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Sana Rose is a mixed media artist based in the Caribbean Island of Jamaica who creates work in collage and assemblage.  She graduated from the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts (EMCVPA) in Jamaica with an Honours Diploma in Painting in 2000 and the Ohio State University in the United States with a Master of Arts Degree in Art Education in 2012.

As an arts administrator, Rose managed the National Visual Arts Programme at the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission for a number of years where she hosted and curated numerous art competitions and exhibitions; wrote for a national newspaper and planned and implemented many cultural events and training for artists. She now returns to her art practice after more than a decade in the art industry with a renewed and steady commitment to nurturing her reawakened creative spirit.  

Her work has been shown in various exhibitions in Jamaica including at the National Gallery of Jamaica and in Trinidad and Tobago.  Her work is represented in the EMCVPA and Bank of Jamaica collections as well as private collections in Canada and the United States.  She is currently the Acting Head of the Department of Art Education at the EMCVPA.