Irving Arts Center seeks Irving residents to serve as 2023 Community Grant Review Panelists. Those wishing to be considered may be nominated by others or apply directly by completing the on-line nomination form. 

The deadline for submission is September 11, 2022.  

Irving residents who have knowledge of the visual and/or performing arts as practicing artists, experience through other participation in the arts, or attend a variety of arts events as a consumer are eligible to apply. Panelists volunteer their time as a service to Irving Arts Center and the Irving arts community and are appointed for a one-year term. Community members join other peer reviewers selected from the ranks of professional arts and non-profit administrators and artists from across the state.  

Members from the pool of candidates will be appointed by the Irving Arts Board. Every effort is made to appoint panelists that reflect the diversity of Irving, with balanced representation of expertise, experience and knowledge of the arts.

Those chosen to serve as community panelists will be invited to attend events of funded organizations following a required zoom orientation (September 2022) over a period of several months leading up to the review process (June 2023). Tickets will be provided by Irving Arts Center. 

Panelists do not make funding decisions. They review the grant applications on-line, rank them as to their relative quality and merit and provide feedback which is shared with the applicants and Arts Board. The Arts Board uses this guidance in making funding decisions.

For more information, contact Kass Prince at (972) 252-7558, ext. 1242 or at koprince@cityofirving.org.