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Volunteering Opportunities

CWA VOLUNTEER REWARDS
(Service Hours Earned)
ONE POINT for each volunteer hour you work - even if you have your signature membership.

100 hours: $75 credit toward cost of CWA workshop registration, limited to one per year per member. Only two members can receive this credit in any given workshop. First come, first served.

60 hours: One free National Exhibit Awards Luncheon (if scheduled); or, along with two (2) acceptances in a CWA National Exhibition, apply for Signature Membership; or upon presentation of signed service hours, one year's free membership.

30 hours: One free CWA apron.

It is the member's responsibility to keep a record of volunteer service hours by asking for 'Service Hours" slip at the time of volunteering and have it signed by the chairman of the event being worked. You can print a volunteer service hours record from the forms page on the drop down menu on www.californiawatercolor.org. Bring it with you to the volunteer event to be signed by the Director or Chairperson.


CWA 41st NATIONAL EXHIBITION Volunteering Opportunities

Gallery Docents - July 14 - September 19, Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.; need 2 volunteers daily

Click here cwa41stnational@christinedoughertywatercolors.com to volunteers - Include your name and phone number in the email.
 

Plein Air Paint Out at the Presidio - Sunday August 29, 9 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. & 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.; need 4 volunteers.

Click here dvalencia592002@yahoo.com to volunteer - Include your name and phone number in the email. Volunteers will meet at the Officer's Club, 50 Moraga Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94129, at 9 a.m. Duties include: assist with on site registration, assist artists with set up of display area, pass out voting forms to artists and public, and tallying votes. Please indicate whether you'd like to help before the paint out or after. Bring lunch.
 

Take down exhibition at Presidio - Saturday September 25, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.; need 17 volunteers.

Click here leslie_wilson@pacbell.net to volunteer - include your name and phone number in the email. Bring lunch.
 

Repack entries for shipping at Gallery Concord - Sunday September 26, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.; need 6 volunteers.

Click here cwa41stnational_dse@yahoo.com to volunteer - include your name and phone number in the email. Bring lunch.
 

Packing and shipping at Gallery Concord - Monday, September 27 and Tuesday, 28, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.; need 1 volunteer each day.

Click here cwa41stnational_dse@yahoo.com to volunteer - include your name and phone number in the email.
 

General Meeting Volunteering Opportunities

Cookies - Every Third Wednesday of the month, except June and December

Please click here sandragorski@yahoo.com to help make the coffee break special by donating 2 to 3 dozen cookies, etc. (homemade, bakery or store bought) to the next meeting. Include your name and phone number in the email. Also, please include the month in which you would like to bring cookies. Donate 2 or more dozen cookies and receive 1/2 hour volunteer credit. Please bring a volunteer time sheet to record your hours.
 

Hospitality position open

Please volunteer to help Sandra Gorski at the general meetings. Make coffee, set up refreshments, enjoy the demo, then help clean up. We need 2 or three volunteers for this position. You can earn 3 volunteer hours for each meeting. Sign up by emailing info@californiawatercolor.org.

CWA Outreach Volunteering Opportunities

If you are interested in being an Outreach volunteer Artist,
Please click here michalweinstein@yahoo.com to volunteer - include your name and phone number in the email. Michal will contact you and you can discuss the really fun and rewarding volunteer activity of teaching students, in their classrooms, the magic of watercolor! The kids love it and their teachers love it too. Please consider volunteering for this. CWA keeps our tax exempt status because of our Community Outreach. This is very important to our association.
 

Fridays National Exhibition Classes at the Presidio - 9:00 am to 12:30 pm, and 12:30 pm to 4:30 p.m.; we need 2 volunteers for each session. Include your name and phone number in the email. Please specify time you will volunteer.

Friday July 30 - Click here michalweinstein@yahoo.com to volunteer - demo demo by Qian Gao

Friday August 6 - Click here michalweinstein@yahoo.com to volunteer - demo by Pablo Villicana-Lara

Friday August 13 - Click here michalweinstein@yahoo.com to volunteer - demo by Denise Oyama Miller

Friday August 20 - Click here michalweinstein@yahoo.com to volunteer - demo by Jack Gautreaux

Friday August 27 - Click here michalweinstein@yahoo.com to volunteer - demo by Myrna Wacknov

Friday September 3 - Click here michalweinstein@yahoo.com to volunteer - demo by Fred Kling

Friday September 10 - Click here michalweinstein@yahoo.com to volunteer - demo by Charlotte Huntley

Friday September 17 - Click here michalweinstein@yahoo.com to volunteer - demo by Melissa Adkison

Paid CWA Staff Positions

Assistant Outreach Coordinator Position Open
This is a paid CWA staff position.

The overall responsibility of the Outreach Coordinator is to coordinate classes and events between schools/educational facilities/community centers and CWA's watercolor artists. The Coordinator works closely with the Outreach Director. The job involves scheduling classes, coordinating volunteers, attending scheduled classes, setting up supplies and cleaning up art supplies, keeping track of supply inventory, ordering supplies and writing a monthly article for CWA's newsletter. In addition, CWA's Outreach is involved with a couple of community festivals that require scheduling and working at the CWA Outreach booth. If you're interested in expanding your horizons, this job is for you.

Outreach is critical to meeting the mission of CWA to educate and promote water media in our community. Outreach programs are especially valuable to our community since art programs are being cut in schools.

Please email us at info@californiawatercolor.org or email Michal, our current Outreach Coordinator, michalweinstein@yahoo.com for more details about this fun opportunity to work with the community.