Karita Coffey

Karita Coffey (born 1947) is a Comanche ceramist, noted especially for producing ceramic replicas of traditional craft objects.[1] She lived in Lawton, Oklahoma before beginning her artistic training at the Institute of American Indian Arts.[2] She received her graduate degree from the University of Oklahoma and later taught at the Institute[1] for many years before retiring to work on her sculpture.[2] Coffey's work is informed by aspects of African art and the art of the Australian Aborigines as well as by her own heritage.[3] Her work is represented in the collection of the National Museum of the American Indian.[4]

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


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