Empty Bowls - 2010
Oregon Potters Association coordinates an annual fund-raiser at the Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival to benefit Oregon Food Bank. OPA collects hundreds of pottery donations of all types, sizes and shapes throughout the year. OPA members then sell the donated pottery—often at bargain prices—at the Empty Bowls booth, near the main gate, at the Waterfront Blues Festival.
This years event is July 2nd – 5th at Portland’s Waterfront Park.
Over the past decade, OPA’s Empty Bowls event has raised more than $120,000 to help fight hunger in Oregon and Clark County, Wash.
Bill Sanchez, this year’s chair of the event, said that OPA is once again pleased to contribute to the efforts to help feed the hungry. The event provides local potters a way to make a personal difference. In addition to pottery, there will be some glass art available thanks to donations from local glass artists with the Oregon Glass Guild.
All proceeds from Empty Bowls benefit Oregon Food Bank and its work to eliminate hunger and its root causes … because no one should be hungry.
The empty bowl symbolizes hunger and poverty faced by people throughout the world. A group of Michigan potters created Empty Bowls in 1991. The program is now a fund-raising project in nearly all 50 states.
Distribution of Emergency Food throughout Oregon and Clark County, Wash., has reached record levels, according to Oregon Food Bank. In an average month, more than 210,000 people rely on food from emergency food boxes to stave off hunger in Oregon and Clark County, Wash. Of those, 36 percent are children.
Oregon Food Bank is a nonprofit, charitable organization. It is the hub of a the Oregon Food Bank Network, a statewide network of 20 regional food banks and 915 hunger-relief agencies serving Oregon and Clark County, Wash.
Read more about the Oregon Food Bank and the Waterfront Blues Festival.
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