Wendel White
Wendel A. White was born in Newark, New Jersey and grew up in New York City, Philadelphia, and in New Jersey. He 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.
His work has been included in various museum and corporate collections, individual and group exhibitions, and publications.
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The Noyes Museum of Art mounted a retrospective exhibition of the Small Towns, Black Lives project and published an exhibition catalogue of the same title.
He has received various awards and fellowships including the 1993 New Jersey Council for the Arts Fellowship, the 2003 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Photography and the 2005 Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts grant.
The current project is a survey of the places that were connected to the historic system of racially segregated schools (broadly defined as “Jim Crow” segregation; in its various forms of de jure or de facto segregation) established at the southern boundaries of the northern United States. His particular interest is in the regions of the northern “free” states that bordered the slave states (sometimes known as the Up-South, just over the line to freedom) as regions of unique concentrations of black settlements during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Schools for the Colored is a of these sites. The architecture and geography of America’s Apartied (Jim Crow), in the form of a system of “colored schools” within the landscape of southern New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois is the central concern of this project. |
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