Assessment Criteria for the Arts Grants Program

All Arts Grants applications to the Arts Development, Indigenous Arts and Young People and the Arts Programs will be assessed against each of the following criteria.

Peer Assessment Process

Peer assessment is fundamental to the process of assessing applications to the Arts  Development, Indigenous Arts and Young People and the Arts Programs. Collectively, peer assessment panel members represent and assess the areas of visual arts, craft, writing, theatre, dance, music, interdisciplinary arts, digital and community cultural development. For more information about this process see the panel information.

Artflight and the Emerging Curators Program are assessed by the Department.

Multi-year funded organisation applications receive comment on their artistic program from the peer assessment panels. The application then undergoes further assessment by the Department.

Assessment Criteria

All applications are assessed against the Arts Grants Program assessment criteria listed below. Programs and Categories also have their own unique assessment criteria which are also considered in the assessment of your application.

1. Artistic Merit

In assessing artistic merit the panel seeks to support activities that have strengths in some or all of the following:

• Demonstrates artistic excellence and/or
• Shows artistic risk-taking and/or
• Exhibits timeliness and relevance to the participant’s artistic practice and to the broader artform and/or
• Demonstrates relevance to a wider social context, and/or
• Involves personnel with the expertise to deliver the project’s objectives.

2. Good Planning

In assessing good planning the panel seeks to support activities that include:

• Achievable, realistic outcomes
• A methodology that can achieve these outcomes
• Documented research and/or consultation (if required)
• Strategies to engage with the intended audience
• A process to critically review and evaluate outcomes, and
• Support from relevant community and/or host institutions (if required).

3. Financial Responsibility

In assessing financial responsibility the panel seeks to support activities that include:

• Accurate and comprehensive costings
• Efficient use of resources; and
• Reasonable rates of pay for artists and artsworkers (See essential information for all applicants)

Priority Support

Additional priority is given to those applications that do one or more or the following:

• Support the creation, presentation and promotion of work by regionally based artists and communities
• Increase access by regional audiences to diverse arts experiences and/or
• Support the creation, presentation and promotion of work by artists and communities from Culturally And Linguistically Diverse backgrounds (CALD)
• Increase access by CALD audiences to diverse arts experiences
• Encourage cultural vibrancy in Western Australia through arts activities developed and implemented by, with and/ or for communities.