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Mansa K. Mussa is a visual and performing artist, arts' educator, and arts' consultant. A native of Newark, New Jersey, he has used the camera to document the unfolding of human events for the past thirty-two years. Mussa has traveled extensively in the United States, Cuba, the Caribbean, West Africa, South Africa, and Paris, France. In March and he visited Cuba for the sixth time and documented the 10th Havana Art Bienal. He earned a BA in Media Arts/Television Production from New Jersey City University and studied visual art with Ben Jones, traditional West African dance with Rhonda C. Morman, and photography with the late Tom Reiss.
The artist is best known as a photographer of concert dance. His body of documentary work includes: The Art of Dance; Cuba Diary: A Glimpse Inside the Hidden Republic; Eyewitness: The New South Africa; Ghana: An African Portrait; Pieces of a Dream/Nu Collage; and the historic Newark, A Day In the City Photo-Documentary. Over the course of thirty-five years his art, collage, and photography have been presented in nineteen solo exhibits, including three retrospectives, and numerous national and international group exhibits. His photographs have been featured in print media, on posters, calendars, brochures, CD covers, postcards, and videos. They have also been published in several books, including the landmark Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present.
Mussa has been a photography instructor for the past twenty nine years. He currently teaches at the Newark Museum, the Boys and Girls Clubs of Newark, Arts Horizons, and the Artists Collective for Social Change, Inc. Mr. Mussa was a mentor in the ArtReach Mentoring Program at City Without Walls Gallery in Newark, New Jersey from 1993 to 2008.
The artist is preparing a book of his dance photography entitled: The Art of Dance. In 2006 he was a recipient of the Living Legends of Dance Award from the Cicely Tyson School in East Orange, New Jersey, and in 2007 he was awarded the National Service to Youth Award by the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. He is a member of the West Orange Arts Council Board of Trustees, and coordinates their ArtStop student exhibition program.
The artist is best known as a photographer of concert dance. His body of documentary work includes: The Art of Dance; Cuba Diary: A Glimpse Inside the Hidden Republic; Eyewitness: The New South Africa; Ghana: An African Portrait; Pieces of a Dream/Nu Collage; and the historic Newark, A Day In the City Photo-Documentary. Over the course of thirty-five years his art, collage, and photography have been presented in nineteen solo exhibits, including three retrospectives, and numerous national and international group exhibits. His photographs have been featured in print media, on posters, calendars, brochures, CD covers, postcards, and videos. They have also been published in several books, including the landmark Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present.
Mussa has been a photography instructor for the past twenty nine years. He currently teaches at the Newark Museum, the Boys and Girls Clubs of Newark, Arts Horizons, and the Artists Collective for Social Change, Inc. Mr. Mussa was a mentor in the ArtReach Mentoring Program at City Without Walls Gallery in Newark, New Jersey from 1993 to 2008.
The artist is preparing a book of his dance photography entitled: The Art of Dance. In 2006 he was a recipient of the Living Legends of Dance Award from the Cicely Tyson School in East Orange, New Jersey, and in 2007 he was awarded the National Service to Youth Award by the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. He is a member of the West Orange Arts Council Board of Trustees, and coordinates their ArtStop student exhibition program.
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