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NCSD students turn clay into bowls | morganton.com
With the hands they use to communicate to the world, students at the North Carolina School for the Deaf are crafting bowls that will be used to raise money for a deaf retirement community.
Since day 1 of the school year, deaf school art students have been rolling recycled clay into balls, pressing them into bowls, firing the bowls in a kiln, glazing them in an array of colors and packing them in boxes to be hauled to the school cafeteria.
It is all in preparation for the NCSD Senior Souper Bowls slated for 4 to 7 p.m. Feb. 9 in the Hoffmyer cafeteria. Tickets are $10 and include one of the hand-made pottery bowls, soup, bread, dessert and tea.
“Where else can you feed a family of four for $40 and take home a hand-made piece of pottery?” said NCSD art teacher Kim Lajzer.
Proceeds benefit the planned North Carolina Senior Deaf Community, which includes a community center and 76 apartments across from the school on Burkemont Avenue. The $7.9-million project is in its beginning, fundraising stages.
NCSD Foundation President Sandy Turner said, “I think it is totally awesome thing that the art department and the students are doing. This brings together the senior community and the young community. It gives the school staff and students a feeling that they are included in the project and helping get it off the ground. The foundation is so appreciative.”
As of Thursday, the students had finished 800 bowls. With 1,000 tickets to sell for the fundraiser, the students have 200 more to make.
The idea for the fundraiser came from Lajzer and fellow NCSD art teacher Beth Bailey.
Lajzer and Bailey saw a need for their students to not only gain skills and develop work habits but also to give back to the community.
They set up a sheltered workshop on campus for the students to mass produce the soup bowls for the fundraiser.
Bailey said not only are the students learning what it is like to go to work every day, but they also are gaining math skills, business skills and benefits through occupational therapy.
A chart in the pottery warehouse next to the kiln area uses stickers shaped like bowls of soup to help track how many bowls have been made and what phase of the process they are in.
Finished bowls are stamped on the bottom with the sign language symbol for “I love you” and “NCSD 2012.”
“There is history in these bowls,” Bailey said. “They bridge the past, present and future.”
As for what will go inside the bowls, NCSD staff members and volunteers are donating crockpots full of homemade soup for the event and area restaurants are helping with supplies.
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What: NCSD Senior Souper Bowls
When: 4 to 7 p.m. Feb. 9
Where: Hoffmyer cafeteria on the NCSD campus
Why: To raise money for the North Carolina Senior Deaf Community.
Tickets for the event are available at the door.
To contribute to the retirement community, visit NCSD at Morganton Foundation or www.ncsdcommunity.net or donate to NCSD Foundation at Morganton, P.O. Box 1397, Morganton, NC, 28655.
With the hands they use to communicate to the world, students at the North Carolina School for the Deaf are crafting bowls that will be used to raise money for a deaf retirement community.
Since day 1 of the school year, deaf school art students have been rolling recycled clay into balls, pressing them into bowls, firing the bowls in a kiln, glazing them in an array of colors and packing them in boxes to be hauled to the school cafeteria.
It is all in preparation for the NCSD Senior Souper Bowls slated for 4 to 7 p.m. Feb. 9 in the Hoffmyer cafeteria. Tickets are $10 and include one of the hand-made pottery bowls, soup, bread, dessert and tea.
“Where else can you feed a family of four for $40 and take home a hand-made piece of pottery?” said NCSD art teacher Kim Lajzer.
Proceeds benefit the planned North Carolina Senior Deaf Community, which includes a community center and 76 apartments across from the school on Burkemont Avenue. The $7.9-million project is in its beginning, fundraising stages.
NCSD Foundation President Sandy Turner said, “I think it is totally awesome thing that the art department and the students are doing. This brings together the senior community and the young community. It gives the school staff and students a feeling that they are included in the project and helping get it off the ground. The foundation is so appreciative.”
As of Thursday, the students had finished 800 bowls. With 1,000 tickets to sell for the fundraiser, the students have 200 more to make.
The idea for the fundraiser came from Lajzer and fellow NCSD art teacher Beth Bailey.
Lajzer and Bailey saw a need for their students to not only gain skills and develop work habits but also to give back to the community.
They set up a sheltered workshop on campus for the students to mass produce the soup bowls for the fundraiser.
Bailey said not only are the students learning what it is like to go to work every day, but they also are gaining math skills, business skills and benefits through occupational therapy.
A chart in the pottery warehouse next to the kiln area uses stickers shaped like bowls of soup to help track how many bowls have been made and what phase of the process they are in.
Finished bowls are stamped on the bottom with the sign language symbol for “I love you” and “NCSD 2012.”
“There is history in these bowls,” Bailey said. “They bridge the past, present and future.”
As for what will go inside the bowls, NCSD staff members and volunteers are donating crockpots full of homemade soup for the event and area restaurants are helping with supplies.
More
What: NCSD Senior Souper Bowls
When: 4 to 7 p.m. Feb. 9
Where: Hoffmyer cafeteria on the NCSD campus
Why: To raise money for the North Carolina Senior Deaf Community.
Tickets for the event are available at the door.
To contribute to the retirement community, visit NCSD at Morganton Foundation or www.ncsdcommunity.net or donate to NCSD Foundation at Morganton, P.O. Box 1397, Morganton, NC, 28655.