Springfield High School art students are using their talents on the pottery wheel to assist with food insecurity in the community.
Since the beginning of the year, SHS students have been creating ceramic bowls that will be auctioned off at the The Second Harvest Food Bank of Clark, Champaign & Logan County’s ‘Empty Bowls’ event in partnership with Wittenberg University.
At the event, attendees can choose a bowl to keep and receive unlimited soup from local vendors for a $20 donation. Proceeds raised will go toward hunger relief in the three counties that the food bank serves.
SHS students created more than 600 bowls this year, and it is estimated that their efforts will raise over $12,200 for the food bank, equating to 73,200 meals that will go to those in need.
Springfield High has participated in the ‘Empty Bowls’ event since 2014, and since that time has created more than 5,000 soup bowls, raising more than $87,000 for local hunger relief and providing nearly 475,000 meals.
The ‘Empty Bowls’ event will be held on Thursday, April 4 from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the Wittenberg University Student Center Dining Hall. The event is open to the public.