Top Ten Signs You'd Make a Great GMOA Volunteer
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t0 You're a people person.
The Georgia Museum of Art's volunteers, whether
full-time or part-time and no matter in which area
they assist, work with many people. Docents lead
tours for visitors from four-year-olds to senior
citizens; museum shop workers help find the
pertect gift; interns work with everyone who makes
an exhibition happen; and the Friends of the
Museum throw bang-up fundraisers every year,
with plenty of meetlng and greeting.
You've always loved art.
ll you know art and/or know what you like, your
knowledge is welcome. The Friends of the
lVuseum have a committee devoted to acqui-
sitions, and interns may end up helping to curate
exhibitions or contributino to exhlbitlon cata
logues. Docents take classes in art history and
art interpretation each time the museum changes
exhibitions and learn about contemporary,
decorative, and traditional arts and artists.
You know nothing about art.
Theres no reason t0 feel intimidated because you
didn't major in art history. The museum needs
volunteers in a huge variety of areas, including
public relations, publications, fundraising, and
the finance, education, and membership com-
mittees of the Friends. l{ you can edit, write a
press release, 0perate a cash register, understand
a library {iling system, figure out what makes
pe0ple want to come t0 a museum, or budget
with flair, we want you whether or not you can tell
us Rembrandt's last name.
You need another class for next semester.
Current students at the University of Georgia
can apply for volunteer internship positions and,
occasionally, receive colleoe credit {or them. As
an intern in any of the museums departments,
you'll gain valuable job experience as you learn
from the inside how a multiJaceted nonprofit
organization works.
6. You've heard about the perks.
Students with internships aren't the only ones
who get something concrete 0ut of volunteering
at the museum, The Friends ol the Museum
receive bi-monthly newsletters, a discount on
Museum Shop items, invitations t0 previews and
parties, and art-related travel opportunities (from
a road trip of a lew h0urs t0 crossing the Atlantic).
Docents, who are required to join the Friends, also
get a copy of each museum-published catalogue,
and all volunteers have a chance to win the Smitty,
the 0scar Ior museum volunteers.
5. You're a veritable 0ld Faithfu of new ideas.
Fresh faces and fresh ideas are always in demand
at any organizatlon, and the museum embraces
those individuals who can (and regularly do) think
outside the box. As the museum begins its next
half-century in operation, it needs new blood to
invigorate it, and volunteers often bring unique
ways ol solving problems with them.
You aren't lying when you say you like children
The department of education continually needs
volunteers for its Family Days (Saturday morning
art events for kids), as well as the many other
events that they plan. Docents who would adore
explaining modernist painting to a tour group of
fourth-graders are few and Iar between, so if thats
your idea of a perfect morning or afternoon,
come on in.
You have the enthusiasm of Regis Philbin.
The bigger your smile when immersed in a
project, the greater the degree ol excitement you
can work up lor special events, and the better you
leel alter a job well done, the more the Georgia
Museum of Art wants you as a volunteer.
2. You have Georgia on your mind.
As representatives of the official state museum
of art, the museum's volunteers, whether sixth-
generati0n Southerners or originally hailing
from the other side ol the world, should want
to make Georgia and the Georgia Museum of
Art an example to 0ther states as a center 0l
art and culture.
.1. Just think of yourself as a phiianthropist.
Although the definition ol volunteering includes
n0t getting paid, the museum hopes you'll gain
non-monetary rewards from helping out: lile
experience, job experience, new friends, and
plenty of fond memories.
The Georgia Museum of Art
90 Carlton Street
Athens, Georgia 30602
www.uga.edu/gamuseum
VOLUNTEER AT THE
GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART
For lnformation on joining the Friends ol the
Museum, call 542-0830
For inlormation 0n v0lunteering in the museums
library, call 542-4662.
For information on internships, call the lntern
C oo rd i nator al 5 42-2303.
For information on becoming a docent, call the
department ol education al 542-0448.
For inlormation on volunteering in the Museum Shop,
call the museum shop manager at 542-0450.
0n the cover: Museum lounder Alfred H. Holbrook,
the original GM0A volunteer.
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