Transylvania holiday events raise money for community
LEXINGTON, Ky.—The art program at Transylvania University invites the community to help feed the hungry by doing some early Christmas shopping for beautiful handmade ceramic bowls at the Morlan Gallery Dec. 3–5, noon-5 p.m. Transylvania and Morehead State University ceramic students and their professors Dan Selter (Transylvania) and Kira Munson Campbell and Steven Tirone (Morehead) have thrown and donated several hundred beautiful ceramic soup bowls available in the Morlan Gallery for $10 each. Started 16 years ago, the Empty Bowls Project is an opportunity for local artists to donate handmade ceramic bowls that are made available for purchase, with the proceeds benefiting community agencies that feed the hungry. Over the last eight years, the Morlan Gallery bowl sales have raised nearly $24,000 for local agencies such as Moveable Feast, the YMCA Spousal Abuse Center and the Hope Center. “Local artists can still donate bowls for sale as part of the Empty Bowls Project,” said Morlan Gallery director Andrea Fisher. “Functional or nonfunctional artists’ bowls of any media: wood, glass, fiber or paper mâché would be wonderful additions to this worthy event.” Included with every bowl purchase is a ticket to a vegetarian bean soup supper in the Rafskeller in the Mitchell Fine Arts Center from 6-7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 3. Soup supper tickets are available for $5 each without a bowl purchase. All proceeds from the bowl sale and the soup supper will go to Community Action, a Lexington
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