Art Rosenbaum (born Arthur Spark Rosenbaum in in Ogdensberg, NY, on 6 December 1938; died 4 September 2022) was an American musician, and folklorist, and an artist and latterly art professor at the University of Georgia. 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.

His folk music field work in the South and Midwest of the USA resulted in over 14 documentary recordings, several of which are on Smithsonian-Folkways; he wrote and illustrated two books, Folk Visions and Voices: Traditional Music and Song in North Georgia (1983), and Shout Because You're Free: The African American Ring Shout Tradition on the Coast of Georgia (1998), both published by the University of Georgia Press.

A performer on a variety of folk instruments, he appeared at numerous folk festivals both solo and with groups like the Skillet Lickers, cut three banjo/vocal albums, and wrote and illustrated two instruction books on traditional banjo styles.

He earned his MFA in Painting at Columbia University and has worked in France on a Fulbright in Painting; he also has a Fulbright Senior Professorship in Germany. Among his exhibitions was the Corcoran's 41st Biennial of American Painting, and his works are in many collections, including the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Columbus (GA) Museum.

He executed mural commissions at the UCLA School of Law and the Center for Humanities and Arts at the University of Georgia. His solo art show in 2000 at the Blue Mountain Gallery in New York was reviewed in Art in America. A retrospective of his paintings and drawings, Weaving His Art on Golden Looms, was held at the Georgia Museum of Art in 2006.

He was Wheatley Professor in Fine Arts at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia and in 2003 was a recipient of a Governor of Georgia's Award in the Humanities. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.