Art Rosenbaum


Art Rosenbaum is an art professor emeritus at the University of Georgia, an artist, musician, and folklorist. He won a Grammy award in 2008 for Best Historical Album, for his music collection Art Of Field Recording Volume I: Fifty Years Of Traditional American Music Documented By Art Rosenbaum.
Rosenbaum was born in upstate New York, and studied at Columbia University. The family moved around the United States during his childhood, his father being a member of the Army Medical Corps.
He taught at the University of Georgia from 1976 to 2006, following which the Georgia Museum of Art held an exhibition of his drawings and paintings. His other paintings include a mural in the Russell Special Collections Building on the UGA campus, featuring the faces of political figures from Georgia's history.