Current Position

Artist-in-Residence
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD), Milwaukee, WI, January 2004 to present

Participate locally and nationally as an active professional painter, writer, musician and
teaching, advising and critiquing BFA candidates.

Administrative Background

President, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD), Milwaukee, WI
September 1983 to December 2003

Responsible for the administration of the college: develop and implement college
budgets, oversee academic and long-range policy planning, hire personnel, design
and implement programs, initiate and develop dialogue and agreements with
institutions of higher education, coordinate, develop and update reports and planning
documents, self studies and requirements of state, professional and regional
accrediting agencies. Coordination of the college's affairs with the Board of Trustees.
Such affairs include fund-raising, grant and gift giving, facility additions and/or
changes, budget decisions, legal affairs and general service to the Trustees, faculty,
staff and students. Representation of the college before the public, private industries
and special interest groups

President, Maryland College of Art and Design, Silver Spring, Maryland, 1974 to 1983

Presidential responsibilities same as above.

Dean, Maryland College of Art and Design, Silver Spring, Maryland,1973 to 1978

Served as both president and dean from 1974 to 1978. Responsible for and to faculty,
students and staff. As dean, responsibilities included recruitment of faculty and
students, academic policy and program development, class scheduling, faculty
committee coordination, budget preparation and implementation, and general
coordination and development of faculty, staff and students.

Teaching Experience

Artist-in-Residence, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, 2004-present

Fellowship artist/teacher, Lacoste School of Art, Provence, France, 1995
Professor, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, 1983-present
Taught Foundations drawing.

Professor, Maryland College of Art and Design, 1976-1983
Taught advanced drawing, advanced painting, watercolor and independent projects.

Associate Professor, Maryland College of Art and Design,1970 to 1976
Taught painting I through advanced, drawing I through advanced, painting,
watercolor and independent

Instructor, Maryland College of Art and Design, 1970 to 1973

Instructor, Smithsonian Institute Associate Program, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1970 to 1973

Education

Corcoran College of Art and Design, 1963 to 1967

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 1966
faculty included Elmer Bischoff, Richard Linder and Larry Rivers

Honors and Awards

1969 to present: Approximately 20 awards in painting and watercolor (including best in
shows and first places in national competitions)

1966, 1967 Ford Foundation Grant

1966 Skowhegan School Scholarship

1987 City of Milwaukee Art commission Annual Award

2000 Milwaukee Historic Third Ward Association Award.

2001 The Greater Milwaukee Foundation Frank Kirkpatrick Award

2004 The Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities Recognition
of Distinguished Service to the Advancement of Private Higher Education

2004 Southeastern Wisconsin Information Technology Exchange Achievement award

Present Professional Affiliations

Evaluator Chair: The National Association of schools of Art and Design (NASAD)
Member: Education and Program Committee, Milwaukee Art Museum
Member: The Milwaukee Public Art Committee

Past Professional Affiliations

President: Art College Exchange (ACE)
Board Member: Milwaukee Artist Foundation
Board Member: Friends of Art, Milwaukee art Museum
Board Member: Historic Third Ward Association
Member: Milwaukee Rotary
Board Member: Friends of Boerner Botanical Gardens
Chairman: Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD)
Board Member: Milwaukee Mandolin Orchestra
Board Member: University School of Milwaukee
Evaluator: The National Association of schools of Art and Design (NASAD)
Board Member: The Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD)
Board Member: Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (WAICU)
Board Member: The National Association of schools of Art and Design (NASAD)

Juroring

Juror: Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown Maryland, 1978
Juror: Milwaukee International Airport Selected Dennis Oppenheim 2001
Juror: Milwaukee Art Museum, Lakefront Festival of the Arts 2004
Juror: Wisconsin Visual Art Lifetime Achievement Award 2004

Professional Artist's Experience

Art Critics Statement

Dean Jensen, art dealer and former art critic for the Milwaukee Sentinel recently stated:

"Coffman's watercolors are riveting because of all the alchemy he can perform with
mere colored water."

James Auer, art critic for The Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel has written:

"The work is almost ethereally sensual. Great juicy swaths of oil paint repose in close
proximity to each other, with only the barest links to the landscape.

Pollock, Rothko, DeKooning, Reinhardt - these are names that come to mind. Yet this is
artmaking from the gut rather than from the history books.

Spontaneity rather than calculation seems to dominate the gallery's walls. Yet the work
is consistently balanced. In an era when film and video get most of the headlines,
Coffman has returned to pure painting.

Indeed, the newest - and largest - works being shown tend to dispense with the horizon
entirely. Coffman obviously has set sail in a new direction, into unfettered abstraction."

