Eric Kjellgrenis a leading scholar of the arts of Oceania. Formerly the curator of Oceanic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, director of the American Museum of Asmat Art (AMAA), and a member of the Art History faculty at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, he has worked extensively with contemporary First Nations Australian artists and conducted research in Vanuatu. Dr. Kjellgren has written more than 40 articles and 2 books on the arts of Oceania (How To Read Oceanic ArtandOceania: Art of the Pacific Islands in the Metropolitan Museum of Art); curated numerous exhibitions at the Metropolitan and the AMAA; and had curatorial responsibility for the 2007 redesign and reinstallation of the Metropolitan's permanent galleries for Oceanic Art. Dr. Kjellgren wrote chapters on the arts of Oceania from the earliest period to the present, including the section on Oceanic art in Chapter 7. Henry Luttikhuizenis the Lena Meijer Professor of Art History at Aquinas College.
He has served as the president of the Midwest Art History Society and the American Association of Netherlandic Studies. With Dorothy Verkerk, he co-authored the second edition ofSnyder's Medieval Artand with Larry Silver, the second edition ofSnyder's Northern Renaissance Art. He is also co-editor ofThe Primacy of the Image in Northern European Art, 1400-1700. Dr. Luttikhuizen has curated numerous exhibitions, includingThe Humor and Wit of Pieter Bruegel the ElderandStirring the World: German Printmaking in the Age of Luther. Dr. Luttikhuizen wrote the chapters on Jewish and Christian art in late antiquity; art of the Byzantine Empire and the Mediterranean world from 500-1500; and European art from the early medieval period to the lateMiddle Ages, including Romanesque and Gothic art and architecture.