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Support Services Team Volunteer
The Support Services Volunteer position includes an active role in event operations. Opportunities for this position will include Festival set up and tear down, assistance with waste removal / recycling / sanitizing / cleaning, moving picnic tables, and light maintenance. This role may require some heavy lifting. This is a great opportunity for individuals or groups that enjoy being outdoors and like a variety of opportunities.
Information & Sales Team Volunteer
The Information & Sales Team position will focus on working at the Festival Information Booth. Duties could include selling Lakeshore Art Festival merchandise as well as ice cold bottled water and answering general questions about the Festival.
Children’s Lane Team Volunteer
The Children’s Lane Team Volunteer position includes working in the Children’s Lane providing general assistance as needed. This opportunity provides lots of fun, laughter, and children! This would be a great experience for anyone that enjoys working with kids, older youth and school groups.
Ice Delivery
The Ice Delivery position will focus on ensuring all of our food, information and exhibitor booth ice needs are met! Duties include delivering bags of ice to vendors from the ice chest as they make requests, as well as periodically checking to see if anyone needs ice. This position will also need to carefully track how many bags of ice each vendors uses via a sheet given by the LAF Committee.
Friend of the Festival
The Friend of Art position is a flexible role that steps in where needed to support various aspects of the Lakeshore Art Festival. Duties could include selling ice cold bottled water, answering general questions about the Festival, covering volunteer unfilled volunteer positions and ensuring a smooth festival experience. This role requires adaptability, a positive attitude, and a willingness to jump in wherever extra hands are needed.
Community Art Project – Muskegon Community College
You can help engage the community in an interactive art project in which anyone can participate for free. Volunteers are needed to help with a collaborative community art project that transforms a simple fingerprint into a powerful symbol of unity and diversity. Everyone in the community is invited to leave their unique thumbprint on large boards (shaped like MCC 100) —using colorful, non-toxic ink—to contribute to a vibrant collective artwork. Volunteers would be needed to assist with using rotating blue and yellow inks and offering handwipes to wipe off the access ink. Two volunteers per three hours shift.
Children’s Lane Art Project 1 – Muskegon Community College
Children will receive their own coloring book filled with illustrations created by art students from Muskegon Community College. Volunteers guide children to explore their world in color and design, while encouraging imagination and self-expression. The station is set up with crayons for children to color or they can take them home with their limited edition coloring book.
Children’s Lane Art Project 2 – Muskegon Community College
Children will explore the world of sculpting with hand modeling clay. Each child is provided with a set of colorful (MCC colors) soft modeling clay. The station will feature simple instructions and inspiration cards for making fun shapes like animals, flowers, and favorite cartoon characters. Volunteers guide kids through basic techniques such as rolling, pinching, and shaping the clay, while encouraging imagination and self-expression. There are also challenge cards for older children who want to try more complex creations. Once finished, each child can take it home as a unique keepsake. Both activities promotes sensory development, creativity, and fine motor skills in a fun, hands-on environment.
