Roger Manley |
Before serving as director and curator of NC State’s Gregg Museum of Art & Design from 2010 to 2023, Roger Manley worked as a photographer, folklorist, filmmaker, and writer. He wrote and co-directed the award-winning documentary MANA—beyond belief and has curated major exhibitions for more than forty institutions, including the NC Museum of Art, the Asheville Art Museum, Duke University, the Illinois State Museum in Chicago, and the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore. His books and collaborations include Self-Made Worlds, Signs and Wonders, The End is Near!, Farfetched, Architecture of Hope: the Treasures of Intuit, books on St. EOM and Howard Finster, three books for the Weird USA series, dozens of museum catalogues, and Walks to the Paradise Garden, with Jonathan Williams and Guy Mendes. He lives in Durham, NC, with the writer and toy dealer, Theadora Brack.
