CORRECTION: The deadline to sign up for the committee is *February 14, not February 1 *- the due date for Lace/Temple Grant submissions. Signup URL here: *http://grants.fireflyartscollective.org/voters/signup http://grants.fireflyartscollective.org/voters/signup* On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 6:45 PM, Alyce Currier wrote:

*Call for 2015 Firefly Art Grant Reviewers!*

Interested in helping bring art to Firefly? Want to help choose what kind of projects are funded for the event?

This is call out to any of you who might be interested in helping to review the proposals for Firefly's Art Grants http://fireflyartscollective.org/art-grants/ this year! We are looking for 7-8 folks who are interested in helping to make this aspect of Firefly successful.

*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.

*If you would like to participate, please sign up via the Art Grants portal before the February 1 submission deadline for Silk/Temple Grants:*

*http://grants.fireflyartscollective.org/voters/signup http://grants.fireflyartscollective.org/voters/signup*

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-- Alyce Currier / alyce.io / @notalyce http://twitter.com/notalyce

-- Alyce Currier / alyce.io / @notalyce http://twitter.com/notalyce