Pam Easley on sun 11 mar 01
What a dilemma they put you in! Especially because it ‘s a charity event, I
vote that you just place one price on the donation. Say, $10, you pick the
bowl of your choice. That way you’re not stuck with making a judgment call
on which one is more lovely than the other. Good luck!
Pam, in beautiful Seattle – no rain today, no quakes today, and the bulbs
are starting to bloom.Yaaaaaaaaaayyyy!
Kim Peterson on sun 11 mar 01
Potters guild of Las Cruces (NM) has done Empty Bowls for a number of year,
and it is a great success story for the local soup kitchen!
Bowls are prices at $10 (started at $8 years ago and I don't know what they
will be next Oct). Yhe soup is donated. Local resturants do get some great
free advertising from the local news.. To go containers are availible.
T Shirts are also available for a cost.
When they first started, it was just the potters.. Now it is the local
celebs, school kids, auctions... All done at the biggest churCh in Cruces..
One Day.. 11-1:00 First come first served and there is usually a line by
10!! if I recall, the last event raised over $3,000, roughly 3/4 of the
charities budget for the upcoming year. (don't quote me on the intake)
The Potters Guild usually meets at the university studio (NMSU) on a Sat and
throw to their hearts content. An enjoyable activity. The university fire
both bisqu and glaze. The potters volunteer to serve and clean up along with
the church.
Anything left over is sold at a discount at the Renneaisance Fair in Nov.
(which is another story).
Thanks to the Las Cruces Potters.
Kim
>From: Pam Easley
>Reply-To: Ceramic Arts Discussion List
>To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
>Subject: EMPTY BOWLS PRICING
>Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 08:28:04 -0800
>
>What a dilemma they put you in! Especially because it ‘s a charity event,
>I
>vote that you just place one price on the donation. Say, $10, you pick the
>bowl of your choice. That way you’re not stuck with making a judgment call
>on which one is more lovely than the other. Good luck!
>Pam, in beautiful Seattle – no rain today, no quakes today, and the bulbs
>are starting to bloom.Yaaaaaaaaaayyyy!
>
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Jim Bozeman on sun 11 mar 01
We're going to have an Empty Bowls event here in Athens and serve soup for the first time. Last year apparently folks just met in a church and picked out a bowl they liked. I'm teaching at a fairly new 6 million dollar Arts Center and there is a kitchen in the building. The Food Bank of Northeast GA is the recipient of the money generated. They printed up tickets that the public will buy for $15.00 apiece. This does not even include the bowl!! They want to price the bowls at $7.50 so it will cost $22.50 to get a serving of soup and a bowl. All of this was designed with NO feedback from area potters. The price seems kind of steep to me. I thought about pricing the bowls that I'm donating at 1 cent as a way of protest. We'll see how it all pans out. Jim
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Chris Schafale on sun 11 mar 01
Jim,
You have to keep in mind that, at an Empty Bowls event, people
aren't buying a $15 lunch and a $7.50 bowl (which by the way
seems pretty backwards to me) -- they are in fact making a $22.50
contribution to the Food Bank. $22.50 would be steep if it were the
price of lunch -- as a contribution, it's pretty minimal. In fact, the
person attending is probably easily getting his/her money's worth,
especially if the bowls are made by professional potters. It would
be hard to justify that person claiming it as a charitable contribution
at all, since they have received something of significant monetary
value in exchange for their money.
Having said all that, I wonder if you could have misunderstood the
approach the Food Bank is taking. Is it possible that they are
selling $15 tickets, of which $7.50 is allocated as the nominal price
of the bowl, so that the rest might be deductible as a contribution?
Chris
Times New RomanWe're going to have an Empty Bowls event here in Athens and
serve soup for the first time. Last year apparently folks just met in
a church and picked out a bowl they liked. I'm teaching at a fairly
new 6 million dollar Arts Center and there is a kitchen in the
building. The Food Bank of Northeast GA is the recipient of the
money generated. They printed up tickets that the public will buy
for $15.00 apiece. This does not even include the bowl!! They
want to price the bowls at $7.50 so it will cost $22.50 to get a
serving of soup and a bowl. All of this was designed with NO
feedback from area potters. The price seems kind of steep to me.
I thought about pricing the bowls that I'm donating at 1 cent as a
way of protest. We'll see how it all pans out. Jim
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