Who is Anthony?
Anthony Freda is an artist, educator, advocate and digital designer whose passion for peace and human dignity guides every creative endeavor. His award-winning and often provocative illustration work has graced the pages of Time, The New Yorker, and the Op-Ed page of the New York Times. These periodicals comprise a small fraction of Freda’s luminary client list of a career spanning four decades. During his tenure as President of Redline Inc. the business he co-founded, he presided as creative art director for national advertising campaigns for Fortune 100 companies.
One of Freda’s original works is currently part of the permanent collection of the National September 11th Museum and Memorial in Manhattan. He is also a founding board member of Occupy Peace and dedicates much of his time to the anti-war movement, pro-bono.
Freda owns and curates Star Gallery NYC, a contemporary art gallery which represents 40 International artists.
Freda currently contributes art to mainstream and alternative media. He also proudly teaches undergraduate and graduate illustration classes as a permanent faculty-member of the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York.