Rekha Srinivasan is a functional potter currently based in Chicago. After working in finance for more than a decade, she found her passion for ceramics while training under both traditional folk and studio potters, first in Dharavi, Mumbai and later at the Golden Bridge Pottery in Pondicherry, India.

Rekha works out of the Midwest Clay Guild, a ceramics co-op based in Skokie, IL and works mostly with high-fired stoneware clay. While she loves the effects that atmospheric firing with wood brings to her wheel thrown and hanbuilt work, it’s the community that builds around this method of firing that she finds most satisfying.

Having been lucky enough to have grown up in India, and to have lived in the United States, Europe, and Asia, the conscious and subconscious influences of her varied cultural exposure informs her aesthetic. She strives to make quiet, gentle pots that are comfortable to use in a modern setting.