Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Art Two - Empty Bowls

Empty Bowls is next Friday night.  Your beautiful white clay pots will raise money for Macon Outreach!  We will put some great glazes on them next week.


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.  
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
Why should FPD participate?
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7 comments:

  1. I think FPD should continue to participate in Empty Bowls because it is a good opportunity for students to help the community and raise money for a good cause to end hunger!

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  2. I think FPD should continue to help with Empty Bowls because it is for a good cause, the students enjoy making the bowls and every year it seems to have a good turn out and we raise a good amount of money to help end hunger!

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  3. I think that FPD should be involved in this fundraiser because it is for a very good cause. All the students enjoy making the bowls, escpecally if it's for someone in need!

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  4. I think FPD should participate because the bowls we are making is a reminder to ourselves that there are lots people in hunger out there and we can actually help to raise money for these people through this event!

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  5. FPD should participate in Empty Bowls because being involved with this organization is a good way, not only for the school to get involved with the community but also for the students to get involved.

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  6. FPD should continue doing empty bowls. We have done it for a very long time and it is good for the community. We also get practice with making bowls while helping people so it’s a win win situation!!

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  7. FPD should do empty bowls because it helps the community

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