Laurencita R. Herrera (1912–1984) was a renowned Native American Cochiti Pueblo artist, specializing in traditional Cochiti figurative pottery called storytellers and her pottery vessels.
[2] She was an actively making pottery between the 1930s through the 1970s and is known as one of the, "finest Cochiti potters of that era".
[4] She was married to Cochiti Pueblo drum maker, Nestor Herrera.
The Cochiti Pueblo has documented storyteller pottery for sale to tourists as early as the 1870s, however the tradition had become less popular until 1964, when Helen Cordero created the first revival of the Cochiti storyteller figure due to a request from her patron, Alexander Girard.
[6] A number of artists at the time started creating pottery of either animal figurines, adult figures holding drums or pots ("singing ladies"), and/or adult figures singing to a baby in their arms ("singing mothers"), including artists Laurencita Herrera, Damacia Cordero, Teresita Romero.