Claire Pope

• MFA, Studio Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
• M.A., Art History, University of Kentucky
• B.A., Studio Art, Berry College Rome

Claire Pope is the assistant art professor and visual art program coordinator at Lenoir-Rhyne.

Pope's work explores the notion of ecstatic quietude and the emotion of wonderment found in nature during the Anthropocene Age and the evolution into the post-human. She has a background in wandering, wondering, collecting, making, destroying and re-making.

She has shown her artwork nationally and internationally, including the Mint Museum Uptown, North Carolina Botanical Garden, Zhou B Art Center, Carrie Secrist Gallery and the Ionion Center for Arts and Culture Kefalonia Island, Greece. She is the recipient of the regional artist project grant from the United Arts Council.