:KEYNOTER FLOYD COLEMAN, PROFESSOR OF ART AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, DC, SPEAKING ON "THE BROADER CONTEXT FOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN DESIGN"

Focusing on African-American craft design during the Middle Passage, slavery, and the "great migration" —as prelude to Chicago's Black Renaissance (and the present)—Coleman noted that aesthetics are only one component of design art: in analyzing such art, one must also examine the political and social intentions behind it; the issues of power and patronage surrounding it.