Art with Heart 2009

San Jose

I was involved in helping create a brochure/hand-out to add to the annual report packets. The purpose of this brochure is to highlight the San Jose Clinic's brand new home, and especially their brand new dental clinic and equipment. Unfortunately the clinic has a much harder time attracting dentist volunteers as opposed to any other medical specialty (including optometry). In the old location, space and equipment were not as great as they could have been becuase of the great demand for dental work. Now, with the generousity of many organizations, the San Jose Clinic has very good quality equipment and technology in a large brand new and beautiful space. Now all they need are the volunteer dentists. Hopefully by exhibiting the pictures of the brand-new facility on the brochure, this will attract more volunteers to realize that they would be capable of providing the exact same level of care from the San Jose Clinic, that they do in their own private practices.

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.