Thomas Perry Pottery

Below are links to and brief information about community organizations in which I am involved, galleries through which I sell my work, and lastly my artist wife Carolyn Dahl.

Empty Bowls Houston

Empty Bowls Houston's events were postponed for 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but is returning on May 14, 2022, at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft. Ceramic, wood, glass, and other materials bowls are created and donated by local artists and schools, and proceeds from selling these bowls benefits the Houston Food Bank. The Houston Food Bank can turn each $25 bowl sold into 75 meals for those in the Greater Houston area whose bowls and cupboards would otherwise be empty. I am proud to have been a co-founder of Empty Bowls Houston and continue as a member of a fabulous steering committee, now led by Samantha Oldham.

For more information about Empty Bowls and the Houston Food Bank, visit
www.emptybowlshouston.org
www.houstonfoodbank.org

(Photo courtesy of Paula Murphy)

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft is one of Houston's vital gems. The Center includes rotating exhibitions of national and regional craft, the Asher Gallery for retail sales, educational and outreach programs, and five resident artist studios. I was a docent for 12 years, an artist-in-residence, and a Board member and officer for 6 years, and my wife, Carolyn Dahl, served on the Advisory Council and two key committees for 10 years. I also sell my work through the Center's Asher Gallery during its pop-up markets and events.
www.crafthouston.org

ClayHouston

ClayHouston is the guild for clay artists – potters and sculptors – in Houston and Southeast Texas with the mission of promoting community through meetings and networking, encouraging professional development through workshops, programs, and exhibitions, and educating the public about ceramics and Houston-area ceramic artists.
www.clayhouston.org

Galleries and Shops

The Path of Tea
The Path of Tea, operated and owned by Chris McKann, is my favorite spot for loose-leaf organic teas as well as for an occasional quiet meditative pot of tea and journal writing or contemplative conversation. In addition to wonderful teas, Chris sells teapots, teabowls, and other tea items, including mine.
thepathoftea.com

Carolyn Dahl

Carolyn Dahl is an artist, author, teacher, and poet. Her artwork has emphasized hand-dyed and hand-painted textiles, dyed paper baskets, nature prints on paper and fabric, and art quilts. She is the author of Transforming Fabric, a book that describes a variety of techniques for dyeing and painting fabric, Natural Impressions, which both describes and inspires how to utilize available objects from Nature, such as leaves and flowers and even fish and butterfly wings to print onto paper and fabric, and 3 poetry books — The Painted Door Opened, a poetry plus art book co-authored with Carolyn Florek, Art Preserves What Can't Be Saved, and A Muddy Kind of Love, the latter two award-winning. Carolyn also won the Grand Prize in an ekphrastic poetry competition co-sponsored by Public Poetry and Museum of Fine Arts - Houston. Carolyn and I have collaborated on creating pots that take advantage of her tantalizing talents with color and design. In 2011, we had a two-person show at Houston's 18 Hands Gallery entitled "Solos and Duets: Works in Clay and Cloth", the Solos being Carolyn's art quilts and my pots, the Duets our collaborative ceramics. See our Duets at the Collaboration Gallery page.
To learn more about Carolyn, her books, and her art quilts and other artworks, visit
www.carolyndahlstudio.com