Throwing bowls for hungerBy Lyn Mettler | |
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Students from Herron School of Art at IUPUI and some 20 students from North Central High School in Indianapolis made hundreds of bowls to help feed the hungry in Indiana at the Herron Sculpture and Ceramics Facility Sept. 8.
On World Food Day, Oct. 16, students will serve the bowls with a simple meal of soup and bread at North Central for a suggested donation of $5. Recipients may keep the bowl as a souvenir to remind them that there are always empty bowls in the world. The s tudents will then donate the money to a local hunger fighting organization. “Artists are socially conscious people, but they work in an isolated world,” said Herron ceramics professor Mark Richardson. “This project enables them to use their skills to help someone else and to have some kind of connection with the outside world.” The students turned out 600 of the ceramic bowls and two soup tureens for auction. Empty Bowls is an international project to fight hunger that began in 1991 and has since raised m illions of dollars. |
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