GALLERY: Filling bowls for the food pantry

Visitors to the Charles City Arts Center examine new, handmade bowls they could choose from before receiving their choice of homemade soups as part of Empty Bowls.

Volunteer Roxanne Johnson serves a table with Katie Kellogg and Fiona, 6, who filled her bowl with chili, her favorite. "She's been looking forward to this all week," Katie Kellogg said. Press photos by Kate Hayden

Arts Center volunteer Barbara Thompson looks over more than 100 bowls open for Empty Bowls visitors to pick from.

Julie Morton, Stewart Dalton and Bob Fraust pose in the midst of serving a busy crowd on Friday.