On Volunteer Appreciation week, as Volunteer President I wanted to write a few words and a big thank you for everything! appreciative of how welcoming everyone volunteer’s and staff have been on my arrival over the past few months. Collaborating together with Holly is wonderful and to be working with the best Volunteer crew and staff! One of the highlights being how great to meet, listen and speak with many of you. I’m taken away with the level of talent, art knowledge, chats and our conversations, grateful for all you do. We are off to an exciting great start with new initiative’s and more to come! We truly care and are here to listen, as always, please feel free to send through your ideas and any thoughts as a collaborative volunteer community.
These are the priorities I’m working on in my role as your Volunteer President:
- Open door policy, being present-hands on approach with volunteers as President visits, email, office hours.
- Connection, socializing and enrichment. Bringing volunteer groups with the President from across the gallery to meet over enrichment and social opportunities. Look out for new and exciting excursions, field trips to come that are planned. Volunteers will be also called upon to collaborate here.
- Artists initiative for volunteers to showcase and highlight their individual talents to support and for us acknowledge in various ways.
- Highlight a volunteer in the blog. Volunteers will be involved in interviews, writing for the blog.
- Enrichment. Learning together via online virtual opportunities to study and discuss.
- Social media on Volunteer Facebook page postings for the whole group interactive any of the volunteers in the group are welcome to share, post art based content.
- Gallery workshops, talks, occasional programs with staff specifically geared for the volunteers.
- Volunteer Endowment Trust and the voting process for volunteers, more exciting details to come here.
- Art based speakers for the volunteers, either online or in person.
- Volunteer collaboration and involvement as a team.