Kira Mountjoy-Pepka’s hand shakes as she holds her paintbrush. She laughs and shakes her head, withdrawing her brush from her canvas and attempting to keep the paint from splattering a nearly-complete painting of two oversized green pears.

Tara Joshi is the owner of TJ Pottery and a ceramic artist living and teaching in Saline, Michigan. She earned dual degrees in Ceramics and Art History from the University of Toledo in 2011, and previous to opening her own studio worked for the Toledo Museum of Art and managed local glass studios and galleries. A popular judge at juried exhibitions, her work is known for its delicacy and subversive beauty.