Karita Coffey
Karita Coffey | |
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Tsat-Tah Mo-oh Kahn[1] | |
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| Nationality | Comanche Nation |
| Education | Institute of American Indian Arts |
| Alma mater | University of Oklahoma |
Karita Coffey (born 1947) is a Comanche ceramist, noted especially for producing ceramic versions of cultural items from her tribe, in addition to ceramic vessels.[2]
Background and education
Karita Coffey's Comanche name was Tsat-Tah Mo-oh Kahn, which translates to "Good-Handed."[1] Coffey lived in Lawton, Oklahoma, before beginning her artistic training at the Institute of American Indian Arts[3] when it was still a high school. She earned her bachelors of fine arts and graduate degree from the University of Oklahoma.[4]
Career
Karita later taught at IAIA[2] for 25 years before retiring in 2015 to work on her sculpture.[3]
Coffey's work is informed by aspects of African art and the art of the Australian Aborigines as well as by her own heritage.[5]
Public collections
Her work is represented in the collection of the National Museum of the American Indian, which holds four works by Coffey. The works were created between 1970-71 and were initially purchased by the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, then transferred to the National Museum of the American Indian in 1985.[6][7] Coffey's work is also in collections of the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, the Millicent Rogers Museum, the Heard Museum, and the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts.
References
- ^ a b "Karita Coffey (Comanche) '65". Institute of American Indian Arts. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
- ^ a b Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein (1990). American women sculptors: a history of women working in three dimensions. G.K. Hall. ISBN 978-0-8161-8732-4.
- ^ a b "'Good Handed' - Native Peoples - September-October 2015 - Native Peoples". www.nativepeoples.com. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
- ^ "Karita Coffey".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Debi Berrow (1987). Florilegia: A Retrospective of Calyx, a Journal of Art and Literature by Women, 1976-1986. Calyx Books. pp. 228–. ISBN 978-0-934971-06-5.
- ^ "National Museum of the American Indian : Item Detail". nmai.si.edu. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
- ^ "Record Wall hanging | Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution". collections.si.edu. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
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