Queen Mary Public School
Earl McKay |
Prince Albert |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2024-2025 |
$10,000 |
The grade 5/6, and 7 teachers and students will work alongside artist Earl Mckay to create posters that encompass the 7 Grandfather/nehiyew wiyasiwēwina teachings. |
| Cuthand, Shawn |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2025-2026 |
$10,000 |
I would like to take a script I have developed and edit/format it to make into a PSA comic book about addictions. |
Free Flow Dance Theatre Company
Integrated Dance Artist Collective |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
To develop a regional community of professional contemporary dancers through creative practice with choreographer Shannon Litzenberger, toward creating a performance installation at the Remai Modern. |
St. Frances Cree Bilingual School - Bateman
Mary Harelkin Bishop |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Artists in Schools |
2021-2022 |
$10,000 |
This project is to help students to find out about their culture and record this information in writing. The final product is a printed book. |
North Park Wilson School
Joel Bernbaum |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Creative Action is a new Grade 8 Arts Program. Partnering with Joel will enhance the program from the very first year of its existence! |
Dureault, Mitchell
Minahik Waskahigan Elementary School |
Wolseley |
Music |
Artists in Schools |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
Bring a music educator into our Northern community to rejuvenate lost culture, strengthen intergenerational connections, teach music to youth and build local capacity through mentorship. |
YWCA Regina
Joely Bigeagle-Kequahtooway |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
Brain tanned buffalo hide will used to create art work that will commemorate MMIWG2S+ families loved ones. |
| The Vertigo Series |
Regina |
Literary |
SaskFestivals |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
Living Sky School Division No. 202
Bonny Macnab |
North Battleford |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Conversations with Nature brings together artists, storytellers and healers to lead students through a process of thinking like artists, scientists and stewards of the land. |
Nuit Blanche Saskatoon Contemporary Arts Festival Inc.
Jason Surkan |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
This project engages youth to create an installation that explores how the rhythms and patterns of Métis tectonics can be translated through contemporary architectural design. |
| Afenfia, Michael |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$10,000 |
The "Head of the Baptist" is a collection of short stories and poetry exploring Nigerian-Canadian identity and relationships within the context of Canadian multiculturalism. |
| Dog Patch Music Festival Inc. |
Loon Lake |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2025-2026 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and program support. |
Badger, Joanne
Sturgeon Lake Central School |
Sturgeon Lake |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2025-2026 |
$10,000 |
Continue the art of porcupine quill placement on birchbark and quill stitching, to youth in school, on the Sturgeon Lake First Nation - intermediate. |
| Blom, Monique |
Waldheim |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
To produce and perform "(In)terfertilization: Of Word and Flesh" at (UNAM) Encuentro 2019:The World Inside Out in Mexico City in June 2019. |
| Smith, James |
Muskoday |
— |
Share and Connect |
2022-2023 |
$10,000 |
Ask younger indigenous people what they think about Art. Show them how to develop these ideas ranging from educational, spiritual experiences, hardships, beauty nature, aspirations. |
Holy Family School
Kevin Pee-ace |
North Battleford |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2023-2024 |
$10,000 |
Our students will work with Kevin Peeace to create a legacy piece (painting) in the hall of our school to represent our students and community. |
Common Weal Community Arts Inc.
Michèle Mackasey |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$10,000 |
A community engaged art project focused on rejuvenation of Indigenous languages with artist Michèle Mackasey, Patuanak community, Saskatoon partners, and regional Elders. |
| Darke Hall Society Inc. |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2025-2026 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Clinton Ackerman Music |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Host a week long summer camp of creativity and interdisciplinary art creation. |
| Short Cuts Festival Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
SaskFestivals |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
Doyle, Eliza Mary
Girls Rock Camp Saskatoon |
Asquith |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
Providing continued opportunity for female empowerment by building local capacity through strengthening, mentoring and expanding the Girls Rock Saskatoon program to under-served/remote communities in Saskatchewan. |
Conservatory of Performing Arts
Paul Dechene |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2021-2022 |
$10,000 |
"Out of the Darke" seeks to respond to untold oral stories and unwritten histories of performing arts venue, Darke Hall, through literary and multimedia works. |
YWCA Regina
Lloyd Dubois |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2022-2023 |
$10,000 |
To provide art-making workshops and co-create a kinship mural that explore Indigenous experiences under colonialism for YWCA residents, staff and public. |
| Martin-Arcand, Logan |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$10,000 |
We, a team of a 2SLGBTQ+ artists, will be presenting Logan Martin-Arcand's play The Gay Card, as a part of the 2022/23 Live Five Season. |
| Bigeagle-Kequahtooway, Joely |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2025-2026 |
$10,000 |
To interview 13+ matriarchs to ask questions about the important matriarchs in their life. Lessons learned and future visions/hope for future and their legacies. |
| Prairie New Music Festivals Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| UR Pride Centre for Sexuality & Gender Diversity Inc. |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Stories That Move You: A portrait and digital storytelling project by and for trans and non-binary people in Saskatchewan |
25th Street Theatre Centre Inc.
