Sana Musasama

6 x 6 Ceramic Tile Exhibition
2014-11-02 10:00 - 2014-12-01 18:00 (America/New_York) | JVS Project Space, 176 East 106th St, 4th Flr, New York, NY, 10029, United States
Opening Reception on Sunday November 2nd, 2014
from 3-6 pm
6 x 6 Ceramic Tile Exhibition The Project Space at Julio Valdez Studio presents this opportunity concurrently with the 5th Ceramic Tile International Triennial (elit-tile), which will take place at Julio Valdez Studio, LLC. Hunter College will be the Triennial’s guest school, and its director and guest curator, artist Jeffrey Mongrain, will select the artists that will represent New York City.
A group show of ceramic tile at JVS Project Space, to be curated by artist and ceramicist, Ezequiel Taveras, will provide the opportunity for a show that will be unique for New York City and a first in the East Harlem contemporary art scene.

Whispers And Echoes
2014-10-26 10:00 - 2014-11-14 19:00 | Hunter College, Project Room, 695 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, United States
Curated by Angela Kim & Aisha Tandiwe Bell
Whispers and Echoes ExhibitionOct 26-Nov 14 “The earth carries the memories built on the back of oppressed/unrepresented people and their buried bones throughout the world. At Ma Lai, Vietnam, I walk on the site of a massacre, where the lives of hundreds of women and babies were taken in revenge. I touch the soil. At the Holocaust Museum, I look at the hundreds of pairs of eyeglasses, shoes gold-capped teeth, and briefcases and I wonder who they belonged to. In Rwanda, a young woman tells how she searched for her family at a mass burial site. I have worked in Cambodia for 8 years with young girls who were former sex slaves, wondering who enslaved them and walked the killing fields, with their fragments of what once were human beings. I have witnessed the burial of young girls who have suffered genital cutting.
Will it every stop? These works are meant to slow us down, make us look closely at our world, silence us for the moment.”
The Unknown/Unnamed, and The Unspeakable series address concerns with war, displacement, violence towards women, poverty, genocide and slavery.
Sana Musasama has traveled and exhibited extensively.Solo exhibitions include: Gallery 43, Paris, France; The Clay Art Center, Port Chester, New York; Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; Nancy Dryfloss Gallery, Union, NJ; Meta House; Phnom Penh, Cambodia; June Kelly Gallery, NYC; Robert Hudges Gallery, San Antonio, TX; Swarthmore College, PA; The Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC
Residencies include: Soaring Gardens, PA; The Clay Art Center, NY; Givat Haviva, Israel; The Cite Des Arts, France; Studio Exhibition Program at Dartmouth, NH; The European Ceramic Center, Holland; Wadastick Art Center, Mexico; La Suerate Studio; Baltimore Clay Works; The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; Tuscarora International Institute
Visitors will need to get a “guest pass” from the main entrance (next to the enormous black cube) at Hunter College on the corner of 68th St. and Lexington Ave. You may then use any entrance to reach the Thomas Hunter Project Space, located in the basement of the Thomas Hunter Building.
Visitation by appointment the weeks of October 26-November 14th also available.

My Journey/Fund Raiser
2014-09-22 10:00 - 2014-11-01 18:00 | Studio 550, 550 Elm Street, Manchester, NH, 03101, United States
Unspeakable Series and Crafts

Sana Musasama’s Unspeakable series will be on display at Studio 550 through November 2014. Her passion for the girls saved from the sex trade in Cambodia has manifested in her return trips to Cambodia to teach the girls crafts for market sale. These crafts are available for sale via Studio 550.
Studio 550 additionally will feature a fund-raiser for Ms. Musasama’s yearly trips to Cambodia.

40 and Counting: Celebrating Forty Years at the Gantt Center Through Art, Culture and Community
2014-07-10 10:00 - 2014-08-01 20:00 | The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, at Levine Center for the Arts, 551 South Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC, 28202, United States
My “Unspeakable” series will be included in this event:
Harvey B. Gantt Center-40th Anniversary Event

40 and Counting: Celebrating Forty Years at the Gantt Center Through Art, Culture and Community
Celebrate the Gantt Centers visual arts legacy with works and artifacts from exhibitions shown through the last 40 years.
John and Vivian Hewitt Collection of African American Art
One of the nation’s most important and comprehensive collections of African American Art
Selected Works of J. Eugene Grigsby, Jr.: Returning to Where the Artistic Seed Was Planted
Exhibition in memoriam of acclaimed artist J. Eugene Grigsby, Jr. PHD
Thursday, July 10, 2014 • 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Come feel the funk, with live music, heavy hors d’oeuvres and open bar!
Can you dig it?

Please RSVP by Thursday, July 3, 2014. Please use the password “Curry” to complate your RSVP. For questions, please contact Kris Cole at (704) 547-3781.

Two Different Worlds-Two Person Show
2014-06-11 10:00 - 2014-06-25 20:00 | Galerie 43, AGAAP 43, Rue de Vandrezanne 75013, Paris, France
Sana Musasama to appear in “Two Different Worlds”, a two person show at Galerie 43 (AGAAP 43) in Paris, France.

