Environmental Education

Schrader Environmental Education Center

People who have an interest in the outdoors would love volunteering at the Schrader Center. Volunteers are needed to help lead programs with children and adults, work on the trails, help maintain the butterfly gardens and assist with special events. Call  Eriks Janelsins at 304.242.6855 for more information.

Benefits: expand your knowledge of the natural world, work in a team environment with others that are passionate about nature and the environment, work in a beautiful park setting, free admittance to programs, workshops, and classes, receive credit towards master gardener certification, and receive internship credit

Museums
Mansion Museum

People who are interested in history and like to work with the public are encouraged to become volunteers at the Mansion Museum. The volunteer program currently includes more than 50 individuals who give their time greeting the public, serving as tour guides or working on special research projects with the curator.

Volunteer opportunities: greeting the public, tour guides, special research projects with the Museum curator

Benefits: Free admission for volunteer and his/her immediate family to the Mansion throughout the year, free or discounted admission to Museum programs, special programs and social events for volunteers only, a monthly newsletter and an opportunity to actively support historic preservation.

Performing Arts
Towngate Theatre & Cinema

"Volunteers don't come to Towngate with experience, they come to gain experience," according to theatre expert and longtime artistic director Hal O'Leary.

Volunteer opportunities: any phase of theatre production: actors, stagehands, costume, lighting, scenery etc.

Benefits: Volunteers receive two tickets to production and discounts at the concession stand, ushers receive free admission as well.

Visual Arts
Stifel Fine Arts Center

Volunteer opportunities: exhibition season assistants (assist with organizing and hanging exhibitions), assistants for elementary and middle school art programs (in-school and field trips), pre-school art programs, summer art camps and special events.

Benefits: internship credit or volunteer credit hours depending on the requirements established by the school, exchange volunteer hours for free tuition to visual arts courses, hands-on experience for students majoring in art or education.

 

 

 

 
Contacts
Environmental Education
Eriks Janelsins
Schrader Environmental Education Center
1330 National Road
Wheeling, WV 26003
304.242.6855
Museums
Christin Stein
Mansion Museum
1330 National Road
Wheeling, WV 26003
304.242.7272
Performing Arts
P.D. Gregg or
Tim Thompson
2118 Market Street Wheeling, WV 26003
304.233.0820
Visual Arts
Brad Johnson or
Rick Morgan
Stifel Fine Arts Center
1330 National Road Wheeling, WV 26003
304.242.7700