Artist Louis Copt has been painting full-time since 1984. He received a BA in art from Emporia State University in 1971. He has also studied at the Art Student's League in New York City and has taken classes in drawing and painting at the University of Kansas.

Louis has lived and traveled in Europe. In 1991, he traveled with the Kansas Geological Survey on a 16-day re-photographic expedition through the Grand Canyon as their official artist. He has led painting workshops  to the Kansas Flint Hills, and art travel programs to Washington DC, Los Angeles and Paris, France.

This highly established Kansas artist works with oil, acrylic, pastel, and watercolor. Although his main emphasis is on landscape painting, he also does still life and portrait work. Copt also teaches classes at the Lawrence Art Center and has taught at the University of Kansas.

He is past president of the Lawrence Arts Commission, and The Lawrence Art Guild. He is a four-time winner of the Kansas Artist Postcard Series competition.  Copt has been a member of the Kansas Watercolor Society, the Kansas City Artists Coalition and the Kansas City Barbecue Society.

Copt shows regularly in galleries throughout the mid-west and is represented in many national and international corporate collections. 

 

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