The Grand Marais Art Colony invites the community to participate in this year’s Empty Bowls event by signing up for a Make-a-Bowl session, which begins Sept. 20.
Participants will learn to make one wheel-thrown and one handbuilt bowl that will be donated to Empty Bowls. Sessions begin on Sunday, Sept. 20 and run through Monday, Oct. 19. Sunday sessions begin at 2 p.m. and Monday sessions are at 7 p.m.
The annual Empty Bowls fundraiser strives to bring awareness to the pervasiveness of hunger in Cook County while actively working to solve this community problem.
One in 10 Cook County residents struggle with hunger, and 4.4 percent of Minnesotans have “very low food security,” meaning they not only worry about or struggle to get enough food, but they actually eat less or skip meals because there isn’t enough.
Empty Bowls in Cook County began in 2006 as a project of the Cook County High School Art Club. Today, Empty Bowls is organized by community volunteers and bowls for the event are made by local potters at the Art Colony.
Approximately 75 volunteers are needed on the day of the event to assist with setting up, serving, and assorted other tasks. If interested in volunteering or registering to make a bowl, contact the Art Colony at (218) 387-2737.
This year’s Empty Bowls and silent auction will take place Nov. 12 at St. John’s Catholic Church.
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