About Us

At ArtfulTea, we’re passionate about quality tea! We enjoy sampling teas from all over the world. But what delights us most is introducing others to the many pleasures of great tea. Our collection includes over 100 exceptional teas, many of which are blended by hand right in our store. We also carefully package each and every tea by hand to ensure that our luxury loose leaf tea is as beautifully presented as it is tasty.

Karen Gardiner created ArtfulTea in 2007 as an online business, and it has since grown to include a thriving retail shop in Midtown Santa Fe. If you're ever in the “City Different” please come see us at 901 W San Mateo Rd. And be sure to introduce yourself when you stop by!

Visit Us

Our Retail Location:

901 W San Mateo Rd, in Midtown Santa Fe.

Our Hours:

Tuesday through Saturday from 10am to 5pm

Meet the Team

Karen

Karen is the owner and guiding influence behind ArtfulTea. After leaving a career as a lawyer she decided to start her own business, and first began selling tea at a little shop called Kindred Spirit in Key West, Florida. Now in the tea business for more than twenty years, Karen’s expertise and passion for tea shines through in every aspect of ArtfulTea, from our carefully selected teas to our beautiful retail shop. Karen tastes and selects each of our teas in order to ensure that they are of the highest quality.

Susan

Susan blends all of our custom teas by hand and creates and packages our individual samples, packs, and gift pails. Susan is always willing to help out behind the scenes to make sure that everything runs smoothly at ArtfulTea. She got her “tea shirt” on Redbubble.

Maggie

Maggie is the voice behind ArtfulTea’s online presence. She writes all of our blogs, emails, website content, tea descriptions, social media posts, and more. With a background in writing and marketing, she loves introducing people to the pleasures of loose leaf tea. She also writes poetry.

Maya

Maya Honegger Rogers is an avid tea enjoyer from Los Alamos, New Mexico, and has just moved to Santa Fe. She recently graduated from Oberlin College after studying music and french, and along with her love of tea, she also works with Wisefool to bring the joy of circus to Santa Fe! She sings in the local band Roadside Attraction, and is really enjoying the Santa Fe community!

Laria

Laria is from Santa Fe, New Mexico, and recently obtained her TEFL certificate to teach English. She studied Japanese in college, and has a particular love for Japanese teas—especially matcha! In her free time, she enjoys reading with a cup of tea, spending time in nature, and traveling.

Sandra

Sandra’s stunning photography first caught our eye on Instagram, and she has since joined the ArtfulTea team as our primary product photographer. Most of the beautiful images on our website and social media pages were created by Sandra!

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