Empty Bowls Chattanooga
is a collaboration between artists and their community to
help fight food insecurity in Hamilton county.
Join us November 16, 2026
Our annual event will be held Monday, November 16th at The Signal. Tickets are available for purchase here. This year, our theme will be ˗ˏˋ Community Garden: In Bloom ˊˎ˗Here's what we know about gardens: they don't happen by accident. Someone planted something. Someone showed up on the hard days. Someone shared the harvest.Chattanooga is a garden. It always has been. Tended by neighbors, grown block by block, flowering in ways nobody planned and everybody needed.Come dressed as something in bloom, a flower, a pollinator, the weed nobody could kill, the gardener who never quit. Or come draped in Chattanooga pride, your school colors, your neighborhood, your favorite local landmark, the thing about this city you'd fight for.All outfits welcome. This is Chattanooga, we grow all kinds.
Artists, we need your help!
We're looking for local ceramic artists to donate food safe bowls for the event as well as art to the silent auction. Commissions are available for individual works valued at $50+.Tell us how you'd like to help here.Interested in joining us for a community throw day at The Pottery Place on August 15th & 16th? Click here to share your email so we can stay in touch
Community Partners
We're always looking for additional restaurants and local businesses to help support Empty Bowls, and we're happy to work with your team to figure out how we can support you, too!
Want to get involved? Shoot us an email: [email protected]
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