Guggenheim Fellows Featured in Stockton’s Art Gallery
The work of four Guggenheim Fellows will be on display in the Stockton University Art Gallery from September to November. From left, Ron Tarver (2021); Donald E. Camp (1995); Wendel A. White (2003); and William E. Williams (2003).
Galloway, N.J. – Stockton University’s Art Gallery is set to return with a fall exhibition centered on African American history, stories and experiences from four Black Guggenheim Fellows from Sept. 4 to Nov. 8.
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 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 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.
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 at 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 21.
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.
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 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.
Wendel A. White 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.
– Story by Loukaia Taylor
Senior Art Students Freely Express Work in New Exhibit
April 16, 2025
Galloway, N.J. — Over the course of two semesters, Stockton University Bachelor of Fine Arts students worked hard to put together an art exhibition to be displayed at the Art Gallery. At the exhibition opening on April 13, artists showed off their work and skills to an audience of peers, family, friends and potential clients.
Students worked all week leading up to the opening to put up their artwork and with Art Gallery Exhibition Coordinator Ryann Casey for much longer to make sure they had a game plan for bringing their creative visions to life.
— Story and photos by Zuleika Rodriguez Garcia of the Osprey Social Team
Art Gallery Exhibition Focuses on Innovative Indigenous Works
September 20, 2024
Galloway, N.J. – “Indigenous people are more than just what you read about in your false and colonial history books or a concept of the past. In 2024, we are contemporary.”
This and more gems of wisdom were dropped by Indigenous artist Denise “Bright Dove” Ashton-Dunkley during Sept. 17’s Artist Talk & Workshop in the Stockton University Art Gallery.
Ashton-Dunkley of the Nanticoke/Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation is one of more than 25 local and international artists featured in the new two-floor exhibition, “Indigenous Approaches, Sustainable Futures.” She and fellow tribe member Tyrese “Bright Flower” Gould Jacinto and Jeremy Dennis of the Shinnecock Indian Nation led participants on a tour of the exhibition and talked about the inspiration behind their featured works.
According to Ashton-Dunkley, her piece, “Land Back,” is meant to challenge the viewer to acknowledge and consider the concepts of land reclamation and the significance of Indigenous traditional and ecological knowledge, especially as the world reckons with the current climate crisis.
– Story by Loukaia Taylor
– Photos by Lizzie Nealis
