Volunteer Form

Listed below are the dates and times when community members can volunteer to work with artist Jim Proctor to help clear buckthorn and construct The Buckthorn Menace sculpture installation at St. Olaf College (directions to the site are on the project home page).

If you can volunteer time during one or more of the listed dates, please click to select the dates/times in the form below; any amount of hours you can offer within the times shown will be greatly appreciated (you need not remain on site for the entire time period shown). Volunteers who are unable to register in advance are welcome to drop in as they can.

The tasks are easy and all necessary instruction will be provided on site. No prior experience is needed. Wear work clothes and shoes/boots (bring work gloves and weed tools if you have them). Come and have fun waging art as a creative and durable solution to an environmental menace!

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Please indicate your willingness to volunteer (any amount of time) on the dates/times listed below.
WEEK ONE: Site Clearing and Buckthorn Removal
Monday, Sept. 24:
12:30 - 6:00 p.m.1
Wednesday, Sept. 26:
12:30 - 6:00 p.m.2
Friday, Sept. 28:
12:30 - 6:00 p.m.Noon
Saturday, Sept. 29:
8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.3
WEEK TWO: Constructing the Sculpture"Seedheads"
Monday, Oct. 1:
12:30 - 6:00 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 3:
12:30 - 6:00 p.m.4
Friday, Oct. 5:
12:30 - 6:00 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 6:
2:00 - 6:00 p.m.
WEEK THREE: Assembling the Sculptures
Tuesday, Oct. 9:
12:30 - 6:00 p.m.5 6
Wednesday, Oct. 10:
12:30 - 3:30 p.m.7
 

1StOlaf/John Sauer Advanced Topics in Studio Art, class visit 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
2Northfield Middle School/7th Grade Science Class, class visit, 1:50-2:55 p.m.
3StOlaf/Homecoming/Reunion, Community Service Activity, 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
4StOlaf/John Sauer Advanced Topics in Studio Art, class visit,  1:00 – 3:00 p.m.  
5StOlaf/Christine Omalley: Art History: Art Since 1950, class visit, 1:20-2:45p.m. 
6ARTech/Sarah Hale, Art and the Environment, class visit, 1:15-2:15 p.m.
7StOlaf/John Sauer Advanced Topics in Studio Art, class visit, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.