Intern or Volunteer at Brunel Park

We offer many opportunities for our community to support our mission through volunteering and internships (We offer stipends and/or school credit.) We are looking for volunteers, students, and partners to:

 Use existing source materials to compile a digital Catalogue Raisonne of Emile Brunel’s photographic output

  • Identify and document the photographers he taught and inspired as students at the NY Institute of Photography

  • Archive digital images and create an online searchable database of Brunel’s photographs and photographs of the sculptures

  • Create an annotated map with historical photographs documenting Brunel Park and Le Chalet Indien

  • Assist with creating educational programming and develop content for a variety of tours

  • Design original signage for the garden plants and sculptures

  • Design a guide to the Indigenously significant plants at Brunel Park using source material

  • Serve as greeters and docents on weekends

  • Help us during special events

  • Help produce content for our social media platforms and website

  • Work with us in the garden, maintaining the planting beds and helping with the installation of new plantings

  • Work with us to build an information kiosk

Have ideas for how Brunel Park can become a great community gathering place? Fill out this brief survey to share with us what you would like to see and do here and how you’d like to be involved! https://forms.gle/EbuqSBuri7Df9xdR6

If you would like to book Brunel Park for an event, want to organize a group visit, or have any other questions, feel free to reach out to us by completing the Contact Us form.

Please follow our social media accounts for the latest updates and feel free to reach out to us on these platforms as well.

 

Meet Saige, our 2023 intern! Saige is an 8th grade student at Onteora Middle School and will be helping us with many projects starting this spring as part of her Girl Scout Silver Award project. She chose to volunteer with us because she loves gardening and working outside. Internships are available year-round! If you are interested in an internship, no matter what your age, complete this form and let us know what you’re interested in. https://forms.gle/EbuqSBuri7Df9xdR6

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Join our Board of Trustees!

The Friends of Brunel Park are currently looking for passionate individuals to join our all-volunteer non-profit Board of Trustees to help us weave together the indigenous roots and history of the land with Emile Brunel’s artistic visionary sculpture park.

What is involved in being a Trustee of Brunel Park?  

  • Participate in strategic planning  

  • Develop educational and cultural programming 

  • Build community relationships 

  • Provide budgetary oversight 

  • Participate in fundraising 

  • Preserve, conserve, interpret, and celebrate this land and its history 

To speak to a member of the Friends of Brunel Park about joining our Board of Trustees, Please Complete the form at the Bottom of this Page!

Do you have an idea for an installation, exhibition, performance, event, or creative expression in our garden? Let us know! We are open to ideas and supporting an artistic and inclusive community! Tell us your ideas by completing this form! https://forms.gle/EbuqSBuri7Df9xdR6

Photograph from “Jordan’s Cross” sculpture installation at Brunel Park by Brian Paccione, 2020.