Happy bowl day
Jun. 2nd, 2015 12:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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This is what a happy food bank fundraiser looks like.
Meet Dawn Marie Woodward, Events coordinator for Food for Lane County. She's helping me unload and bring in 172 soup bowls for next Friday's Empty Bowls fundraiser. (I usually aim for a hundred bowls, but lost track sometime last winter…) I've written elsewhere about the reasons I contribute bowls; what I forgot to say is how much rewarding it is to have people excited, even delighted, to see my work.
The original Empty Bowls was a student fundraiser in Michigan in 1990-91; since then the idea as spread nationwide, including over half a dozen different events in Oregon alone. Eugene's Empty Bowls sale is an annual event, featuring bowls by local potters, wood and glass-workers, and the assistance of pottery organizations including Local Clay and Clayspace. Over 1000 bowls are sold with proceeds going to hunger relief in the local community.