BELLEVUE, WA.- The Bellevue Art Museum presents The Artful Teapot:
20th Century Expression from the Kamm Collection, on view through October 2, 2005. 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 Cindy Sherman, sculptors Arman and Michael Lucero, ceramists Betty Woodman and Adrian Saxe, as well as work by more than 100 other artists.

The exhibition provides a comprehensive view of the contemporary teapot to date, featuring works in a multitude of forms including human, animal, vegetable, and even architectural. The teapots on view are made from a wide range of materials from fine porcelain to recycled soda cans. 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 7,500 teapots. From this impressive collection, curator Garth Clark, a preeminent scholar and author on ceramic art, has chosen teapots that illustrate the beauty and power of a form and also stand independently as works of art. The North American tour of The Artful Teapot, is organized and circulated by Exhibitions International, a not-for-profit 501 (c)(3) organization in New York City, that seeks to promote the exchange of ideas in the visual arts.