How valuable is a humble, handmade pottery bowl for $25? Multiply it by 663 donated bowls and you get $16,575 that was donated to Food Share Ventura. Another way to calculate its value is the 50,000 meals that they will provide for local, food insecure folks. Wow. A lot of thanks to go around for the Bowl of Thanks held November 9 and 10 at the Ventura Harbor Pottery Gallery. The Ventura County Potters’ Guild hosted the event, bringing together a community of generous artisans and supporters. Bowls were donated by Guild members, as well as by potters at local schools and colleges and other ceramic organizations. A special thanks goes to the Harbor restaurants who participated in giving food samples to the first 450 people who purchased bowls. And the biggest thanks go to the hundreds of customers who purchased the bowls.
The second part of the event was a Pottery Market where 16 Guild members set up booths to sell their wares. That too was a success and many of our customers got a jump on Holiday shopping.
The Ventura County Potters’ Guild, a non-profit founded in 1957, continues its mission of promoting ceramic arts through the Gallery, workshops, and monthly meetings. Meetings are open to the public and feature ceramic demonstrations or presentations. More information can be found at www.vcpg.org. Online Store – www.venturapotteryonline.com.
Ventura Pottery Gallery is located at 1567 Spinnaker Drive, Suite 105 in Ventura Harbor. The gallery is open seven days a week from 11-6.
