Students in Bloomfield’s Family and Consumer Science and art classes will offer an Empty Bowls dinner between 5-7 p.m.
in room C226 — the FACS kitchen room. Art teacher Deb Johnson and FACS teacher Darla Bent came up with the idea after reading an article in American Profile, the weekly magazine that is inserted into the Greene County Daily World each Tuesday. It was about an art teacher who had his students make bowls, then serve a dinner and offer the money to a charity. “We got the idea from the magazine that is in your paper (each Tuesday),” Johnson said. Johnson and Bent decided they’d like to do the same. So they wrote for and received a Learn and Serve grant that will help make the project possible. Though the event is called an Empty Bowls dinner, visitors won’t leave hungry. You’ll have a choice between chili or ham and bean soup. In compliance with the guidelines of the Empty Bowls Project, students from the art department created hand-made and hand-painted ceramic bowls that will be used for the soup dinner. The Family and Consumer Science (FACS) department students will use their culinary skills to prepare soup to fill the bowls and will serve soup to patrons.
“You’re supposed to prepare some kind of meal and serve it in bowls, and then give the money to some kind of worthy cause. (Johnson) and I put our heads together and thought it would be a good activity for our two classes,” Bent explained.