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Annual charity event ‘Empty Bowls’ canceled for 2019

Annual charity event ‘Empty Bowls’ canceled for 2019

Megan Thorne, Managing Editor November 12, 2019

The annual “Empty Bowls” Evansville event, where students, faculty and community members volunteer to make and glaze bowls for charity, will not take place this year.  The annual event occurs at...

Dr. Stephanie Young, Associate Professor of Communication Studies makes a bowl out of clay during the 6th annual Bowl-O-Rama Friday afternoon. USI holds several events where volunteers make bowls for Empty Bowls Evansville.

Spinning clay for a cause

Austin Lewis, Staff Writer September 12, 2017

Flecks of dust danced through the rays of sunlight streaming through the back window of the Ceramics Center. The sun began to set as the clock struck 5 p.m. All was quiet except for the sound emitted...

USI alumna, Katie Ewers searches for the perfect “cereal bowl” with her daughter Samantha at Empty Bowls Saturday morning. Ewers said she took Al Holen’s ceramics class last summer and said she would love to do pottery again. “It was a fun class,” Ewers said.

Empty Bowls raises money, awareness

Megan Thorne, Opinion Editor November 9, 2016

Bowls clinked together as volunteers unloaded the last few boxes at Sauced before the restaurant’s doors opened Saturday morning. “One minute left till doors open,” Al Holen shouted. The room...

Empty Bowls fills stomachs, hearts

Gabi Wy, Features Editor November 3, 2016

After losing the use of his arm in a wreck in 2005, Jarrod Fawks faced a challenge last year in the university ceramics studio. “The ceramics wheel only spins one way,” the 2015 alum said. “It was...

Locals buy empty bowls

Locals buy empty bowls

November 11, 2015
This year the community made 1,164 bowls for Empty Bowls which took place on Saturday.
A large crowd of people bumped shoulders and clinked bowls as they made their way through Kirby's Fine dining Saturday during the 2014 Empty Bowls event, which sold out in just two hours.

Empty bowls to feed souls

Amelia Peterson November 5, 2015
Empty Bowls inspires and helps to feed the hungry in the community and will be taking place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Kirby's located at Haynie's Corner.
Largest crowd yet helps fill empty bowls

Largest crowd yet helps fill empty bowls

James Vaughn November 8, 2014
Hundreds crowded into Kirby's Fine Dining Saturday morning to fill their own empty bowls, as well as those in needs.
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