The policy includes plans to review funding for the ACT's key arts organisations, which include the Canberra Contemporary Art Space, the Canberra Symphony Orchestra and the Canberra Glassworks, and implement minimum local content standards for government-funded arts festivals.

The party also wants to establish a women's walk, exhibiting work by women artists as part of the West Basin redevelopment.

The party's arts spokeswoman, Jo Clay, said the COVID-19 pandemic had devastated the arts sector, which she said was already under siege.

"Most artists in Canberra lost the majority of their arts income. Many lost their secondary income in the hospitality and entertainment sector, too. Many were locked out of JobKeeper and federal support because these weren't set up for gig workers and freelancers. And yet it is art that is getting us through 2020," Ms Clay said.

"We will make sure our artists get through this, too. We will support our artists to make sure they get paid fairly and get paid first. We will fund our arts organisations so they can properly look after their artists. And we will make space for art in our city and our lives."

The Greens' plan includes a three-year trial funding program to provide 100 artists with $52,400 a year, with 10 places reserved for Indigenous artists. The artists would work in residencies across the ACT public sector, including in schools and arts centres, the party said.

The party would also implement a $1 million extension of the Homefront funding program, which was introduced to provide snap support to artists who lost work due to pandemic shutdowns.

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The Greens' plan would see pandemic rent relief and payroll tax waivers for arts organisations extended and future support guaranteed for organisations to maintain their facilities, allocated separately from arts funding so money is not redirected to maintenance.

The Greens would also make grants available to pokie-free community clubs to help them transform into live music venues while pursuing changes to planning laws to create entertainment precincts with appropriate noise regulation to support local music.

Labor signalled at an arts policy forum earlier this month it would develop a creative industries strategy to replace a five-year-old arts policy, but the party is yet to release its full arts election policy.

Outgoing Liberal member Vicki Dunne told the forum the Liberal Party wanted to increase mass participation in the arts and hear more from arts consumers in planning for the arts sector, while also cutting red tape which hampered artists' access to support.

"I do believe that individually artists are entrepreneurs, and we need to help them achieve what they can on their own merits and do that in a way which is a light touch," Mrs Dunne said.