Steve Aulerich and Laurie Childers, from the Willamette Ceramics Guild share a joke as they throw pots for Empty Bowls.
Willamette Ceramics Guild threw a Throw-a-thon in January at the Benton Center Ceramics Lab. The Throw-a-thon is a party to make ceramic bowls for the Empty Bowls project, a grassroots effort to raise money and awareness to end hunger and food insecurity. Dawn Jones of The Willamette Ceramics Guild joins with Keith Moses from Crescent Valley High School to gather members of the guild and community potters to get together at least twice a year to throw clay for soup bowls for Empty Bowls. The throw-a-thons take place either at Crescent Valley or the Benton Center Ceramics lab. Both schools donate glazing and firing facilities for the project. While some bowl sales go to other agencies, the money from the sale of the bowls through Sunny Side-Up Restaurant goes to Linn Benton Food Share. Linn Benton Food Share has received money from Empty Bowls projects for more than twenty years.
