Yasser Musa

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Yasser Musa
Born (1970-07-17) 17 July 1970 (age 52)
Belize City, British Honduras
(now Belize)
Occupation(s)Teacher, Visual Artist, Poet, Publisher
Known forLandings, The Belize City Poem, Zero, New Belizean Art, Container Collection
Website www.yassermusa.com

Yasser Musa (born 17 July 1970) is a Belizean visual artist, teacher, poet and publisher. [1]

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Background

The son of former Belizean Prime Minister Said Musa, Yasser Musa was born in Belize City. He was educated in Belize City at St. John's College Junior College. After he graduated in 1989, he debuted with a collection called poems. In 1992, along with Belizean musician and now owner of Belize's most successful record company Stonetree Records, Ivan Duran, Musa presented Minus 8. It featured multimedia pieces and was the first of its kind in Belize. He went on to study at a university in New Orleans. There in 1995 he presented his first solo visual art exhibit, Coming Out, with 50 paintings.

In 1995, Yasser Musa developed the Image Factory Art Foundation. The Art Foundation features a gallery which hosts exhibits from local, regional and international artists. The Factory, as most people call it, is located on 91 North Front Street in Belize City, and has functioned as a space for workshops, classes, residencies and exhibits. [2]

landings

The Minus series would later go counting down to a major international exhibit ZERO, new Belizean art which opened in the Olimpo in Mérida Yucatán, to a large crowd and would eventually garner 17,000 visitors. [3] landings was a series of exhibits, ten in all, which featured artists from the Caribbean and Central America. The exhibits mostly featured installation and photography. Each exhibit was launched with a forum for artists and audience to discuss the current situation of contemporary art in the region. Yasser Musa along with landings curator Joan Duran, editors Tristan Donald and Marisol Rodriguez at the close of the last exhibit began the vigorous work of the CONTAINER Collection, the first of a series of 10 manifested as a 400-page book. [4] [5] On September 6, 2013, along with Joan Duran and Kency Cornejo, Musa launched the CONTAINER Collection 001. The last landings presentation was in 2010. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]

Exhibitions

Musa has participated in several exhibitions both individually and collectively. He has exhibited in Belize, Cuba, México, Taiwan, Costa Rica, Portugal, Spain, the Dominican Republic and the United States.

Poetry

Yasser Musa has published works of poetry:

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  2. ↑ Yasser Musa, artist info, http://www.yassermusa.com/artist-info.html. Stonetree Records, Ten Years of Stonetree, http://www.stonetreerecords.com/office/ten_years_of_stonetree.php. 7 News Belize, Image Factory @ 10, September 2, 2005, http://www.7newsbelize.com/sstory.php?nid=7032&frmsrch=1
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  4. ↑ 7 News Belize, Image Factory Launches Art Book, September 6, 2013, http://www.7newsbelize.com/sstory.php?nid=26495
  5. ↑ Great Belize Television 5 News, Landings Arrives on the Belizean Artistic Landscape, 6 September 2013, http://edition.channel5belize.com/archives/90123
  6. ↑ News 5, "Landings Arrives on the Belizean Artistic Landscape", Great Belize Television News 5, September 6, 2013, http://edition.channel5belize.com/archives/90123
  7. ↑ 7 News Belize, "Image Factory Launches Art Book", September 6, 2013, http://www.7newsbelize.com/sstory.php?nid=26495&frmsrch=1
  8. ↑ Museo de Arte Contemporaneo,"Landings Big Book by Johnathan Cu pt.1", August 30, 2013, http://www.macay.org/radio/podcast/150/landings-big-book-y-jonathan-cu-pt-1
  9. ↑ Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, "Landings Big Book by Johnathan Cu pt. 2", August 30, 2013, http://www.macay.org/radio/podcast/149/landings-big-book-y-jonathan-cu-pt-2
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  16. ↑ 7 News Belize, "Landings 9 Landed", August 29, 2008, http://www.7newsbelize.com/sstory.php?nid=12071&frmsrch=1
  17. ↑ News 5,"Art exhibition at O.A.S features Central Americans", Great Belize Productions, July 23, 2007,http://edition.channel5belize.com/archives/6694
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  19. ↑ 7 News Belize, "Edgy Belizean Contemporary Art in Mérida", January 31, 2006, http://www.7newsbelize.com/sstory.php?nid=5200&frmsrch=1
  20. ↑ Duran, Joan. List of Exhibitions, landings 10,five-o-one art projects,http://www.landingsproject.com/,
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  1. http://www.yassermusa.com/artist-info.html
  2. http://www.yassermusa.com/writing.html
  3. http://www.postlandings.com
  4. http://www.imagefactorybelize.com
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