photo: Michael Wetmore 1991

Margery Coffey

ART

Sioux City Iowa

PUBLISHED ILLUSTRATIONS & WRITING

Created and produced eleven different 40-page style books ranging from children’s stories, poetry books, how-to manuals to art show catalogs for the dominate culture’s consumption.

On the Umoⁿhoⁿ [Omaha] Indian Reservation, created puzzles in the Umoⁿhoⁿ language, worked on Native Economic Development newsletter, Macy, NE and assorted Native American artworks for illustrations on local posters and newsletters in connection with Walthill Public School and Thurston County 4-H projects; coloring book for Thurston County 4-H, Walthill NE; illustrations for brochures, booklets and professional speeches in conjunction with Carl T. Curtis Health Education Center, Macy NE, graphic art, writing and editing for the Omaha Tribal Historical Research Project, Inc. and other projects.


Published in the following periodicals:

1980-1984 Check It Out, New York CARD, NYC
1980-1984 Draft Counselor’s Manual, New York CARD, NYC
1983 National CARD’s Information Service, Washington DC
1985 Spark, NYC
1985-1989 Friendly Woman, a national collective of Quaker women: Georgia, Iowa, North
Carolina, etc.
1985-1986 CCCO’s The Objector, San Francisco CA
1986 Harlan County Journal, Alma NE
1986-1989 Friend’s Journal, Philadelphia PA
1988 Checkpoint, Buffalo NY
1991 Sound News & Arts, Omaha NE
1991-1992 Women’s Journal Advocate, Lincoln NE
1992 Les Con, San Francisco CA
1998-2002 15th Street Monthly Meeting Newsletter, monthly column, NYC NY
2002 Talking Leaf, Omaha Tribal Historical Research Project, editor, Macy NE
2002 Omaha Tribal Indian Child Welfare, Omaha Tribal Historical Research Project, cover
artist, Macy NE
2002 198th Omaha Tribal He'dewachi, Omaha Tribal Historical Research Project, graphic
artist, Macy NE
2005 201st Omaha Tribal He'dewachi, Omaha Tribal Historical Research Project, co-author,
Macy NE
2006 School Picture Project, Umoⁿhoⁿ Nation Public Schools, author and graphic artist, Macy
NE

 

Books Written, Illustrated & Produced By
Black Prairie Dog Woman Studios

Of Snoodles and Sneedles
Cow and Tankard
Coffey’s Corporate Garden of Eden
Jesse, Can You Read My Lips [The Road to Jesse’s Girl]
Banned in Nebraska
Nameless Ones of the Prairie Catalog
Nameless Ones of the Prairie: Children’s Workbook on the Elderly
Nameless Ones of the Prairie: Teacher’s Guide for Children’s Workbook on the Elderly
The Wetmore-Coffey Illustrated Guide to successful Professional Silk Screen Results on an
Amateur Budget
Cry From the Cottonwoods
The Blue Elephant Book of Poetry
Listen to the Children
Umoⁿhoⁿ Iye te Ede’noⁿya? [How Do You Say in Omaha?],
Written & Illustrated by Thurman Cook,
Compiled by Margery Coffey, Michael Wetmore & richard chilton