Anthony Nowack
I’m a photographer and conceptual artist from Pottstown, PA. My work ranges from photographing presidents and rockstars, to creating elaborate and thought provoking conceptual art photography. For the last two years, I’ve been exploring still life photography through the language of flowers. Flowers have always been very important symbolically to all human societies. Studying their role in shaping our stories and imagery has been invaluable in influencing my work since. In addition to my own work, I organize a local artist group called “Artist Society” that works to connect local artists for collaboration and networking.
Buddy Guy
"Contrary to what some people believe, the blues is not “slave music.” Although it was cultivated by the descendants of slaves, the blues was the expression of freed African Americans. The Great Migration directly influenced the blues’ many evolutions. As Black people moved from the South to northern cities, the music reflected the new urban terrain in which the people set up communities...
The beginnings of the blues can be traced to the late 1860s, arguably the most vicious and violent period in the United States. Vigilante justice was at an all-time high, and by 1889, the lynching of African Americans surged dramatically. The bluesman and blueswoman emerged in this difficult period, along with the stories of folk heroes translated to song and the new venues in which the music would be performed. The blues did not speak of the life of the enslaved but of the experiences of freed men and women during the periods of Reconstruction and Jim Crow. It spoke of cotton bales/gins, boll weevil, juke houses, and sharecropping."
Lamont Pearley, Sr
African-American Intellectual History Society
aaihs.org
Photography
Un-Augural
$500
People Like You
My father was a carpenter,an alcoholic and drug addict. Like many blue collar workers of his generation, betrayed by the failure of hippie ideals. He fell victim to the lure of right-wing media that told him that he wasn’t to blame for not being successful. It was immigrants, minority groups, homosexuals. Everyone with less power than him were holding him down. This quote is something he said to me long before Trump came to power. But it was a sign of what was to come as more and more people looked for someone to blame.
$1,000
RIOT!
The Jan 6th 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol Building made me feel something I don’t think I had experienced before. Sympathy for police officers.
This work embodies the spirit of the Third Wave Romantic movement to me. Empathy, Humanity, Determination.
Empathy for those tricked into believing THEY were the patriots. Humanity of the divisions that created this tragedy. Determination to never let it happen again.
$1,000/mo
Who Watches The Watchmen?
Across the parking lot, the building you see houses the Pottstown Police Department. Body cameras and citizens with cell phones have been a focus of police accountability, but lately police departments have been using citizens doorbell cameras to monitor neighborhoods and gather evidence. In a world of constant video surveilance, who watches?
The quote you see above is in the original Latin from the Roman poet Juvenal.