ABNER COPE spent thirty years teaching drawing and painting at Central State University in Wilberforce, OH, where he was an Associate Professor in the Art Department. During that time Mr. Cope also taught in the Art Departments of the University of Dayton, and Sinclair Community College, in Dayton, OH, and Clark State University, in Springfield, OH. He received his Master of Fine Arts degree (1980) from Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI, with a major in drawing. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree (1974) from Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, where he majored in painting and minored in printmaking.