{"id":5659,"date":"2019-08-07T01:39:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T01:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/media-archive.blackartinamerica.com\/?p=5659"},"modified":"2019-08-07T01:40:50","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T01:40:50","slug":"5-quick-questions-najjar-abdul-musawwir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthexhibitions.org\/media-archive\/?p=5659","title":{"rendered":"5 Quick Questions: Najjar Abdul-Musawwir"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"If art was no longer your day job what would you be doing?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I do not know, because I have always been profoundly connected to art in some form or fashion.<\/span><\/div>\n
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What figure in history would easily represent your alter ego?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Henry Ossawa Tanner<\/p>\n

What movie can you watch over and over again?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Negotiator, 1998 (I could relate to Samuel L. Jackson\u2019s character)<\/span><\/p>\n

What do you ultimately want to be remembered for?<\/strong><\/p>\n

For doing my share of goodness to self and others<\/div>\n
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Favorite childhood candy?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hot peanuts mixed with candy corn (it remind me of my mother\u2019s love)<\/p>\n

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Najjar Abdul-Musawwir is an internationally acknowledged artist who has exhibited in the United States, Africa, Asia and Europe. He currently works as a Professor of studio arts and art history in the School of Art and Design\/University Core Curriculum\/Africana Studies at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL. He hosted six seasons of the now syndicated WSIU PBS TV show, Expressions. In 2008, he had an invitational lecture and exhibition at Bilkent University, Ankra, Turkey. His series, Fatiha and Door of Return, was shown as a major solo exhibition at Bilkent University Fine Art Gallery. In 2011, he participated in an international solo exhibitions and lecture during an artist-in-residency at Tuanku Fauziah Museum and Gallery University Science Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia. The title of the exhibition was Muhammad Speaks: Preserving an American Voice (paintings, prints and projections). In 2013, Abdul-Musawwir exhibited a painting titled, Abstract Sankofa in the Imago Mundi at Biennale, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy. The online\/hard copy exhibition catalog titled, ORGANIX: Contemporary Artists from the U.S.A. was published by FABRICA (a global communication research center, studio and school, and an integral part of the Benetton Group).
\nAbdul-Musawwir, Najjar. \u201cRESISTANCE SERIES: A CHANGE IS GONNA COME.\u201d Resistance Works by Najee Dorsey. Georgia: Black Art In America, Fall 2015 (invited by Najee Dorsey)
\nAbdul-Musawwir, Najjar. \u201cArtistic Representation.\u201d The Frederick Douglass Encyclopedia. California: Greenwood Press, Fall 2010 ( invited by Julius E. Thompson, James L. Conyers, Jr., and Nancy J. Dawson, Editors)<\/p>\n

Abdul-Musawwir, Najjar. \u201cKara Walker: Celebrating 21st Century Primitivism.\u201d Kara Walker Yes, Kara Walker No. NY: MidMarch Arts Press, Spring 2009 (Contributed ten page essay, and invited by Howardena Pindell, and Cynthia Navaretta, publisher)<\/p>\n

Abdul-Musawwir, Najjar. \u201cDon\u2019t Read Between the Lines, Read it All.\u201d
\nHERBERT GENTRY: The Man \u2013 The Mater \u2013 The Magic (exhibition catalogue). New York: G.R. N\u2019Namdi INC, 2008, 15-18.<\/p>\n

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