Empty Bowls
Benefit of Serving Others
~Making connections
~Learn more about people
~Build create skills
~Personal fulfillment
in helping others
~Communication Skill
The arts can be a powerful to in uplifting people. It helps us heal, connect, and serve.
In February both sculpture classes will host the 5th annual Empty Bowls Event at our school. Proceeds will go to the Cook and Ore Food Shelf. This year with celebrate our 5th year anniversary!
As a group we will create over 300 ceramic bowls. (6 per person)
Duties for the Event include…
•Silent Auction Oversee
•Welcome Hosts/Roaming Problem Solvers
•Bread, Butter, and Dessert
•Money Takers
•Soup Servers
•Wrapping Bowls
•Set up/Clean up
•Garbage
I need roughly 10-15 student volunteers to oversee Empty Bowls night. This is a very good resume booster your all of you! I will also have a head student volunteer to help with advising, silent auction, and overall over-site.
Step 1: Each student will make 6 well crafted bowls
~We will use high fire
stoneware clay
~Each bowl should have
a foot and a rim
~Each bowl should
be level and well crafted
~NOTE: If bowl is lopsided, uneven, lumpy or too heavy, you will have to redo the bowl entirely. TAKE TIME TO MAKE each both with high perfection. We will only be able to sell highly crafted bowls.
~We will use high fire
stoneware clay
~Each bowl should have
a foot and a rim
~Each bowl should
be level and well crafted
~NOTE: If bowl is lopsided, uneven, lumpy or too heavy, you will have to redo the bowl entirely. TAKE TIME TO MAKE each both with high perfection. We will only be able to sell highly crafted bowls.
It should 1 class period to make 1 bowl.
~Every bowls should have a foot attached to the bottom
~We will use plaster molds to help make the bowls.
Step 2. Setup and EMPTY BOWL EVENT
Friday, FEBRUARY 2017
4:30 - 7 pm
North Woods Commons
Shop one of a kind clay bowls made by students & donors
Sales will benefit the Cook and Orr Community Food Shelf
Enjoy a soup, bread, dessert, and beverage
with the purchase of a bowl
$10 Minimum donations per bowl
Family Deal: Purchase two bowls and receive up to four children’s servings for $5 each
(clay bowl not included)