Regenia A. Perry

**Regenia A. Perry** nyɛla ŋun pahi tuuli African American paɣa ban nya Ph.D. in art history. yuuni 1975, Perry daa nyɛla ŋun leei tuuli  African American "guest curator" zaŋ n-ti Metropolitan Museum of Art din be New York. 

## Honors and legacy

*  Virginia Museum of Fine Arts nyɛla ŋun daa piligi Regenia A. Perry Assistant Curator of Global Contemporary Art position yuuni 2021. Ŋun daa nyɛ tuuli ŋun gbubi zaashee nyɛ Alexis Assam.

## Curated exhibits
Perry curated or co-curated the following selected exhibits:

* *Impact '79: Afro-American Women Artists: April 2 to 20, 1979*. FAMU Art Gallery, Florida A & M University, Tallahassee, FL. Curated by Perry.  Artists featured included: Camille Billops, Vivian E. Browne, Doris C. Colbert, Oletha DeVane, Wilhelmina Godfrey, Lana T. Henderson, Adrienne W. Hoard, Martha E. Jackson, Winnie Owens, Betye Saar, Elizabeth Scott, Joyce Scott, Jewel W. Simon, and Yvonne Edwards Tucker.
* *James Van Der Zee's New York*. Carriero Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, Feb. 21 – March 11, 1983.
*  *Near the End: Artistic Prophecies by Ruth Mae McCrane, January 17 – March 23, 1997*. Afro-American Cultural Center, Charlotte, North Carolina. 36-piece exhibit featuring folk-art paintings by McCrane. Curated by Perry.
* *Selections of Nineteenth-Century Afro-American Art: June 19 – August 1, 1976*. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Curated by Perry.
* *Spirit Work: Religion in African-American Folk Art*. January 31 – March 10, 1990. Dallas, TX: Museum of African-American Life and Culture, 1990.

## Books and catalogs

*   *Art of the Kuba: Selected Works from the W. H. Sheppard Collection at Hampton University*, Virginia Commonwealth University, Anderson Gallery, November 1979.
*   *Free Within Ourselves: African-American Artists in the Collection of the National Museum of American Art*. San Francisco, Calif: National Museum of American Art in association with Pomegranate Artbooks, 1992. 205 pages. Introduction by Kinshasha Holman Conwill. 
*   *Harriet Powers's Bible Quilts*. [New York]: [Rizzoli International], 1994. 24 pages. 24 color illustrations. 
*   *Impact '79: Afro-American Women Artists: April 2 to 20, 1979*, Tallahassee, FL: FAMU Art Gallery, Florida A & M University, 1979. 16 unnumbered pages. 
*   *James Van Der Zee's New York*. Carreiro Gallery, Boston, MA: [publisher not identified], 1983. 8 pages.  
*   *The Life and Works of Charles Frederick Schweinfurth: Cleveland Architect – 1856–1919*. Ann Arbor, Mich: University Microfilms International, 1981. Perry's Ph.D. Western Reserve University dissertation, 1967. 273 pages.  
*   *Selections of Nineteenth-Century Afro-American Art: June 19 – August 1, 1976*. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1976.  46 unnumbered pages. 
*   *Spirits or Satire: African American Face Vessels of the Nineteenth Century*. Gibbs Art Gallery, Charleston, S.C., September 1985.
*   *What It Is: Black American Folk Art from the collection of Regenia A. Perry*, Virginia Commonwealth University, Anderson Gallery, October 1982. 72 pages.

### Book and catalogs with contributions by Perry

*   Livingston, Jane, John Beardsley, and Regenia Perry. *Black Folk Art in America, 1930–1980*. Jackson: Published for the Corcoran Gallery of Art by the University Press of Mississippi, 1982.  Perry authored the essay "Black American Folk Art: Origins and Early Manifestations."
*   Smith, Todd D., Regenia Perry, John Hewitt, and Vivian Hewitt. *Celebration and Vision: The Hewitt Collection of African-American Art*. Charlotte, NC: Bank of America Corp, 1999. 101 pages.
*   Perry, Regenia, and Maude Wahlman. *Spirit Work: Religion in African-American Folk Art*. Dallas, TX: MAALC, 1990.
*   Riggs, Thomas. *St. James Guide to Black Artists*. Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 1998. Perry authored biographic articles on Edward Bannister, Leslie Bolling, William Edmondson, Minnie Evans, David Hammons, Jacob Lawrence, Elijah Pierce, Harriet Powers, Renee Stout, Mose Tolliver, Bill Traylor, Gregory Warmack and three others. 
*   Van Der Zee, James, Liliane DeCock-Morgan, Reginald McGhee, and Regenia Perry. *James Van Der Zee*. 1973. 159 pages. 
*   Van Der Zee, James, Patricia Bladon, and Regenia Perry. *Roots in Harlem: Photographs by James Van Der Zee from the Collection of Regenia A. Perry: January 8 – February 19, 1989*, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. [Memphis, TN]: Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, 1988. 44 pages.  

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## External links
* WorldCat Identities: Perry, Regenia