Mixed Media artist focused on painting and graphic arts.
I’m a young content creator, I’ve been creating music and videos for 5 years. I really love my passion for art and the beauty of art is what drives me!
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Saz Ross Workshop Reel
In this video, you will see snapshots of workshops and speaking engagements (virtual and in person) from the last two years.
Year: 2020-2022
Details: A glimpse of Saz in action
Carolyn DiFiori Hopkins received her M.F.A. as well as her M.A. from the State University of New York at Albany in cross-disciplinary art and painting. She completed her undergraduate studio studies at the Philadelphia College of Art (University of the Arts) earning her BA in art and education from Rutgers University. She has many years of experience teaching at the State University of New York at Albany, the Atelier in Albany, the Art School of Columbia County in New York State, the Arts of Southern New Jersey, and Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA.
Lost my son through gun violence 2019. My life never been the same. I started attending a group Mother of Murder Sons weekly. I started out with mosaic & weaving on sticks. The group stopped. I started coloring books, than I decided to teach myself how to paint on canvas. I also decorated sticks, anything that I can turn into some kind of art I did. Whenever I do art I would tell my son let's do this make a beautiful piece of art and we did.
Having been heavily exposed to music and the arts since early childhood, I am so grateful for my late mother who initiated my formal musical training in elementary school with piano lessons, but drums and percussion became a greater calling. My private instructor trained me as a Jazz drummer. The school band teacher required me to study Jazz, Symphonic and Pop music. The early 80's for me were filled with the sounds of Art Blakey, Coltrane, Mingus, Run DMC, Man Parrish, Fela Akuti, Stevie Wonder, Dennis Brown, Gregory Isaacs, Terry T. and B.B.