Volunteer Opportunity Details:

Since 1999, fresh art has created sock monkey sewing workshops for New York City artists with special needs. The workshops are held two to three times a year at various supportive housing facilities and drop in centers for homeless men and women in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Generally these are social service agencies fresh art works with on a regular basis however sometimes they are new to us.

The workshops are for one and a half to two hours on a week night or a Saturday and range in length for four to eight weeks. A volunteer needs to commit to at least three sessions of volunteering. Depending on the size of the group we will have two to four volunteers working with a group.
The groups are not larger than ten.

The sewing workshops teach the artists to hand sew their own sock monkeys. Experience with working with special needs populations is helpful but not required. Those interested in teaching or assisting with these workshops have to attend at least six of the regular sock monkey sewing Mondays sessions at fresh art (please see the listing for sock monkey sewing volunteers) in order to qualify for this opportunity.

Please check fresh art's web site home page (www.freshartnyc.org) for dates of the next sock monkey sewing group and dates for our other activities. www.freshartnyc.org

For volunteering to help with the sock monkey sewing workshops for artists with special needs, fresh art requires attendance at no less than six of the regular fresh art sock monkey sewing groups that meet every other Monday night.

This opportunity is sponsored by: fresh art We are looking for volunteers with the following skills Arts & Crafts This volunteer opportunity addresses the following social interests People with Disabilities This volunteer opportunity is available to the following types of volunteers Senior Citizens Welcome Teens Welcome We need volunteers who are free at these times Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Morning Afternoon X Evening X Occasional Contact Person: Molly Kearns Gahagan, Volunteer Coordinator, (email) View all organization contacts Address: 548 Broadway 3rd floor new york, NY 10012 (See a map) Directions: 548 Broadway is located between Prince and Spring Streets in SoHo   Nearest Metro/Subway Stop: Prince St/R train,   Walk distance (in minutes): 4 minutes   Nearest Bus Stop: Broadway bus, close minute walk Web Site: http://www.freshartnyc.org Miscellaneous Information Borough Brooklyn, Manhattan Volunteer Shifts Currently we do not have a workshop lined up for the Spring. We will when we have enough interested volunteers.