Curator’s Acknowledgments So many people have helped make this exhibition happen. The following are among those beyond the Walters who have in different ways been critical to this process either by direct contribution to the shaping of the ideas, the publication, or the exhibition itself after such a long, infinitely challenging gestation, or indirectly through their collegial support. I am told that this is not the format to express thanks to all those within the Walters who have made this project a reality, but you know who you are. Lucinda Barnes, Laura Blom, John Brackett, Kayleigh Bryant, Antawan Byrd, Stephen Campbell, Natalie Zemon Davis, Peter Erikson, Baltasar Fra Molinero, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Katrina Greene, Earle Havens, Katie Johnson, Paul Kaplan, Leslie King-Hammond, Ania Loomba, Kate Lowe, Jean Michel Massing, Maurita Poole, Mario Valdes, Ben Vinson III. Cristina Acidini, Bernard Aikema, Maryan Ainsworth, Kimberly Allen, Isabel Alves, Dita Amory, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Kwame KweiArmah, Maria Balshaw, Willa Banks, Novella Baroni, Christian Beaufort-Spontin, Myrtis Bedolla, David Bindman, Marian Bisanz, Debra Blumenthal, Jonathan Bober, Til-Holger Borchert, James Bradburne, Alessandro Cecchi, Sheldon Cheek, Farai Chideya, Elizabeth Cleland, Lisa Corrin, Karen Dalton, Taco Dibbits, James Drapper, David Driskell, Shirley Dunlap, Shiree Dyson, Paul Espinosa, Anne-Marie Eze, Marzia Faietti, Miguel
Falomir, Sam Fogg, Hannah Friedman, Stephen Ferguson, Maia Gahtan, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Robert Glass, Dieudonne Gnammankou, Kim Hall, Carla Hayden, Christianne Henry, Jack Hinton, Rena Hoisington, Maia Gahtan, Patricia Jessamy, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Claudia KryzaGersch, Friso Lammertse, Mary Levkoff, Thomas Leyssens, Frank Lord, Eleonora Luciano, Francesca de Luca, Alison Luchs, Elizabeth McGrath, Glen McNatt, J. F. Mergen, Marco Merrick, Antonio Natali, Paul Needham, Nancy Netzer, Astrid Nielsen, David Northrup, Edna O’Connor (†), Jawara O’Connor, Mariolina Olivari, Yemi Onafuwa, Nadine Orenstein, Peter Parshall, Ann Percy, Riccardo Pizzinato, Vernon Reid, Andrew Robison, Betsy Rosasco, Esther Schreuder, Danielle Shapiro, Dylan Smith, Clarice Smith, Sabine van Sprang, Walter Stephens, David Steel, Marie Luise Sternath-Schuppanz, James Steward, Carl Strehlke, Peter Sutton, Nicolaas Teeuwisse, Dion Thompson, Dino Tomasso, Carel van Tuyll, Marco Voena, Mia Weiner, Danielle Westphal, Wesley Wilson, Linda Wolk-Simon. Ackneil Muldrow and Gwendolyn Bailey Coleman in appreciation and admiration. Joaneath Spicer The Walters Art Museum
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