Ceramic artist Keith Herchenroether has been a major supporter of Empty Bowls since its beginning in 1996. Then an art teacher at North Hills High School, Keith enabled his ceramics students to make and donate bowls for Empty Bowls.
His personal generosity to the event has continued since he retired from teaching. His bowls are among the most popular at the event and attract lots of bids in the Empty Bowls Silent Auction as well.
This year, to kick his Empty Bowls support up a notch even further, Keith invited more than 20 years’ worth of favorite former students at North Hills High School to join him for a bowl-making marathon. One of those former students, Dave Deily, now Program Director at Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, made space available at the MCG ceramics studio for the event.
On Saturday, Jan 18, this amazing ceramics reunion – spanning decades of learning — turned out hundreds of bowls for the 2014 Empty Bowls Dinner. Keith noted happily that even though some former students “hadn’t been at a pottery wheel in years, it all came back to them like it was yesterday.”
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