ART Exhibition | Manifest: Thirteen Colonies, —Wendel A. White, photographer

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Exhibition On View Until April 13, 2025

Manifest: Thirteen Colonies is a photographic engagement with African American material culture housed in collections throughout the thirteen original United States colonies and Washington, D.C. Wendel A. White, the 2021 recipient of the Peabody Museum’s Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography, explains that his photographs are “a response to the collective physical remnants of the American concept and representation of race.”

Baby Dolls, Kenneth and Mamie Clark, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC,
2016
The History of the Rise, Progress, & Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament, Volume 2, Thomas Clarkson. Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, GA © Wendel White

Two special events on Thursday, September 26, 2024

In-Person & Virtual

ArtsThursdays: Manifest Thirteen Colonies a free, fun night at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture with activities (5:00–9:00 pm)

Manifest: Thirteen Colonies Book Launch and Conversation with Wendel A. White, Cheryl Finley, Leigh Raiford, Deborah Willis, and Brenda Tindal (Conversation is in-person and online 6:00–7:30 pm ET)

Watch public program now below (1:08:50) about the Manifest: Thirteen Colonies project with Wendel White in conversation with public historian Brenda Tindal. A full transcript is provided. Recorded April 7, 2022.

Images are courtesy of the photographer, Wendel A. White, and press information provided by Harvard University, The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology

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