Art Fair Off the Square Artists’ Awards Judge
Terrence Coffman is an accomplished artist, author, musician/songwriter, and an internationally recognized leader in art education.
He studied at the Corcoran College of Art
and Design, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and has been the recipient of two Ford Foundation grants.
He has received citations from U.S. Senator Herbert Kohl and Former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson for his dedication to the visual arts and education in Wisconsin. In 1995, President Clinton invited Coffman to
the White House to attend the prestigious National Medal of Arts awards ceremony.
That same year, he was awarded a fellowship at the Lacoste School of Art in France where he taught and conducted research for his novel on Vincent van Gogh, “A Walk Through the Wheatfields.”
Coffman’s work has received several awards and has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions, including shows at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Lee Nordness Gallery in New York, the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Tory Folliard Gallery located in the Historic Third Ward of Milwaukee. He was also a professor as well as President of the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design from 1983–2007.
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