FREE Spoon-Making Workshop
Local friends (aka Inland Empire Readers),
The dates are set! You’re invited to participate in EMPTY, the socially engaged art project that highlights food insecurity among children in the city of Riverside. I wrote about the evolution of the project and the data that informs it HERE.
It’s time to make A LOT of spoons. The goal: 500 ceramic spoons formed, fired, and glazed (?!?) for display the first weekend of December.
We gotta get busy!
This first iteration of the project features one spoon for every 10 students in the Alvord Unified School District in kindergarten to grade 5 who qualifies for free lunch.
Mark your calendar and get ready to play with clay for a cause.
Special shout out to Erin Snyder with Riverside-Corona Resource Conservation District! The RCRCD is opening their class room space in Building F for this FREE workshop.
You are welcome to download and print the flyer above. (The QR code on the flyer links to the article describing the project.)
This is an in-person workshop. Materials provided. If you work with clay and have your own tools, feel free to bring them.
All spoons made will be part of an art installation presented at The Alternative Gift Fair, at First United Methodist Church of Riverside, Sunday morning, December 3, 2023.
Seeing the spoons on display is only one reason to attend the Alternative Gift Fair. I’ll be there with other vendors who are raising money for various charitable causes. Come find me selling handmade ceramic bowls to benefit Alford Cares.
Each bowl made and sold for project EMPTY bears this imprint.
When you purchase one of these beautiful, food-safe, dishwasher friendly, empty vessels, you are helping Alvord Cares fill a hungry child.
The amazing volunteers working with Alvord Cares know the children and households that need food and nutrition support over the weekend. They fill backpacks with food to send home with these students. Every dollar directed to the program addresses food insecurity for children.
Mark your calendar and get ready to play with clay for a cause.
Sunday October 22 OR Tuesday October 24
1pm-4pm
4500 Glenwood Drive, Riverside CA 92501
Let me know which day you plan to attend.🙂 Reply to this message, DM me on Instagram, or email me: rebwaring@gmail.com
