Author name: Wendel White

Wendel A. White was awarded a BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York and an MFA in photography from the University of Texas at Austin. White taught photography at the School of Visual Arts, NY; The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, NY; the International Center for Photography, NY; Rochester Institute of Technology; and is currently Distinguished Professor of Art at Stockton University. His work has received various awards and fellowships including a 2021 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography, Peabody Museum of Archeology & Ethnography, Harvard University, a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Photography, Bunn Lectureship in Photography, Bradley University, three artist fellowships from the New Jersey State Council for the Arts, a photography grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and a New Works Photography Fellowship from En Foco Inc.

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Wendel White Folding Time

Rowan University Art Gallery and MuseumSeptember 3 – October 26, 2024 Reception and Artist’s Talk: Thursday, September 12, 5 – 7 pm, Artist’s talk begins at 5:30301 High Street Gallery “Wendel White is a distinguished photographer who focuses on Black history, the legacy of slavery, and the importance of empowering perspectives. Folding Time will feature selected photographs from his […]

Photograph of Thomas Clarkson's, The History of the Rise, Progress, & Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament. Salem County Historical Society | SALEM, NEW JERSEY
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Podcast with Jennifer Berglund for HMSC Connects

“Welcome to HMSC Connects!, where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. My name is Jennifer Berglund, part of the exhibits team here at the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture. And I’ll be your host. Today I’m

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Boston Globe Review of Manifest Exhibition

“A century ago, in “In the American Grain,” Williams wrote that history “is concerned only with the one thing: to say everything is dead.” No view could be more alien to “Manifest.” These artifacts White has chosen and the photographs he has taken to bear them — yes, bear them, with the solidity and subdued

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Wendel A. White: Manifest | Thirteen Colonies from Peabody and Radius

Manifest | Thirteen Colonies is a photographic project and journey through the repositories of African American material culture found in libraries, museums, and archives of the original thirteen English colonies and Washington, DC. Conceived by photographer Wendel A. White, this project is a personal reliquary of the remarkable evidence of Black agency and racial oppression

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Wendel White: Black Lives, Resistance, and Agency in America

Work from three projects will be exhibited in two spaces at Swarthmore College. Selected works from Schools for the Colored and Small Towns Black Lives in the. List Gallery and selected works from Manifest in the McCabe Library. Artist talk, Thursday, March 21 at 4:30 followed by a reception.

Milan, GA, May 25, 1919. The Greenville News, Greenville, SC, Jul 25, 1919.
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Remains • Remnants • Reliquaries

Washington DC, Jul 21, 1919. The Washington Times, Washington, DC, Jul 22, 1919. Kenya Tyson and I will discuss Red Summer and other themes in my work for the opening of the Remains • Remnants • Reliquaries exhibition on Sept 8, 2023, at the Oakland University Art Gallery. #schoolsforthecolored #manifestportfolio #redsummer #smalltownsblacklives

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