Karita Coffey

Karita Coffey (born 1947) is a Comanche ceramist, noted especially for producing ceramic replicas of cultural items from her tribe.[2]

Karita Coffey
Tsat-Tah Mo-oh Kahn[1]
NationalityComanche Nation
EducationInstitute of American Indian Arts
Alma materUniversity of Oklahoma

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.[6]

References
  1. "Karita Coffey (Comanche) '65". Institute of American Indian Arts. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
  2. Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein (1990). American women sculptors: a history of women working in three dimensions. G.K. Hall. ISBN 978-0-8161-8732-4.
  3. "'Good Handed' - Native Peoples - September-October 2015 - Native Peoples". www.nativepeoples.com. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
  4. "Karita Coffey".
  5. 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.
  6. "National Museum of the American Indian : Item Detail". nmai.si.edu. Retrieved 4 June 2017.


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