Students fill bowls and coffers

Ceramics student Erin Griffin inspects a bowl at the third annual Empty Bowls fundraiser. Sales of 175 bowls raised money for Santropol Roulant, a 10-year-old Plateau-based project which provides meals to elderly and shut-in Montrealers.

“These funds will pay for one month’s rent,” said Fiona Keats, Santropol Roulant’s Director of Fundraising and Communications . The nearly $1,200 raised on Feb. 28 will cover their office rent for a month. Keats was serving soup in the charity bowls to promote the organization.

The event was organzed by part-time ceramics professor Francie Potvin. She has her 300-level students make work for the event, and help with the sales. “It is about connecting to a broader reality. The arts can have a real purpose,” she said.