Swain

Title:
African American folk art in Kentucky
Author:
Wahlman, Maude  Search this
Swain, Adrian 1947-  Search this
Amaki, Amalia K  Search this
Kentucky Folk Art Center (Morehead, Ky.)  Search this
Physical description:
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Date:
1998
Topic:
African American folk art  Search this
African American decorative arts  Search this
Call number:
N6538.N5 A224 1998
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_673219
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Forget-me-not : the art & mystery of memory jugs / foreword by Robert Farris Thompson ; essays by Brooke Davis Anderson, Linda Beatrice Brown ; curated by Brooke Davis Anderson

Title:
Art & mystery of memory jugs
Art and mystery of memory jugs
Author:
Thompson, Robert Farris  Search this
Anderson, Brooke Davis  Search this
Brown, Linda Beatrice 1939-  Search this
Diggs Gallery  Search this
Physical description:
36 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Place:
United States
Date:
1996
C1996
Topic:
African American folk art  Search this
African American decorative arts  Search this
Pottery  Search this
Folk art  Search this
African Americans--Funeral rites and customs--Exhibitions  Search this
Call number:
NK839.3.A35 F68 1996
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_504075
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19th century African American fine and craft arts of the South

Author:
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Southern States
Date:
1995
19th century
Topic:
African American decorative arts--History  Search this
Call number:
NX164.N4 B5X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_505575
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What is it : searching for a black aesthetic in American graphic design

Author:
Harris, Sylvia  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Date:
1996
Topic:
African American designers  Search this
African American decorative arts  Search this
African American aesthetics  Search this
Call number:
NX164.N4 B5X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_509672
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The Afro-American tradition in decorative arts / John Michael Vlach

Author:
Vlach, John Michael 1948-  Search this
Cleveland Museum of Art  Search this
Physical description:
xix, 175 p. : ill. ; 29 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Date:
1990
1978
1990, c1978
Topic:
African American art  Search this
African American art--African influences  Search this
African American art--European influences--Exhibitions  Search this
African American decorative arts  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_555679
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African includences on the decorative arts of Tidewater Virginia and Maryland, and the Carolinas before 1800 / by Martha B. Katz-Hyman

Author:
Katz-Hyman, Martha B  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Southern States
Date:
1996
Topic:
African Americans--Material culture  Search this
African American decorative arts--History  Search this
Call number:
N7380 .A37 1996
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_597206
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Notes on contemporary scholarship into African-American decorative arts / by Ted Landsmark

Author:
Landsmark, Ted  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Date:
1996
Topic:
African American decorative arts--Research  Search this
Call number:
N7380 .A37 1996
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_597207
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By the work of their hands : studies in Afro-American folklife / by John Michael Vlach

Author:
Vlach, John Michael 1948-  Search this
Physical description:
xviii, 240 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1991
C1991
Topic:
African American decorative arts  Search this
African Americans--Material culture  Search this
Call number:
NK839.3.A35V54 1991X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_412285
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Cultural influences on the art and crafts of early Black American artisans (1649-1865) towards implications for art education / by Phillip Lindsay Mason

Author:
Mason, Phillip Lindsay 1939-  Search this
Physical description:
199 leaves : ill
Type:
Books
Date:
1982
1983
1983 (1982)
Topic:
African American decorative arts  Search this
African American artisans  Search this
African American painters  Search this
African American art--African influences  Search this
Art--Study and teaching  Search this
Call number:
NK839.3.A35 M41 1982a
NK839.3.A35M41 1982a
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_428522
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Mediating the natural : craft art and African American cultural expression

Author:
Coleman, Floyd W. 1939-  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
United States
Date:
1994
Topic:
African American artists  Search this
African American decorative arts  Search this
Folk art--African influences  Search this
African American crafts  Search this
Call number:
NX164.N4 B5X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_489426
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Spiritualizing craft : the African American craft art legacy

Author:
Nzegwu, Nkiru  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Date:
1994
Topic:
African American artists  Search this
African American decorative arts  Search this
African American crafts  Search this
Call number:
NX164.N4 B5X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_489427
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A celebration of the African American legacy in the visual arts

Author:
DePillars, Murry N  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
United States
Date:
1994
Topic:
African American decorative arts  Search this
Folk art--African influences  Search this
African American crafts  Search this
Call number:
NX164.N4 B5X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_489441
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Contemporary African American folk art in America : an overview

Author:
Perry, Regenia  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
United States
Date:
1993
Topic:
African American artists  Search this
African American decorative arts  Search this
Folk art--African influences  Search this
Call number:
NX164.N4 B5X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_489693
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Forging from sun-up to sun-down : African symbols in the works of Black ironworkers in New Orleans (1800-1863) / by Eva Regina Martin

Author:
Martin, Eva Regina  Search this
Physical description:
ix, 299 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm
Type:
Manuscripts
Place:
Louisiana
New Orleans
Africa
Date:
1995
Topic:
Decorative cast-ironwork  Search this
African American decorative arts  Search this
African American iron and steel workers  Search this
African Americans  Search this
African American art--African influences  Search this
African American art--Haitian influences  Search this
Symbolism in art  Search this
Cosmology, African  Search this
Iron industry and trade  Search this
Religion  Search this
Call number:
NK8212 .M37 1995a
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_493218
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Afro-American folk art and crafts / edited by William Ferris

Author:
Ferris, William R  Search this
Physical description:
440 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1986
1983
[1986], c1983
Topic:
African American folk art  Search this
African American decorative arts  Search this
Call number:
NK839.3.A35A35 1986X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_324921
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Afro-American folk art and crafts / edited by William Ferris

Author:
Ferris, William R  Search this
Physical description:
436 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1983
C1983
Topic:
African American folk art  Search this
African American decorative arts  Search this
Call number:
NK839.3.A35A35 1983X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_193976

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