Wendel A. White's most recent
photographic work includes various ongoing projects;
Schools for the
Colored, Village of
Peace , and Small Towns, Black
Lives. 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 will continue
to tour various venues until December 2006. 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), Dr. Deborah Willis, Stedman Graham, and Dr.
Clement Alexander Price.
Wendel recieved a 2005 grant from the Graham Foundation for
Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts to support 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. 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 regional boards for New Jersey Save
Outdoor Sculpture (advisory), and the Atlantic City
Historical Museum. Previously he taught photography at the
Cooper Union School of Art, School of Visual Arts and
International Center for Photography.
Wendel White is currently
Professor of Art at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.
