{"id":65809,"date":"2022-10-30T17:16:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T23:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=65809"},"modified":"2023-11-14T16:38:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T22:38:31","slug":"victoria-acoba-1944-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/victoria-acoba-1944-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Acoba 1944 – 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Vicki Acoba was a well-known fixture in the Utah arts community, especially noted for her small porcelain teapots. She regularly sold out her stock at the Avenues Street Fair, Utah Art Market, Holladay Blue Moon Festival and various galleries along the Wasatch Front \u2013 a fact which always pleasantly surprised her. She was shyly humble about her talent and couldn\u2019t quite believe that other people were willing to pay for her creations. She would grin with a twinkle in her eye and say, \u201cI\u2019m glad I could put a smile on their faces!\u201d<\/h4>\n

Although Vicki delighted in selling her teapots, she really made them because she loved playing with clay on her potter\u2019s wheel, which spun clockwise to accommodate her left-handedness. Her crowded studio was her refuge and happy place, and she would spend hours making fiddly little details to add to her teapots \u2014 teeny tiny clay balls, flowers, coils or spikes, along with textured leaves and other designs. A single teapot could easily have 200 or more details on it, and her years of working with clay actually wore off her fingerprints.<\/h4>\n

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