Edgar Garcia
Edgar Garcia is a self taught artist based in Frankfort Indiana. He was raised by two indigenous parents, who each come from two uniquely different cultures. Though he was raised in the farmlands of Indiana, with the cornfields and the cows, he was born with the passion to create, explore, and expose the world around him. The idea of being an artist was never something he thought of but it was always around him. His father would play the guitar, and he remembers his mother would spend all her days outside making traditional hand woven placemats and bracelets. She created them with different colors and patterns, and not two were alike. She never planned ahead but it always turned out beautifully because it came from the heart. His doodles and sketches became more just ink on paper, but ideas that were real and made more sense than words on paper. That initially sparked a small flame in him to pursue his passion as an artist all throughout grade school.
Edgar inevitably ended up enrolling at Herron School of art to pursue a career as a graphic designer, but realized after a year that life behind a computer screen was not the life he visualized as an artist. He continued his education the following year at Ivy Tech, while at the same time, he began to commission paintings of his work and became heavily focused on his apparel for the artwork he was creating. At the end of his year at Ivy tech, he decided to leave school to pursue his true passion as an artist and has since continued to grow his audience and his brand in his own town and expanding beyond to cities like Indianapolis to attend events and display his work for others to see.
His first event, at the 2022 Hispanic Heritage Event in Frankfort, opened new doors for him to pursue different opportunities to learn and grow. He has since met and worked with different artists and organizers at different events, who’ve helped create new goals as an artist. He has dedicated himself to grow as a muralist in his own city and also learn how to expand his business on creating clothing apparel for his brand and artwork. He currently has his eyes set on a future exhibition at the Newfields Museum in Indianapolis with the hope of sharing a piece of his life experiences. With the help of the organization, LAMP, he hopes to take advantage of the advice and opportunities to grow as an artist and to learn from others as well. He eventually plans to give back what he has learned to new and upcoming artist who will face the struggles he did growing up and the questions he had as a young artist. He realizes that knowledge is power and his art comes from the soul, so he aims to share his artistic passion to anyone willing to learn and grow.
