Empty Bowl Project at Harmony Intermediate School in Loudoun
Art students at Harmony Intermediate School will once again be using their talents to battle hunger through the Empty Bowl Project.
They will be selling bowls they and local artists created during a special dinner from 6 to 8 p.m. March 22nd at Harmony with the proceeds going to organizations that battle hunger.
The Empty Bowl Project originated in 1990. An art teacher in Michigan had his students make ceramic bowls. Then he served bread and soup to the faculty and they purchased an empty bowl. The bowls stood as a reminder that there are many “empty bowls” around the world.
This has grown into a worldwide project with potters around the world sponsoring an Empty Bowl Project in different ways. During October, Harmony’s students created posters to raise awareness for World Hunger Day, (October 16).
Despite a two-hour, weather-related delay on January 8th, three local potters – Dave Norton, Shawn Grove and Geoff DeMark – came to Harmony to demonstrate their craft and create works that could be sold to battle hunger. (Last year, Harmony’s Empty Bowl Project raised $1,640 for the Western Loudoun Food Pantry.)
Norton had some sobering advice for potential potters. “I made a thousand pots before I made a bad one.” He added that he had begun making asymmetrical pots because the human hand is asymmetrical. “You can still put your Wheaties and milk in it.”
Despite the late start, the guest potters made 70 pots. (Grove donated another 15 pots he brought from his studio already glazed.) The ninth grade students will complete another 150 pots.
On January 23rd, Redskins tight end Chris Cooley came to Harmony as a special guest potter. He made another dozen pots plus a vase and a large platter.
via Empty Bowl Project at Harmony Intermediate School – Loudoun Daily-Monitor.
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