MGA students are proving that creativity can be a powerful.
As part of a service-learning project led by Kimberly Riner, assistant professor of arts-ceramics 3D, a group of MGA students from the Macon and Cochran campuses have handcrafted nearly 300 ceramic bowls to help combat hunger in the region.
The one-of-a-kind bowls will be featured at the upcoming Empty Bowls luncheon, a community fundraiser benefiting the Middle Georgia Community Food Bank. The event will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 23, at the School of Arts & Letters on MGA’s Macon Campus.
"'Empty Bowls is a model of what service‑learning can be at MGA,' said Dr. Billy Wooten, dean of the School of Arts & Letters, who proposed the service-learning idea to Riner last spring and made the bowl-making part of the school’s annual Arts Festival. Now the project is about to pay off for the food bank.
"'We’re grateful to the Middle Georgia Community Food Bank for partnering with our students and to everyone who shaped, glazed, and fired bowls to make this inaugural event possible,' Wooten said."
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