Please join us for a private gallery visit with Wendel White about his Manifest project included as part of the Of The Body exhibition currently on view at Northlight Gallery through February 18, 2023. The exhibition will open to the public after this exclusive talk to our group.

White’s Manifest portfolio consists of photographic representations of objects, documents, photographs, and books held in various public collections throughout the U.S. These repositories include various elements of material culture such as diaries, slave collars, human hair, a drum, souvenirs, and other objects, some with great significance and others simply quotidian representations of daily life in the history of the African American community.

“Manifest is an effort to seek out the artifacts and material evidence of the American construct and representation of race. The histories of slavery, abolition, segregation, the U.S. Civil War, and the Civil Rights Era are a few of the narratives that emerge in these photographs. The content is remarkable, visual evidence of lives and events; however, I also intend the viewer to consider this informal reliquary as a survey of the impulse and motivation to preserve history, memory and to imbue the remnants of material culture with power.”

This exclusive event is free and open to 20 AZPA members with RSVP. Not a member yet and want to attend? See options here.