What? Is? Art? (Colpa Press) is a collection of White’s photographs made on the pandemic-empty SFAI campus alongside writings by nine anonymous professors who teach in private art schools or public art departments across the country. White states: “There aren’t many public conversations about the experience that educators face in art academia. It is my hope that these texts and images memorialize and contemplate the complexity of arts education in this protracted moment of instability.”

What? Is? Art? is a key element of White's current exhibition, Fantastico!.

In dialogue with curator Dena Beard, they navigate the exhibition on view, institutional perils and possibilities, and personal (art) histories in the Bay Area.

Dena Beard is director of the Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College. She was Executive Director of The Lab in San Francisco from 2014–2023 and Assistant Curator at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive from 2007–2014. Beard has organized hundreds of projects with artists such as Lutz Bacher, Sadie Barnette, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Ellen Fullman, Dora García, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, Anna Halprin, Asher Hartman, Annea Lockwood, Barry McGee, Silke Otto-Knapp, Brontez Purnell, Wadada Leo Smith, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.