For Philanthropy Awareness Week, UH is hosting the fifth annual Empty Bowls Bowl-A-Thon for participants to create ceramic bowls that are donated to the Houston Food Bank to raise money. | Courtesy of Tom Perry
As part of UH’s Philanthropy Awareness Week, #UHPhil Week, UH will host its fifth annual Empty Bowls Bowl-A-Thon from 3 to 7 p.m. Friday in the Ceramics Studio of the Fine Arts Building in Room 124. Everyone is invited to participate, and clay will be provided.
Empty Bowls is an international grassroots effort to fight hunger. Artists, potters, craftspeople, educators and others who work within the community join together to create handcrafted bowls, and 100 percent of proceeds go to the Houston Food Bank.
Co-chair of Empty Bowls Houston Tom Perry said Empty Bowls Houston wouldn’t be as successful as it is without the help of students and faculty in the Greater Houston area.
“Empty Bowls Houston has raised more than $410,000 in its first nine years, all of that directly benefiting the Houston Food Bank in its efforts to deliver nutritious meals to the thousands of people in need in Houston and its surrounding communities,” Perry said.
“We could not be this successful without the tremendous support of the talented ceramics students and faculty in area schools like UH. Each handmade bowl made at the UH Bowl-A-Thon will sell for $25, which translates into 75 meals.”
Empty Bowls Houston is presented by Whole Foods Market and achieved locally by the Houston Food Bank. Ceramists, woodturners, glassblowers, fiber artists, metalsmiths, painters, sculptors, artists and craftspeople of all kinds are invited to participate by contributing bowls.
For further information, please contact:
Chair Tom Perry: [email protected]
Volunteer Samantha Oldham: [email protected]
