First: I want to say a big thank you to Elliott and Michelle at the Elliott Fouts Gallery for hosting us!

I juried this show (the second iteration of the Juried Functional Teapot Show) with Cooper Jeppesen and John Neely. John was our guest artist for the inaugural Juried Functional Teapot Show and he is currently my professor at Utah State University. He makes outstanding teapots. Cooper had a teapot included in the inaugural show and also makes outstanding teapots. His lids fit so snuggly and spouts pour so well, they could make a teapot enthusiast weep.

It was a challenge to pick from all the submissions we received, but we managed to whittle them down to just 10. Each of the jurors presented a teapot also, and we invited Pete Pinnell to be our guest artist and show two teapots.

Here is how it looked in the gallery:

Here’s the writing on the wall…

And the other writing on the wall…

I wanted to share some images from the opening reception and the way the show looked and then I will include closer images of each maker and their teapot. At the end I will include a link to the PDF of the catalogue which is free for anyone to download.

Now, here is each teapot with the makers’ exhibition labels and prices above them…

If you would like to download the catalogue for The Juried Functional Teapot Show II, go to the end of my shop page and click the link. I will leave it up there, along with the catalogue for the inaugural show. You can access and download them at any point!

One last picture. Thanks for reading! The Juried Functional Teapot Show III will be in 2024, in Richmond, VA.