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Jay Seven Inc. is a collaboration studio with active projects between NYC and Jerusalem, rooted in research-based initiatives that take the form of publications, programming and exhibitions.

It is run by me, Jenna Hamed, Queens-based artist and art worker. I came into practicing art in NYC through my commitments to community organizing in Southeast Michigan, where I grew up and became aware of the many injustices of our society. Through those experiences I witnessed the power of the beat of a drum; the influence of a camera lens; the widespread reach of the printed word.

Since moving to NYC 9 years ago, I have worked at a number of institutions; big and small, across several capacities: As an artist. A professor. A nonprofit employee. A business. A funder. I’ve seen many sides of what this work entails, developing a lens and framework that is Jay Seven, through which I navigate. Organizing never left me; it only adapted and shifted to the landscape of the city, where I honed in on a medium that I felt I could continue these commitments and make the biggest impact with.

While my artist projects have been housed under Jay Seven, that doesn’t mean I am the sole creator. In fact, Jay Seven can be thought of a collaborative and conceptual space between multiple minds, across various hands, working, building along the slow and steady pace of time. It exists in a vast ecosystem of brilliant artists and craftspeople across varying disciplines, to a single goal of producing a beautiful, meaningful output to share with the world.

Producing to support one another, rigor in craft and research, deep connection to process, working within constraints; these are just some of the values that Jay Seven as a studio is rooted in. It is a lifetime project that is bound to evolve and fluctuate as long as I am alive.

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19 days ago

78 years. Edition of 7 with 1 AP. $77 for sale at the Watani 77 fundraiser TONIGHT at @friendsandloversbk featuring @excentrik and @themusicofomar; with all proceeds supporting @prostheticsforpalestine

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For Watani 77’s album art direction, @kazaleh_woodworking / @excentrik designed and carved (by hand) a woodblock that depicts the number 7 in Indian numerals, or ٧٧, which I used to block print as the cover’s motif.

I used that same block to print ٧٨ which uses the same shape, but the figures for 7 and 8 are flipped vertically from one another. In the spirit of the album, the process of making these prints was improvisational and commemorative as we surpassed the 78th year of the Nakba, and as the struggle against Israeli occupation continues. It’s been much of the same story: sheer bravery in the face of catastrophe, land grab, erasure unfolding daily. by @jayseveninc

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NYC!! TONIGHT @djinnabad will be at @unnameablebooks at 7PM with @fattooshe & @j7md and at @jayseveninc tomorrow at 7PM! The full list of NYC events can be found in this carousel as well.

Letterpress prints of art from HIDDEN COMPANIONS will be available for you to take home!

Come experience and celebrate rich folklore with us through Ahmad’s wonderful body of work 🌱

#brooklynevents #indiebooks #arabculture by @jayseveninc

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2 months ago

Mondays 1–8pm, March 30–May 25
at @jayseveninc
113 South 6th St #202B Brooklyn

As part of the Common Ground exhibition series, this Reading & Listening Room stages an interactive research archive featuring a curated selection of books, music, prints and ephemera that trace the influences and making of Khalil’s collage paintings and printed works. Schedule an appointment to drop in to listen to the curated selection of his favorite artists on vinyl, and browse books and ephemera connected to the research behind the exhibition.

[RSVP link in bio]

Curated by Amina Ahmed and Jenna Hamed with the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop @efa.rbpmw, the multi-venue multi-city exhibition presents a selection of his paintings and printed works spanning six decades, employing collage and offering tribute to the scenes, sounds and syntax influential to Khalil’s visual language.

Scans by @archivereform by @jayseveninc

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4 months ago

SAVE THE DATE: OF TIME exhibition opening @ Jay Seven Inc on May 15, 2025 at 7pm. 113 South 6th St. #202B, Brooklyn.

The opening reception will include music performance by Tarik “Excentrik” Kazaleh (@excentrik). Refreshments from @Qahwah_House. RSVP required (in bio): bit.ly/of-time-opening-j7

Curated by M. Carmen Lane (@m_crmnlne), Allison Hasiba Abdallah (@allisonhasiba), OF TIME documents a simultaneous and continuous conversation of lived experience, of testimony and of place; through installation, activations and publication.

Featured artists include: Zach Hussein (@yaabuzookvisual), Abdallah Kassem (@abdallah___kassem), Tarik “Excentrik” Kazaleh (@excentrik), Rhonda Khalifeh (@rhonda_khalifeh), André + Evan Lenox-Samour (@the_real_lenoxtwins), Joe Namy (@joe_namy), Ieva Saudargaitė Douaihi (@ieva.saudargaite), Jenin Yaseen (@sr7aneh)

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Catalyzed in October 2024 at ATNSC as an attempt to mark time since the start of the genocide in Gaza, the second iteration of OF TIME at Jay Seven invites each artist to re-approach artmaking as a witness account of living on occupied land, or straddling between two.

