BIOGRAPHY
Barrington Edwards is of Jamaican parentage and the first of his immediate family born in the U.S. Born and raised in Boston Ma. Barrington attended Boston Public Schools and is well acquainted with the system from the perspective of a student. He graduated from Boston Latin Academy in 1990 while it was still housed in the "big yellow monster" at 174 Ipswhich St.
He attended Hampton University in Virginia for one year then transferred to the Massachusetts College of Art where he eventually earned both a BFA in Communication Design and a MSAE in Art Education.
He has since worked vigorously in the worlds of art and design, education and community development. Barrington has worked with organizations such as Gang Peace, the Roxbury Multi- Service Center, the Jamaican Progressive Society, Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, the Gallivan Community Center and several others.
He has taught at Cathedral High, McKinley Vocational High and McKinley Middle schools in addition to several summer programs such as Exploration Intermediate Program at Wellesley College.
Barrington is currently a tenured member of the Visual Arts faculty at the Boston Arts Academy at 174 Ipswhich St.. He is a Surdna fellow awarded in 2004 to travel to Japan where he studied Japanese art and animation firsthand. Barrington and the entire visual arts department were awarded the Massachusetts College of Art and Design Award For Excellence in Art Education in 2009. He has worked as an educational consultant and is currently working as an artist, as a community activist and an entrepreneur in the field of entertainment promoting new creative venues for the arts and of course as a teacher.
Future goals for Barrington include acquiring space to be developed as affordable working studios for artists of the inner city, retail space, gallery space and space for community arts programs.
