Artist Media Series
Living Artists
Historic
$ 400.00
Katherine Victorino is a daughter of accomplished Acoma potter Monroe Victorino. She began making pottery at nine years old and attributes her pottery education to her step-mother Beverly Garcia. This jar is a classic water jar or “olla” shape for Acoma with a narrow base, wide shoulder and turned in neck. The jar is coil built and she has a very tightly painted circular group of eagle feathers. Separating each medallion are fine line triangular designs. Around the neck is a mountain design.
Katherine says of her pottery,
“I started by filling in the lines for my step-mother, and gradually I learned the traditional methods of hand-coil construction and fine line painting (using only yucca brushes) well enough to make pottery full time at the age of twenty.”
The intricate designs encompass the entire surface, creating a strong graphic appearance with the contrast of the black and white. The jar is signed on the bottom.