"One-of-a-kind teapots are steeped in eye appeal, brewing with delightful notions and occasionally pouring forth moral concerns." Dick Kagan, Art & Antiques, High Tea

The Artful Teapot examines the teapot as an inventive vehicle for artistic expression in the twentieth century. The 250 objects on exhibit include teapots by painters Roy Lichtenstein and David Hockney, sculptors Arman and Michael Lucero, ceramists Betty Woodman and Adrian Saxe, as well as works by more than 100 other artists. Organized thematically, The Artful Teapot features a wide range of teapots that illustrate the following themes: "Aesthetic Variables," "Illusion & Allusion," "Rendezvous with Ritual" and "Tea for Art's Sake."

This highly original exhibition demonstrates how the teapot can be provocative, playful and profound as well as conventional. Addressing aesthetic, social and political issues, The Artful Teapot examines the teapot's ability to be more than just a device to serve tea. All of the works in the exhibition have been culled from the celebrated Kamm collection, husband and wife Gloria and Sonny Kamm's personal trove of more than 6,000 teapots. Working together to visit art galleries and art fairs, and commission artists to create their own interpretations of the object, the Kamms have been able to amass the largest collection of teapots in the United States. From this collection, curator Garth Clark, a preeminent scholar and author of more than 14 books on ceramic art, has chosen teapots that illustrate the beauty and power of a form and also stand independently as works of art. Clark is the founder and current director of the Ceramic Arts Foundation.