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.
Achievements
1987-1988 Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial, Gallup, New Mexico
1990 O"Odham Tash, Casa Grande, Arizona
1990 Andrews Pueblo Pottery, Albuquerque, New Mexico
1991 Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Arts & Crafts, Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico
1991-1998 Gallery 10, Group Show, Scottsdale, Arizona and Santa Fe, New Mexico
1992 O"Odham Tash, Casa Grande, Arizona
1992 Gallery 10, Group Show, Beverly Hills, California and Santa Fe, New Mexico
1993-1998 Santa Fe Indian Market, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1994–1998 Gallery 10, group shows, Scottsdale, Arizona
1995 Inter-Tribal Ceremonial, Gallup, New Mexico
1998 Blue Rain Gallery, The Harris Collection Show, Taos, New Mexico
1999–2003 Blue Rain Gallery, annual Indian Market show, Taos, New Mexico
1999–2002, 2004, 2006 Blue Rain Gallery, annual Show on the Road, various locations
2001 Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Master of Arts
2001 Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
2002 Changing Hands: Art without Reservations I, American Craft Museum, New York, New York
2003 From the States Exhibit, National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington, District of Columbia
2003 Blue Rain Gallery, 10th Anniversary Celebration, Taos, New Mexico
2004-2008 Blue Rain Gallery, annual Indian Market show, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2005 Blue Rain Gallery, Visions in Glass with Preston Singletary, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2005 "Tammy Garcia Retrospective", Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana
2007 Blue Rain Gallery, 15th Anniversary Celebration, Taos, New Mexico
2007 "New Visions: Inspired by Tradition" with Evelyn Fredericks, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2007 SOFA Chicago (Sculptural Objects and Functional Art), Blue Rain Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2008 "Beyond Tradition: The Pueblo Pottery of Tammy Garcia", National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, District of Columbia
2008 Heart of the West Art Exhibition, National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, Fort Worth, Texas
2008 Blue Rain Gallery, "Visions in Glass II" with Preston Singletary, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2008 SOFA New York (Sculptural Objects and Functional Art), Blue Rain Gallery, New York, New York
2008 SOFA Chicago (Sculptural Objects and Functional Art), Blue Rain Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2009 Los Angeles Art Show, Blue Rain Gallery, Los Angeles, California.