Nothing warms the heart like chili during the cold winter season, especially when accompanied by a hand-crafted bowl. At least that’s the opinion of several hundred residents who attend the Sedona Arts Center’s annual fundraiser, Loving Bowls, to be held at the SAC Saturday, Dec. 14, from 1 to 4 p.m.

Loving Bowls, originally created by potter Ed Oshier and Denise Lapp at the Sedona Community Center over a dozen years ago, was set up as an outreach program and fundraiser to help improve the community. The program hit a four-year hiatus when Oshier and Lapp left the program but was taken up five years ago by the SAC and is now run by Dennis Ott, a ceramics teacher there.

Aside from the Plein Air Festival, Loving Bowls is one of SAC’s main fundraisers. Last year, the program served nearly 500 people in three hours, with 150 people lined up at the door before the event opened. At $10 a bowl, that’s a good chunk of change, but Ott believes the money isn’t everything.

For the full story, see the Wednesday, Dec. 11, edition of the Sedona Red Rock News.