Empty Bowl Project offers art and lunch December 13

     LIVONIA—Schoolcraft College’s annual Empty Bowl Project sale and luncheon will be held Monday, December 13, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Wilson Room, next to Henry’s Food Court in the VisTaTech Conference Center on the college’s Livonia campus. 

     More than 100 ceramic pieces will be available for donations of $5 - $50. Anyone who purchases a bowl will receive a bowl of soup, a piece of bread and a glass of water. This simple meal, donated by the Food Services Department, helps to serve as a reminder to everyone that there are many people in our area, and throughout the world, for whom this would be a feast. 

     All money raised from the sale of the ceramic pieces will go to St. Leo’s Soup Kitchen in Downtown Detroit and Crossroads of Michigan. The ceramic pieces are the work of students who have been significant contributors including ceramics students Kathleen Newman, Jesy Camilleri, Ai Iivumi, and Amy Oszewski along with continuing education instructors Mike Kuhn and Frank Fisher and other students in the continuing education department's ceramics classes. 

     The pieces for sale include a wide array of stylings, from the very simple to more intricate works of art. In addition to helping the hungry, the bowl and other ceramic pieces make great holiday gifts. The public is welcome to join the campus community for this special community service project. In addition to helping others in need and sharing a delicious bowl of soup, The Empty Bowl project it is a great opportunity for folks to examine the work of our very talented students, who could very well be the area’s next most famous artisan

     Schoolcraft College is a public two-year college, offering classes at the Livonia campus on Haggerty Road between Six and Seven Mile roads, at the Radcliff Center in Garden City and online at schoolcraft.edu.

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