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“Empty Bowls” is an international project to fight hunger, personalized by artists and art organizations on a community level. Each community’s events are self developed and independent. “Empty Bowls” now supports food related charities around the world and has raised millions of dollars to aid in the fight against hunger.
“Empty Bowls” allows artists and groups to create and donate bowls, then serve a simple meal or soup. In some communities, ceramic artists are joined by wood turners, glassblowers, fiber artists, metal smiths, painters, sculptors, and other artists and craftspeople. Riverview K-8 students craft bowls using multi-media like weaving, ceramics, photography, etc. Guests choose a bowl to use to keep as a reminder of all the empty bowls in the world. In exchange for the meal, and the bowl, guests contribute a suggested minimum donation. One hundred percent of each meal’s proceeds are devoted to local hunger-fighting organizations, such as food banks or soup kitchens, or to national or international charitable groups. Riverview chooses Rise Against Hunger. An international hunger relief agency that has been fulfilling its commitment to end hunger for more than 15 years. Since 1998, the organization has coordinated the distribution of food and other lifesaving aid to children and families in countries all over the world.
The objectives of “Empty Bowls” are:
Raise as much money as possible to feed the world’s hungry people. Lives are in the balance.
Increase awareness of hunger and related issues. Through education, awareness, and action, concerned individuals can change human attitudes that allow hunger to exist. Advocate for arts education. Nurturing the creative process through the arts enhances the possibility of finding new solutions to old problems.