2025 Arts Grant Program Peer Review Panelist Application

PEER REVIEW PANELIST APPLICATION

The City of West Hollywood’s Arts Division seeks individuals who are experienced in the arts, through administration, education, patron, or practice, or have a record of participating in, and/or presenting arts activities, to review and score grant applications based on a grant program’s published criteria.

Applications due Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 3 p.m.

Panelists’ Role

Panelists provide the City of West Hollywood’s Arts Division with expert evaluation of an applicant’s grant proposal by reviewing the applicant’s narrative, budget, and marketing and artistic documentation. Panelists will be required to:

-Become familiar with the guidelines for the grant program to provide you with a greater understanding of the purpose and goals of various grants.
-Thoroughly read all applications, view all attachments, supporting materials, and websites and social media pages.
-Assign a preliminary score and provide comments using the review criteria on the score sheet provided for each applicant.

Panel Timeline

March 3, 2025	Peer Review Panelists application available to the public
April 30, 2025	Peer Review Panelists application deadline
May 2025	Arts and Cultural Affairs Commission review and approval of Peer Review Panelist Pool
June 1, 2025	Peer Review Panelists notified of selection to serve on 2025 Arts Grant Panel
April – July	Arts Grant applications available to public
July 2, 2025	Arts Grant applications sent to selected Arts Grant Peer Review Panelists
August 7, 2025	Deadline for Arts Grant Peer Review Panelists to submit scores to Arts Staff
August 20, 2025	Arts Grant Panel (to review Arts Project; Community Arts; Transgender, Gender Diverse, Intersex Arts Grants) in-person meeting 10am-4pm at Aquatic & Recreation Center 10am-4pm
August 27, 2025	WeHo Artist and Filmmakers Grants Panel in-person meeting 10am-4pm at Aquatic & Recreation Center

Compensation
Panelists will receive an honorarium of $300.00. Accordingly, panelists should be prepared to submit a W9 and sign an honorarium agreement by May.

Please note: If you are planning to apply for one of the four grant opportunities, you will not be eligible to serve on the panel.

Questions

Please contact Grants Coordinator Eva Angeloff at eangeloff@weho.org or phone (323) 848-6354.

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I prefer to participate in the Arts Grant Peer Review Panel on August 20th 10am-4pm.*

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I prefer to participate in the WeHo Artist & Film Grant Peer Review Panel on August 27th 10am-4pm.*

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