Jessie Garcia, Jessue C. Garcia

BIOGRAPHY

Jessie Garcia was a Native American potter known for coil pots, both traditional in construction and  “corrugated” as well as animal figures, all made with locally sourced clay and natural pigments. Garcia’s corrugated texture pots were made by pressing a stamp into each coil layer, instead of using her fingers. Garcia’s small figurative work were coil built with geometric line paterning.

Along with Marie Z. Chino and Lucy M. Lewis, Garcia was a key figure in the Anasazi revival style of the period 1950 to 1970. All three ceramic artists are from the Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico; their pots share similar characteristics with traditional pots, including thin walls, fluted rims, and thin line geometric designs, often in black and white, and also polychrome slips, made from natural, locally sourced materials.

Garcia is the mother of Anita Lowden and Stella Shutiva and mother-in-law of Sarah Garcia, all three are considered to be important potters in their own right.