EGF Senior High: The Feeding of the Two Hundred

Handmade ceramic bowls of art students at East Grand Forks Senior High starred in an Empty Bowls fundraiser dinner Thursday April 10, 2008.
Throughout the school year, students have been turning out bowls of various sizes and styles, all hand-formed, for this event to raise money for the East Grand Forks food pantry.
Ceramics and Sculpture teacher Therese Masters Jacobson says each of her 57 students was involved in the making of about 225 uniquely beautiful bowls. Junior Matt Konze, and senior Kristina Sinjem volunteered to help with the process on weekends as the dinner date drew near.

After the clay is formed, it must dry several days, then be fired in a kiln at high temperatures to harden it. Next the pieces are glazed, then re-fired. The entire process for bowls takes about a week.

Student servers at the Empty Bowls Dinner were sophomore Andrea Dickman, senior Carly Chisholm, and freshmen Hailey Cariveau, Brooke Greenwood, and Kayleigh Kuznia.

In exchange for a donation, diners chose their bowls, which were served to them with soup and bread; diners then kept the bowls.

Bread for the event was donated by Dakota Harvest Bakery of Grand Forks.