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10 people are interested
Tour Leader
ORGANIZATION: Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
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10 people are interested
The Fine Arts Center at Colorado College is looking for volunteers for our Gallery Tours Program! Tour Leaders are a positive force in the museum, leading audience-centered tours primarily for students in grades K-12. Our tours encourage students’ exploration and curiosity through interactive touring. As a Tour Leader you will join a community of passionate volunteers who relish collaborative educational opportunities, such as learning the most up-to-date touring techniques and group management skills to support discussion and inquiry-based tours.
Our program is designed to allow flexibility for our volunteers, beginning with training sessions followed by a period of active touring where newer Tour Leaders are paired with more experienced Tour Leaders. Some of the many benefits of volunteering at the Fine Arts Center include, private gallery walks with curators and artists, as well as a free membership to the museum after meeting certain requirements.
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About Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
Location:
30 West Dale Street, colorado springs, CO 80903, US
Mission Statement
The Fine Arts Center will be a regional focal point for exciting and engaging arts experiences that will challenge and invigorate the human spirit, and will be a gathering place in which to enjoy and celebrate excellence in art. FAC with its unique heritage and multidisciplinary focus, serves as a community catalyst to celebrate and promote the arts.
Description
One of the most unique arts centers is right here in the Pikes Peak region of Colorado. Overlooking the purple mountains? majesty of Pikes Peak, on land provided by Mrs. Spencer Penrose, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center was founded in 1936 by Alice Bemis Taylor. Mrs. Taylor envisioned a wonderful space in which to house and display her fabulous collection of treasures from the Native American and Hispanic southwest, and with magnificent foresight, realized that this space could be a destination to celebrate all of the arts ? visual arts, performing arts, and arts education. Her formula was immensely successful ? the Fine Arts Center opened at a time when the city?s population was approximately forty thousand. During opening week, April 1936, five thousand people attended!
Today, the Fine Arts Center continues this grand tradition with its stunning art museum, performing arts theatre, and school of art. The beloved building was designed by renowned architect, John Gaw Meem, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Meem was awarded the Fifth Pan American Prize of Architecture in 1940 for the building?s design. The Fine Arts Center is often thought of as one of the top ten most significant buildings in Colorado.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
30 W Dale St.Colorado Springs, CO 80903
DATE POSTED
April 4, 2019
SKILLS
- Visual Arts
- Critical Thinking
- People Skills
- Verbal / Written Communication
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Orientation or Training
- We ask that our volunteers commit to touring a minimum of 25 tours per year, which equates to approximately 3 two-hour tours per month, as well as 3-4 hours of professional development each month.
- Growth mindset, open to feedback and continuous learning, flexibility, willing to work with all learner types, levels, and special needs, basic computer competence, active listener, team-oriented, comfort leading groups at any age, can think on feet