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Tammy Garcia
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Known for
Ceramics, Sculpture
Name
Tammy Garcia
Role
Sculptor
Born
August 27, 1969 (
1969-08-27
)
Los Angeles, California
Nationality
American (Santa Clara Pueblo)
Awards
New Mexico Governor's Awards for Excellence in the Arts (2008)
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Tammy Garcia (born August 27, 1969 in Los Angeles, California) is a Santa Clara Pueblo sculptor and Ceramic artist. Garcia translates Pueblo pottery forms and iconography into sculptures in bronze and other media.
She is a member of the Santa Clara Pueblo. She currently lives in Taos, New Mexico with family.
Tammy Garcia comes from a long line of Santa Clara Pueblo artists. Her great-great-great grandmother Sara Fina Tafoya was a potter. Her great-great aunt, Margaret Tafoya, was a noted potter of the early 20th century, along with her sister Christina Naranjo. Subsequent generations of potters in the family included Mary Cain, and Linda Cain, Tammy Garcia's mother.
At the age of 21, she was awarded first prize at the Gallup Intertribal Ceremonials, the first of many awards she has received. Starting in 1999, Garcia branched out into bronze, and now creates both ceramics and bronze sculptures.
Selected exhibitions
1987-88 Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial, Gallup, NM
1990 O'Odham Tash, Casa Grande, AZ
1990 Andrews Pueblo Pottery, Albuquerque, NM
1991 Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Arts & Crafts, Ohkay Owingeh, NM
1991-98 Gallery 10, Group Show, Scottsdale, AZ and Santa Fe, NM
1992 O'Odham Tash, Casa Grande, AZ
1992 Gallery 10, Group Show, Beverly Hills, CA and Santa Fe, NM