Hope Z.

Hope Z. was born into an artistic family in the Catskill Mountains of Woodstock, New York; her father was a painter, and her mother was a sculptor and fine artist. Her grandfather, a world-famous classical pianist and professor at the renowned Juilliard School, introduced Hope to famous painters’ work at the museums in New York City and surrounded her with the music of Mozart, Bach, and Rachmaninoff.

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Hope started drawing, painting, and experimenting with color at the age of seven, and later studied sculpting, pottery, painting, drawing, and Japanese calligraphy art. She excelled in art classes through high school and when attending The Juilliard School in New York City.