Janet Koplos is an honorary fellow of the American Craft Council and a contributing editor to Art in America magazine. She is coauthor of Makers: A History of American Studio Craft and author of Contemporary Japanese Sculpture, among many other books, articles, and reviews.

Shelley Selim is the Jeanne and Ralph Graham Collections Fellow at Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Her research focuses on twentieth-century and contemporary American and European design, art, and material culture. She holds an MA in the history of decorative arts and design from Parsons, the New School for Design/Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Douglas Dawson is widely respected for his commitment to understanding and interpreting ethnic textiles of diverse cultures. For more than thirty yea rs he has traveled the world in search of fine textiles, ceramics, and metalwork representing traditional non-Western cultures, and has staged numerous exhibitions of art from pre-Columbian Americas, Asia, and Africa at Douglas Dawson Gallery in Chicago.