Fine Arts Faculty

Anthony Alvarez

Pictured: a self portrait of Anthony Alvarez

Anthony Alvarez is an artist, fine arts and commercial photographer and adjunct professor. He is currently leading the Free School initiative at Express Newark, working to connect Rutgers-Newark with the community at large through a shared, socially engaged curriculum centered through a contemporary art lens focused on collaboration, co-creation, and community building. 

Anthony is the Assistant Director for SHINE Portrait Studio at Express Newark and a Newark native who still lives in Newark with his wife and daughter.  A graduate of Arts High School in Newark, he earned a BFA in Photography from Pratt Institute and an Ed. M in Adult Education with a certificate in Higher Education Teaching from Rutgers Graduate School of Education. Anthony is also a Leadership Newark Public Policy Fellow and has a certificate in creative entrepreneurship from Rutgers Business School’s Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development.

Anthony is a nationally recognized photographer whose fine art work has been exhibited in venues such as the Armory Show in NYC, Art Basel in Miami, and the Center for Fine Art Photography in Colorado and the Newark Museum of Art. Commercially, Anthony has worked on various national political campaigns, with international leaders, and Fortune 500 companies. His work has been published in Vogue, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Huffington Post, Downbeat, and Jazz Times, among others. Anthony is also a master printer who has worked with industry leading photographers retouching national advertising campaigns, and printing large scale museum exhibits as well as all the books in the Shine Portrait Studio Press.

Courses Taught

Intro to Photography
Experiments in Photography 
Problems in Art
Seminar in Contemporary Art
Figure Drawing


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