Empty Bowls fundraiser for Grassroots

Howard High Fills Empty Bowls for Grassroots

The National Art Honor Society at Howard High School hosts its annual “Empty Bowls” dinner benefit for Grassroots Crisis Intervention Center on Thursday, March 31, from 5-8 p.m., in the school cafeteria. 

For $10 admission, attendees chose an “empty bowl” created by Howard High students and teachers and select from different kinds of soup donated by teachers and parents.  Panera provides the bread.  All of the proceeds from the event go to Grassroots, Howard County’s only 24-hour crisis center and homeless shelter.

 “I’m always pleased how “Empty Bowls” turns out,” said art teacher and event organizer Molly Brennan.  “The coolest thing about this is not only do participants, be they students or teachers or others who help make the bowls, get the satisfaction of making something artistic and functional, there’s tangible evidence that making art can be philanthropic and do good.”

Grassroots is staffed by professional crisis counselors who answer 24-hour hotlines, see walk-ins in need of immediate counseling assistance, operate the mobile crisis team which responds to community emergencies, and manage the county’s emergency shelter for homeless men, women and families. In addition, Grassroots manages the Cold Weather Shelter Program, housed in the area’s faith communities, for people who are unable to find emergency shelter when Grassroots is full, as well as the Route One Day Center.

Howard High School is located at 8700 Old Annapolis Road (Route 108), Ellicott City.  The Empty Bowls fundraiser is open to the public. For information, call 410-313-2867.