Gregg Museum gets a new director

RALEIGH -- A new director has been named to run the Gregg Museum of Art & Design at N.C. State University, the university announced Friday.

Roger Manley, who worked in the campus museum as a curator in the 1990s, will take over the job June 1. He replaces Charlotte Brown, who retired as director last year after building the Gregg from a small space on campus in the 1980s into a much larger presence with a growing reputation.

Manley has worked as a curator at more than 40 institutions, including the Asheville Art Museum, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Center on Contemporary Art/Seattle, the Collection de l'Art Brut in Switzerland and more.

He also worked at the N.C. Museum of Art, Duke University, Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art and the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art.

Manley is a photographer, filmmaker and writer. His feature documentary film, "Mana - Beyond Belief," premiered at Lincoln Center in New York in 2005, and has won international festival awards.

He has exhibited his own photographs of Hispanic migrant farm workers, Palestinian villages, Sea Island residents who speak Gullah, Australian aboriginals, Native Americans, prisoners, millworkers and others.