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Visitor Relations & Museum Store
Visitor Relations Services
Be the face of the Austin Museum of Art! AMOA is looking for select volunteers at the front desk of both AMOA-Downtown and AMOA-Laguna Gloria.
Share your city and the wonderful institutions it offers while exercising your interpersonal skills and gaining museum experience, with a minimum commitment of 4 hours a week. Duties include register and monetary transactions, some computer work, and directing phone calls. Use your insight of Austin and the arts when guiding visitors around our town. Contact Eric Garcia, Visitor Relations Manager, at 495-9224 ext. 225 or egarcia@amoa.org or submit your application online. We look forward to adding you to our team!
Museum Store
The Museum Store at the Austin Museum of Art -- Downtown is seeking volunteers ages 16 and up. The ideal candidate would have a passion for art and be interested in learning retail management.
We ask that each volunteer commit to at least one four hour shift per week for a period of 4 months. Volunteer duties include creating a positive shopping experience for museum goers by representing the museum in a professional manner, operating a POS system, handling cash, check and credit card transactions, restocking and straightening as the need. If interested please contact Justin O’Connor at joconnor@amoa.org.
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Exhibition & Education Programs
Exhibitions & Education Internships
AMOA is dedicated to developing and educating a broad audience for the visual arts in Austin focusing primarily on 20th-century and contemporary art. Gain practical museum experience while learning about art!
Duties for this unpaid internship include art and exhibition research, facilitating school groups and families in the FamilyLab, maintaining exhibition and education archives, writing teacher resource materials, compiling resources for docents, drafting correspondence, and researching public program and educational initiatives. Internship requires a time commitment of 10-12 hours/week.
- Available to undergraduate and graduate level studio art, art history, and art education students
- Must be self-motivated with the ability to work on multiple tasks simultaneously
- Proactive spirit, professional demeanor, and positive attitude
- Familiarity with a PC, MS Word & Excel, and e-mail applications
- Ability to get downtown to AMOA offices
Please send a resume and cover letter to Andrea Mellard, the Curatorial Associate/Manager of Public Programs at amellard@amoa.org. No calls please.
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FamilyLab Teacher
Volunteers needed to facilitate art activities in the hands-on, interactive FamilyLab! Play, explore and learn together with students and families while gaining experience in a unique education gallery at AMOA-Downtown.
Experience with children and/or art education preferred. Bilingual a plus. If interested, send resume and availability to Michaela Black, Associate Director of Education, at mblack@amoa.org.
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Development & Membership
Volunteer opportunities are available. We have weekly, bi-weekly and monthly projects; also, we have internships in the development department. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Nikki Sabo at nsabo@amoa.org or call 512-495-9224, ext. 223. We couldn't do it without the AMOA volunteers!
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The Art School Volunteers
Volunteers ages 13 and up are actively recruited for all art school classes with particular emphasis on children’s classes. For children’s classes, the following three criteria are used when interviewing a prospective volunteer:
- Enjoy working with children—experience is preferred, but not required.
- Enjoy art! Again, experience is nice, but not necessary.
- Willing to make a commitment to attend all classes, coming 15 minutes early to help set-up and staying 15 minutes late to help clean-up.
Volunteer Duties
Adult and Teen Volunteers at The Art School assist instructors with various activities related to instruction within the classroom. Instructors begin by orienting their volunteer to the class expectations. Volunteers should be given an outline of the class on the first day of class. Volunteers are expected to arrive 15 minutes before the beginning of class to help with classroom set-up, which can include materials distribution, physical arrangement of the space and greeting students. During the course of class, volunteers aid the instructor through facilitating instruction, helping with any children that need extra assistance, snacks, supervision on restroom walk in the children’s program. At the conclusion of class, volunteers assist with clean-up and dismissal of students which takes an average of fifteen minutes after the scheduled class time. In addition, volunteers will be asked to evaluate the class.
Teen Volunteers
The Teen Volunteer Program is available for young people ages 13-18 and runs throughout the year with special emphasis placed on the summer semester. Teens work in the children’s program at the main campus for The Art School, Laguna Gloria.
Note: We do not typically need volunteers for adult classes. Any openings will be listed on this site.
Training and Orientation
Training is provided, and care is taken to match each volunteer’s unique skills and duties with the appropriate classroom experience. Volunteer opportunities are available and scheduled when most convenient for the volunteer on weekdays, weekends, or evenings.
Questions? Send an email to artschoolvolunteer@amoa.org or call 323-6380.
Please complete the appropriate volunteer application and fax, mail, or bring it to the following:(Adult Volunteer Application, Teen Volunteer Application)
Art School Volunteer Program
3809 W. 35th St.
Austin, TX 78703
Fax: 512-458-1571
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Art School Internships
Participants in our unpaid internship program assist with a variety of duties related to art education and the day to day operations of The Art School. Please see the Internship Opportunities and Information document (linked below) for more information about the various positions available this Summer.
Art School Internship Opportunities and Information - Summer 2010
Art School Adult Internship Application (for applicants 18+ years old)
Art School Teen Internship Application (for applicants 16-17 years old)
To apply, please complete the appropriate application and send to:
Attn: Art School Internships
Matt Hoggle
Associate Director - The Art School
3809 West 35th Street
Austin, Texas 78703
or mhoggle@amoa.org
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