Shared Visions
Art show, soup fundraiser make Fine Arts extravaganza
The sounds and smells provided a fitting escort into The Commons at Farragut High School, where the Shared
Visions Art Show and the Empty Bowls initiative joined forces with FMS orchestra and Farragut High School jazz band on Thursday, April 9.
The cornucopia of fine arts activities weaved together for the third consecutive year, drawing quite a crowd as visitors filtered in through the sun-dappled glass.
The Empty Bowls aspect featured soup dinners — with choices of potato, chicken and rice or broccoli and cheese — which were available with a drink, bread and dessert for just $15 per meal. Any meal purchase went toward FISH Hospitality Pantries, whose representative noted that just one $5 donation provides 20 pounds of food. So each $15 meal would feed three families, continuing a fundraising tradition that has dated back several years at FHS.
Last year alone, the fundraiser brought in $4,700, which fed 940 families.
But it also reinforced a sense of community, as FHS students worked the event.
“It teaches them a lot of life lessons that they can carry with them,” FHS Visual Arts teacher Angela McCarter said. “The Empty Bowls event is completely run by the students. They are the servers, ticket sellers, and they made the bowls. To have them understand how they can work together to achieve a common goal is an important lesson.”
