Empty Bowls to Fight Hunger at TAUNY Center

EMPTY BOWLS
Join the Empty Bowls ceramicist movement to fight hunger at The TAUNY Center on Sunday, November 19th from 3:30-6:30pm.

Empty Bowls is a grassroots movement by artists and crafts people in cities and towns around the world to raise money for food related charities to care for and feed the hungry in their communities. 

TAUNY staff artist Cassie Helman and St. Lawrence County Arts Council staff artist Andrew Norrell are bringing Empty Bowls to St. Lawrence County. Through their art collective, Stoneware Story, they will donate their handmade ceramic bowls and host an event at The TAUNY Center.

For a donation, guests can choose a bowl and fill it with soup from the TAUNY kitchen. They then sit down among the other guests, eat their soup, and learn a little about how their donation has helped to fill the truly empty bowls of less fortunate people in their community. The bowls are theirs to keep and, in some circles, become real collector's items. All proceeds from the artists' bowls will be donated to local food banks.

Empty Bowls is so much more than collecting checks and tallying up totals. It builds and strengthens our community, supports our local artists, celebrates delicious food and beautiful pottery, and educates people about hunger and poverty.

Volunteer to make soup in the TAUNY kitchen: programs@tauny.org

Are you a ceramic artist? Contact us to donate bowls for the event: CassieHelman@tauny.org

This program is made possible in part thanks to funding from Creatives Rebuild New York. CRNY is a three-year, $125 million investment in the financial stability of New York State artists and the organizations that employ them. This series of programming was made possible through support from CRNY’s Artist Employment Program (AEP).