• 110 people are interested
 

Environmental Art Sculpture Assistant or Intern

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ORGANIZATION: MORE GARDENS FUND

  • 110 people are interested
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Please send your resume and website in the follow up questions when applying.
Also, please let us know why and how you are wanting to volunteer with us.
There are a lot of wonderful applicants and we'd like to know you right away.

Assisting in and creating environmental outdoor art projects such as in community gardens, community open spaces, and at Sprouting Justice Sundays' "Open Streets". Assisting in a one week nature programming with children from 8-14 and their families.

Creating living willow structures and earth-based spaces.

Skills: Environmental design, painting, carpentry, sculpting, (welding) creative improvising, research, collaboration, love of nature and the outdoors.

Details:

Volunteer opportunity description
  • Assisting in and creating environmental outdoor art projects such as in community gardens, parks, community open spaces. Check out More Gardens website link: https://www.moregardens.org/art-of-nature-1
  • Tending a one week nature programming with children from 8-14 and their families.
  • Research and design of environmental and educational artwork.
  • Overnight Trip/s upstate to harvest living willows (optional).
Requirements
  • Please respond to upcoming questions as why and how you are wanting to volunteer with us and a link to your creative world. There are a lot of wonderful applicants and we'd like to know you right away.
  • Passionate about More Gardens mission and programs
  • Desire to create artivism and an understanding of environmental art
  • Understanding of social and environmental justice
  • Training or coursework related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)?
  • Ability to be outdoors when weather permits.
  • Enjoy working with diverse communities, including children.
  • Works well in collaboration and can also work independently with minimal supervision.
  • Ability to improvise and change in a dynamic environment
  • Reliable and consistent

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About MORE GARDENS FUND

Location:

79 CLINTON ST APT 17, NEW YORK, NY 10002, US

Mission Statement

Rooted in arts and education we are community people, community gardeners, and environmental and social justice activists. We promote the enhancement and preservation of community gardens as well as the cultivation of fallow land in New York City.

Description

The More Gardens! Coalition is a group of community people, community gardeners, and environmental and social justice activists, rooted in arts, promoting the development and preservation of community gardens as well as the cultivation of fallow land in New York City. We share information about community gardens with the public in order to raise awareness and engage people in both actual gardening and political activism.

CAUSE AREAS

Arts & Culture
Community
Environment
Arts & Culture, Community, Environment

WHEN

We'll work with your schedule.

WHERE

129 Stanton StreetNew York, NY 10002

(40.7207,-73.98643)
 

SKILLS

  • Problem Solving
  • Visual Arts
  • Woodworking
  • Habitat Restoration
  • Environmental Education
  • Horticulture

GOOD FOR

N/A

REQUIREMENTS

  • Must be at least 18
  • Orientation or Training
  • 12 hrs or more per week.
  • Make sure you put in Resume and Work Website in the questionnaire. Thanks.

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