Bly Pope

Nicholas “Bly” Pope is a visual artist and art instructor. 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 taught at MCAD for ten years, in Foundation: 2D, and The Interactive Visual Novel. He is an experienced studio artist with a continuing interest in photorealism and traditional fine arts. 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. He has also taught advanced drawing at The Perpich Center for Arts Education for three years and worked as a substitute teacher for The Blake School, Breck School and Saint Paul Academy for three years. For over fifteen years, he has taught art and screenwriting at the Young Authors Conference to middle school and high school students.