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Each year, our ceramics instructor, Jessica Gardner, works with her students to make over a 100 bowls for the Empty Bowls, Alexandria community project fundraiser.
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The bowls are first thrown… created on the wheel and then they are trimmed to shape.
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Empty Bowls is a national program that works with artists at the community level, to raise awareness for hunger in area communities.
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Last year the students at Alexandria campus donated more than 100 bowls toward the community fundraising efforts.
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Working on the wheel is one thing.. but working for the community while creating is far more rewarding.
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For more information about this year’s November, Empty Bowls fundraiser, with work from our NOVA students, contact Jessica Gardner at JGgardner@nvcc.edu
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Post by: Britt Conley, Fine Art Department Studio Assistant