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The new art exhibit at the Leesburg Center for the Arts includes jaunty teapots and in-your-face paintings.

“Hot Young Artists,” which opens with a free reception from 5 to 7 p.m. today, is all about unusual work by five Central Florida artists and designers.

“Fun, funky and hip — that’s the look we were going for,” said Amy Griffin, the center’s executive director.

The teapots made by Russian-born Vadim Malkin pose like fashion models playing “I’m a Little Teapot,” with stylized stances and finial stoppers worn like couture hats.

The Coalport Teapot Exhibition will take place from April 30 until November 2 2007 at the Coalport China Museum, near Ironbridge, Shropshire.

Providing visitors with detailed insights into the tea drinking culture in Britain during the 18th and early 19th centuries the exhibition highlights how Coalport China was at the forefront of this.

On offer will be a varied selection of teapots of all shapes and sizes displaying the full range of patterns used on Coalport porcelain in the early 19th century.

A limited edition set of Fred Dibnah ceramic figures have sparked a bidding war among collectors.
Fans have been queueing up to get their hands on the first in a series of four ceramic figurines and teapots depicting the legendary Bolton steeplejack.

The limited edition sold out in hours.

The eight-inch earthenware figures have been designed by Lorna Bailey, a ceramic artist from Stoke-on-Trent, with a percentage of the profits going to the Fred Dibnah Memorial Fund Appeal.

Lorna’s father, Lionel, a life-long fan of Fred’s approached his widow Sheila with the idea for the collection.

Jill Summerhayes, Cambridge

By now, many of you will be aware that indeed there are big things brewing at the Cambridge Fire Department [that’s Cambridge in Canada, for those of you in the UK wondering why you’ve not heard about this!].

The ‘Get Turned on to Tea’ campaign has begun. You may have seen the photo of firefighter Sid DaSilva at the community kiosk selling tea and red teapots. This is a fundraising campaign for the Fire Hall Museum and Education Centre, housed in the old fire hall on Dickson Street.

A model displays a container of green tea yesterday on the Swedish ship Gotheborg, docked along Shanghai’s Bund. The pot was one of 100 tea containers from east China’s Anhui Province that were presented to representatives of the 18th-century merchant ship replica. Cargo including tea from Anhui was recovered from the wreckage of the first Gotheborg, which crashed on the rocks near its home port on a return journey from China in 1745.

(this bulletin was taken from englsh.eastday.com)

A small teapot stolen from a former Queenstown Mall restaurant makes a surprise comeback next week.

Local artist John R McCormack, who swiped the green teapot, has produced a 15-painting series based on what it “heard” while sitting on a table during the Westy’s Restaurant era – 1980-1994 – and beyond.

He’s called the exhibition “Before We Were Millionaires”.

It will open at Skybar on September 8 and prices range from $600 to $4000.

“Anybody who dined in that era, who had property here, will now be a millionaire, whether we like it or not,” McCormack says.

By Roger Green
Booth Arts Writer

Look to China for the origin of teapots, whose production flourished 500 years ago in the YiXing region of Jiangsu province, 120 miles northeast of Shanghai. Fabricated from local “zisha” or purple clay, YiXing teapots held only one or two cups of tea, and so had compact bodies, mini lids and short spouts.

YiXing legacies, as they’ve been retained and changed, are spotlighted in “Tea Time: The Art of the Teapot,” a national invitational organized by the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts. Continuing through July 15, the exhibit brings together 157 recently created teapots by ceramic artists from 39 states.