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Each year, members of the GLPG participate in a variety of community activities. Guild members donate hand-made bowls to the Red Cross sponsored Empty Bowls, an international fundraiser by potters to raise money for local food banks, shelters and soup kitchens and increase awareness of hunger-related issues. Guild members also support the MSU Kresge Art Museum with donations of pottery for a silent auction and for centerpieces at the Twilight in the Garden event.
GLPG members have joined other local artisans in displaying and demonstrating their craft at several community events, including the East Lansing Art Festival and the October 2009 Apple Butter Festival at Fenner Arboretum in Lansing. The Guild facility itself has been scheduled for tours and pottery-making demonstrations for the Greater Lansing Visitors Bureau's "Be A Tourist In Your Own Town" and for local art classes and other interested art-related groups. The pictures show Jenny Penn encouraging kids to make their marks on a small pot that she threw on the wheel at the Apple Butter Festival, and Pamela Timmons creating a hand-built, sun-face sculpture at the Guild during the Tourist-In-Your-Own-Town tour. Additionally the Potters' guild provides an annual cash award to a local organization for pottery-related activities. The most recent award was given to REACH, a non-profit neighborhood drop-in center for art serving the southwest area of Lansing.
Empty
Bowls The Lansing Empty Bowls fund raiser is organized and staffed by the Regional Food Distribution Center of the local American Red Cross, and made possible by the Lansing Center for the Arts, Spartan Water and Coffee, Lansing area potters, restaurants, bakeries and local musicians. For more information about Empty Bowls please visit their website at: www.emptybowls.net. Pottery
Demonstration...
The East Lansing Art Festival invites local art guilds to provide demonstrations for the public. Shown here, Maureen Ryan demonstrates wheel-throwing at the Potters Guild demonstration booth at the 2008 Art Festival. Children were given their own pieces of clay to take home or to sculpt by hand at the booth. Kresge Art Museum's Twilight in the Garden Auction
In 2007 and 2008 fifteen Guild members donated auction items and vases or bowls that were used for centerpiece floral arrangements at the dinner tables, as shown above left. After the dinner, the centerpieces were auctioned off, along with the many other donated items, such as the piece shown above right, to raise funds for the Museum Facilities Fund. Other community potters and GLPG teachers donating to Twilight include Nancy Plum, Jim Reinert, Ned Krouse and Mark Chatterley. return
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Empty
Bowls is a community activity with the goal of providing support
for food banks, soup kitchens, and other organizations that fight
hunger. Potters make and donate ceramic bowls, in which a simple
meal of soup and bread is served. As shown in this picture from
2007, guests may choose their bowls and keep the bowl as a reminder
of hunger in the world.
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