San Jose

Art with Heart is the San Jose Clinic's main fundraising event. I was lucky enough to volunteer at this event last year as a part of Tri-Beta's spring major volunteer event. Local artists donate their work and put them up for silent auction--all proceeds benefit the clinic. All of work an effort goes into arranging this event, as it involves a lot of coordination and organization. As volunteers last year, we were primarily involved in helping with the silent auction bidding which was conducting on electronic bidding tablets. A number of us were also responsible for "guarding" the art and sculptures that were on display for the auction. So the other day I was helping out at the San Jose Clinic by getting pieces of art ready for the Art with Heart Event. I got to witness first hand really how much work goes into creating such an affair behind the scenes. Each work of art had to be individually wrapped in protective plastic wrap, and then labeled and sorted. Again, it amazed me at how many local Houston artists had donated to the cause--it was very heartening.