Want some feedback on your next application?

Get a fresh perspective with Visual Arts Nova Scotia’s Peer Application Review Groups.

It’s time for another round of the Peer Application Review Groups. Visual Arts Nova Scotia is facilitating this six-week peer-review process to help current members strengthen their upcoming proposals. Artists will get and give feedback by email on applications from two peers, matched based on the type of application that is being made. You can still take part in this program that connects you with other artists (while staying at home). It’s the best of both worlds.

If you’re writing a grant or residency application, or an exhibition proposal, join a Peer Application Review Group to have your writing looked over by other VANS members writing similar applications. Participants will be given two rough draft deadlines and will be expected to send edits back to their peers the following week. Since it is all done by email, you can participate from anywhere. Previous participants have had their projects funded/approved so it is definitely a worthwhile process! But you don’t have to take my word for it…

Previous participants have said:

I have gotten the grant I wrote through the Peer Review group! Both [the other members of the group] were really great to work with and for a first-timer applicant like me, it was extremely valuable! Thank you for giving us this opportunity to improve our writing, make a better application and improve our chances of getting a grant.

I am endorsing wholeheartedly the Peer Review opportunity and encourage others to take part in it. It is invaluable.

To participate in a Peer Application Review Group, VANS members can read more on the VANS website: https://visualarts.ns.ca/program/peer-application-review-groups/ and sign up by Monday, March 20. This deadline gives us enough time for writing and editing before the Arts Nova Scotia deadline for Grant to Individuals on May 15, and the Canada Council for the Arts deadline for Professional Development for Artists on June 7.