Join friends and neighbors on Sunday, March 15th 2026 at Rodef Shalom Congregation for a friendly, informal meal of local chef-created soups, tasty breads and treats. Each ticket will include a humble meal and a hand-crafted bowl. New selections of bowls are replenished throughout the event. All proceeds will benefit Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank and Just Harvest.

Guests will have the option of dining with other community members in Rodef Shalom’s ballroom or enjoying their soup at home. The Soup & Bowl Takeout ticket welcomes guests through a separate entrance, where they personally select their soup and bowl of choice to enjoy at home. Dine-in and takeout guests will have the option of purchasing additional soup.

Silent Auction

The 2026 Empty Bowls silent auction is now live. View and bid on items by clicking the button below.

Featured Art Activity

Imprint: Holding Space Through Clay

This year, we are thrilled to have an amazing art activity for Empty Bowl guests to take part in! Read below to learn more about the project.

Imprint: Holding Space Through Clay is a participatory, community-based art project by the International Sculpture Center that invites individuals from around the world to press their thumbprint into clay and to engage in the simple, embodied act of squeezing and shaping the material.

The resulting clay forms, created by participants from diverse communities and geographic locations, will be gathered and sent to the International Sculpture Center, where they will be assembled into a single installation. Together, these objects form a material representation of humanity in shared space, an accumulation of presence, touch, and care.

This project is led by Laura Jean McLaughlin, International Sculpture Center’s first Member Artist-in-Residence at the ISC Gallery in Pittsburgh. The project coincides with the Ceramics as Sculpture exhibition, March 27 – June 26, at the ISC Gallery.