Annual Empty Bowls Event in Marietta, Ohio

From the Parkersburg News and Sentinal:

Potters from all over the Marietta area contributed their artwork to a good
cause on Saturday morning.

It was part of Empty Bowls, a nationwide program where local potters are asked to donate their work to programs which feed the hungry.

According to Caroline Putnam, who coordinated the event this year, the First Unitarian Universalist Church started an Empty Bowls event in Marietta eight years ago.

“An unknown young woman, a potter, approached the service committee of the Unitarian Church and suggested this program,” she said. “She gave them some information from the Internet and then she disappeared.”

Over the years, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church and the First Congregational Church in Marietta became part of the effort. This year’s event was held at First Congregational.

For $10, participants could get one of the 250 bowls provided by local potters and eat a lunch made up of food and soup donated by local restaurants. For $5 they could just eat lunch.

“Everything is donated,” Putnam said.

The only thing an organization is required to do when it participates in Empty Bowls is donate the money it raises to a group which feeds the hungry.

Sounds like a great event! Perhaps it will give others some ideas!

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