Laura Hale |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Artist Laura Hale will engage the attendees of the 2020 Fringe Festival to create a large-scale, outdoor art installation over the course of ten days. |
Reimer, Joel Dash
Chokecherry Studios |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2022-2023 |
$10,000 |
This 12 week project will provide young male participants with hip hop skills as a form of expression for a tandem project on healthy masculinity. |
| Federation des Francophones de Saskatoon |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
SaskFestivals |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Wensel, Misty |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
To refine existing segments of dance creation, “Trails” into a full length, open-air production featuring Saskatchewan artists from multiple disciplines. To be presented Summer 2021. |
| W3APONS |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$10,000 |
4 month creative period to write new songs and choreograph a new stage show. |
Sâkêwêwak First Nations Artists' Collective Inc.
Skyler Anderson |
Regina |
Theatre |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$10,000 |
To develop traditional stories into stage performances with puppets. |
St. Frances Cree Bilingual School - Bateman
Mary Bishop |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Artists in Schools |
2023-2024 |
$10,000 |
The artist will work with classroom teachers to produce small books in Cree and English, modeling from familiar stories, helping students learn their Cree language. |
| Big River Metis Local #59 |
Big River |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Big River Metis Local would like to have a cultural mural painted on the west wall of our 50 year old heritage theater. |
| The Vertigo Series |
Regina |
Literary |
SaskFestivals |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Cameron, Steph |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$10,000 |
Creation, development and demonstration recordings of songs for album, Blood Moon. Expansion of live performance repertoire. |
| Saskatchewan Book Awards Inc. |
Regina |
Literary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2022-2023 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Bundon Pfeifer Henderson |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$10,000 |
Funds for bundonpfeiferhenderson to develop audio, projection, and installation concepts for the new play 'Tommy & Pere', by Arthur Milner. |
| Knight, Lindsay |
Saskatoon |
— |
Share and Connect |
2025-2026 |
$10,000 |
Two streaming online musical performances similar to NPR Music Tiny Desk Concerts with Indigenous artists from Saskatchewan. |
Fidelak, Terri
Christ the King School |
Regina |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Creation of a large, temporary sculptural installation using locally-sourced clay to engage students in learning about connection to land and sustainability through the creative process. |
| W3APONS |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
This project is to fund a writing period for Saskatoon-based band and writing collaborators, W3APONS. |
| Matyushenko, Valentyna |
Grandora |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
Create choreography project about Easter in Pysanka and showcase it. Awake Tradition through the dance vision. |
Art Gallery of Swift Current
Shon Profit |
Swift Current |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
Provide and document for research a professional artist-led weekly art class for Wolf Willow Health Centre LTC to implement into a sustainable program during lockdowns. |
| Metcalfe, Shayne |
Waldheim |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$10,000 |
Creation of monologues through an experimental writing and performance process. Scripts will be created from documentary style interviews of actors then used for video monologues. |
Reimer, Joel Dash
Pleasant Hill Community Association |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2024-2025 |
$10,000 |
Dash Reimer will partner with different communities in Pleasant Hill to create an artistic response to the question of what safety looks like in community. |
asokan Project Camps
Alexandra Nordstrom |
Battleford |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
This project provides youth of Poundmaker and Little Pine First Nation with five days of creative programming that use land as pedagogy for art practice. |
| Prairie New Music Festivals Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Prairie New Music Festivals Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2021-2022 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Rosie & the Riveters |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
This project is to write 60 new songs, the best 12 of which will be recorded on Rosie & the Riveters’ next album. |
| Library Services for Saskatchewan Aboriginal Peoples Inc. |
La Ronge |
Literary |
SaskFestivals |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
Regina Folk Festival Inc.
