![]() ![]() In 2000, a year before retiring, she and her husband Andrew Garcia (also a High School teacher) decided to take a Spanish colonial furniture making class taught by one of Garcia’s former students, Mr. ![]() ![]() This is a tight-knit community so I knew their parents and grandparents, and by the end of my teaching career, I knew the children and grandchildren of some of my former students we were all part of the Peñasco family. However, just before I retired, I also felt I had something to contribute to the world as an artist.” Garcia taught at the Peñasco High School for twenty-five years. Lorrie Garcia, a Master santera from Peñasco, is living proof that success is worth the wait. Others blossom somewhat later, embracing a second or third career and excelling at it. Some artists discover their vocation early in life. Image and story originally published in Taos News ![]()
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