Jeff Copus is an award-winning artist, educator, and public art producer. In 2014, he co-founded Sprocket Mural Works, a nonprofit that collaborates with neighborhoods, artists, and organizations to create vibrant community murals in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Sprocket seeks to nurture community pride and civic engagement through creative action. In 10 years, Sprocket has completed 150 murals and public art installations in the central Pennsylvania region.

As an artist, Jeff has personally created 20 murals and public art pieces around the Harrisburg area. His paintings have been displayed in galleries around the region including the Susquehanna Art Museum and the Art Association of Harrisburg. As an author, his published works include a chapter on using art as a form of resistance to address community blight and a mural how to manual.

Jeff teaches Visual Arts at Harrisburg Academy, an International Baccalaureate Continuum School. He previously taught classes at Penn State Harrisburg and York College. He received an MA in Communications from Penn State Harrisburg and a BS in Graphic Design from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. Jeff currently serves as the Vice President of Sprocket Mural Works, and he enjoys living with his wife and son in Harrisburg, PA.

I have degrees from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and Penn State Harrisburg, a BS in graphic design and an MA in communications, respectively. I have had my work exhibited in galleries in Ohio, Pittsburgh, and around the Harrisburg area.