Megan Nash |
Regina |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
All Our Relations choir, led by local musicians, will rewrite songs that shaped the labour movement and the RFF, culminating in a 50th anniversary performance. |
| Favel, Floyd |
Paynton |
Literary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
This project is to write down and publish, accompanied by visual images, the story of Broken Knife Lookout on Poundmaker Cree Nation. |
| Anderson, Charles |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
I would like to complete a collection of quirky, humorous literary essays entitled The Boy in the Window. |
Bishop James Mahoney High School
Cate Francis |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
Project grant to work with Health Science Academy students to create collaborative murals at BJM as well as a scientifically focused public art campaign. |
| Okemaysim, Aren |
Regina |
Music |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2021-2022 |
$10,000 |
The recording and engineering of 14 original songs for my debut solo music project, “Okimaw”. |
| Short Cuts Festival Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
SaskFestivals |
2021-2022 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Saskatoon Experimental Music Ensemble |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$10,000 |
To present a series of concerts, premiering newly composed and improvised works. |
| Cathedral Area Community Association |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Country at the Creek Music Fest Inc. |
Big River |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2025-2026 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and program support. |
| Ecole Dundonald School |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Our Grade 4 students will engage in a series of land based explorations with Leah Dorion to explore and represent understandings of our inquiry question. |
Campus Regina Public
Joely Bigeagle-Kequahtooway |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2024-2025 |
$10,000 |
The collaborative art piece created from a buffalo hide will be displayed in the cultural classroom and will reflect students learning and connection with land. |
| Körner, Miriam |
Air Ronge |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
This project is to complete a first draft of the novel ‘Burnt’ , including travelling to the places the protagonist encounters in her journey. |
Balfour Collegiate - Balfour Arts Collective
Tessa Kuz |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
“Who Am I?” is designed to impact young people as they investigate, represent, express and embrace empowered self-identity through the arts. |
| The Vertigo Series |
Regina |
Literary |
SaskFestivals |
2021-2022 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
Conservatory of Performing Arts
Karley Parovsky |
Regina |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2022-2023 |
$10,000 |
The Intercultural String Exchange provides professional development for violinists/fiddlers and performance/workshop opportunities for the general public showcasing the violin's multicultural usage. |
| On Cue Performance Hub |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2024-2025 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Negraeff, Laura |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$10,000 |
I will produce & direct Sarah Ruhl’s play about relationships, women’s health, & sexuality, titled “In the Next Room” at Persephone’s Backstage in Saskatoon |
Mathieu, Veronique
Saskatoon Public Library |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
Present six free interactive and educational concerts involving different musical traditions at Frances Morrison Public Library (Saskatoon) and in North Battleford . |
| Cathedral Area Community Association |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2021-2022 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Petit, Marcel |
Saskatoon |
— |
Share and Connect |
2023-2024 |
$10,000 |
To create a first draft of the documentary film Queer Seniors by editing twelve existing interviews of queer Indigenous Elders and settler senior citizens. |
| Wilson, Nic |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$10,000 |
Over the next year, I would like to pursue three projects that will focus on new material processes and collaboration. |
Bernbaum, Joel
Oskayak High School |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Artists in Schools |
2024-2025 |
$10,000 |
To study the play Reasonable Doubt with Oskāyak High School students, work with them to create an artistic response, and share this response with public |
| Agecoutay, Richard |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2024-2025 |
$10,000 |
The following grant proposal is for the research phase of a Video Documentary focused on the people who attend and participate in Saskatchewan Powwows. |
| Association of Manitou Arts & Cultures Inc. |
Manitou Beach |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2025-2026 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and program support. |
Creative City Centre Inc.
