“Artists are simply those who have made a profession and lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.”
From Joseph Campbell's The Power of Myth
PAINTING ALONGSIDE OF TERRY CLASSES
Applications for a small number of artists or aspiring artists who wish to paint with Terry in his studio during the month of May or August are now being accepted. Terry Coffman will teach and critique your work on either Monday or Saturday sessions during the month. You can even split those sessions to make it more convenient to your schedule. Working side by side with Terry you will work together to enhance your style and abilities. Terry will assist you in watercolor, oils or acrylic media.
Painting with Terry Coffman is a unique opportunity to work with and alongside one of Wisconsin's leading artists.
THE COACHING PROGRAM
Art Coaching provides you with guidance and tools to develop your artistic talent. Whether it is painting in oils, watercolor, mixed media or acrylics you will enhance your abilities and creativity. The program also provides an opportunity to explore career development as well as living your life in a state of bliss.
You learn to paint more effectively with greater freedom, spontaneity, ease, and skill.
In individual coaching sessions with Terry, you will tailor your learning needs, painting direction and creative skills. Terry will also assist you as you define your career aspirations and professional acumen.
Your coaching sessions are designed to accomplish specific projects you have chosen, allowing you to create and implement a level of mastery beyond your present expertise and knowledge.
Your increased creativity, effectiveness and productivity are translated into unprecedented levels of measurable results and achievements.
Painting and art coaching clients include beginners, established artists, practicing professionals, art educators and connoisseurs of art.
What You Can Expect
Art Coaching inspires you to:
Accurately assess your current needs, issues and realities, and clarify your commitments beyond your current level of achievement.
Design an innovative and sustainable initiative appropriate for accomplishing and sustaining your artistic and professional objectives.
Incorporate 40 successful strategies to achieve your career pursuits
Dissolve Fears & Limiting Beliefs
Increase Self-Expression
Achieve Peak Performance
Individual Art Coaching Sessions
Comments from past students of Terry Coffman
Deane Nesbitt, Painter says, "His enthusiasm and passion both for making art and teaching it was contagious among faculty and students. For Terry everything and anything in life is grist for making art. He encourages constant risk-taking and experimentation. His sense of wonder, joy and faith in the creative process itself and what it can achieve has opened doors for even the least confident and most self-doubting students."
Cammy Draheim, a watercolor artist states, There are 2 kinds of teachers. The first teaches rules, just doing their jobs. Terry Coffman is the second kind. He is passionate about art. He inspires you to ask more questions. With Terry, I feel safe to make mistakes, which actually helps the painting become more unique. The questions I ask are never dumb to him. My confidence came only after his sensible yet not harsh critiques. I am not a "master painter". I do see things in a different way as I put it on paper. And when in my "zone" of painting, my world is not so dark. It is filled with a palette of colors that would not have been there without Terry as my teacher and mentor.
Terry Coffman was my very first painting teacher. I had no idea then how much he would impact my life as an artist, but over the years, I have found myself reflecting on his valuable lessons and ways to approach drawing and painting. Terry recognizes and respects each student's unique ability and personally works with them to develop what they do best. He ignited in me a passion for painting and to approach the canvas without fear. I think the most valuable lesson I learned from Terry was to allow myself to be vulnerable - to go ahead - make the first mark! After all, it's only paint....!
Deb Rolig www.roligart.com
Terry has been a very positive influence in growing my career as an artist. Several years ago I was privileged to be juried into his advanced painting class at MIAD. In this small class of 6 or 8 we each were given individual direction. Terry helped me see new approaches and the freedom to expand my style with techniques that I continue to use today. My career has really grown. I had my first one-man show last fall at a gallery in downtown Milwaukee. Five pieces were sold. Terry continues to be a great mentor for me.
Michael Casey
July 8, 2009
Will Fry says: I've never felt more alive -more in tune with what it means to be an artist- than in the presence of Terrence Coffman; he molds capriciousness into a physicality. Terry's class is what kept me sane during a year long melt down, and it was Terry himself that kept me grounded. Focused. "Translate this to art." I became a fiend under Terry: life amounted to a paint bucket and a canvas and if I was deprived of that conversation I'd shrivel away. But Terry himself never got in the way, never said anything to hinder me, never made me stop, and so I worked harder and harder, not for him, but for myself. In many ways it was that experience that defined my college education, and, truly, my transformation into an artist: to have that drive, that lust for the paint, to be able to just paint and comprehend it in real terms. That's what makes Terry a great teacher; he is a thoughtful, compassionate human being first. He understands you and translates that to productivity. If you have that drive, that passion, Terry will bring it out past the point of exhaustion. That's when, when your finally drained, tapped, he'll pull you away and help you understand what just happened.
I am now an active artist, poet, and writer in Madison, WI. I received my BFA at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design majoring in Painting with a minor in Writing in 2008.
Coaching sessions are scheduled to support and forward your current and future objectives. Total cost $300.00
Coaching can takes place in your studio or at the Center Avenue Studio in Jefferson WI and includes four sessions of personal coaching during each three-month development period.
One Preliminary Art Coaching Assessment Session (two hours)
Three Individual Art Coaching and Critique Sessions
(approximately one and a quarter hours)
To enroll in Coaching call Terry at (920) 674-4674
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