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With over 30 years of combined experience in  architecture, ceramics and fine art printmaking, Pagosa Springs, Colorado, Professional Artist, D. Michael Coffee, has amassed an extensive body of original functional and sculptural ceramics, and hand-pressed “Reductive Ink   ” monoprints. 


Coffee’s ceramic experience includes teaching college and private advanced courses and workshops, extensive studio work, kiln design and construction, firing expertise, and overseas ceramic study. Coffee’s Shino, Ash and Tenmoku glazed stoneware

Chawan, Yunomi, Guinomi and Mizusashi  are highly collected by practitioners  and enthusiasts worldwide.  Coffee’s sculptural and functional ceramics are included in hundreds of prestigious public and private collections throughout the world, and have been shown in numerous solo and invitational exhibitions.


Coffee’s journey into fine art printmaking began in 1985, when he started working in acrylics, painting abstracts and figurative works on large canvases and paper. This turned into a passion for printmaking, when in 1989 he began producing monoprints, using a process that he developed and coined “Reductive Ink Printmaking   ”. Over the next several years Coffee created hundreds of hand-pressed, unique prints.


As Creative Director for SHY RABBIT Contemporary Arts in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, Coffee is responsible for organizing and curating 4-6 exhibitions a year, operating a ceramic and print gallery, and teaching year-round ceramic and “Reductive Ink Printmaking  ” workshops. Coffee is known for his easy teaching manner, and for his ability to inspire creativity in his students.

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