Anthony Barboza: February Art Alcove Featured Artist

Enjoy the works of Anthony Barboza in our Art Alcove for Black History Month!

Opening Reception, February 1, 12pm-2pm.

Anthony Barboza is a world-renowned African American photographer and historian who is an equally gifted artist, painter and writer. In his prolific career he has shot advertisements for giant corporations like Burger King, Coca-Cola, Coors, General Motors, Kodak, L’Oreal, Revlon and Sony, along with fashion and street photography, album art (Miles Davis, Cameo, Roberta Flack), books (Nathan McCall, X, X) and movie posters (Do The Right Thing, Mo’ Better Blues, CB4). Those works, and his personal art projects, have catapulted him to the front ranks of influential imagemakers of the last 57 years.  

 After moving from New Bedford, Mass. to New York in 1963, he was introduced to Kamoinge Workshop, a prominent collective of Black photographers.  Anthony was the group’s president from 2005-2016. 

Anthony began in commercial art in 1968,…