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Connie holds a BA from Harvard College in 1979.She has also studied film st the NYU TSOA Film School (1982-1884).In 2010, Connie returned to studio art school for a Post-baccalaureate and Diploma Degrees.In 2014, Ms Sawyer earned a MFA from SMFA/Tufts University.

She began her working career in 1980 on the island of Bonaire, N.A. where she crewed on a sailboat and taught windsurfing while learning to windsurf. After this fun, yet frivolous time, Ms Sawyer moved to NYC to study filmmaking (with 16mm felilm and overnight development).Shortly thereafter, Connie had the opportunity to be a lighting production assisstant on an early HBO film.From there, Ms Sawyer became a union electrician.She worked on several Mickey Roarke films plus others.

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Connie Sawyer

My drawings reach back to childhood memories from the 60’s and early 70’s mashed with over 30 years as a landscape designer and builder. This amalgamation has created an insistent response I express by making art.

Growing up in that time meant you were suddenly bombarded by the sounds and imagery everywhere, starting with the newest entertainer and equalizer, that boxy TV that took place of honor in our living rooms. I was exposed to the horrors of the Vietnam war, while at the same time to the new expressions of art. Incredible music erupted and flowed like lava. There were images and there was color, loads of bright colors. Life Magazine’s spread of Jimi Hendrix in full blue psychedelic regalia looking very cool lined the walls of my room. When he died, I
talked to those images for hours.
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