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Improvisational jazz as publishing method
with Yusuf Hassan
Sunday, March 23 - 3:30pm ET
What you’ll learn
In this lecture and short workshop, Yusuf Hassan, founder of Black Mass Publishing, dives into the methods and frameworks he uses to build books.
Inspired by improvisational jazz—a model Black Mass Publishing uses to produce publications swiftly—Hassan will speak to the artistic value of urgency, and how publishing can serve as a tool for communication and discovery.
About Yusuf Hassan and BlackMass Publishing
Image description: A black and white image of Yusuf sitting behind a table with his arms crossed, wearing a dark sweatshirt and baseball hat. A small framed painting hangs behind him and a stack of books, papers, and pamphlets lie on the table.
Yusuf Hassan is the founder of BlackMass Publishing. Hassan’s work explores the idea of the book his reductive technique and meditative approach challenge the physical and poetic boundaries of his materials canceling the idea of restrictions within his work allows him to analyze it with no limitations. using printed matter as a physical way of expression. Much of Hassan’s success is attributed to his unique ability to express dramatic and emotional content through publications and printmaking.
Hassan holds publications in the permanent collection of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The Langston Hughes Library, Thomas J. Watson Library, The Houghton Library, and The Whitney Museum Library.