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Office location: Allyn Building 5A
Najjar Abdul-Musawwir is a Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC) alumnus who has exhibited regionally, nationally, and internationally. He is an award-winning painter, community-arts organizer, educator and consultant. Presently, he is teaching studio/art history with the School of Art and Design and University Core Curriculum at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He is Vice President of the African-American Museum of Southern Illinois and advisor to the SIUC Muslim Student Association. Musawwir has provided art and/or consultant services to Illinois Art Council, MacArthur Foundation, Jackson County Public Housing Authority, Attucks Community Services, John A. Logan Museum, Southern Illinois Head Start, Carbondale Community Arts and other public and private institutions. He has successfully written grants to a developed and organized youth art program for over twelve years. He has spoken at colleges and universities in the United States. In 1999, the Panafest Committee invited him to exhibit and speak during the International African conference (Panafest Conference) at the University of Cape Coast and Cultural Center in Ghana, Africa. His work has been seen in Japan, Europe, Malaysia, and Saudi Arabia. He has been featured on televisionand radio, such as Chicago WTTW-TV/Carbondale WSIU-TV program, “Artists Across Illinois.”
His painting style is unique. The signatures of Musawwir’s paintings are harmonious visions of contrasting colors, flowing liquidation, and symbolic transparency. He believes the liquidation of the under painting gives balance to the glazing brush strokes in his works. Since 1989, he has created several Series: Free-Dom Series, Garment Series, Ghanian Stool Series,African Cubism Mask Series, What Lies Beneath: The Breast Cancer Series and Islamic Love Letters Series. He is also a passionate landscape painter. Several of Musawwir’s paintings and prints are in public and private collections: Dorsey Gallery of Arkansas, N’Namdi Gallery of Chicago, world-renown pianist Wilfred Delphin, Southern Illinois University Morris Library, Shawnee Community College, Meek’s Estate, Haqq’s Estate, and Maqbool’s Estate, and Kamran’s Estate.
Press Release, "Abdul Musawwir Takes Art, Experiences to Turkey."
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