In Residence: Contemporary Artists at Dartmouth
2014-04-01 10:00 - 2014-04-30 17:00 | Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 03755, United States
Sana Musasama will participate in the residency artist series at Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire.
Reception: January 24, 2014, Friday, 4:30 PM
We would be honored if you could join us for the following public events, followed by a private dinner and after-party.
Discussion: Architect James Cutler, 4:30-5:15 PM
Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center
Award-winning architect James Cutler, artist-in-residence at Dartmouth in 2004, will discuss his work with Karol Kawiaka, Senior Lecturer in Studio Art, Dartmouth College.
Opening Party, 5:30-7:00 PM
Hood Museum of Art
Live music, hors d’oeuvres, and door prizes
Private Dinner and After-Party, 7:15 PM
Alumni Hall, Hopkins Center
You will receive a formal invitation shortly with RSVP information.
Lodging Information
For your convenience, we have reserved a block of rooms at Six South Street Hotel in downtown Hanover for a reduced rate of $179.00. www.sixsouth.com
To make a reservation, please call (603) 643-0600 and ask for the In Residence room block for the Hood Museum of Art.
The deadline for room reservations is January 3, 2014.
A valid credit card is required to guarantee the reservation.
If you have any questions regarding these events or lodging reservations, please contact me directly at 603-646-9660 or Sharon.reed@dartmouth.edu.

Conversations (ONe Woman)
2013-11-07 09:00 - 2014-01-16 17:00 | Kean University, Nancy Dryfoos Gallery, 1000 Morris Avenue, Union, 07083, United States
The work at Kean University, is an overview of Sana Musasama’s ceramic sculpture career spanning a 35-year period. She will be exhibiting 3 bodies of work, the House Series, 1978 – 1984, produced prior to graduate school at Alfred University, that speaks about the House as a universal symbol.
Her other ongoing series will be included, the UnSpeakable Series and the Unknown/UnNamed Series. The UnSpeakable Series, addresses ritual and violence in the lives of women. The Unknown/UnNamed Series is a body of work addressing mass burials genocide, war, and the destruction of our planet.
The Nancy Dryfoos Gallery is located in the Kean University Library. Exhibitions by alumni, facutly and visitingartists are featured each month. The Nancy Dryfoos Gallery fall and spring semester hours are Monday through Saturday from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM and Sunday from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM.

Reawakening: A Celebration in Clay of Nature and Renewal
2013-11-06 09:00 - 2013-12-08 19:00 | Kingsborough Community College, 2001 Oriental Boulevard, Brooklyn, NY , 11235, United States
Artists:Peter A. Davis, Bruce Dehnert, Caroline Holder, Kate Missett, Sana Musasama, Matt Nolen, Michelle Quan, Pamela Sunday, Sheryl Zacharia
Curator: Kate Missett
Exhibition: November 6 – November 29, 2013
Opening Reception: Wednesday, November 6, 2013 from 2 to 4 pm.
Extended to December 8th!!

Kingsborough Community College, Ground Floor-Arts & Sciences Building
The work at Kingsborough Community College, is an comprehensive overview of Sana Musasama’s ceramic sculpture career spanning a 25-year period. She will be exhibiting 3 bodies of work, the House Series, 1978 – 1984, produced prior to graduate school at Alfred University, that speaks about the House as a universal symbol. Her other ongoing series will be included, The UnSpeakable Series and The Unknown/UnNamed Series. The UnSpeakable Series, addresses ritual and violence in the lives of women. The Unknown/UnNamed Series is a body of work addressing mass burials genocide, war, and the destruction of our planet.

Body & Soul
2013-09-24 08:00 - 2014-03-02 17:00 | The Museum of Arts and Design, 2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY, 10019, United States
About the Exhibition

In recent years, the human figure has returned to center stage in the work of artists around the world. Body & Soul: New International Ceramics underscores the power of the figure to convey strong emotions, and also to the accessibility of the ceramic medium. Through clay the figure becomes the catalyst for addressing the emotional impact of contemporary pressures that confront our society today. Each work, inspired by a personal incident or symbolic tale, expresses a deep emotional identity, contrasting societal, political, and personal views on themes such as anxiety, bias, mortality and memory.
Sana Musasama exhibits her sculptural ceramics, the Unspeakable Series, at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York until March 2, 2014.

Convergency
2013-09-13 08:00 - 2013-10-26 17:00 | Pelham Art Center, 155 Fifth Avenue, Pelham, 10803, United States
September 13 – October 26, 2013
Opening reception and free all-ages art-making workshop: September 12, 6:30-8pm
A group exhibition of sculpture and installation by contemporary mid-career artists addressing narratives related to science and technology. Curator Jeffrey Mongrain is an artist and Head of MFA Sculpture at Hunter College in NYC.
Artists included in the exhibition are: Dylan Beck, Christie Brown, Chad Curtis, David East, Linda Ganstrom, Arthur Gonzalez, Nicholas Kripal, James Lawton, Steven Montgomery, Judy Moonelis, Sana Musasama, Matt Nolen, Denise Pelletier, Benji Schulman, Virginia Scotchie, Bobby Silverman, Neil Tetkowski, Adam Welch, and Susan York.
