What is a cooper?
Cooper maker of barrels, minstrel, carpenter, handyman of the town or village. As you all know Cooper is a widely used word and has been recently used as first name, a car, a tire or a hockey helmet. Cooper means Barrel Maker!… It took me over thirty years to understand and embrace the Cooper name and at one point I did make a oval-shaped frame for Leonardo Di Caprio, found on my art web site at cooperartscom. In the fifth grade my teacher was creative and inspiring. He taught us how to write in a Egyptian hieroglyphic lettering font. I don’t know if this affected anyone else in the class but for me it was one of the first creative experiences that I had. Working with my hands seemed to come natural to me. Music and art interested me as a child, and to this day drive my creativity. However I had a woodshop teacher that would have a tremendous impact on my life. His name was Mr. Hublow and God bless this steadfast, maybe a little warped but kind hearted man, who is no longer with us.
