Workshop: MassQing 

In this hands-on workshop, artist Daniel Callahan will share the technique and meaning behind his practice of “MassQing,” which uses the human face as a canvas to reveal one’s inner state. Participants will engage firsthand in the conception and creation of their own MassQs. The workshop is presented in connection with Daniel Callahan: En-MassQ.

Daniel Callahan is a multimedia artist, award-winning filmmaker, and designer. Merging a legion of disciplines including painting, digital photography, film, music, writing, and performance, he works to craft immersive experiences incorporating story, ritual, and the human form to explore aspects of resilience and mysticism. He is best known for his painterly technique of MassQing, a ritual painting of the face used to reveal rather than conceal one’s inner essence. 

Callahan’s work has been featured at the Museum of Fine Arts, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, and Queens Museum, as well as in publications such as Believer Magazine, The Bay State Banner, Smithsonian Press, and Words Beats & Life: The Global Journal of Hip-Hop Culture. He holds an M.F.A. in film and video from Emerson College and a B.A.S. in fine arts and Africana studies from the University of Pennsylvania School of Design. 

This project is supported in part by a grant from the Artist’s Resource Trust.