Artists Louis Copt, Mike McCaffrey to give talks at Cider Gallery

The Cider Gallery, 810 Pennsylvania St., will host artist talks from Louis Copt and Mike McCaffrey from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday.

Copt is an Emporia native and longtime instructor at the Lawrence Arts Center. His work spans landscape, portrait, figurative painting, sculpture and photography. McCaffrey earned his bachelor’s degree in painting from Kansas University, and after graduate studies and traveling, returned in Lawrence in 2014 to teach painting and life drawing at KU.

The pair’s current exhibition, “The Processed Picture l Painting and Photography by Louis Copt & Michael McCaffrey,” will close its run at the Cider Gallery on April 23. Gallery hours are 1 to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday.