proposal draft revision exercise

proposal draft revision workshop

This exercise is supposed to help you help each other with your proposal writing (and thus your project development) –-- both to see (through the eyes of your cluster partners) what your proposal would look like to a review panel and to see through your own experience as reviewer what a panel might appreciate in a proposal – clarity, brevity, poetry, etc…

Part 1 – author summaries – each of you should present a verbal summary of your proposal

Part 2 – exchange (but do not trade) proposals and provide a written critique. You should give a close reading of the proposal you take – help your fellow cluster member find what he/she is missing using some the guidelines below.

Guidelines for critique

Address the clarity of the proposal by commenting on the following…

• do you understand what the project is about from reading the proposal? In your comments on the draft point out strengths, weaknesses, gaps, etc.

• is the narrative of the project clear?

• Has the author given you a sense of how he/she came to this concept? Does he/she explain how it fits within the larger context/history of his/her practice as an artist?

• Has he/she positioned or contextualized the project in relation to other related projects

• Does the project address the target audience - can you say, based on the proposal, why the project is of value to its audience or why an audience would appreciate or participate in this project

• Can you tell from the proposal how the artist plans to implement the project? What technologies will be used and/or developed? Is the timeline clear?

• could you describe this project to others in a convincing manner based on reading this proposal – give this a try… in other words, try coming up with a very brief description of the project as though you were evaluating it for members of a grant review panel – assume either that you wish to convince them that this project should be one of the top five under consideration or the opposite (in which case you would articulate how it fails) – 50 – 250 words - read these aloud to the rest of the cluster and save them for me by posting them on the wiki