Empty bowls for the Salvation Army in Tupelo, MS
Artists and crafts people around world the donates time, materials and effort to support the empty bowl movement to care for and feed the hungry in their communities. This charitable empty bowl of feeding the hunger was founded in about 1990 by Lisa Blackburn and art teacher John Hartom, who used his high school students to make ceramic bowls.
The finished products were used as serving pieces for a fund-raising meal of soup and bread and the contributing guests kept the empty clay bowl. During the next year, Hartom and other participants developed this concept into the Empty Bowls project.
The finished products were used as serving pieces for a fund-raising meal of soup and bread and the contributing guests kept the empty clay bowl. During the next year, Hartom and other participants developed this concept into the Empty Bowls project.