Collections and Commissions

o International Business Machines (IBM), Rockville, Maryland
o Federal Home Mortgage Corporation, Washington, DC
o Guarantee Bank of Virginia, Fairfax, Virginia
o General Electric Company, Rockville, Maryland
o Joseph Califano and Associates, Washington, DC
o Joseph Hennage, Chevy Chase, Maryland
o National Trucker's Association, Capitol Hill, Washington, DC
o Grady Management Company, Montgomery County, Maryland
o Montgomery County Maryland Collections, Rockville, Maryland
o Jane Pettit, Milwaukee Wisconsin
o Andrae Electric Collection, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
o Philip Orth Collection, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
o Arthur Anderson Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
o Milwaukee Country Club, Milwaukee, Wisconsino Fred and Ann Vogel, River Hills, Wisconsin
o Wyndham Hotel, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
o Cincinnati Bell, Cincinnati, Ohio
o Johnson Foundation/ Johnson Bank, Racine, Wisconsin
o Grunfeld Collection, Washington, Washington DC
o Watts Collection, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
o Elaine Marshall Collection, River Hills, Wisconsin

Reviews

o Washington Post and Washington Star Newspapers 1966-1972
o Baltimore Sun 1978
o Milwaukee Journal 1986-2004
o Porcupine Literary Magazine 2003

Exhibitions

1965 St. Stephen's Annual Washington, Competition Show, Washington, DC

1966 The Corcoran Gallery of Art Bi-Annual Exhibition

1967 Woodward & Lothrop Group show selected Corcoran students, Washington, D.C.

1969 Holton Arm's School, "Coffman" , One-person exhibit, Bethesda, MD

Lee Nordness Gallery, Group show, New York, NY

Maret School, Group show, Washington, DC

1970 Sculpture House Gallery, Group Show Kensington, MD

1971 Rockville Civic Center Gallery, "Coffman", One-person exhibit, Rockville, MD

Montgomery College, "Printmaker's", Group Show, Rockville, MD

Sculpture House Gallery, Group Show, Kensington, MD

1972 Washington Theater Club, Two-person exhibit, Washington, DC

University of Virginia, Group Show, Petersburg, VA.

1974 Gudelsky Gallery, "Coffman", One-person show, Rockville, MD

Montgomery College, Group show, Rockville, MD

1975 Town Mall Gallery, "Coffman", One-person show, Rockville, MD

1976 Maryland College of Art and Design, Faculty Exhibition, Silver Spring, MD

1977 Montgomery College, "Art on Paper", Group ShowRockville, MD

1978 Baltimore Museum, "5 Ways of Seeing, Personal Realties", Baltimore, MD

Salisbury State College, Group exhibition, Five-person traveling show, Maryland State

Maryland College of Art and Design, "Skowhegan Invitational", Group exhibit, Silver
Spring, MD

1979 University of Maryland, Five-person traveling show, Baltimore, Md.

Goodwin Gallery, One-person show, Frederick, MD

1980 Gudelsky Gallery, "Coffman", One-person exhibit, Washington, DC

1981 Bill Goodwin Gallery, Gallery artist's exhibition, Frederick, MD

Gambrill, Maryland, 2nd Annual two-man show, Gambrill Park, MD

Open Studio, One-man exhibition, Frederick, MD

1982 Goodwin Gallery, One-person show, Frederick, MD

Quill & Brush Gallery, One-person show, Bethesda, MD

1983 Capricorn Gallery, Group Show, Bethesda, Md.

1984 MIAD Gallery, Faculty Show, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, WI

1986 Frederick Layton Gallery, "Recent Watercolors", Milwaukee, WI

1987 Milwaukee Art Museum, Cudahy Gallery, "On Wisconsin"Invitational, Milwaukee, WI

West Bend Gallery of Fine Arts, Three-person show, West Bend, WI

1988 Realist Exhibition, Katie Gingrass Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

1989 "Recent Works", One-person show, Posner Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

1991 "New Watercolors", Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

1994 "RECENT Watercolors", Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

1997 "ARLES TO AUVERS", One-person show Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

1999 "RECENT PHOTOGRAPHS", Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

2001 "NEW LANDSCAPES, One-person show, Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

2003 "LANDSCAPES: "County Line Road", One-person show, Folliard Gallery,
Milwaukee, WI

Art Chicago 2003, Navy Pier Art exposition, Chicago, IL.

2004 Palm Beach Contemporary, The International Contemporary Art & Design Fair
Palm Beach, Florida

Current Gallery Representation

1993- present Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

2004- present Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, WI

Publications

A Walk Through the Wheatfields: The Missing Journals of Vincent van Gogh, a fictional
novel published 2003 by Vantage Press 516 West 34th Street, New York, New York.