Tanvvi is a ceramic artist driven by a deep love for form, texture, and fire. Her work blends modern lines with rustic soul, often brought to life through atmospheric firings like wood, soda, and salt. Each piece carries the unpredictable beauty of flame, ash, and earth, celebrating the magic that only fire can create!

Taiyaba Ahmed is a ceramic artist and community builder based in Austin, TX. As co-founder of the South Asian Clay Collective, she cultivates inclusive spaces where identity, representation, and cultural connection thrive. Balancing her production experience with her personal practice, she embraces slowing down and the meditative rhythm of clay.

Gayatri Baisiwala is a ceramist and figurative sculptor known for creating realistic sculptures that convey deep human emotions. Through intricate detail and expressive form, they capture the nuances of the human experience, inviting viewers to connect with the raw emotional depth of each figure. Their work emphasizes empathy and authenticity.

Avi started pottery in mid-2021, soon after retiring. He has always been passionate about the arts and has found his calling in ceramics. He is currently exploring his own individual style, with a recent focus on sgraffito work, contrasting glazes, and incorporating ethnic designs into both functional and decorative pieces.

Priya is a porcelain artist who creates wheel-thrown vessels painted with underglazes. Her work reflects or abstracts the world around her, blending function with expression. She believes in the beauty of everyday rituals—like sipping coffee from a handmade cup and creates pieces that invite reflection, connection, and quiet moments of pause.

Kaneez Zehra Hassan (Zia) is a Pakistani-American ceramic artist based in Utah. Through hand-built vessels, she explores identity, memory, and cultural heritage. Influenced by archaeology, Sufi philosophy, and wabi-sabi, her work embraces imperfection and quiet beauty, offering a contemplative space where the personal and ancestral meet in tactile, enduring form.

Clay found her when she least expected it. With a background in IT, she never imagined she'd trade keyboards for kilns, but once she took her first pottery class, she was hooked. What began as a hobby quickly became her refuge - a space for quiet joy, creative flow, and unexpected growth.

Shikha Joshi is primarily a self-taught studio potter working in clay for almost three decades. Her practice is rooted in experimentation. She likes to create pots with rustic surfaces that echo the natural world, all within the constraints of an electric kiln.

Ina Kaur is an interdisciplinary artist working in printmaking and ceramics. Her practice explores materiality, repetition, and inner reflection amid social and ecological imbalance. Based in New Orleans, she is also active in pedagogy and curatorial work, fostering community-engaged, socially responsive projects.

Minoti Kundargi is a ceramic artist whose work blends functional pottery with refined elegance. Introduced to clay in 2001, she trained under master ceramicists in the San Francisco Bay Area. Inspired by her teachers and traditional Indian pottery, she also weaves influences from embroidery and watercolor into her ceramic practice.

Tulika Ladsariya explores connections using tenderness and nurturance to discuss beauty, identity, and history. Using an interdisciplinary practice of painting, ceramics, and installation, she creates work that explores threads that link multiple worlds. She serves in the arts community through Artist/Mother groups, as a board member for cultural organizations, and works in the arts administration and teaching fields on a contractual basis. She worked on the Devon streetscape design project and is a member of Spaceshift collective for a community art-space on Devon (little India in Chicago).

Heidi McKenzie is a mixed-race ceramic artist who holds an MFA from OCADU in Toronto, Canada. She has exhibited and been collected internationally. The ROM recently aquired works from her Indo-indentured series. Girmitya HerStories at the Indian Ceramics Triennale, 2024, gives voice to the little-known stories of her Indo-Caribbean ancestry.

Reema has always found energy in creating with her hands. Passionate about art since childhood, she explored acrylic painting before discovering a new medium. In 2023, she gifted herself a class for her birthday and hasn’t looked back, fully immersing herself in the craft she now loves.

Puneeta Mittal is a Ceramicist, Painter & Educator originally from India and now based in New York. Since arriving in the U.S. in 1994, she has established a prolific studio practice rooted in layered textures, natural materials, and an ongoing exploration of evolutionary cycles.

