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Vision – Strength – Access

Volunteer Opportunities

Below is a list of many ways you can volunteer your time with VSA arts of Minnesota.
The time commitments vary. Please call our office with any questions you may have.

Our address:

VSA arts of Minnesota
528 Hennepin Avenue, Suite 305
Minneapolis, MN 55403.
Phone: 612-332-3888 voice/tty or statewide 800-801-3883
Fax 612-305-0132.
E-mail: jon@vsaartsmn.org.

List of Opportunities

  • Serve on a VSA arts committee: Arts Access or Education Programming, Development, Publicity/Marketing – or the Board of Directors.
  • Help our next fund-raising event find silent auction and other in-kind donations, work on organization, decorating, ticket sales. etc.
  • Help compile, edit and disseminate news - via e-mail or in our office at a computer (calendar & news items for Artists' Pipeline, Arts Access newsletter, etc.).
  • Hang artwork - quarterly at Vision Loss Resources and other exhibits.
  • Transport art between artists' studios and VSA's office or galleries.
  • Audio describe onto audiotape your descriptions of art in various exhibits - this new venture could include just Vision Loss Resources or other galleries, too.
  • Drive people with disabilities to and from arts events, conferences, plays, gallery openings, Artists With Disabilities Alliance meetings, etc.
  • Update our Access and Outlook databases: media, arts & disability organizations, counties, etc., or enable us to use it more efficiently.
  • Assist with periodic mailings at the office.
  • Develop list of deaf-blind interpreters, and expand list of ASL interpreters with their credentials - calling from your home or our office.
  • Develop a program of group outings to accessible arts activities – possibly involving transportation, accessible season ticket for a group of theatres, already-functioning social groups, tactile tours, ticket discounts, making sure facilities are accessible, etc.
  • Serve as a resource on an access review committee (evaluating accessibility, Access Plan, etc.) - requires some access law research, expertise, outings.
  • Help evaluate (and promote) ASL-interpreted and/or Audio Described performances by contacting patrons by phone or e-mail from your home or our office.
  • Research opportunities for collaborations and funders to provide and pay for services (in-kind printing of flyers, brochures, an arts journal, etc.).
  • Build and coordinate groups of writers or artists or performers with disabilities.
  • Find more artists with disabilities and more galleries to show their work - making contacts individually or through galleries, arts schools, disability organizations.
  • Develop a list (statewide) of services for artists with disabilities (to help in framing artwork, marketing, writing grants, building portfolios and resumes, etc.).
  • Compile a weekly list of accessible movies (offering captioning or DVS description) at a handful of cinemas with special equipment and email to interested people (probably an hour a week).
  • Offer graphics expertise for special projects - graphic design, illustration, photography, etc.
  • Provide computer consulting to artists.
  • Call a local telephone tree of consumers about upcoming events (for people not on e-mail).
  • Assist presenters of VSA workshops in the Twin Cities and statewide; or present workshops in your area of arts or accessibility interest.
  • Work with groups of artists with disabilities in the Twin Cities, Duluth, Saint Cloud, Mora/Hinckley, Mankato, Fergus Falls, Bemidji to help coordinate meetings, provide transportation, publicize, work with their projects, mentor, etc.
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