Hi Fireflies! Happy Valentine's Day <3 <3 <3 We love you all so much, *we decided to extend the deadline for Lace and Temple Grants to this coming Monday, 2/16, at midnight. *This will be the absolute deadline to apply for these grants, so please submit applications as soon as you can! Applications can be submitted through the grants website: http://grants.fireflyartscollective.org/artists More information on Lace Grants and Temple Grants and the application process can be found on the Firefly website: http://fireflyartscollective.org/art-grants/lace-grants/ http://fireflyartscollective.org/art-grants/temple-grant/ We'd also like to send out *one last call for Art Grant Committee members!* *Requirements:* *1. *You must have attended at least 1 (one) previous Firefly in order to join and participate in this most august of selection committees. *2. *You must not be applying for a 2015 Art Grant. *3. *You must be available for all of the meeting discussion dates, taking place at Velir in Davis Square. These will be beer and dinner-fueled and may be lively at times: * Thursday February 19, 7 to 9 pm * Thursday February 26, 7 to 9 pm * Thursday March 5, 7 to 9 pm * Thursday March 12, 7 to 9 pm *4. *Commit to reading and recording your thoughts on over 40 applications, which may take 4 - 6 hours of brain time. *The Intense Details:* The job requires a lot of reading and talking, as we typically receive over 35 applications for Creativity Grants and a smaller pool of Lace and Temple Grants. We will have 2 weeks to make our decisions for the 2 sets of grants, with two meetings per grant. That's a total of 4 meetings altogether. This is a commitment of about 15-20 hours; 6-8 hours of reading and cogitating and four 2-hour meetings where we hash it all out. Once the application deadline has passed, the committee has about a week to read the applications over and fill out a review sheet to decide how well each application met the criteria. We review the applications for Thoughtfulness, Creativity, and Feasibility. This is followed by an evening dinner and beer/wine-fueled meeting where we compare notes and see if we have any follow-up questions for the applicants (we *always* have follow-up questions). We wait a week to give time for artists to get their replies back to us, then we meet again and make our final decisions. Hope you're all staying warm <3 The Art Grants Committee grants@fireflyartscollective.org