Empty Bowls

November 15 marks the date for the 2011 Empty Bowls Benefit. The event is held annually in Rome to bring potters and the community at large together to fight hunger. You can read more about it here and this is one of the most awesome entries because it has a photo of me in my head over heels in love with clay stage and I'm standing next to Serpentfoot.

Ok, I'll just post it here. 

I really like Serpentfoot because she washed my pottery towel for me.  This was a huge deal since I was in college and my two options for washing 20lbs of clay out of my towel were hosing it down behind the studio (ineffective, dampening, and cold) or pay my precious quarters to wash one mere towel when other loads of laundry begged for attention.  I lent it to her to wipe her hands on and she just offered to do it.  Then it smelled like patchouli which was lovely.

So, all year long, it is in most potter's minds that bowls of a certain stature need to be squirreled away for this wonderful event. Being a procrastinator, I rarely do this as I'm behind on other requests, orders, shows, etc. and therefore put off my Empty Bowls throwing efforts until the fall. Which is the busiest time of year anyway for a potter as well as a healthcare marketer. Nice weather just wrecks havoc on a a schedule.

Well, in my efforts to be oh so much more on top of things, now that I'm a grown married women, I set aside some time this weekend to make some Empty Bowls (yes, I know it is fall). Jonathan pulled my wheel into the front yard and it was so wonderful to create pieces for the greater good of mankind beneath the leaves of my trees.

My set up.

Bowls!

So, yay me, I've almost got 20 bowls to donate to the cause.  And combined with the rest of the potters in Rome, it is pretty neat to see the impact of these efforts.  My part is very small but I love being a part of this and I thank my pottery professor, Jere Lykins from Berry College, for instilling in our minds from the very beginning that it is always important to give back- no matter if you are a beginning potter or a millionaire.

Also- watch for pictures from our upcoming throwing party at Earthworks Pottery this weekend.  Famous local potters will gather to make bowls together for an evening for the Empty Bowls event.  It will be pretty impressive.  I'll post some and I hope to see some in the Rome News as well!

Love,
Lisa