Wendel White

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Schools for the Colored

Wendel White: Marshalltown School, Mannington, New Jersey, 2008

Wendel White: Lincoln School, East St. Louis, Illinois, 2007

Wendel White: Ambidexter Institute, Springfield, Illinois, 2008

Wendel White: Booker T. Washington School, Columbus, Indiana, 2007

Wendel White: Crispus Attucks High School, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2007

Wendel White: New Jersey Manual and Industrial Training School for Colored Youth, Bordent

Wendel White: East High School, Xenia, Ohio, 2007

Wendel White: Yellow Springs, Ohio, 2007

Wendel White: Longwood School, Charlestown, Pennsylvania, 2007

Wendel White: Thomas Meehan Public School, Philadelphia (Germantown), Pennsylvania, 2010

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Awards | Collections | Education

Awards
2016	Project Launch (Juror’s Choice – Alison Nordstrom), Center, Santa Fe, Santa Fe

2015	Artist Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, New Jersey

2011	Artist-in-Residence, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Nebraska

2010	New Works Fellowship, En Foco, New York

2009	Artist Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, New Jersey

2005	Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Grant., Illinois

2003	John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fellowship. Photography., New York

1993	Artist Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, New Jersey

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Collections

Archive of Documentary Art, Duke University’s David M. Rubenstein Rare Book, Durham, NC

New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ

University Museums, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

Graham Foundation for the Advancement of Fine Arts, Chicago, IL

Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE

Salem County Department of Tourism, Salem NJ

The Arts at CIIS, San Francisco, CA

En Foco Inc, Bronx,, New York

Stockton University

Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

The Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas

Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois

Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania

Johnson and Johnson, New Jersey

Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Wisconsin

The Paul R. Jones Collection of African American Art, University of Delaware

The Paul R. Jones Collection of African American Art, University of Alabama

George Washington Carver Museum, Austin, Texas

Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA

The Chase Manhattan Bank NA, New York, NY

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYPL, New York, NY

Austin History Center, Austin, Texas

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Education
	University of Texas at Austin, MFA

	School of Visual Arts, BFA

Wendel White Statement

Artist Statement
Schools for the Colored is an extension of the ideas that formed the project Small Towns, Black Lives, in that, it is a continuation of my journey through the African American landscape. I began making photographs of historically African American school buildings during the very first weeks of the Small Towns, Black Lives project more than twenty years ago. In Schools for the Colored I began to pay attention to the many structures and sites (also making photographs of places where segregated schools once stood) that operated as segregated schools. The architecture and geography of America’s educational apartheid, 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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