Jennifer Michelle Long was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1988. In the earliest years of her life, she lived in Los Altos, California where many of her earliest memories were of her drawing. In 1994 she moved to Salt Lake City, Utah. Growing up in Utah, she consistently studied art through out her adolescence, and in 2006 began studying oil painting with BYU art professor Sydney Bowman. In 2006-2007 she began taking independent college art courses with Sydney. In 2008, she received a scholarship to The Academy of Art University in San Francisco where...more