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This award-winning tile,
“Corn Maidens,” is the work of Jason Garcia from Santa
Clara Pueblo. It measures 8.25” tall and 13” long.
Jason is the son of noted
potters Gloria Garcia (Goldenrod) and John Garcia. His early
ceramics work focused primarily on figures and capturing Pueblo
dances and activities in clay.
“I learned by watching
and learning from my parents and other family members, including
my aunts and grandmothers.” His work on tile, creating “two
dimensional images on a three dimensional surface, was inspired
by the late Pablita Velarde’s mineral paintings on masonite.”
As he was also interested
in photography and drawing, the figures were certainly a way
of giving form to his vision of the world around him. A few years
ago, he began making clay tiles on which he painted Pueblo dancers
and dances in the traditional two-dimensional painting style
of Santa Clara.
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