Friday, October 16, 2009

Boulder Mountain Clay throws a Bowl-a-Thon

Project aims to fight hunger through art

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By SABINA DANA PLASSE
Express Staff Writer

Boulder Mountain Clayworks will make 100 clay bowls for the Empty Bowls Project. Photo by

Philanthropy can find its way to the people who need it in many ways besides in the form of cash or a check. In tough times, creativity can be a vehicle to helping one another. For the past 11 years, Boulder Mountain Clayworks in Ketchum has participated in the Empty Bowls Project to help fight hunger in Idaho.

The clay studio will open its doors for its annual Bowl-a-Thon on Saturday, Oct. 17, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. for anyone who wants to make clay bowls for the Empty Bowls Project. Clayworks provides the clay and the community provides the labor. This year the goal for the studio is to make 100 bowls and the state goal is to have 2,000 bowls.

All potters, no matter the experience level, are encouraged to make and glaze bowls to fight hunger. In addition, any organization wishing to participate in this project should call Boulder Mountain Clayworks and arrange for a group session.

The bowls will be sent to the Idaho Food Bank in Boise and will be sold and filled with soup donated by various chefs in Boise on Friday, Nov. 27, the day after Thanksgiving, at Grove Plaza in downtown Boise.

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Boulder Mountain Clayworks is in the Tenth Street light-industrial area behind St. Francis Pet Clinic. For details, call 726-4484 or e-mail bouldermtnclay@yahoo.com.

Sabina Dana Plasse: splasse@mtexpress.com