Empty Bowl Fundraiser in Basin
By: Dylan Brooks
Updated: September 29, 2010
Some area art students are coming together for a good cause.
Art students from U.T.P.B., Odessa High School and West Texas College in Snyder have joined forces for the annual Empty Bowl fundraiser. The students make the bowls out of pottery, and then sell them to help fight hunger in our community.
Art student Kaitlin Carrigan found the bowl-making a "fun, interesting thing. When you're doing it, you learn the background of it. $10 for a bowl, people go and buy. $10 feeds 40 meals per bowl."
"And so when you start to think about the fact that just that little humble that you buy could feed 40 people, that's amazing," art professor Chris Stanley told Big 2.
They'll be selling the bowls during a soup dinner Friday at St. John's Episcopal Church from 7 PM - 9 PM. All proceeds benefit the West Texas Food Bank. Crane High School will also be having an Empty Bowls event January.
