Wendel A. White's recent exhibitions include: Atwater Kent Museum, Philadelphia, PA; Seton Hall University, S. Orange, NJ; Morris Museum of Art, Morristown, NJ; Johnson and Johnson World Headquarters, New Brunswick, NJ; The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ; Rutgers-Camden Stedman Gallery, Camden, NJ; and the Manchester Craftsman Guild, Pittsburgh, PA.

The Noyes Museum of Art produced a traveling exhibition of the Small Towns, Black Lives project that was on tour at various venues until April 2007. An exhibition catalog of Small Towns, Black Lives was published by the Noyes Museum in January 2003, with essays by Charles Ashley Stainback (guest curator of the exhibition), Deborah Willis, Stedman Graham, and Clement Alexander Price.

In 2005 grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts supported the Schools for the Colored project and in 2003 he was appointed a a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to support his photography of black communities in rural/small town settings. He has also received the New Jersey Council for the Arts fellowship in photography and several grants and fellowships from Stockton College.

Wendel received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City and a MFA in Photography from the University of Texas at Austin. His work is represented in museum and corporate collections, exhibitions, and publications. Previously he taught photography at the Cooper Union School of Art, School of Visual Arts and International Center for Photography.

He served on the Board of Directors for the Society for Photographic Education (from 1992 to 1999 and as board chairperson from 1996 to 1999) and as a member of various regional boards including; the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, New Jersey Black Culture and Heritage Initiative Foundation, New Jersey Save Outdoor Sculpture (advisory), and the Atlantic City Historical Museum.

His current projects include; Schools for the Colored an extension of Small Towns, Black Lives and Village of Peace. During 2005 and 2006 he traveled to photograph in a community of African Americans living in Israel’s Negev desert. Images from Village of Peace: An African American Community in Israel were recently included in Transition magazine (Vol. 97), published by the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

Wendel White is currently Professor of Art at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.