Wilton pottery-making sessions to benefit food charity

Belle Creative Arts Center in Wilton plans to host a pottery-making event to benefit local food charity. Submitted photo

WILTON — Vera Johnson plans to hold a series of events to make bowls. These workshops are scheduled for 6 p.m. Mondays through Sept. 19 at the Belle Creative Arts Center, where she will teach people how to make pinch pots, one of the oldest and simplest forms of ceramics, according to a news release from the center, 87 High St.

The schedule allows for firing, glazing, and for-sale proceeds to be made in time for the holidays. The first workshop was to be held Aug. 15.

The pottery made will be donated and sold at the Fall Harvest soup fundraising event at Salt & Pepper and Sugar Too in Wilton in late October. This community effort is part of Empty Bowls, a global grassroots movement by local artists and craftspeople in cities and towns around the world to raise money for food related charities that care for and feed the hungry in their communities.

Empty Bowls has raised millions of dollars around the world to help fight hunger.

Johnson aims to make at least 50 bowls this season.

For more information and to register, visit verajohnson.net/classes. A suggested minimum donation of $20 helps to cover the cost of materials, with 50% of that going directly to the local food bank. Non-perishable food and additional cash donations for the food bank will be accepted at the door.