BlackMass is a New York-based collective and independent press promoting publishing material by Black artists and cultural producers. Guided by an improvisational process informed by jazz poetics and various Black aesthetic modalities, their books and zines place archival images and texts in affective proximity to facilitate conversation and foster community. 

Yusuf Hassan and Kwamé Sorrell, co-founders of the artist collective, will lead a critical walkthrough of the exhibition Unnamed Figures: Black Presence and Absence in the Early American North which offers a window onto Black representation and narratives of early African American history. Challenging the physical and poetic boundaries of historical materials, this tour will meditate on the past and present’s significance of the objects on view.

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