The AIGA needs your talent and input. If you have any questions about volunteering for the AIGA, or would like to volunteer for a specific position, please contact our Director of Volunteers Kristin Ellison via email at volunteers@boston.aiga.org.

AIGA Volunteer Positions Available December 2007

Hatch Show Print: An American Poster Shop
Thursday, December 6, 2007
6:30pm
Venue: Cloud Place
647 Boylston Street
Boston, MA
We will need two people to help out at the door.

Join us for a night of letterpress show and tell, with Jim Sherraden of Nashville's Hatch Show Prints. If you follow country music, country music history, or the history, art, and culture of the American South, sooner or later you're bound to run into the letters, images, and unmistakable "look" of Hatch Show Print. They are one of the oldest working letterpress print shops in America, and over the years their posters have featured a host of country music performers ranging from Hall of Famers Hank Williams, Bill Monroe, and Johnny Cash to present-day stars Garth Brooks, Wynonna Judd, and Shania Twain.

Jim Sherraden will discuss his letterpress work, which reexamines the aesthetic culture of American entertainment and revisits the curiously colorful world of dancing girls, politics, and music. Sherraden began working with Hatch in 1984, and has been creating beautiful original letterpress artwork using Hatch Show Print's shop archives since 1992. During his tenure at Hatch, Sherraden has helped revive the store by focusing on poster production and through reexamining letterpress printing.

Creative Salons - Japanese Aesthetics
Thursday, February 21, 2008
6:30pm
Venue: Phillips Library Auditorium
132 Essex Street
Salem, MA
We will need one or two people to help out at the door.

John McVey, graphic design scholar, discusses aesthetics as it applies to design. He is joined by Keiko Thayer, a specialist in the Ohara school of ikebana, or flower arranging. Thayer demonstrates this Japanese tradition during the discussion.

Gael Towey Lecture
Thursday, February 28, 2008
6:30pm
Venue: TBD
We will need two people to help out at the door.

Lecture by Gael Towey, chief creative officer of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia and founding art director of Martha Stewart Living. Come hear Gael talk about how design is a way to create value and energize a business and how in order to be a designer at Martha Stewart Living you have to love designing cupcakes.

Web Committee Members(s)
Join the effort to shape the AIGA Boston web site into a destination for the local design community. Brainstorm ideas for future development, implement new features, and help send e-mail blasts about our events. Solid HTML and CSS coding skills desired. Work closely with Web Master Jeremy Perkins. This position requires a minimum one-year commitment.

Sponsorship Committee Member(s)
Our events are only possible through the support of our sponsors. Sponsorship Director Dan Craven does a tremendous job in finding the right sponsors for our events, thanks to his many years in the industry and his genuine warm personality. Work with him, once those sponsors have been identified, to make sure we provide the positioning they need at the event and that they feel like a welcomed partner of our chapter.

ICA/AIGA Design Series Chair(s)
Work with Vice President José Nieto to organize this great series of lectures at the ICA.

Sponsorship Committee Member(s)
Our events are only possible through the support of our sponsors. Sponsorship Director Dan Craven does a tremendous job in finding the right sponsors for our events, thanks to his many years in the industry and his genuine warm personality. Work with him, once those sponsors have been identified, to make sure we provide the positioning they need at the event and that they feel like a welcomed partner of our chapter.

Membership Committee Member(s)
Help grow AIGA's Boston Chapter through a focus on communicating and enhancing Chapter benefits, invigorating Boston's creative community and inspiring individuals to become more involved in the AIGA. MEMCOM members regularly attend and participate in a wide variety of chapter events and work as a team to brainstorm, develop and implement fun and exciting projects to meet our goals. Work closely with Membership Director Eliza Grinnell. MEMCOM requires a minimum one-year commitment.

Faculty Advisor to an AIGA Student Group
Do you teach graphic design? Help the students in your school form their own student group in order to get involved in the local design community, create a community of their own and help them build leadership skills that will be valuable as they move into the professional world. Work with other student advisors within the Boston chapter to combine assets and create programming that will involve more students and build a strong community. In return for the extra work required of the faculty advisor to run a successful group, AIGA provides the advisor with a complimentary professional-level membership for taking on the responsibility of starting and running the student group. The next deadline for signing up to launch a student group is February 1. Find out if your school currently has an active student group. For more info, see: http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm?contentalias=studentgroups or contact our education chair Heather Shaw at education@boston.aiga.org.