Photos and story by Monty Siekerman

400 bowls x $10 = $4,000.

That's the amount raised Saturday at an Artists Against Hunger luncheon held at the Wilson Art Building.

Ceramic bowls were created by ONU students, faculty, and staff and Ada students. Even those who attend the Child Development Center had a part in it.

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For $10, a purchaser received a unique bowl of their choosing and could fill it as many times as they wished from an array of various handmade soups kept warm in 24 crock pots. There was pizza for the anti-soup crowd.

Proceeds went to the Hardin County Backpack Program, which provides food for disadvantaged children in Hardin County.

This event is the flip side of the term "starving artist." At this event, it was the artists who helped others in the community who were in need of a meal.

Credit goes to professors Brit Rowe and Luke Sheets and alumna Mayumi Kiefer for their leadership in the project this year and in past years.
Here, Ann Donnelly Hamilton and son Grady, 4, pick out several bowls, including one that Grady helped paint and glaze. He is a student at the ONU Child Development Center. Kids at the Center helped with the project.

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• Shiori Kasuga, a freshman art major from Japan, serves up homemade potato soup during the Artists Against Hunger luncheon. Twenty-four different soups were available to choose from.

• Isabella Mancuaso of Ada wears a t-shirt designed with many soup bowls, for, of course, the Artists Against Hunger soup luncheon.