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| Karita Coffey, IAIA Faculty |
Karita Coffey of the Comanche Nation, was born in Lawton, Oklahoma.
Coffey has been actively involved with professional art activities:
the National Advisory Board for Handmade in America, Asheville, NC;
judging art competitions for the Eiteljorg Museum's Annual Indian Market
(Indianapolis); the Santa Fe Annual Indian Market; serving an art residency
at Cameron University in Lawton, OK and this year received a Kellog/MSI
American Indian Higher Education Consortium Leadership Fellowship.
Her work is represented in various
collections: Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, NM; Heard Museum, Phoenix,
AZ; Fred Jones, Jr. Museum of Art at Oklahoma University, Norman, and
others. She has been featured in major publications.
Coffey has been teaching ceramics
at the Institute of American Indian Arts since 1987
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| “Moment of Impact”,
Lost Wax Casting Silver, 1 ¼” W. X 2” L, 2003 |
University of Oklahoma, Norman, M. Ed.
University of Oklahoma Norman, B.F.A.
"Winter Camp - Honoring the Legacy: Contemporary Expressions of
Oklahoma Tribal Art", National Cowboy Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City;
“Anticipating the Dawn", Gardiner Art Gallery, Oklahoma State
University, Stillwater and most recently "Changing Hands 2",
Museum of Arts & Design, New York City.
Featured in major publications including Who’s Who in American
Art; American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in
Three Dimensions, by Charlotte Rubinstein and Mixed Blessings,
by Lucy Lippard
"One of the greatest values of IAIA is its dynamic energy that
the many students bring to the arts curriculum through their rich and
varied experiences as Native peoples. They’ve developed new forms
of expression because of who they are. IAIA provides a safe place for
students to explore and strengthen their artistic identities. It is
a safe haven for students to really learn about themselves, as individuals
and as Native people. My intention is to help guide students in these
processes of growth and discovery."
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