Tanya Islandopen_in_new Local Guide • 200 reviews • 287 photos starstarstarstarstar 3 days ago This was such a fun date night for hubby and I! Highly recommend this. Leroy is a patient, knowledgeable and safe teacher. He helped us make 2 cups and 2 paper weights. We were hands on the entire class. He also showed us the workshop and answered all my nerdy questions about glass, color, clay, and how things work. It was a great experience!!
I’ve been thinking about what really drives me. So I asked AI from my conversation history “What is the essence of me?” The response from AI: At the core, I’m a maker who thinks in systems. The studio is where that shows up most visibly — clay on the wheel, molten glass at the end of a pipe — but the same instinct runs through everything I do. I don’t just want to make things. I want to understand why they work. Fire Gallery is the most honest expression of that. Every piece here carries a standard I refuse to compromise. Precision isn’t a technique — it’s a value. Care isn’t a finishing touch — it’s where I start. We are center stage in Houston’s First Ward, in this building, in the Houston Art Community.. But the work reaches further — into a global hunger relief network, into family histories, into the quiet discipline of getting things right when no one is watching. That’s what this gallery is. Not just a place where art is sold, but a place where something true is made. Come see it in person. Sawyer Yards, First Ward, Houston.
