Arts Rescue Mission -Aid For Aging Artists
Archive & Book Projects
Fall Project 2025 Visual Artist Richard Stout Book Project (Goal Fall 2026)
PLEASE NOTE: ARM NEEDS COMMUNITY INPUT: Help us tell Perry House's Story. Identify the stories and individuals in these galleries. You can also add to this community library by CLICKING HERE and sending us your Perry House photos and stories. Our publications are open source and rely on the community for input. On the sign up page you can upload images, text or PDF files, and tell us what you remember from way back when. Even if you are already a subscriber the sign-in and load page will keep track of who's sending us information so we can give you credit for your contribution. At this time, the images are only identified by number. Use this number to let Arts Rescue know what image you are referring to, We need your help adding to this community effort. We'll have a BIG party when the book comes out. (More on that latter) THANKS!
This book is dedicated to all the artists that have come before and deserve to have their journey shared and story told. CLICK ON COVER TO VIEW 104 pages $37.50
8.5" x 11" - Softcover w/Glossy Laminate
ISBN: 9781649949998
Preserve
Funded through subscriptions to oversee ARM preservation initiatives. Click Here to find out more. / Project Manager 16 hrs./week MORE INFO
From years of experience, it became evident that while family members often don't retain and pass along crucial documents such as articles, exhibition records, and professional correspondence, and these are frequently discarded or overlooked. We would like to ensure that such materials are preserved, providing a historical record of the artist and their work for future reference by appraisers, archivists, and researchers. This is a lengthy and expensive four-step process that involves photography, scanning, tagging the photos, and tagging the scanned images, and then putting them together in an Excel file chronologically. We are recreating a life and there are lots of judgment calls while setting up an Excel file which oftentimes has more than a 1700 entries in a professional performing or visual artist's lifetime. This is essential work as the book closes on a lifetime of accomplishment but it's often neglected because of the expense. Click Here to earmark your donation to our PRESERVE program. Preservation Works hand in hand with our PROVIDE program and our desire to create books about artists. As we mentioned above, this chronology recreates a life. From childhood friends and family photos through their life's journey , artists oftentimes have some of the most interesting stories to tell. Interesting work for us, and engaging content for you.
Provide
Funded by the "Station Cabaret" dinner and jazz in October. Click Here to find out more. / Project Manager 16 hrs./week MORE INFO
Our aim here is to support projects that give writers, musicians, composers, and artists the time to pursue their passions in later years, time they never had while balancing careers and family. While we are preserving artists’ stories and works in our Preservation program, we are also creating the foundation for providing new opportunities. A carefully built archive doesn’t just keep history safe, it supplies the raw material for biography, scholarship, and celebration. Imagine a book that chronicles an artist’s journey: part memoir, part catalog, part testament. That book is both preservation and provision, a bridge between past accomplishments and future recognition.
The same way the ARMON Awards sustain our Shelter program, our fall event—the Station Cabaret, an evening of dinner, jazz, and creative presentations in a spirited Halloween atmosphere, funds our Provide program. Through it, we give artists in their later years the chance to share their story, renew their visibility, and shine once more.
In every program, the goal is the same: to ensure that artists, who have given us so much, are never forgotten, neglected, or left without support.
To see how we set the stage for this event Click Here. To earmark your donation to our PROVIDE program Click Here.
Our First Publication
Proceeds from the sale of Perry House Editor’s Edition, a full-color, glossy paperback 8.5 x 11 in., 101 pages, perfect bound, will directly support the production of a forthcoming expanded volume. The 1st edition hardcover 9.5 x 13 in., 200 pages, clothbound with full-color dust jacket, scheduled for release in summer 2026.
This initial book is available now as a print-on-demand edition, with a special limited run of 100 signed copies by author and editor D.M. Allison. Signed editions will be available at an event to be announced.
Purchasing this publication is considered a charitable contribution to Arts Rescue Mission, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and is tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
RESTORE - SHELTER - PROVIDE - PRESERVE
Pictured above, Houston based artist Perry House In his studio, Second Ward, Houston TX, 2014. Perry House was a really great artist and a great friend to all that met him. I'm proud to say a friend of mine. We met in 1982 when I moved in across from the 11th Street Cafe at the corner of Studewood and 11th Street. Every morning Perry, Dick Wray, Lucas Johnson, Don Foster, and once a week Richard Stout taught me how to be a real artist, which they insisted meant drinking all the beer in Chet and Pat's 8 ft. beer cooler that ran behind the serving counter in the cafe. This went on for several years. Almost 30 years later I became his art dealer, one of the highlights in my days as a gallerist. As the days and years caught up with my friend, I wished I could have done more for him in the moment. As a gallery I was able to do an extensive 100 page catalog on Perry before he passed, and ARM will endeavor to publish a bigger full size color book about this great talent in 2028. Here are a few of the images from our archive on Perry House, his method, and his studio. - DM Allison
Perry House / 57 Works / 1970s - 2000s / Posted 09-26-2025 GALLERY 1.
Perry House / 63 Works / 2000s - 2015 / Posted 09-26-2025 GALLERY 2
