JOSEPH FORBES

Joe Forbes has been a professional Scenic 
Artist working in New York for more than 
20 years. He attended the University of 
North Carolina, and after graduating with a 
degree in Theatrical Design, studied with 
Lester Polakov in New York. He became a 
member of United Scenic Artists Local 829 
in 1979

Joe  has worked in Theater, Ballet, Film, 
and Television.  In 1994 he founded Scenic
Art Studios which has become one of the 
premier scene painting studios for
Broadway musicals including The 
Producers, Hairspray, 42nd Street. Aida, 
Beauty and the Beast, and Little Shop of 
Horrors.

In 2003, he formed 
The Studio and Forum of Scenic Arts to 
help teach the art of Scene Painting to a 
new generation of theatrical artists.