Donald E. Camp
(GALLOWAY, NJ) -- Stockton University's Art Gallery presents an exhibition from September 4 to November 8, 2025 centered on African American history, stories and experiences from four Black Guggenheim Fellows.
The two-floor exhibition, entitled “Diverse Perspectives in Photography: Four Black Guggenheim Fellows in the Philadelphia Region,” will feature the work of Donald E. Camp, who in 1995 was the second African American photographer to receive the Guggenheim Fellowship following Roy DeCarava in 1952. In addition to Camp, the exhibit will have works from Ron Tarver (2021), William E. Williams (2003) and Wendel A. White (2003).
The fall exhibition will open with a free reception and panel discussion moderated by Julie L. McGee at 2:30pm on Wednesday, September 24, in the lower level of the Stockton Art Gallery. McGee is an associate professor of Art History and Africana Studies at the University of Delaware who specializes in African American art and contemporary African art.
Ron Tarver
Additionally, Laura Auricchio, the vice president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, will present a lecture centered on the fellowship’s 100th anniversary in a reception on Tuesday, October 21 at 2:30pm.
The art gallery is open Monday to Thursday from noon to 7:00pm and Friday through Sunday from 11:00am to 3:00pm. Exhibitions and events are free and open to the public.
About the Artists
Donald E. Camp is a Philadelphia resident and professor emeritus at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. He is noted for his ongoing body of work, “Dust Shaped Hearts,” a series of mono-prints created using light-sensitive casein and dry earth pigments. His work is in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Delaware Art Museum, the Michener Art Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and other private and public collections.
Wendel A. White (shown above) is a distinguished professor of Art at Stockton. His work is represented in museum, public and private collections including the National Gallery of Art, in Washington, D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Mint Museum; Duke University; New Jersey State Museum; California Institute for Integral Studies; The Museum of Fine Art in Houston; Museum of Contemporary Photograph and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. His recent projects include Manifest: Thirteen Colonies; Red Summer; Schools for the Colored; Village of Peace: An African American Community in Israel; Small Towns, Black Lives; and others.
Ron Tarver’s work has explored facets of the Black community for nearly 50 years. His exhibitions have explored Black architectural legacy and the experiences of Black veterans. His most recent project appropriates images his father made in the 1940s-1950s to comment on the current racial climate. He is an associate professor and interim chair of Art at Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Tarver was a staff photojournalist at the Philadelphia Inquirer for 32 years, where he shared the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for his work on a series documenting school violence in the city’s public schools. Tarver’s work has also appeared in National Geographic, Life, Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, Ebony, Jet, Black and White Magazine and more.
William E. Williams (shown above) is the Audrey A. and John L. Dusseau professor in the Humanities, professor of Fine Arts and curator of Photography at Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania. He has organized more than 90 exhibitions in 46 years, and his photographs have been widely exhibited, including group and solo exhibitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art, George Eastman House, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the National Gallery, Smith College and the Smithsonian. His photographs are in many public collections, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Baltimore Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Princeton University.
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