Salvador, Roberta

Roberta Salvador is a traditional potter from Acoma Pueblo. She became active in the marketplace in the 1970s after learning how to make pottery from her mother, Lilly Maria Salvador, and her grandmother, Frances Pino Torivio, as she was growing up.

Roberta mostly made polychrome jars and bowls, decorating most of them with intricate fine line and geometric designs. She made pottery for more than 30 years, but she doesn’t seem to have ever entered any of the main juried competitions, even the Heard Museum’s Native American Artists Resource Collection has no record of her.