Victorino, Katherine

Born into Acoma Pueblo in 1968, Katherine Victorino says she started learning how to make pottery when she was about nine years old. Her step-mother, Beverly Victorino Garcia, began by having Katherine fill in the spaces between the outlines she drew on her pottery. From there Katherine progressed to learning about processing the clay, forming the coils, then making pots. Then to scraping, sanding, painting and firing. By the time she was twenty, she was able to support herself and her family with her pottery sales alone.

Katherine seems to like making white jars and ollas and decorating them with black designs based on ancient Mimbres-Revival designs: the sunflower, lightning bolt, butterfly, feather, star fan, flower and Tularosa spiral in particular.