Plenary Speaker

Dr. Elizabeth Perrill is a Professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA. In 2018, the permanent reinstallation of the African Galleries at the North Carolina Museum of Art, completed during her five-year role as Consulting Curator for African Art, won an American Alliance of Museums Excellence in Exhibitions Award. Dr. Perrill was recently lead curator for the exhibition iNgqikithi yokuPhica / Weaving Meanings: South African Telephone wire on view at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, November 2024 - November 2025. Her primary research interests include histories of Southern African ceramics, South African contemporary art, and economic histories of ceramic arts in the modern and contemporary eras. Perrill’s single-author works include Burnished: Zulu Ceramics Between Rural and Urban South Africa (2022), Zulu Pottery (2012) and Ukucwebezela: To Shine (2008), as well as numerous scholarly articles and exhibition catalog essays.