THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE is the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture. JOANNE HYPPOLITE is the Assistant Director for Culture at the museum and curator of the Cultural Expressions permanent exhibition which showcases Art Smith's work. Under her direction, the museum has acquired two major archival collections on Art Smith. TONI GREENBAUM is an art historian specializing in twentieth and twenty-first-century jewelry and metalwork. She has written extensively on modernist jewelry, including Messengers of Modernism: American Studio Jewelry 1940-1960, considered the standard text on the subject.