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| EN FOCO | Photographers | |
 © Wendel White, Schools for the Colored, Marshalltown School, Mannington, NJ  © Wendel White, Schools for the Colored, Bordentown, NJ  © Wendel White, Schools for the Colored, East St Louis, IL |
Wendel A. White Born:1956, Newark, NJ Resides: Galloway, NJ Heritage: African American Selected Exhibitions: En Foco at Venice Arts, Venice, CA 2013 En Foco at The Arts at CIIS, San Francisco, CA 2013 En Foco at BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2013 En Foco at Aljira, Newark, NJ 2012 En Foco at the Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC 2012 En Foco at Light Work, Syracuse, NY 2011 Willingboro Public Library, NJ 2011 En Foco at Calumet Photographic, New York, NY 2010 Michael Mazzeo Gallery, New York, NY 2009 Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts, Cape May, NJ 2007 Stockton College, Pomona, NJ 2006 Newark Public Library, Newark, NJ 2006 Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ 2005 Atwater Kent Museum, Philadelphia, PA 2005 The Morris Museum Morristown, NJ 2003 Johnson and Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ 2003 Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ 2003 Stedman Gallery, Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arats, Camden, NJ 2002 Atlantic City Arts Center, Atlantic City, NJ 2002 Manchester Craftsman Guild, Pittsburgh, PA 2001 Hopkins House Gallery, Haddon, NJ 2001 Monmouth University, NJ 2001 The Photography Gallery, FLorida International University, Miami, FL 1988 Johnson and Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ 1987 to 1989 Gallery Polynero II, Belgium 1986 Rose Gallery, St. Edwards University, Austin, TX 1986 Midtown Y Gallery, New York, NY 1984 Education: BFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY 1980 MFA, University of Texas, Austin, TX 1982 Awards: En Foco's New Works Photography Fellowship Awards #13, 2009-10 Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Grant 2005 Publications: Nueva Luz volume 14#3 (Summer 2010), Intercambio section by Anne Tucker (En Foco: Bronx, NY) Small Towns, Black Lives: African American Communities in Southern New Jersey Artist’s Statement: The project is a survey of the places that were connected to the system of racially segregated (broadly defined to include Jim Crow imposed segregation, self imposed segregated schools initiated by member of the black community and de facto segregation) schools established in the northern United States. At the very beginning of W.E.B. DuBois' "The Souls of Black Folk" he describes an early school experience, "... I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil" My 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 the representation of my effort to memorialize these sites. Website: |
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