The New Brunswick Arts Board is an arm’s length arts funding agency with a legislated mandate to facilitate and promote the creation of art as well as administering funding programs for professional artists in the province.
Peer Jury Simulation: Understanding the Peer Jury Grant Assessment Process
For artists at all career stages! For emerging artists and those who have never been members of a peer assessment jury: identify the elements to highlight in a strong application and gain confidence in your ability to write an excellent grant application!
Peer jury simulation tour (online and in-person)
Upcoming dates:
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 21, 2026, 10 AM TO 12 PM:Online – The link to join will be sent upon registration.
TUESDAY March 24, 2026, 1 PM TO 3 PM:Bathurst – Pavilion room at Town Hall. 150 St George St, Bathurst.
TUESDAY APRIL 14, 2026, 1 PM – 3 PM:Saint John – Conference room at ArtsLink NB. 4 Prince William St, Suite 303, Saint John.
These workshops are for ArtsLink NB members only and will be held in English. Registration is required HERE.
ArtsLink NB and the New Brunswick Arts Board (artsnb) are organizing peer jury simulations to help artists:
Understand the steps involved in evaluating grant applications
Understand how grants are awarded to artists
Strengthen their future grant applications
Build their confidence and gain experience as a peer jury member
Join a Program Officer at artsnb to demystify the peer jury process. First, you will attend a 30-minute presentation on how jury meetings work at artsnb to prepare you for the simulation.
Actively participate in the evaluation of fictious applications during the simulation (please allow time before the simulation day to read the applications, which will be shared with you one week before the simulation).
As a provincial entity, the New Brunswick Arts Board acknowledges that it carries out its work on the traditional unceded territory of the Wolastoqiyik, Mi’kmaq and Peskotomuhkati peoples. Read the full statement.