Tammy Garcia is a Santa Clara Pueblo sculptor and Ceramic artist.
Career
Garcia translates Pueblo pottery forms and iconography into sculptures in bronze and other media. 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.
Subsequent generations of potters in the family included Mary Cain, and Linda Cain, Tammy Garcia"s mother. Starting in 1999, Garcia branched out into bronze, and now creates both ceramics and bronze sculptures.
1987-1988 Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial, Gallup, New Mexico.