Hope Brooks
Hope Brooks, painter. Born June 22, 1944, Kingston, Jamaica. Hope is the retired Vice Principal of the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts (EMCVPA), Kingston, Jamaica—having joined the staff of the College in 1967. She has had eleven solo exhibitions and participated in many international and local group exhibitions in the past forty years. Her awards include the Institute of Jamaica Silver Musgrave Medal for contribution to the development of art in Jamaica and the Lifetime Achievement Award presented by EMCVPA in 2022. Brooks currently lives and works in Kingston, Jamaica.