{"id":29370,"date":"2026-04-14T13:30:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=29370"},"modified":"2026-04-14T16:34:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T20:34:54","slug":"school-of-art-design-to-host-empty-bowls-sale-may-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2026\/04\/school-of-art-design-to-host-empty-bowls-sale-may-1\/","title":{"rendered":"School of Art & Design to host Empty Bowls sale May 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
The ceramics program in Marshall University\u2019s School of Art & Design will host the 23rd Annual Empty Bowls pottery sale fundraiser from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, May 1, at the Pullman Square Gazebo. Bowls created by Marshall students, employees and community volunteers will be sold for $20 apiece, with proceeds going to the Facing Hunger Foodbank.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Facing Hunger Foodbank serves 17 counties in the Tri-State area. Many of these counties are where our students, faculty and staff come from \u2013 and are our community members and neighbors,\u201d said Courtney Chapman of Marshall\u2019s School of Art & Design, who coordinated this year\u2019s event.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal is to create 1,000 bowls every year to sell for $20 each at the event,\u201d Chapman said. \u201cFor every bowl sold, that money goes directly to the foodbank to give them buying power for 180 meals, meaning if we sell our goal, that\u2019s 180,000 meals provided to our friends and neighbors \u2013 all through art!\u201d<\/p>\n

She offered a thank you to sponsors who support the event. Sponsors include the School of Art & Design, the College of Arts & Media and community partners such as Full Circle Gifts & Goods and BesTitle Agency Inc.<\/p>\n

Volunteers who helped make bowls included art students in the \u201cIntro to Potter\u2019s Wheel\u201d course and staff members at Marshall and volunteers from partnering studios, including Merging Rivers Pottery Studio in Russell, Kentucky, and Taylor Books Pottery Studio in Charleston. Other volunteers include the Marshall women\u2019s golf and women\u2019s soccer teams, Marshall Athletics staff members, and community members who showed up for open studio events, Chapman said.<\/p>\n

Empty Bowls has provided crucial support to the Facing Hunger Foodbank through the years, said its CEO, Cyndi Kirkhart.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor so many years, this incredible partnership of art from the students and community \u2014 and the collective of everyone coming together to support the food bank \u2014 brings support to the communities at the center of our work,\u201d Kirkhart said. \u201cTo be able to co-create the event with the strong support from Courtney and Marshall\u2019s School of Art & Design, as well as to invite the volunteers that helped make the bowls, I am confident that this year\u2019s event will rank amongst the best in total community support.
\n\u201cThe sponsorships ensure that we are able to provide these bowls and the additional volunteer activities and extend the opportunities for the community to participate in a variety of ways \u2014 learning about the event and creating the art, as well as supporting the food bank and our work across 17 counties. Courtney and the students are a key to our success this year, regardless of the final outcome, as we have involved so many people from so many walks of life.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information about Marshall\u2019s School of Art & Design, visit https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/art\/<\/a>. For more information about the Facing Hunger Foodbank, visit https:\/\/facinghunger.org\/<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The ceramics program in Marshall University\u2019s School of Art & Design will host the 23rd Annual Empty Bowls pottery sale fundraiser from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, May 1, at the Pullman Square Gazebo. Bowls created by Marshall students, employees and community volunteers will be sold for $20 apiece, with proceeds going to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,41,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-cam","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29372,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29370\/revisions\/29372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}