Handmade ceramic bowls will be spinning into Lightwell Gallery Wednesday for the second annual Arts Alliance Chili Bowl.

The event will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Fred Jones Art Center, 522 Parington Oval in Norman.

The Chili Bowl is a fundraiser that sells bowls made my OU ceramics artists, as well as chili and desserts.

Chili in a ceramic bowl sells for $15 at the event and chili without a ceramic bowl sells for $8. All funds from the event benefit scholarships for OU’s School of Art and Art History programs.

Dr. Mary Jo Watson, director of the School of Art and Art History and member of the Arts Alliance, said the Chili Bowl is very important to the Arts Alliance.

“It is one of our major fundraising events,” Watson said. “This is to help students get into school and stay in school.”

She said the Arts Alliance is hopeful that community members will show their support for the fundraiser by stopping by and enjoying a bowl of chili.

Jordan Strickland, who helped organize the event along with the Arts Alliance, said the School of Art and Art History is expecting the Chili Bowl to be even more of a success this year. Strickland said there are 30 people cooking chili this year and 175 bowls for sale.

Strickland said the event ran out of bowls pretty early last year.

“We’re expecting it to be even bigger this year,” Strickland said.

All the bowls are made by the Red Clay Faction, the student-run ceramics club at OU.

“We are grateful for their contribution,” Watson said.

The fundraiser also includes prizes for the top three crocks of chili.