Arthur Coppedge has taught at the Brooklyn Museum, and the Jamaican Arts School in Kingston, Jamaica, and is the former head of Exhibitions at the New Muse Community Museum in Brooklyn.  He was appointed by Governor Mario Cuomo to serve on the Board of the New York State Council of the Humanities.  Mr. Coppedge's paintings have been exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., at the Fogg Museum in Cambridge, MA, at Brooklyn Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the High Museum in Atlanta, GA, and in many other galleries and universities.  Prominent public collections which include his paintings are the Chase Manhattan Bank, the University of Wisconsin, Brooklyn Union Gas, National Video Industries, Servo-mation Corporation, First Edition, and  Black Enterprise Magazine.