This week, Jenn sits down with the incredibly skilled artist and writer Bly Pope for one of our most wide-ranging conversations yet. Bly Pope is a professional studio artist with a profound dedication and experience with hyperrealism and the classic fine art traditions. He graduated from Stanford University and received his Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Minnesota, where he has been an Adjunct Professor for over fourteen years, teaching classes in Drawing, Graphic Novel Illustration, and Artistic Interpretation from Vintage Cinema. He has also taught at The Minneapolis College of Art and Design for eight years, in Foundation: 2D, and The Interactive Visual Novel. His work has been shown and awarded in numerous exhibitions and has been purchased by The Cafesjian Museum of Fine Art in Armenia and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. His drawing, “Maryanna,” was selected to be a part of the National Portrait Competition Exhibition at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery throughout 2013-2014 and was purchased by the Minneapolis Institute of Art for their permanent collection in 2017. His work has been collected by many private collectors worldwide.

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