Schools for the Colored, Collector's Edition – By Wendel A. White

Collector’s Edition of Wendel A. White’s Schools for the Colored. The book comes inset in a box of black cloth, revealed by a foldout with one of 10 prints produced specifically for this edition. The cover of the box is stamped in black foil.

Schools for the Colored is an extension of the photographic 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 first days of the Small Towns, Black Lives project more than thirty years ago. In Schools for the Colored, I began to pay attention to the many structures and sites that operated as a network of segregated schools in the northern United States.

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.

Wendel A. White was born in Newark, 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. White taught photography at the School of Visual Arts, NY; Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, NY; Rochester Institute of Technology; and is currently Distinguished Professor of Art & American Studies at Stockton University.

His awards and fellowships include: Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography, Peabody Museum of Archeology & Ethnography, Harvard University, the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in photography, three artist fellowships from the New Jersey State Council for the Arts, and grants from Center Santa Fe, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts as well as residencies at Monuments Lab, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art and the Arts Council of Princeton.

Recent projects include; Manifest: 13 Colonies, Red Summer, Schools for the Colored, Village of Peace: An African American Community in Israel, Small Towns, Black Lives, and others.

Box

11 x 10 x 1.25”

An 8 x 10” (1/1) pigmented inkjet print selected by the artist and produced for this edition

Covered in black cloth with black foil

Edition of 10

Book

ISBN: 978-1-7373810-1-3

112 pages

Introduction by Wendel A. White

Essay “Black Education in New Jersey” by Walter Greason, Ph.D.

9 x 8”

Hardcover in black cloth with black foil

Edition of 150; first edition, first printing

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