Our 14th Annual Soup-a-Bowl fundraiser was held on October 17th, 2021, and we were so grateful to have a beautiful selection of handmade bowls crafted by talented artisans from Fall Kill Creative Works available for the event! Many event attendees were fortunate to purchase these one of a kind creations, so we want to take this opportunity to highlight some of the extraordinary artists who crafted them.
Susan Dobler
Susan Dobler, a member of the Poughkeepsie Farm Project, started working with clay again to support the Soup-A-Bowl fundraising event. She is ever so grateful for the friendships along the way and her renewed connection with ceramics. She feels that making bowls for Soup-A-Bowl helps the PFP achieve its goals of educating youth about food matters and ensuring access to good quality healthful foods for all. What a fun event!
Larissa Alvarado
Larissa Alvarado started working for the Poughkeepsie Farm Project in 2017 after being invited to attend and participate in a program with her niece and nephews at their elementary school. She thinks there is something special about the organization that connects her love of creation, art, and people with what she learns from PFP about planting, harvesting and watching things grow. This work sustains her and helps her give back to the community. She finds it a pleasure to work with folks who deeply care about and love creativity, art, and community.
Trish Careaga
Trish Careaga is crazy about making bowls to support the good works of the Poughkeepsie Farm Project. She likes the opportunity to practice her pottery craft, especially when it furthers her passion about food justice. She sees a direct connection between her bowl making and her support of the PFP efforts to eliminate food insecurity in our community.
Kirsten McDonald
Kirsten McDonald has been a potter for more than 20 years and she has made bowls for every Soup-A-Bowl since the beginning! She loves the community of potters that come together to make the bowls and to support the Poughkeepsie Farm Project. She deeply appreciates the connections among the artists who make the bowls and PFP supporters who take them home to use and enjoy them.
Karl Kruszynski
Karl Kruszynski learned how to work with clay in order to make bowls for the Poughkeepsie Farm Project’s Soup-A-Bowl. He loves that both ceramic bowls and delicious produce come from the earth. He likes celebrating the Earth by serving food made from PFP produce in bowls made at the Fall Kill Creative Works.
Lynne James
Lynne James has been a member of the Poughkeepsie Farm Project for almost 2 decades! She appreciates what she has learned about eating locally, eating organically, supporting the local farming community, and the need for everybody to have access to healthy local food. She is interested in supporting the local art community and believes that supporting the arts is a very important part of the health and vitality of the community. For Lynne, having a handmade pottery bowl instead of a machine manufactured bowl enhances and enriches everyday life.
Carol Conway
Carol Conway is a functional potter residing in the beautiful Hudson Valley. Although she enjoys throwing on the wheel, her real passion is hand building. She is inspired by nature and when possible, she often leaves part of her pieces unglazed so the beauty of the natural clay can be seen and felt. As a member of the Poughkeepsie Farm Project CSA for several years, she is honored to donate her work to the Soup-a-Bowl. What could be better than to share her passion for pottery for such a worthy cause.
Merle and Dan Pressler
Merle and Dan Pressler might never have found ceramics were it not for the Poughkeepsie Farm Project. Merle was a hardworking farm crew member back in 2014 when she signed up Dan to learn to make bowls for Soup-a Bowl. Dan fell in love with pottery and the two have been collaborating on pieces ever since. This is their 7th Soup-a-Bowl supporting the best CSA in the Hudson Valley!
Kelli Kavanaugh
Some of the things Kelli Kavanaugh enjoy’s most in life are pottery, gardening, food and people. Creating bowls for the Soup-a-Bowl to raise much needed funding for the CSA is a perfect way for her to support some of the things she loves. It is her hope that this event inspires people to act locally, grow and cook healthy food and maybe even to learn to make their own pottery at Fall Kill Clay Works.
Thank you to all of the artists and volunteers that created these timeless vessels for us to perpetually enjoy our soup in, or admire on our shelves in tables in awe.
