Description

It was a beautiful, warm Saturday afternoon the last time I volunteered at Stone Fire.  When I first arrived to start my volunteering the children who were participating in the galleries art class filled the room with joyous laughter.  Maxine gave me the task of painting the northern outside wall black. While I was painting, the smell of the local restaurants and paint filled the air. The sound of the passing cars and trucks filled my ears along with the faint bass coming from the stereo speakers inside.

  The cool, salty breeze coming from the IndianRiver covered my skin like a cool blanket. The muscles in my hands were tense and sore from gripping the paint brush to make long, even strokes of black paint on the galleries wall. The sweat dripping down my face tasted of salt and felt like cool water running down my cheek when the wind brushed my skin.

Comparison

Volunteering at Stone Fire Art Gallery was like remodeling a house. The art director assigned me the task of cleaning out one of the back rooms. Cleaning out and organizing the room reminded me of moving everything out of a room before remodeling the room. Cleaning out the back room consisted of taking everything out and throwing away useless things that were no longer needed and putting everything back in an organized fashion. Another way volunteering at Stone Fire reminded me of remodeling a house was all of the painting. I was assigned the task of painting the northern outside wall of the gallery with black paint.

This reminded of remodeling a house because a big part of remodeling consists of painting and I painted a lot during my time volunteering at Stone Fire. When I finished my volunteering at Stone Fire I felt accomplished the same as I would after remodeling a house.

cause and effect

While I volunteered my time at Stone Fire Art Gallery, the gallery director assigned me the task of cleaning out and organizing a back room at her gallery. Some of the possible reasons for her wanting the backroom cleaned out could be that the room was cluttered and full of trash.

 Maybe something was lost in the backroom and she hoped i would find the object while I was cleaning. She also might have wanted the room cleaned out to make room for something else. Another reason is that she might have been tired of looking at the clutter in the backroom. In order to clean the room I had to remove everything from the room and throw all of the trash in the dumpster.

Some of the outcomes of cleaning the room are, the room was now clean and organized, she had more space to store things, and she was very happy when the job was finished.

advocacy

When people raise  children the parents should want their child to be creative. A child’s creativity defines themselves to be unique and different from other children. A child can build creativity by volunteering at Stone Fire Art Gallery. At Stone Fire children can view many different styles of art and get hands on experience with art. Stone Fire hosts art classes for children on Saturdays from 10am to 1pm. These classes can help build your child’s creativity and have fun while doing it. When I volunteered at Stone Fire I worked on many different projects and was given the opportunity to do them any way I please. Since the owner allowed me to do what I wanted, I started to become very creative and really used my mind while completing the assigned tasks. Many people who volunteer at Stone Fire use their own creativity to perform the tasks that the owner assigns to them.

narrative

I volunteered at Stone Fire Art Gallery in Titusville Florida for my Communications class at Brevard Community College. While I volunteered at the gallery the owner asked me to move numerous boxes of old stained glass into a storage room located at the rear of her shop. The stained glass contained many beautiful shapes and colors.

Although the stained glass was beautiful, the glass had many sharp edges. Moving the boxes of glass required extreme caution.  The boxes were falling apart and many of the pieces of glass had been broken.  While transporting the boxes of glass the gentleman helping me suffered a laceration to his finger due to the razor sharp glass. After the laceration we decided that using a hand cart would be the best way to relocate the glass. Pleased with our work, the owner showed us great appreciation for relocating the stained glass to open up more work space  and organize her art gallery.