Interview on About Photography Blog
I answer a few questions about my work and the Manifest: Thirteen Colonies project, co-published by the Peabody Museum at Harvard and Radius Books.
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Recent activities and updates. Exhibition openings, lectures, presentations, new work, travel, and related events.
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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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Manifest: Thirteen Colonies on Lenscratch
Lenscratch review of the exhibition Manifest: Thirteen Colonies, currently on view at the Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA until April 2025.
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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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Selected Works from 3 Portfolios Added to National Gallery of Art
Selected works from the photographic portfolios, Red Summer, Schools for the Colored, and Industrial Landscapes were recently added to the collection of the National Gallery of Art. Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth, Bordentown, NJ
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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.
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Order the Exhibition Catalog
ORDER THE EXHIBITION CATALOG with an essay by Kenya Tyson and Claude Baillargeon Mail orders for the 60-page exhibition catalog will be fulfilled for $28 (shipping included). Checks only, payable to the Oakland University Art Gallery, West Wilson Hall Room 208, 371 Wilson Boulevard, Rochester, MI 48309.
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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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Black Life in South Jersey
Speaking at the Newark Public Library with Linda P. Shockley about the historically African American communities of southern New Jersey.
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Schools for the Colored in Nueva Luz
Nueva Luz Mentor Issue (Fall/Winter 2022) Special thanks to Dawoud Bey and Victor Davson for their contributions to this issue of Nueva Luz featuring my work from the Schools for the Colored portfolio. I am deeply grateful for all the efforts of everyone at En Foco especially Bill Aguado, Kim Vaquedano-Rose, Emily O’Leary, and Danny