Barrington Edwards has lived and worked in the city of Boston as an artist and community activist for over four decades. He attended Hampton University in Virginia for one year then transferred to the Massachusetts College of Art where he earned both a BFA in Communication Design and a MSAE in Art Education. He has since worked in the worlds of art and design, education and community development. He has been awarded grants and fellowships with which he developed social interventions in the forms of performance art and large scale graffiti and comics inspired work.
Barrington continues to work at connecting communities and individuals through art, scholarship and activism using any method or platform that proves to be effective. He is a Massachusetts State Universities Educator Alumni Award 2019 winner, a Surdna and an Expressing Boston fellow, a publisher of comics and graphic media and works as a freelance artist and consultant. Barrington is a member of the Boston Comics Roundtable, a co-founder of Comics in Color (an affinity group for nerds of color enthusiastic about comics and comics culture) and is active with both the Design Studio for Social Intervention and the Black Speculative Arts Movement. He currently teaches Illustration and Art Education as an associate professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in the Illustration department where he continues to help develop young artists and teachers.