Opening on the 77th annual observance of Al-Nakba and the Palestinian liberation struggle, OF TIME is an ever-evolving insistence on recording amidst continued attempts of erasure. Positioning the artist as archivist, they document what has greened, grown and overgrown through the constant struggle to remain rooted.

The works in OF TIME serve as a means of documentation, materializing time through compositions of sound, still and moving images, inscription, drapery, and live performance archiving. Through craft-based media and heirloom traditions, this ensemble of works propose a cartography of synchronicities—land based and ancestral.

OF TIME becomes an interlocutor for the inextricable ties between Al-Quds, Jamma’in, Asira ash-Shamaliya, Beit Lahm, Surda, Ramallah, Damascus, Beirut, Nabatieh, Deir Mimas, the Canahogue, and the Lenape Nation.

There are no borders—only interruptions to contact. The land is still speaking.

Heeding the advice of Toni Morrison, we mark, we do language. This is how we heal. by @jayseveninc

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a year ago

LINK TO VISIT IN BIO: Mother Archive exhibition: January 30-March 2, 2025. 113 south 6th st #202

Jay Seven Studio & @letramuertainc invite you to the inaugural exhibition in our new space, featuring the work of @erikamorillo.

Mother Archive materializes the image-text experience of the book by the same name, examining her family’s archive alongside her photographic practice.

Through a series of visual and textual interventions spanning Morillo’s relationship with her mother, vivid memory recollections prompt the ongoing investigation reconciling the fragments of their relationship, reconstructing her family narrative despite erasure and silence.

“I started by amassing some black-and-white studio portraits of you when you were young and analyzing you in these pictures. No single image depicts you clearly, only the accumulation of them seen as a whole. An underlying grin that never breaks into laughter, your ability to morph into someone else entirely from one minute to the next, where I become not your daughter but a stranger.” (Page 59)

This exhibition features a series of photographs and multimedia works by the artist alongside archival reproductions of her mother’s studio portraits. On the occasion of the exhibition, we will launch the collaborative artist’s book, Miel para las heridas.

“Mother Archive” (@uiowapress, 2024) will be available for viewing and sale on site through @storm_bookscandy

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Hold February 11 @7pm for a performance reading and conversation with the artist at the gallery. More programming updates to come.

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Erika Morillo is a writer and photographer born and raised in the Dominican Republic and based in Jersey City. Her work focuses on family, identity, and the possibilities of image-text publications. At the core of Morillo’s practice is an emphasis on the photobook as an art object and the usage of archives as a tool to reimagine family narratives and a case against erasure.

Letra Muerta is a studio dedicated to design, Latin American archives and workshops.

Jay Seven Studio is a new experimental studio-gallery space exploring the intersection of craft, collaboration and constraints. taken in Williamsburg Bridge by @jayseveninc

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2 years ago

Jay Seven Inc::. Studio & Gallery
113 South 6th St. #202B Brooklyn, NY
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My family has been between Brooklyn & Jerusalem for over 3 generations, from a lineage of business people, artists, problem solvers, and beyond. My work, both in its form and ethic, is an extension of who and where I come from.
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While I still insist on living in Queens, my commute to the studio via public transit back and forth will echo my journey to and from home. Like flying to and from the border, taking the microbus from Areeha to the old city, catching the 273 bus to my family’s apartment in Beit Hanina. Like taking the M train all the way to south Williamsburg. Arriving to Jerusalem/Brooklyn. Memorizing the journey til it becomes muscle memory, despite nothing about occupation feeling natural in the body.
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This past spring, I told 2 people I was ready to start my own space: a few months later, both of those people helped push me into making it happen. I could only do this because of community; in addition to consistent hard work and rootedness.
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This is a project space is dedicated to *process*; de-commodifying art as a ready-made object, and honoring the craft practice. Practice is the performance. The performance is process. Studio THEN [maybe] gallery. Definitely publishing, too.
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I’m entering 2025 telling myself it’s going to get more difficult, and preparing accordingly. The more we endure, the more we witness, the more we shed, the more we grow. This next year will be all about stewarding the ideas of my friends & people I admire, along a wall and on the page.
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So honored to be neighboring two powerhouses:
@letramuertainc: design studio, archive, library; and
@zuzustudio.nyc: hair, makeup, photography studio.
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم taken in Williamsburg Bridge by @jayseveninc

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