A Year in Benefit Bowls

Frank Goryl of Moscow Clayworks in Moscow, Pennsylvania made A Year in Benefit Bowls...
  

Why did you decide to do this project? Attended a Lackawanna County Arts breakfast where Noah was featured speaker. In the spirit of artist Noah Scalin’s Skull-A-Day project, a benefit bowl was created for each day of 2012. A different clay body and glaze was used each month. MCW’s began creating benefit bowls for our Inaugural Spring 2010 exhibit to benefit the earthquake victims in Haiti. Over the past few years we have raised several thousand dollars for local and global projects. Proceeds of the $15 for each bowl: 1. North Pocono Cultural Society’s Art Scholarships  2. MCW’s Haitian Project 3. The Pathway to Peace High School Meditation Project.

How has doing a yearlong/daily project affected your life? This project brought some closure to four years of making Benefit Bowls.

Find out more on the Moscow Clayworks site.

Quilters Needed

If you're up for a bit of creative quilting we could use your help at Skull-A-Day. Our editor Abby has come up with a wonderful fundraiser: She's asking that people make a 12" x 12" quilt square featuring a skull of some sort and then send it to her to incorporate into a quilt that we will then auction off to raise funds for the domestic violence organization Becky's Fund. If this is something that interests you, you can find more details HERE. 

And for inspiration check out Sarah of Rabbit-A-Day's own unique contribution which she made a part of her project!

The Uniform Project

The Uniform Project began as an attempt by Sheena Matheiken to wear & accessorize the same dress every day for a year. She used the project to raise money and attention for children living in slums in India and succeeded by getting international media attention and over $100,000 for the Akanksha Foundation! The project continues into it's second year now with monthly dress projects by different people around the world.

See how the project evolved and where it's heading at: The Uniform Project


And look for my interview with Sheena in my new book 365: A Daily Creativity Journal which is in stores now! Look for it at your favorite local independent bookstore  and at all major online book retailers.