Rusty Zimmerman is the Founder/Artist of the Free Portrait Project, and portrait/poster artist to former Governor Andrew Cuomo. His 200 portraits from life and recorded oral histories of Crown Heights exhibited at Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Children's Museum, and Brooklyn Borough Hall, and the permanent collection of Poster House NYC.
Zimmerman’s work has been featured in the New York Times, CityLab, and Saatchi Gallery Magazine in London, and has lectured at Wellesley and Long Island University, and offered an Ellson grant at Harvard. Zimmerman lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Photo credit: Joseph Mintz