The volunteer opportunities available to Guild members are many and varied. Collectively, Guild members provide over 50,000 hours of volunteer service each year. Members of the Heard Museum are eligible to join the Guild. Click here if you would like to know more about becoming a member.

Volunteer Service

A few of the many volunteer service possibilities include:

• Serving customers at the Museum Shop.
• Greeting Museum visitors at the Information Desk.
• Helping to sell Student Art Note Cards to fund scholarships for Native American students and grants to high school teachers to purchase arts supplies.
• Providing Indian artists with food and refreshment at events such as the Spanish Market, Katsina Carvers Gathering, or Indian Fair & Market.
• Working behind the scenes preparing mailings, cataloging silent auction items, setting up for the annual Book Sale, or volunteering in the Library.
• Enjoying the receiving, hanging, judging, selling, & computing activities involved in staging our Student Art Show & Sale.
• Becoming one of the hundreds of volunteers needed for set ups, food booths, ticket sales, hospitality, artist check in, information booths, signage, etc. at the annual Indian Fair & Market.
• Providing outreach information to the local tourism industry.
• Serving on one of the many Guild committees or being generally available whenever volunteers are needed.

	The docents or Las Guias (Spanish for guide) lead the Museum tours. In addition to the tours, Las Guias members staff a speaker's bureau.
	Volunteers meet and greet the visitors to the Museum, answer questions, and provide directions.
	Volunteers in the Library research and maintain databases; assist with research requests; and sort and file books, CDs, periodicals, and other materials.
	Volunteers work with the professional staff and assist the visitors from around the world. They also have the opportunity to meet many artists and to be the first to see new products offered in the shop.