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March 25, 2004 School Zone: By Cynthia Hodnett UW-Green Bay's student Art Agency raised $2,100 through the Empty Bowls
chili sale. Those dollars, plus matching funds from the Feinstein Foundation
will be donated to the Brown County Food and Hunger Network, a nonprofit
group of volunteers and community agencies that brings awareness to hunger
in the community.
The worldwide Empty Bowls program unites the fine arts with a project
to help agencies in their fight against hunger. Last year's sale at UW-Green
Bay raised $2,500 which benefited the Bay Area Humane Society.
"We were very happy with what we raised (last year) and we hope to raise
even more this year," said Lexie Hassinger, a senior and art major at
UW-Green Bay. This is the second year that Hassinger participated in the
event.
"I enjoyed participating last year, so I decided to participate again
this year," she said. "It's a good way to help people"
About a dozen art students and faculty members made 250 to 300 ceramic
bowls for this year's event.
Students from the Art Agency planned the meal, which was donated by
Patrick's on the Bay, Kavarna, Titletown Brewing Co., Legends Brewhouse
& Eatery and Uprisings cafe.
Customers made a donation, chose a bowl and filled it with chili.
"The idea is that they keep the bowl, which will stand as metaphor so
in the future when they use the bowl, it will remind them that for some
people, their bowls are empty every day," said Curt Heuer, an associate
art professor at UW-Green Bay.
Heuer introduced Empty Bowls to the university 10 years ago after learning
about it from a former student.
"There's this image that art students and artists in general are self-centered
and frivolous people," Heuer said. "As an educator, it is a way to get
students involved in something that has significance in their lives and
redeems that image of being self-centered. Students can use their art
as social good to benefit other people and not just themselves."
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