Thanks to all the generous donors we have now generated over $30,000 in donations to local food banks from bowls. This is exclusive of the over $5,000 in other donations in honor of Bowls for Food. Wow! Thanks also to the guest turners who gave their work to the last batch which generated over $2,500. They are boxed up and will be shipping shortly.
Several woodworkers and bowl turners have reached out to me to ask if they could donate some of their work to Bowls for Food. I responded to the first three who were close by and collected these 25 bowls. Big thanks to Dan Crafton, Thurston Tarter, and Eric Weinstein for donated their work for this next batch.
Patch.com published this great piece about Bowls for Food and food insecurity. Thank you Beth Dalbey for spreading the word and telling the story so well.
https://patch.com/massachusetts/brookline/bowls-food-lathe-artist-turns-his-attention-hunger
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir picked up the story from WCVB and added to it. The result? So many fans the web site went down again. Hopefully I have beefed it up enough to withstand all the enthusiasm. In case you missed it, you can watch the video here:
The response from recent press has been truly overwhelming and I am beyond humbled by the interest in my work. Before you write or try to get a bowl, Please read the Frequently Asked Questions to learn how it works.
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Today’s Boston Globe included this great column by Ann Trieger Kurland. Thanks for telling the world about how they can help the hungry!
WCVB Boston came for a visit to talk to me about Bowls for Food and watch me turn a bowl. Thanks to Erika Tarantal and her team for a great story and for spreading the word of BFF. The response has been overwhelming, but worry not, I am turning new bowls!
https://www.wcvb.com/article/artist-supports-food-banks-by-turning-bowls/38687928
Just in time for the end of the year, I’ve released five new bowls. There are some more, but I am offering them to the people who gave me the trees they came from. It’s so nice to make something out of a tree that has meaning to someone.
2021 has not been terribly productive for me when it comes to BFF. I had to spend some time on my main studio, including a renovation there, and some art projects. As the world reopened, I also spend a lot of time at kids sports. All of which kept me away from the lathe. I’m back with a small batch of four bowls. Thanks everyone.
Thanks to a big push and a matching donation, December became a very busy month here at BFF. I ended up making more than thirty bowls and you donated another $7,000 for the hungry, and all that is before the match, which was another $2,500!
I’m going to slow down production a little, as I need to recuperate and catch my breath. I’m also going to invest in a dust collector, as sawdust seems to be clogging everything around me, including my brain.
Fear not, however, as I will still be making more bowls. I have a lot more wood to turn, and there are a lot more hungry people out there.
