Amy Henson

Amy Henson is a ceramic artist and educator living in Garland, TX. Henson’s ceramic artwork explores issues of cultural marginalization translated into hand-built functional ceramics and sculptural installation. Currently her concepts focus on maternal feminism, inspired by the challenges of her lived experience as a woman, artist, and mother, and real or imagined flora and fauna including wildlife perceived as pest animals such as opossums and raccoons, as well as unicorns and dragons.

Amy Henson earned her B.F.A. cum laude from SMU in 2007 in Studio Art: Ceramics with related areas in Drawing and Printmaking, and her M.F.A. in Ceramics from University of North Texas in 2022. Henson teaches at Dallas College, SMU, and community studios in the DFW metroplex. Her teaching experience includes courses in ceramic sculpture, hand building, wheel throwing, glaze application and Foundations.

In 2025, Henson was awarded first place in Ceramics on the Wall VII by juror Colby Parsons. Her Liquor Set was selected for a Juror’s Award at Clay Art Center’s 2023 group exhibition Functional Fall: A Seat at The Table. She also received an Honorable Mention for one of her berry bowls from Clay Arts Vegas in 2017. At the 2023 NCECA conference Henson and Allee Etheridge co-organized the successful concurrent exhibition Obscene. She is a founding member and participant, alongside Allee Etheridge, of two successful ceramic sales each year: Poetry in Ceramic in December and the Pot Stars Popup in March which is concurrent with the NCECA Conference. Henson is also a founding member of creative nonprofit Garland Creates and the current head of the Exhibitions Committee. Their inaugural exhibition Hand/Held was installed in October and November of 2025 in the gallery at FCS Clayworks. Her next solo exhibition will be in the fall of 2026 at the Goldmark Cultural Center.