Empty Bowls
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morgainaMy Modern Pottery Guild will be holding our annual Empty Bowls event http://www.emptybowls.net/EmptyBowlsProject.htm April 18th, 2009.
We need more bowls than our smallish guild is able to produce, so anyone out there who does pottery or paints on bisqueware, we would love to have your pots for this charity.
All of the proceeds go to hunger organizations, 50% to a local food bank and 50% to Oxfam. We even got the hall and the soup donated this year. What we need most are more bowls.
Simply glazed bowls are always very popular and go fast, but if your interest is more in scribal arts here are some ideas.....
This bowl was painted in underglaze by Dame Tam on a bisque pot I threw last year at Iron & Ink & donated by Tam for this year:
(not a great photo, the brown is actually more brown than it appears here.)
This bowl was underglaze painted by Tomyris on a bowl I made and was sold at last year's Empty Bowls:
As you can guess, a project like this is way fun.
We need more bowls than our smallish guild is able to produce, so anyone out there who does pottery or paints on bisqueware, we would love to have your pots for this charity.
All of the proceeds go to hunger organizations, 50% to a local food bank and 50% to Oxfam. We even got the hall and the soup donated this year. What we need most are more bowls.
Simply glazed bowls are always very popular and go fast, but if your interest is more in scribal arts here are some ideas.....
This bowl was painted in underglaze by Dame Tam on a bisque pot I threw last year at Iron & Ink & donated by Tam for this year:
(not a great photo, the brown is actually more brown than it appears here.)
This bowl was underglaze painted by Tomyris on a bowl I made and was sold at last year's Empty Bowls:
As you can guess, a project like this is way fun.
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Date: 2009-03-04 07:25 pm (UTC)Also, I tend to buy pottery locally to help out local artisans and often keep a small stash of essentially personal largess. If you'd like I could donate a set or two of that which are usually small bowls with a cup, both thrown. Let me know and I'll see what I've got.
Will you be at A&S?
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Date: 2009-03-05 01:40 pm (UTC)We would love to have the handmade bowls, although we aren't soliciting cups.
Yes, I'll be at KA&S.
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Date: 2009-03-05 04:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-06 01:05 am (UTC)Do you have experience shipping fragile items? I can give you some pointers if you would like them.