Karlie King |
Regina |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Karlie King will work with retirement communities downtown to facilitate knitting groups focused on the yarn-bombing of pre-determined locations downtown leading up to Nuit Blanche. |
| On Cue Performance Hub |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2025-2026 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Federation des Francophones de Saskatoon |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
SaskFestivals |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
— |
| Herriot, Trevor |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
to prepare a final draft of the novel I am writing to submit to my editor at HarperCollins. |
Normand, Alexis
École Père Mercure |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Artists in Schools |
2023-2024 |
$10,000 |
This project is to carry out choral and rock band projects with students who will write and perform songs in French about Père André Mercure. |
| Indigenous Poets Society |
Saskatoon |
— |
Share and Connect |
2023-2024 |
$10,000 |
Publish a Zine of indigenous writing, artwork in early 2024 of 50 pages. Create digitally and send to printers at SK and ON branches distribution. |
Evan Hardy Collegiate
Samuel Kruger |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Artists in Schools |
2024-2025 |
$10,000 |
An original theatre production about relevant issues in the lives of teens utilizing innovative theatrical performance and technology techniques with the guidance of Sam Kruger. |
Girls Rock Camp Saskatoon
Eliza Mary Doyle |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Providing opportunities for female empowerment through Cultural Arts Mentorship Programming by building capacity and expanding the Girls Rock Saskatoon program to under-served/remote communities in Saskatchewan. |
| Federation des Francophones de Saskatoon |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
SaskFestivals |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
Phillips, Geoff
Southwestern Saskatchewan Oldtimers' Museum Inc. |
Maple Creek |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
The next generation of Agribusiness will benefit from learning how technology is impacting their trade through targeted art workshops inspired by local ranching history. |
Saskatchewan Band Association
Paul Suchan |
Regina |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2022-2023 |
$10,000 |
Engage developing youth composers, through collaboration with a professional composer, in the creation of a 4-piece band composition celebrating the Saskatchewan Band Association’s 40th anniversary. |
| Bird, Lianne |
Balcarres |
— |
Share and Connect |
2022-2023 |
$10,000 |
Singers from Peepeekisis FN joined with Saskatchewan Gymnaestada to perform at Amsterdam World Gymaestrada Festival to promote Truth and Reconciliation Call to Action. |
| Anskohk Aboriginal Writers' Circle Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
SaskFestivals |
2024-2025 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and program support. |
| Regina International Open Theatre Society |
Regina |
Theatre |
SaskFestivals |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Regina International Open Theatre Society |
Regina |
Theatre |
SaskFestivals |
2021-2022 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
St. Frances Cree Bilingual School - Bateman
Mary Bishop |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Artists in Schools |
2021-2022 |
$10,000 |
Students will be part of a creative community as they experience researching, writing and illustrating to create a book as the final project. |
Mistawasis Nehiyawak High School
Kris Moffatt |
Leask |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Engage students in art therapy sessions, complete a friendship canvas and develop a video of these process. Friendship and culture. |
Wildeman, Tatum
Father Megret High School |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Artists in Communities |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
Utilizing dance to strengthen Indigenous youths' knowledge and connection to their language and culture while improving their sense of mental wellness. |
| Tic Toc TEN |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
Tic Toc TEN is a short performance arts festival featuring ten, brand new, multidisciplinary performance pieces by both emerging and established Saskatchewan artists. |
| Federation des Francophones de Saskatoon |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
SaskFestivals |
2021-2022 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Larsen, Mitchell |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$10,000 |
I am applying to fund an extended creation/development phase of a queer, research-inspired production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie. |
Normand, Alexis
Ecole Notre-Dame-des-Vertus |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Artists in Schools |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
This project is to carry out a rock camp with students who will learn and perform songs in French about Zénon Park. |
| KSAMB Dance Company |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$9,955 |
Perfecting the technique of live amplification of dancers’ heartbeats and integrating the technique into a work in progress performance. |
Badger, Joanne
Mistawasis Nehiyawak |
Sturgeon Lake |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$9,916 |
To provide workshops as a series of porcupine quillwork artistry and preservation of a centuries old Indigenous decor. |
The Saskatchewan Council for International Cooperation (SCIC)
Kris Alvarez |
Regina |
Theatre |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$9,900 |
To work with Saskatchewan artists to provide young leaders with creative and supportive spaces to engage with ideas related to social justice and global citizenship. |
