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CONTRIBUTORS OF ESSAYS H. Parrott Bacot served for more than thirty years as director of the Louisiana State University Museum of Art in Baton Rouge, where he was also a professor of American and European decorative arts, Southern art, and museology. A specialist in the art of the American South, with a particular focus on Louisiana furnishings, silver, and decorative arts, Bacot is the author of numerous exhibition catalogues as well as major contributor to the books Nineteenth Century Lighting: Candle-Powered Devices, 1783-1883; Marie Adrien Persac: Louisiana Artist; Plantations by the River: Watercolor Paintings from St. Charles Parish; Louisiana by Father Joseph M. Paret, 1859; and Furnishing Louisiana: Creole and Acadian Furniture, 1735-1835. D. Eric Bookhardt is the art critic for New Orleans’ weekly newspaper, Gambit, as well as the New Orleans Art Insider Web site (insidenola.org), and is a longtime contributing editor of the national contemporary-art magazine Art Papers. A former associate archivist at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, he was a coeditor of the Louisiana Folklife Guide essay anthology published by the Louisiana Division of the Arts, and the first editor of OffBeat, the New Orleans music magazine. Educated at the University of New Orleans, Bookhardt coauthored Geopsychic Wonders of New Orleans, a large-format book exploring the city’s vernacular architecture and street culture, and has contributed numerous critical essays and reviews to a wide array of arts and culture publications. Teresa Parker Farris teaches Louisiana folklife at Tulane University, where she is also a Ph.D. candidate. She received her M.A. in Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi and her B.A. from Haverford College. Parker Farris is currently the chair of the Louisiana Folklife Commission and serves on the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival’s folklife advisory panel. Parker Farris has published essays in the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture and Self-Taught Artists of the 20th Century: An American Anthology. She has also contributed to numerous exhibition catalogues published by Tulane’s Newcomb Art Gallery. J. Richard Gruber, Ph.D., is director emeritus of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and now an active independent curator, art historian, and writer living in Asheville, North Carolina. He holds an M.A. in art history from the University of Colorado and a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Kansas. Dr. Gruber was a member of the University of New Orleans faculty from 1999 to 2010. He previously served as deputy director of the Morris Museum of Art and director of its Center for the Study of Southern Painting in Augusta, Georgia; director of the Wichita Art Museum in Kansas; curator, then director, of the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, in Tennessee; and director of the Peter Joseph Gallery in New York. Dr. Gruber has organized many museum and gallery exhibitions and has published books and catalogues on artists including Robert Rauschenberg, Benny Andrews, George Andrews, William Christenberry, Nellie Mae Rowe, Robert Stackhouse, William Dunlap, Thomas Hart Benton, Ed McGowin, Wolf Kahn, Elliot Daingerfield, George Wardlaw, Richard Jolley, Irwin Kremen, Edward Rice, Richard Sexton, and Freeman Schoolcraft. John R. Kemp is deputy director emeritus of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and contributing writer on Southern visual art for various regional and national magazines. He was the former chief curator of the Louisiana State Museum’s Historical Center. A native New Orleanian, he earned his B.A. from Loyola University New Orleans and M.A. from the University of Southern Mississippi. Kemp is the New Orleans correspondent for ARTnews magazine, and art columnist for Louisiana Life magazine. He covers the city’s art scene on the weekly “Steppin’ Out” program on WYES, the PBS affiliate station in New Orleans. A former staff writer and contributing art columnist for the Times-Picayune and managing editor of Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Kemp’s many book titles include Katrina: Days of Terror, Months of Anguish; The Journeys of a Southern Artist; Alan Flattmann’s French Quarter Impressions; New Orleans: An Illustrated History; Martin Behrman: Memoirs of a City Boss; Louisiana’s Black Heritage (coeditor); Vanishing Paradise; Manchac Swamp: Louisiana’s Undiscovered Wilderness; and The Solace of Nature: A Photographer’s Journey. CONTRIBUTORS OF ESSAYS 443 http://www.insidenola.org

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