Empty Bowls Aroostook

Empty Bowls Aroostook at Wintergreen Arts Center is one of the most meaningful community events of the year. The concept is simple: hand-crafted bowls made by local artists and community members are available alongside soup. You choose a bowl, enjoy your meal, and the bowl goes home with you. Proceeds fight hunger in Aroostook County.

It is not a gala. It is not a formal fundraiser. It is a community lunch where the art is functional and the cause is local. Every bowl represents someone’s time and craft donated to something real. You leave with a one-of-a-kind piece made in Aroostook, and the funds stay in the community.

This is exactly the kind of event that coastal tourism packaging never delivers: authentic, community-funded, genuinely purposeful.