Chris Dingwall is an assistant professor of design history in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis and was co-curator of African American Designers in Chicago: Art, Commerce, and the Politics of Race at the Chicago Cultural Center. David Hartt lives and works in Philadelphia, where he is an artist and associate professor in the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania and was the exhibition designer of African American Designers in Chicago: Art, Commerce, and the Politics of Race at the Chicago Cultural Center. Daniel Schulman is executive director and curator of the Statsinger Cohen Foundation in Chicago. He was co-curator of African American Designers in Chicago: Art, Commerce, and the Politics of Race at the Chicago Cultural Center and director of visual art for the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.