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The Hays Arts
Council
proudly presents
Renewal: Kansas
Prairie
paintings by
Louis
Copt
2011 Kansas Governor’s Artist
with Copt’s
Flint Hills documentary
“Prairie on Fire”
featuring the original music of Kelly Hunt
March 11 – April 21, 2011
presented in collaboration with
Kyle Garcia, Phoenix Gallery, Topeka
~ opening reception
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Friday, March 11 ~ 7 to
9pm
Hays Arts Center, 112 E. 11th, Hays, Ks
made possible
through the “American Masterpieces” program
of the Kansas Arts Commission and
transportation support from Auto World, Hays
Click any image to enlarge
Louis Copt
~ 2011 Kansas Governor’s Arts Award
Recipient
Louis Copt is a landscape
painter, teacher, and community volunteer.
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 been painting full-time since since
1984, is an active exhibitor of his work
nationwide and serves as a painting
instructor at the Lawrence Arts Center. 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.
He is known primarily for his
paintings of the Flint Hills and prairie
fires, but is also well versed in figurative
and still-life traditions. While his work is
representational, his style is elemental and
rooted in abstract composition. He is also
active as an arts advocate and educator,
mentoring students within a community
education environment and taking the
initiative to facilitate exhibitions of his
students work throughout the area and the
United States. Louis shows regularly in
galleries throughout the mid-west, has
participated in a number of national juried
shows, and his work
is collected by people throughout the
world.
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