The summer of 2025 brings lots of new experiences and exhibitions to Southern California, among them a legendary summer art festival and a unique tea pot collection. Both are featured in the Saturday “Gayle on the Go!” report.
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“SOMETHING FOR THE SUMMER” at the annual SUMMER SAWDUST ART FESTIVAL in Laguna Beach is open and is now celebrating its 59th anniversary.
What began with a handful of artists now features nearly 200 artists creating one-of-a-kind treasures (It’s not a bad idea to get the holiday shopping done now, cash and carry, before the pending tariffs impact retail prices.💰), art demonstrations, art classes, live entertainment, food, and beverages.
Now Until Sunday, August 31st Open Daily @ 11a.m.
Summer Sawdust Art Festival 935 Laguna Canyon Road Laguna Beach
949 494 3030
sawdustartfestival.org
Free and open to the public “Tea for Two: The Teapots of Gloria and Sonny Kamm at the Craft in America Center.
Los Angeles collectors Sonny and Gloria Kamm have created a vast and wide-ranging collection centered on a single item, the teapot. It began as a search for interesting and fun teapots to place in their home. Their interests in contemporary art led them to collect and commission studio craft teapots by a wide range of artists. Envision a teapot made of perforated clay or another made of heavily embroidered fabric or even one made of metal mesh and pistachio shells!
Gloria has called these concept teapots “delightfully useless” in terms of practical function. And yet in partnership with her husband Sonny, the Kamms see the function of a teapot less as a device for serving the legendary beverage, but rather as a celebrated vehicle for expression. The hospitable and iconic teapot has a 500-year history and has been widely and wildly interpreted by artists and production houses alike. Tea for Two will feature a curated selection giving insight into the inclinations and motivations of the couple. Also, they are featured in one of the newest Craft in America episodes, Collectors.
Gloria regards contemporary, one-of-a-kind teapots as “containers full of ideas” where the artist has transmuted, by their hands, their worries, celebrations or ponderings into the object. The wide scope of styles and materials in the curated selection will not only cause visitors to marvel, but to also consider the structure of a teapot: pot, handle and spout. The irreverent and whimsical interpretations of these integral parts will provide entertaining musing for viewers of all ages.
The Kamm Teapot Foundation (kammteapotfoundation.org) is a non-profit that archives and catalogues the world’s largest and most comprehensive teapot collection of more than 17,000 items. The Foundation is a charitable trust, with its purposes being to acquire, preserve, maintain, and arrange for the exhibition of teapots, tea sets and teapot-related ephemera.
Free and open to the public!
Tea for Two: The Teapots of Gloria and Sonny Kamm
8415 West Third Street
Los Angeles, CA 90048
323 951 0610
craftinamerica.org/exhibition/tea-for-two-the-teapots-of-gloria-and-sonny-kamm