Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Art One - Empty Bowls

Before we start on first projects, we will make a piece for the Empty Bowls Project.  These pieces are our "first fruits".  

Proverbs 3:9-10 tells us:  "Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce; then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine."

This is fund raiser for area food ministries that FPD art students began participating in three years ago.  We have a soup dinner and sell our ceramic bowls, platters and vases.


Below is from the Empty Bowls website to further explain the project.  Why should FPD participate?
Empty Bowls is an international grassroots effort to fight hunger and was created by The Imagine Render Group. The basic premise is simple: Potters and other craftspeople, educators and others work with the community to create handcrafted bowls. Guests are invited to a simple meal of soup and bread. In exchange for a cash donation, guests are asked to keep a bowl as a reminder of all the empty bowls in the world. The money raised is donated to an organization working to end hunger and food insecurity.
It is the collective genius of all the people involved that has made Empty Bowls what it has become. Events have now taken place across the United States and in at least a dozen other countries. Many millions of dollars have been raised and donated to hunger-fighting organizations. We could never have imagined all the things people have done or all the ways the project has touched people.
Each individual or group organizing an event designs it around the needs of their own community and is responsible for their own event. We ask that all such events are called "Empty Bowls" so that the idea can continue to spread. Please make your event inclusive, insist that it maintain a high level of integrity, include an educational component to raise awareness, and give the money raised to an organization helping to feed people in need.
The largest hunger-relief organization in the United States,  Feeding America,  reports that the nation’s food banks could soon be overwhelmed by demand. Statistics show that 1 out of 8 Americans struggle with food insecurity every day. Millions of people have lost their jobs during the most recent recession and the number of food stamp recipients has increased dramatically. Your help is needed now more than ever. Please find the time, make the commitment, get involved. Your single effort can have a profound impact.
“Volunteering is the ultimate exercise in democracy. You vote in elections once a year but when you volunteer, you vote everyday about the kind of community you want to live in.”  -Marjorie Moore

16 comments:

  1. Mary Grace- I think it is a good idea for FPD to participate because we are helping people in need.

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  2. Making clay bowls is always a joy. So knowing that you are helping a great cause with just making a simple bowl is great!

    -Tyler Beach

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  3. I think it is important and I agree with it and I think we should do it because we don't understand what it means to be hungry because we are so privlaged and so it is important to give to those in need.

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  4. I think that we should participate in this because it helps with making people more aware of the issue of hunger. By selling the bowls, we will not only spread the knowledge of hunger, but we can also raise up for a donation for those in need.

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  5. The Tee Turley- to help raise awarness for starving people in the world.

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  6. Empty Bowls is great to help all the hungry people in the world - Will Watson

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  7. I think this is a great event for FPD to participate in because as a whole our school has some very skilled artists, and lots of people would be wiling to pay good money for our art especially since it's for a good cause.

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  8. The fact that FPD is able to such a huge impact is such an amazing thing. People who would not normally be able to eat is able to eat something because of the money that Empty Bowls raises. -Katie Culver

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  9. I think this is a great organization because it brings awareness to all the empty bowls in the world. Mia Thompson

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  10. I think it is great how FPD participates in empty bowls, and allows us as art students to take part in the event. It takes very little effort on our part to make a bowl that will remind someone with each use of the hungry individuals throughout the world. I am excited and honored to have my own pieces be a part in fighting world hunger. Caroline Radcliff

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  11. The Empty Bowls effort is another example of the efforts by charitable and creative people to help elevate the rest of humanity's well being. This provides both community service and good work opportunities for our school.
    Gabby Lindau

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  12. Empty Bowls is a wonderful organization that utilizes the creativity of artists across several different countries in order to provide aid to people in need. - John Lester

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  13. This organization I fully agree with because don't realize most of the time how much people are in need. This organization, to me, is awesome because it satisifies a simple need in people. People who are able to be nutritionally satisfied, aka job and income, don't realize the luxery of food. People who are hungry see the simplest utensils, aka bowls, as the biggest blessing. I completely agree with this organization, and the blessing they are giving to hungry people to enrich their lives. Juliana Hawkinson, Art 1

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  14. Jake Smaha: The fact that we spent one class period making a bowl for this organization so that they can help someone in need is just amazing to think about.

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  15. I think that it is a great thing that we have the chance to do something like this to help out other people.
    -Kolby

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  16. This is an awesome organization. we get to help those who are less fortunate than us. i really enjoy doing this!
    Anna Leigh Durham

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