Manuj creates functional, wheel-thrown ceramics with the belief that everyday objects can quietly shape how we experience daily life. His work explores the fluidity and responsiveness of clay, using various throwing techniques to capture movement.

Dhava is relatively new to ceramics and has fallen in love with it. She often adds a little whimsy to her artwork. She likes drawing from her heritage to make pieces that are both sculptural and functional.

Peloloca is a ceramic artist based between NYC and Mexico. As a transcontinental transplant with roots across India, Ireland, Mexico, and NYC, they've navigated a life of code-switching and cultural paradoxes. After nearly two decades in an interdisciplinary career that spanned design, new media and film, they returned to a clay practice three years ago.

Miru immigrated to the US for her masters soon after her Ayurvedic training in India. With no formal training in the Arts, she takes immense pride in her identity, work ethics and creations, striving to impact her local community via her love for clay, the oldest known material used by humans.

What began as a creative outlet for Maya more than 15 years ago has grown into a deep passion for crafting simple, useful art. She throws functional, organic pots finished with earthy glazes, striving to create unique pieces that bring warmth and character to the shared tables.

Devishi Seth reflects on the intersection of the contemporary and her ancestral past. Devoted to female divinity as her name signifies, she explores her feminine, cultural and historical heritage through clay, bronze, and painting, aiming to reconstruct lost practices and knowledge systems. Devishi completed her BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has showcased work in spaces across the US, and India.

Purvi Shah is a ceramicist with a background in interior design, creating functional pottery rooted in the principle that form follows function. Each hand-built or wheel-thrown piece embraces natural variation, reflecting process and purpose. Her work celebrates the tactile beauty of everyday rituals and the quiet storytelling power of clay.

Priyanka Sharma, a ceramic artist with 17+ years of experience, creates handcrafted utility ware, art pieces, and large installations. Her work blends simplicity, natural textures, and functionality, offering customized creations that bring character to homes, elevate gifting, and transform spaces with timeless, earthy elegance.

Gargi Sharma is an architect-turned-ceramic and glass designer, currently exploring rust inspired surfaces on handbuilt ceramic forms. Her work draws on curiosity for everyday objects and a deep connection to cultural memory, creating pieces that feel familiar yet reimagined.

Apurva specializes in mid to large-sized wheel-thrown vessels, often with subtle alterations. His work typically blends contemporary, rustic, and ancient aesthetics. He also enjoys making bongs.

Antra Sinha is a ceramic artist, educator, and community builder with the arts. She received her BFA & MFA from MS University of Baroda, India. She was then an apprentice to Ray Meeker and Deborah Smith at Golden Bridge Pottery starting in 2002, where she worked for a decade. An award from Japan Foundation took her to the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Japan for artist residency. In 2015, as a STEM fellow completed her second MFA in ceramics at Utah State University. She is a member of International Academy of Ceramics and currently serves on the board of ARTAXIS.

Shaheen is a self-taught ceramist working from her home studio. Her journey with clay began over a year ago. She has learned mostly through curiosity, intuition, quiet time with her hands in the clay, and a deep love for the material. Her pieces reflect the raw, earthy colors of clay. Mostly unglazed or partially glazed, each piece embraces the hues brought out by the kiln, remaining raw and natural, just as they are born.

Pradnya primarily works with porcelain, a truly exquisite clay that beautifully enhances her drawings and illustrations. She takes great pride in crafting featherlight porcelain pieces. While porcelain remains her favorite medium, she also enjoys exploring a variety of clays for sculptural work.

Geetha Yedurappa is an engineer turned ceramic artist who works with hand-building techniques. Her practice embraces both bold color and illustration as well as raw, rustic surfaces, reflecting an ongoing exploration of form, texture, and storytelling through clay. She is currently working with porcelain slip on greenware to create intricate crackled surfaces that reveal the material’s quiet drama.

Tripti is a studio potter who likes to inspire conversation through her unique pots. Surface decorations on her pots conveys her roots and her love for nature. She loves to make double wall pots because of the challenge they pose and because of the extra layer that can be carved and pierced without compromising the functionality of the pot.