AmeriCorps member Luz Torres, along with her daughter, Jerhaldy and husband, Jose, assisted with the production of buttons to help out The Gloo Factory in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, on January 18. The Gloo Factory was one of nine different organizations chosen to receive volunteers for MLK Day as part of “MLK through Art & Accessibility,” a string of day-long service projects created by AmeriCorps Leaders Sara Scott and Ryn Shane-Armstrong to give back to artists and community organizations in Tucson.

In addition to help with production, storage cleaning and organizing, The Gloo Factory also benefited from having volunteer, Daina Dajevskis, who completed data entry tasks to keep the volunteer database up to date and organized. Thirty-four other volunteers were spread out around the city painting, cleaning and organizing storage units and offices, all in the spirit of MLK.

The other eight organizations that received volunteers for “MLK through Art & Accessibility” were: Arts for All, Inc., Arc of Tucson, Bicas, Direct Center for Independence, Inc., Handi Dogs, Raices Taller 222 Gallery, The Drawing Studio and United Cerebral Palsy of Southern Arizona (UCPSA). Brooklyn Pizza contributed by donating seven pizzas for lunch for volunteers.