Posts tagged “Melissa Smith”
How the VIS Helps Volunteers
“The VIS?” you say, and start racking your brains. VIS??? It’s true, almost none of us know it by name. But we know it by sight. Oh, that! We practically all use it every shift — some of us just to clock our hours, and some to enter other categories of information as […]
Old Friends & New Discoveries at the Volunteer Alumni Tea
On June 10, we put out the welcome mat — plus delectable goodies — for former AGO volunteers at the 2nd annual Volunteer Alumni Tea. “They gave many years of dedicated service to the AGO and are still extremely interested in it,” says Shelagh Barrington, a Gallery Guide and also chair of the Volunteer Alumni. “This tea […]
“Communicating with people about art”
In one sense, Melissa Smith is very new to the AGO. She started work as our fulltime Gallery Guide Coordinator at the beginning of September. In another sense, she has already been here for a long time indeed. “I grew up with the AGO,” says the Ottawa native over coffee in the Café AGO. Her […]