User:Alexwilhite

Alex Wilhite is contemporary landscape and abstract artist. He is deaf and born in Tuscumbia, Alabama September 27, 1960. His parents discovered that he is deaf when he was 3 months old. He enrolled to Central Institute for the Deaf in St. Louis, Missouri from 1964 til 1976. He enrolled to the American School of Kuwait, Kuwait City, Kuwait and Deshler High School, Tuscumbia, Alabama. He graduated with deploma 1980. He enrolled to the National Technical Institute for the Deaf alone with the Rochester Institute of Technology then transferred to Gallaudet University for a short time then enrolled to the University of North Alabama. He was awarded B.F.A in studio art in 1987. Then he enrolled to Pratt Institute of Brooklyn, New York in the Fall 1988. He was award Master of Fine Art, M.F.A. in painting from Pratt Institute 1990. Currently he works as full time American Sign Language at the Woods High School, Houston, Texas since 2005. He has a studio at the Winter Street Studios near downtown of Houston, Texas since 2005. he has recent participate in a group exhibition called "Perception of Reality" at the Ico Gallery, New York City on September 2009.