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Shikha Joshi is a studio potter from Round Rock Texas. Not having a formal education in ceramics, she has spent long hours in the studio, playing and pushing boundaries and learning. Although she is self-taught, she has long had an appreciation for all things handmade and has been creating high quality functional pottery for 20 years.
Joshi was born in New Delhi, India where she spent the first 22 years of her life. In 1996, she graduated with a degree in Psychology from Delhi University. Her first encounter with pottery was on the streets of New Delhi when she watched a roadside potter if she could try her hands at clay. Amused, the potter delegated the task to his nine-year-old son and in that moment Joshi, for the first time, felt to joy of playing with wet clay. Eventually, she returned to that joy when she had moved to Atlanta, Georgia and taken a pottery class at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center. In 2003, she established her studio in Round Rock and has been playing ever since.
A core part of her practice is the belief that a good handmade pot has the ability to touch the soul of the user. It is that belief that pushes her to manifest the spirt of joy into the creation process. When she is not in the studio, she is in the kitchen, cooking and baking. To Joshi, the meeting of cooking and ceramics is a quiet celebration and eating everyday meals in handmade pots is something to cherish.