Tea shows up in art in a variety of ways. Here are some affordable ways to incorporate tea into your aesthetics.

The first in a series of articles addressing fun + creative ways to reuse, recycle, and repurpose all things tea, Diana helps us save those used teabags, and demonstrates many cool uses for them!

There are quite a few ways you can make art with tea. Most of the time, drinking the tea is the best thing you can do. However, there are a few reasons you may reserve some tea for art.

Newark, New Jersey, probably isn’t the first place you’d think of when it comes to teapots. But the Newark Museum has a large decorative arts collection that includes hundreds of teapots in a variety of styles from the 1600s to the modern era. A featured exhibit is currently showing sixty-six teapots from the collection.

Artist Michele Brody incorporates tea into her mixed media installations. Her recent exhibit at the World Tea East expo in Philadelphia brought people together through tea, sharing messages of hope for the Japanese people while also generating donations for the Japanese Red Cross.

Jeff Axelrod lived a busy life that brought him all over the country to at last, Sausalito, California where he is an artist with an interesting medium- tea. Using tea he brews he paints with a spectrum of colors and creates intricate works of art.

Mithun Jayaram is an Indian based artist who utilizes used tea leaves collected from his local tearoom. He then goes on to observe the drying process that he subjects his used tea leaves to and creates works of art from dried leaves and other material he recycles.

Tea to many people is thought of as a communal drink; something to be shared with a loved one at the end of the day, friends during weekly get-togethers,in a group over a special meal, or-with a total stranger. In her project entitled, Tea House Productions, artist Michele Brody aims to share the comfort and ceremony of taking people she meets at her installations.

The Poetry of Emily Seaman. A lovely poem about tea and ones she has shared it with.

Eric M. Sternfels' work springs from a sense that inanimate objects possess their own soul and history. When speaking about the pieces he collects for his work, the artist believes the energy of those that designed or made them, of those that have used and enjoyed them.

Great Grandma Hilda inspires a tea photo. This photograph of a simple teacup captures the soul and spirit of the artist's great grandmother; a wonderful tribute.

An exhibit at the Petrossian Boutique in New York

Snow swirled absently, lost on its way down to the muddy London streets. Though only 7 o'clock in the evening, the sky was already black; the cloaked figure moving through the snow and through the streets seemed made of the surrounding blackness, or a murderous afterthought.

Mike Bevel spins a tale of murder, mystery, and who-dun-its with tea as a leading character. Stay tuned for future 'episodes'!

Tea as a murder weapon? Find out in this thrilling mystery penned by a tea fan, Mike Bevel.

Grandma Laverne saw signs everywhere - but she was pretty much never right about them. She'd almost given up on her calling as an augury of things to come -- that is, until she found out about tealeaves.

Nancy Lucas' own morning ritual of brewing and sipping tea while watching the birds at the bluebird houses and feeders had inspired her to try to capture their beauty in watercolor paintings.

Kym Gordon Moore writes a simple yet heartwarming poem about her Mother's favorite drink: tea.

Earlene Grey writes beautiful poetry about love over tea.

This month's installation of the Art of Tea, we'll do a quick study of the development of art through the interpretation of tea. We'll cover three pieces by great artists from different periods, including Mary Cassatt, Henri Matisse and Jackson Pollock.

The Poetry of Eitan Codish. A simple poem about tea and other simple pleasures and loves in one's life.