studio facility, the award is his first recognition by the institution. In October 2019, the media mogul stated that his work is routinely dismissed by those in mainstream entertainment industry. “When I was about 19 years old, I left home and my grandmother gave me a quilt…I didn’t really care for it,” revealed Perry. “I had no value in it at all.
When the dog got wet, I dried him off with it, I had no respect for this quilt,” he added. Perry explained that once he learned the history of the type heirloom his grandmother had handed him, he began to hold it in a higher regard.
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