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What might this child’s life be like?
Think of a time when you were really
hungry.
1. What was the length of time that had
gone by since you had last eaten?
1. Did you know you were getting food soon?
2. How is your situation different than that of people who don’t
have ready access to food?
3. When one uses the word hunger, what does it mean?
4. What if you did not know when you would eat again? How
would you feel?
5. Why are people hungry?

Objectives
•You will create thrown & hand
built bowls
•You will learn how to apply
decoration methods such as
wax resist and slip trailing
•You will critique your work
and the work of others.
•You will donate one or more
pieces to Empty Bowls as a
fundraiser for the Food Bank
of the Rockies.

Essential Questions
•What is considered art?
•How do different cultures manifest the
purposes of art?
•How do you problem-solve to create art?
•When is art criticism vital?

Empty Bowls Concept
Some artists use their art to speak about
problems in society. Often visual artists use
sign, symbol, or metaphor in artworks to create
an awareness of the need for social change in
the world around them. Social change requires
individual and collective efforts and is most
effective when individuals pool their energies
for a common purpose. The Empty Bowls
Project is one of those collective efforts.

The Original Empty Bowls
●Initiated by Michigan art teacher John Harton
●1990 – 1991 School Year
●Supports food related charities around the World.
● Millions of dollars raised to aid in the fight against hunger
● Donation of ceramic bowls.
● For minimum donation a meal is served.

Empty Bowls Fundraiser for
the Hunger and Poverty in Colorado
11.2% of people in Colorado live in poverty.
13% of Colorado children live in poverty.
(nccp.org)
1 in 7 households in Colorado are food
insecure, or food insecure with hunger
(USDA – 2011)
The number of children living in poverty has
increased 85 percent since 2000, with more
than 192,000 children living at or below the
poverty level.

Empty Bowl Rubric
Concept: Assess and
produce art with various
materials and methods
Advanced Understanding
of Standard 4
Name__________________Pe
riod____
Meets Standard 3 Approaching Standard 2 Below Standard 1
Create works of art that
speak to personal
artistic opinion in
response to cultural
contexts.
Excellent visually pleasing
shape and decoration. Rim
is smooth enough to
eat/drink out of. Not too
thick. Considered the
purpose of the bowls in
creating the form and
decoration. Completed a
personal bowl and a soup
bowl to donate to empty
bowls that has excellent
craftsmanship.
Visually pleasing shape
and decoration. Rim is
mostly smooth enough to
eat/drink out of. Not too
thick. Considered the
purpose of the bowls in
creating the form and
bowls that has good
craftsmanship.
Rim is mostly smooth
enough to eat/drink out of.
Not too thick. Considered
the purpose of the bowls
in creating the form and
bowls that has average
craftsmanship.
Rim is not smooth enough to
eat/drink out of. Too thick. Did
not consider the purpose of the
bowls in creating the form and
decoration. Did not create a
personal bowl and/or a soup
bowl to donate to empty bowls
that has excellent craftsmanship.

Requirements
Guiding Question: How do the ideas of poverty, charity,
giving interact with function? Surface? Aesthetic expression
of personal content?
● Each student will be responsible for creating a bowl for
empty bowls, and one or more bowls for themselves.
● Create 3 or more tests
● Bowls needs to be food safe.
● Finished bowls need to be of high quality.
Slab Bowl

Aesthetic Aspects of Your Bowls
● What kind of attitude or feeling do you want your bowls to have? How will
you use foot, rim, curve to establish your idea? For example, a bowl that
expresses comfort would look different than one that conveys elegance.
● What is the function of your bowl, and what considerations are necessary
in form for this? e.g. size, shape of curve (offering, enclosing/containing)?
Mixing bowls meant to contain liquid contents during stirring have a
different shape than serving bowls that are meant to invite the hand to
select something from the bowl.
● What personal content/tone/attitude do you want to express in your bowls?
Choose the personal content you want to be expressed in your bowls.

Technical Goals
1. Smooth, continuous curves from the center to the
rim.
2. Even wall thickness.
3. Effective foot trimming or treatment.
4. Trimming should be done to create even wall
thickness and stable footing for your bowl.
5. Produce a bowl of reasonable weight for its size,
and a bottom that is about the same thickness as
the walls.
6. Glazing: effective glaze application, including a
clean foot.
7. Bowls should be functional for your desired
purpose.

What technical aspects can you consider about a bowl?
RIM
Bowl is functional
consider:
•Is the rim sturdy?
•Are the edges sharp
and prone to
chipping?
•Are the edges of the
rim nicely rounded
off?

FOOT
Does the size of the foot make
the bowl look larger or smaller by
comparison?
•How does it help the design?
•How does it help the stability?

CONTOUR
A bowl is a container.
•Consider the inside and
outside contours.

PROPORTION
Do you want it deep or wide?
•What do the proportions say about the bowl's function?

Empty Soup Bowl Design
RIM:
Medium rim to
prevent chipping
PROPORTION: Deep
for stew or chili to
keep it hot
FOOT:
Cut out feet for visual lift
DECORATION:
Orange and blue,
complementary colors for
contrast, stamp for texture

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