"Wendel A. White: Difficult Histories"

First Unitarian Universalist is once again a participating space for the FotoFest Biennial. This year we are featuring selections from Wendel A. White's Manifest (2009–present) and Red Summer (2011–2019) series. Manifest presents in classic still life fashion individual objects found in collections, public and private, from African American history. In his montage series Red Summer, White, ties the past to the present using early twentieth-century news clippings and contemporary landscapes. In our service, as in our exhibition, we will consider how art can be a force for social change and the preservation of memory.