Syzygy Tile Workshop to create clay bowls for future Empty Bowls Community dinner

Photos by Mary Alice Murphy

Saturday, July 22, 2017 Clay Festival events included the workshop at Syzygy Tile for people to make bowls for the Empty Bowls Community Dinner to be held Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017, at The Volunteer Center to benefit the Grant County Food Pantry, "Helping to end local hunger one bowl at a time."

All materials for the bowls were provided to those creating them.

More than 120 bowls had been created, by the end of the workshop Saturday afternoon, according to Judy Menefee, one of the organizers of the Saturday event.

The next step of the process will be a free workshop during the Gila River Festival on Saturday, Sept. 23, again at Syzygy Tile from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Drop in, all materials provided.

The cost to attend the dinner at The Volunteer Center is set at $20 and each purchaser will enjoy a meal of delicious soup, bread and dessert served in a handmade bowl of your choice to take home. The purpose is to remind the purchaser, that "while your bowl is always full, those of many in our community are empty," according to a flyer.

Mariah's Copper Quail Gallery also had a reception to promote the artists in her gallery on Texas Street.