Najjar Abdul-Musawwir Showing at The International House
Gallery Show
Najjar Abdul-Musawwir
Friday, April 15 · 5:00pm - 8:00pm
6200 s Drexel, Harriet Harris Park
Chicago, IL
Najjar Abdul-Musawwir is an internationally acclaimed artist who has exhibited extensively throughout the United States, Africa, Asia and Europe. He currently works as a tenured Associate Professor in the School of Art and Design at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. When he is not creating impressive works of art, or teaching college students; he can be found working with “dis-engaged youth” and their families helping them to discover their creative voices. Najjar’s work for the community is two-fold, it is an important aspect of his faith as a Muslim but also because it allows him to foster in others, what has helped him survive and surpass “assumed” limitations in his own life. To any and all who will listen, Najjar will say- “art saved my life.” Having been a robust artist throughout his childhood, but laying his talents to the wayside in his late teens; he reconnected with his childhood affection in his twenties when he made the decision to pursue an undergraduate and later a Master of Arts degree in Fine Arts at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Artistically Najjar’s style has been described as abstract and abstract expressionism.
His unique eye and canvas manifestations awarded him a coveted artist-in-residence with the N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Arts in Detroit, Michigan in fall of 2009.
Najjar’s academic distinctions include the Rickert Ziebold Trust Award (1992), invited by the MacAuthur Foundation as a member of Illinois artist’s advisement team (1995), and the distinguished Judge William Holmes Cook Endowed Professorship (2009).
Najjar Abdul-Musawwir Showing at The International House
Gallery Show
Najjar Abdul-Musawwir
Friday, April 15 · 5:00pm - 8:00pm
6200 s Drexel, Harriet Harris Park
Chicago, IL
Najjar Abdul-Musawwir is an internationally acclaimed artist who has exhibited extensively throughout the United States, Africa, Asia and Europe. He currently works as a tenured Associate Professor in the School of Art and Design at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. When he is [...]
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Najjar Abdul-Musawwir Showing at The International House
Gallery Show
Najjar Abdul-Musawwir
Friday, April 15 · 5:00pm - 8:00pm
6200 s Drexel, Harriet Harris Park
Chicago, IL
Najjar Abdul-Musawwir is an internationally acclaimed artist who has exhibited extensively throughout the United States, Africa, Asia and Europe. He currently works as a tenured Associate Professor in the School of Art and Design at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. When he is [...]
In Chicago This Labor Day Weekend – The African Festival of the Arts
Founded by Patrick Woodtor, the African Festival of the Arts (AFA) is an annual spectacular celebration of arts and culture from across the African Diaspora. The Festival is hosted each year by Africa International House, Inc.
2011 marks the 22nd anniversary of the Festival as a world-class destination for engaging, family fun. It is the largest [...]
FELA Live – Power Show
Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s afrobeat occupies a pivotal position in Nigeria’s musical continuum and socio-political discourse. Through Fela, a new medium of social and political criticism was unearthed for the critical mass of Nigerians in the 1970s. Although Nigeria was experiencing what would turn out to be a brief respite of oil-boom prosperity after the bitter Biafran civil war, Fela used his music to remind the society to be critical of and cautious about the military dictatorship and the impact of neocolonialism on the psyche of the Nigerian people.
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