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Manasha Garcia
Garcia Weir Gallery: Artist/Producer Jerry Garcia Foundation: Co-founder Guitar Center Foundation: Advisory Board |
Jerry Garcia and Manasha first met in Chicago in 1978. In August of 1990, Jerry and Manasha married at their California home in a private ceremony, free of legal convention. They made their home in San Anselmo, California with their daughter, Keelin Garcia.
Manasha began drawing and painting as a child and later studied art while attending tutorial classes at Oxford University in England, under the auspices of Shimer College.
Manasha began drawing and painting as a child and later studied art while attending tutorial classes at Oxford University in England, under the auspices of Shimer College.
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Jerry dedicated his art book: “To Manasha with Love, Jerry.”
J. Garcia: Paintings, Drawings and Sketches Pub. 1992, Celestial Arts, Berkeley. |
Manasha and Keelin produced Jerry’s first museum exhibition in Grenoble, France. Several pieces of the late virtuoso’s art were donated to the Centre National d’Art Contemporain Le Magasin and displayed in the Art in Pop Exhibition, which opened on October 10, 2014 and continued through February 2015.