Recent activities and updates. Exhibition openings, lectures, presentations, new work, travel, and related events.
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 […]
“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
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.
“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
Lenscratch review of the exhibition Manifest: Thirteen Colonies, currently on view at the Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA until April 2025.
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
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
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.
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
Speaking at the Newark Public Library with Linda P. Shockley about the historically African American communities of southern New Jersey.