This here be a call out to any of you who might be interested in helping to review the proposals for Firefly Art Grants for the upcoming year of Firefly Creative Goodness. We are looking for 7-8 folks who are interested in helping to make this aspect of Firefly successful. You MUST have attended at least 1 (one) previous Firefly in order to join and participate in this most august of selection committees. You MUST NOT be applying for a 2013 Firefly Art Grant.
The job entails a lot of reading and talking as we typically receive over 35 applications. We will have 3-weeks to make our decisions and 2-meetings to get it all discussed and done. This is an 8-10-hour commitment; 4-6 hours of reading and cogitating and a couple of 2-hour meetings where we hash it all out. Once the application deadline has passed, the blinder needs a few days to remove any identifying info that was left in, then we get them and have about a week to read over them. This is followed by a Sunday evening pasta and beer/wine-fueled meeting where we discuss/compare notes and see if we have any follow-up questions for the applicants. We always seem to have further questions. Basically, we review the applications for such tangibles as creativity/originality, interactivity/participation, feasibility, service to the community and, not hardly least, General Kick-Ass AWESOMENESS. We wait a week to give time to the Blinder to get the questions to the Artists and them to get replies back to us, then we meet again and make our final decisions.
Lots of fun discussioning that can veer wildly off target, but interesting nonetheless, PLUS you get to be the first kid on your block to have a glimpse of what the artistic/creative face of Firefly is going to look like for 2013.
If you would like to participate, please email grants@fireflyartscollective.org before the March 17th submission deadline. The Sunday night meetings will happen either March 24 & 31, or March 31 & April 7. All meetings will be from 7-9:00PM
Cheers,
Doug Ruuska