Artist Vitae

Wendell George Brown
Fiber and Sculpture Artist | Educator | Curator

Education

  • Howard University
    MFA, Painting and Sculpture | Washington, DC | 2006 – 2008

  • Maryland Institute College of Art
    BFA, Fibers/Crafts | Baltimore, MD | 1984 – 1988

Experience

  • Tenured Associate Professor of Art / Director, Henry Ponder Gallery Benedict College, Columbia, SC | 2008 – Present

  • Assistant Director, Boyden Gallery St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, MD | 2003 – 2006

  • Director of Museum Education, Hampton University Museum, Hampton, VA, 1996 – 1999

Exhibitions Summary

  • (Forthcoming) We Are the Story, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition, Washington, D.C., January 2025 – 2029

  • Department of State, Gabonese Embassy, Africa, October 2024 - 2026

  • Ensemble, Spalding Nix Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, November 2023 – January 2024

  • Journey to Self, Spalding Nix Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, January – March 2023

  • Gendered, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina 2017

    Publications and Books Cited

  • Panel Art Conversation: Basquiat, Nickelodeon Theatre, Columbia, SC, February 28, 2023

  • Art Conversation: The Ritual of Elizabeth Catlett, The Columbia Museum of Art, October 2022 Watch on YouTube

  • Queering the Subversive Stitch: Men and the Culture of Needlework, Joseph McBrinn (Author), Amazon Publishing, 2021

  • And Still We Rise: Race, Culture, and Visual Conversation, Paper Moon Publishing, 5481 Olgate Drive, West Chester, Ohio, 2013Grants / Appointments

  • Commissioner, Columbia Museum of Art Columbia, SC | Appointed June 2017 – Term ended June 2023

Artist Residencies

  • Thohoyandou Arts and Culture Center Venda, South Africa | 2019

  • Auburn University at Montgomery Montgomery, AL | 2014

  • Cheyney University West Chester, PA | 2013

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