The American Museum of Natural History and Discovery Channel Online present
Marks of Identity:  A Live Web Cast

Saturday, December 11, 1999 2:00 p.m.
American Museum of Natural History, Linder Theater
Central Park West and 77th Street, New York, NY

When is body art about fashion?  When is it about beauty?  What do these
words mean? For individuals?  For different communities? How do societal
standards and conventions form and affect our views of self and thus our
body art? And when does beauty blend into issues of race, wealth, power,
status, and gender?  Three panelists including the American Museum of
Natural History‚s Enid Schildkrout discuss and answer questions about body
art and its relationship to trends and standards of beauty.

To be an audience member, please RSVP at (212) 769-5200.  Members of the
audience must arrive by 1:30 p.m.  Free with Museum admission.

To participate via the Web, visit
www.discovery.com/exp/humancanvas/live.html

Panelists:

Enid Schildkrout is Department Chair in the Division of Anthropology at the
American Museum of Natural History and organizing curator for Body Art:
Marks of Identity.  She has been involved with many exhibition projects,
including curating African Reflections:  Art from Northeatern Zaire which
resulted in a film and a prize-winning book.    She received her Ph.D. in
Social Anthropology from Cambridge University and has studied African
cultures for three decades. Her most recent book, edited with Curtis A.
Keim, is The Scramble for Art in Central Africa (Cambridge University Press,
1998).

Valerie Steele is Chief curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of
Technology and Editor of the quarterly journal Fashion Theory:  The Journal
of Dress, Body & Culture.  Her numerous books have included Shoes:  A
Lexicon of Style (Rizzoli, 1999), Fifty Years of Fashion:  New Look to Now
(Yale University Press, 1997), and Fetish:  Fashion, Sex and Power (Oxford
University Press, 1996).  Currently under curation is The Corset:
Fashioning the Body (forthcoming, January 2000).  She received her Ph.D. in
cultural history from Yale University.

Noliwe Rooks is a Visiting Assistant Professor in History and African
American Studies at Princeton University.  Her book Hair Raising:  Beauty,
Culture and African American Women won the Choice Award for Outstanding
Academic Book.  She is currently at work on two projects.  One is a social
history of African American women‚s magazines between 1891-1975, and the
other is entitled Fat:  An American Obsession.  She received her Ph.D. in
American Studies from the University of Iow

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