Interested in volunteering? Then SmartShop is interested in you! We have many everyday tasks to be done as well as awesome special events to help at. Volunteers are the super heroes of SmartShop! Some of the many tasks you could do:

• Help researching grant opportunities
• Help in the gallery
• Help documenting classes and events (photography, video, film, etc.)
• Help coordinating and planning fund raising events
• Help with painting and shop maintenance projects
• Help hosting Art Hops
• Gardening
• Weekly visits to help recycle paper, glass, plastic and other recyclables

Mailing Madness: Improve your envelope stuffing skills by helping to count, package, deliver and distribute class schedules, event invitations, posters and all other printed promotional materials for all SMAC classes programs and events.

Gregarious Greeters: Work in our gallery and sculpture garden informing visitors about SMAC special programs, classes and workshops, current art and artist on display, and answer questions about our organization. May include working during events such as an artist's tea or art hop.

Things SmartShop Needs

 SmartShop Metal Arts Center is a federally recognized nonprofit organization. Your donations are tax deductible.

• 100lbs capacity spring scale
• 14 inch ID "cupolette" iron furnace
• 200 lb capacity ladle
• 3-ring binders
• 400 lbs capacity Carver sand muller
• 5 gallon buckets, plastic or metal
• AA and AAA batteries
• Airhose reel with hose. 20’-30’ feet long, 3/8” or ½” dia.
• Ballpoint pens
• Black Sharpies
• Bleach, Lysol, Window Cleaner
• Blue tape
• Book cases for our ever growing reference library
• Burn-in torch (natural gas)
• Cardstock 8.5 x 11, various colors
• Casters
• Cedar wood scraps
• Centrifugal casting machine
• Chain falls (1-3ton capacity)
• Collapsable/adjustable gantry crane (3 ton capacity)
• Containers for recycling
• Cotton mop heads
• Dayton blower for cupolette (high pressure)
• Decorative rugs 5’ x 7’ or larger
• Denatured alcohol
• Dish soap
• Electrical tape
• Electroforming/plating bath
• Environmentally friendly foundry resin (lignin based)
• Extension cord reel, with cord. 20’-30’ feet long, 14ga or 12 ga wire
• File folders
• Fire safe
• Foundry coke
• Four drawer filing cabinet
• Hammer drill
• Industrial grade degreaser for floor cleaning
• Jib crane/hoist
• Kaowool (fiber blanket)
• Kitchen trash  bags
• Leather driver gloves in a variety of sizes
• Limestone/dolomite
• Masking tape
• Metal buckets
• Natural fiber chip brushes
• Needle scaler
• OSHA approved ear plugs
• OSHA approved safety glasses
• Paper towels
• Parrafin wax
• Powdered graphite
• Printer ink for HP Officejet 4215
• Printer paper 8.5 x 11, white
• Rolling bread rack-style shelves for mold storage
• Scissors
• Scrap iron (radiators, slingers, etc.)
• Scrap plywood/masonite/MDF/2x4's
• Scrap steel, relatively clean, no galvanized
• Siphon sandblaster (bucket type)
• Snap / razor knives
• Sponge mop
• Stapler
• Steel 55 gallon barrels..clean of hazardous chemicals
• Swiffer duster heads
• Toilet paper
• Trash bags large contractor size
• Trolley hoist
• Utility knives
• Wax melt out kiln