Our second annual EMPTY BOWLS WHS DINNER & FUNDRAISER will be held on
Friday, March 24, 2017 from 530-8pm (snow date 3/31)
in the HS large and middle cafeterias
Friday, March 24, 2017 from 530-8pm (snow date 3/31)
in the HS large and middle cafeterias
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Food Inspired Slump/Hump Mold Bowls
*PROJECT GOAL: The Empty Bowls Project is an international grassroots effort to raise both money and awareness in the fight to end hunger. Students will participate in Washingtonville High School’s second Annual Empty Bowls Project by creating ceramic bowls inspired by their favorite foods. Through the introduction of videos, discussions, and online research, students will learn how their favorite foods are farmed, processed, and sold, as well as why people, even in our local communities, are struggling with food insufficiency. Students will be invited to sell their bowls at the school’s Empty Bowls Dinner event in March of 2017 to help raise money for the Hudson Valley Food Bank and the Country Kids Food Pantry of Washingtonville. Students will learn to prepare clay, make basic slabs, and use the slump/hump mold method to create their bowl forms. Other techniques such as carving, stamping, relief, sculpture, and glazing will be introduced and used to add color, dimension, texture, pattern and sculptural forms to these bowls.
Where Do Our Favorite Foods Come From?
On Friday 9/30 (B-day) and Tuesday 10/4 (G-day) students began to narrow down their ideas for their food-inspired bowls. They researched where their favorite foods come from, how they are processed, transported and packaged before they end up on our plates. This new information will help inform the students and inspire ideas for their bowl designs. On 10/5 and 10/6 students will begin to sketch out their final designs for their food-inspired bowls. See research and drawing assignment below the photographs:
Where Do Our Favorite Foods Come From?
On Friday 9/30 (B-day) and Tuesday 10/4 (G-day) students began to narrow down their ideas for their food-inspired bowls. They researched where their favorite foods come from, how they are processed, transported and packaged before they end up on our plates. This new information will help inform the students and inspire ideas for their bowl designs. On 10/5 and 10/6 students will begin to sketch out their final designs for their food-inspired bowls. See research and drawing assignment below the photographs:
SMORES BOWL
SQUID BOWL
Ms. Held
Food-Inspired Bowl Project Research Assignment
Student Name: _________________________ Class Period: ______________________
For this EMPTY BOWL project you will create at least one bowl using the slump/hump mold method, as well as a variety of surface decorations techniques (carving, relief, sculpting, stamping, piercing). The bowl design will be inspired by your favorite food or food dish. Below is a series of questions related to your food choice. Your knowledge and understanding of how your food is grown/created, transported, processed, sold, and prepared will help you to develop your bowl design ideas. Your bowl will hopefully serve as reminder of all those who struggle with food insecurity. On the back of this sheet are directions for sketching out your bowl design ideas. ANSWER QUESTIONS IN COMPLETE SENTENCES FOR FULL CREDIT AND SITE YOUR SOURCES (title/author of the book/article OR web address).
1. What is your favorite food or food dish and why did you choose this for your bowl design?
2. List the basic ingredients for your favorite food/food dish. If your choice is a single food item then describe how you best like to eat it (grilled? In a salad? With hummus or dip? Etc.)
3. All the food we eat, unless we grow it ourselves, goes through a complex process from seed to food on our plate. Answering the following questions will take some time to research. Be sure to write or type the web address or the title/author of the book or magazine from which you are sourcing your information.
a. Where is your food item or the 2 basic ingredients of your food dish typically grown? What types of farms? What part of the country or world?
b. How is your food item or 2 basic ingredients of your food dish typically transported from farm to processing center (factory) or store? Ship? Plane? Bus? Truck? Train? Other means?
c. If your food item or the 2 basic ingredients of your food dish are processed in a factory before being sold, then what type of processing does it/do they go through? Canning? Freezing? Curing? Drying? Freeze-drying? Other?
d. Does your food item or the 2 basic ingredients of your food dish require food additives to be added during the processing stage? If so then what type of additives are typically used. Food additives such as those that: enhance flavor? Improving nutrition? Increase shelf life? Maintain texture? Help foods age properly? Other?
e. If your food item or the 2 basic ingredients of your food dish are packaged before being sold, what type of packaging does it/do they typically require? Boxing? Styrofoam? Plastic wrap? Other?
f. Where is your food item or the 2 basic ingredients of your food dish typically sold? What type of store? Where do you typically find it/them?
g. What are some of the complications or controversies surrounding your food item or the 2 basic ingredients of your food dish? Are there issues with the use of pesticides or unsafe food additives? Organic versus non-organic farming? Treatment of farm animals? Factory farming versus small/local farms? Farmer who grow the crops not being paid enough? Shortage of farmland to grow your food? Natural disasters that affect farmers’ ability to grow the food? Water shortage affecting crops? Waste and greenhouse emissions? Chemicals used to make food? Poor nutritional value? Other?
Drawing Assignment: Using the attached blank sheet of paper, create detailed sketches of your Empty Bowl design idea. Your bowl should be inspired by your favorite food or food dish. Your drawings should include and consider the following:
1. Your bowl’s visual design may be based on the research you just conducted about your food/food dish. The design should be inspired by any of the following:
a. The landscape or location of where your food/food dish ingredients are grown (i.e. an orchard of orange trees since your favorite food is orange sorbet).
b. The means by which your food are transported (i.e. a farm truck filled with oranges travelling down a rural road).
c. The factory or warehouse your food is processed (i.e. scenes of factory workers on an assembly line handling oranges for the production of orange sorbet.)
d. The farm stand and or store where you food is sold.
e. Your food color, shape, texture, and/or patterns.
f. Images of the food/food ingredients itself.
g. Feel free to develop your own ideas beyond what is suggested here.
2. Draw at least one interior and one exterior view of your bowl
3. Drawings should be either colored in with colored pencil/markers or labeled with what colors you plan to use.
*Remember this is just a beginning sketch; your ideas may change as you work on your project.
Ms. Held
Empty Bowls Project Drawing Assignment
Student Name: _________________________ Class Period: ______________________
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