| La Marre, Rebecca |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$5,000 |
I plan to attend the Flex Residency Program at the Medalta International Artists in Residence Program in Medicine Hat, Alberta in 2023. |
| Farm Fest Terre Ferme Festival Ltd. |
Regina |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2022-2023 |
$5,000 |
For support towards a (mostly) folk music festival which includes market, workshops and visual arts exhibit. |
| Regina Chamber Music Festival |
Regina |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2022-2023 |
$5,000 |
The project is the presentation of three nights of chamber music concerts and related events in the community, by international and local artists. |
| Macnab, Bonny |
Mervin |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
Developing knowledge for a sustainable, bio-diverse art practice through mapping color extraction from Canadian plants. Rebuilding connection to sense of place through experience with plants. |
| Benjamin, Paul |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
To study traditional Māori music and instruments in Marae (Māori community) with Cultural Expert Tohunga (Elder) Dr. Pouroto Ngaropo and Grammy winning instrumentalist Jerome Kavanagh. |
| Han, Xiao |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
To attend an artist residency which aims to research and develop my photograph into public art which creates spaces and connections for Saskatoon-based BIPOC communities. |
| Arnott, Johanna |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
The production of A Bronte Without Genius by Johanna Arnott in Live Five's 2023-2024 Season |
| Cameron, Ian |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
To study C6th Pedal Steel Guitar with professional musician Michael Eckert by taking weekly lessons over internet video call. |
| Billingsley, Alyssa |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
Dramaturgy of 'Identity Crisis' with physical theatre / bouffon icons Deanna Fleysher and Karen Hines from July 14 2023 - August 16 2023. |
| Favel, Floyd |
Paynton |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
To develop my research on Indigenous theatre methods combined with my literary text Red People Red Magic. Create a virtual platform for global artistic presentation. |
| Macdonald, Daniel |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
The development of a creative work in the form of a full-length play through dramaturgy, workshops, redrafting, and public feedback. |
| Barabas, Mishel |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
To create medium to large scale portrait (with unique settings) paintings. A body of work to exhibit, engage and connect with community. |
| Dinsmore, Rowen |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
A project expanding my artistic practice through new ideas and mediums while obtaining advice and critique through mentorships with professional artists from Saskatchewan. |
| Nepjuk, Elizabeth |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
To transcribe and compile research data gathered during the production/duration of the game EVERY BODY DOES IT at the Saskatoon Fringe in August 2023. |
| Scott, Tallus |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
Study advanced drum techniques & mentorship career paths for a 5 day period, Jan.2-6, 2024, with renowned drum educator Dave Elitch in Los Angeles. |
| Regina Jazz Society Inc. |
Regina |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
JazzFest Regina 2024 celebrates its 16th annual jazz festival kicking off summer in Regina and Southern Saskatchewan along with our Saskatchewan festival fun events season. |
| Garlimah, James |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
This project/Album is a result of over ten years of writing and recording my own music. This Project will server is my debut album professionally. |
| Mabrouk, Rawda |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
Explore the paradoxes of an Egyptian woman, bridging trauma of oppression in Egypt to the challenges of life in Canada through tracing movement onto canvas. |
| Kharsa, Ali |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
Write, rehearse, and record 3 new songs and host a community event in Saskatoon with music with an open mike. |
| Jegede-Ikpen, Oghenerukevwe |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
To explore a new musical frontier by blending traditional African rhythms with modern synths and diverse languages, and fusing Afrobeats with the Canadian sound. |
| Shurniak Gallery Inc. |
Assiniboia |
Visual |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
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| Brown, Sharon-Ann |
Regina |
Literary |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
I would like to publish the second book in the Adventure of Baby Alfie series. The book is called 'Gameday for Baby Alfie'. |
| Hernani Merino, Bruno |
Regina |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
To support the completion of 20 paintings for a solo gallery exhibition, showcasing the painting style I have been developing for the last 10 years |
| Sun, Qiming |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
This funding is meant to support my year-long production of new artworks and the cultivation of many solo/group exhibitions during my 2024-25 Saskatoon Bunkhouse residency. |
| Reid, Sonia |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
A community weekend to learn more about Black gospel choir music workshop culminating in a live music performance. |
| Nafisa, Fatima |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
Phase 1 of an ASL Poetry multimedia project aimed at expressing the Deaf BIPOC experience. |
| Gascon, Girlynne |
Regina |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
Mentorship with artist Patrick Fernandez with focus on finding cultural identity and production of individual work and collaboration for exhibition. |
| Al-Katib, Muveddet |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
Finding my truth to reassess my traditional art to create a unique contemporary identity through a Western perspective and exploring the dynamic nature of truth! |
| Otayemi, Demilade |
saskatoon |
Theatre |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
Documenting the collaboration process between SUM Theatre and EDM Lab through, interactive documentation methods. Inspiring future collaborations and youth engagement in artistic and engineering careers |
| Wu, I-Ying |
Regina |
Dance |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
This project invites artists to train in my Daoism-inspired improvisation practice, exploring how this approach can be a training method for diverse cultural backgrounds. |
| Nwabuko, Daniel |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
Highlight, showcase and bring awareness to the beauty in diversity of black hair - the different types, forms and styles that it appears to come. |
| McDougall, Bradley |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
Rehearse and tour my re-written one man show “Night Sweats” to Regina & Saskatoon Fringe Festivals and Flin Flon & North Battleford. |
| Rosenwald, Betsy |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
To attend an artist residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Amherst, Virginia. |
| Mathieu, Veronique |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
Research manuscripts of violin works written by four women composers in Calgary (AB), and Paris (France) in June 2024. |
| Gronsdahl, Todd |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
This project is to bring curator and gallery director, Dominique Toutant to Saskatoon to visit artist studios and to present a talk. |
| Klassen, Vanessa |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
This is a 2-part project for which I will create new typeset editions of three selected clarinet works by Canadian composers, then record each one. |
| Eve (Rink), Sophia |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
To complete a literary fiction manuscript, ALL THIS TO SAY. Themes include socioeconomic and racial identities in motherhood, art vs artist, and ethics vs desire. |
| Mwela, Nyasha |
Regina |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
Create and compose 4 songs. |
| Reid, Sonia |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
A community weekend Black gospel choir workshop culminating in a live music performance. |
| Robinson, Kemesha |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
Vocal coaching under the mentorship of Sonia Reid in Jazz & Blue |
| Ba, Flany |
Regina |
Dance |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
The Creative Lab: a collaborative space uniting Canadian dancers to develop, challenge, and showcase hard-to-learn skills through guided creative exploration and shared understanding. |
| Hutchinson, Jonathan |
Saskatooon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
The Uplift Duo will be recording a Christmas album, and putting on a Christmas concert in December showcasing music from the album, and special guests. |
| Kathrotia, Yash |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
Compose a multi-movement orchestral work that features Bansuri as a solo instrument and supplement it with professional looking scores and MIDI audio files. |
| Bates, Colton |
RM of Sherwood |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
Screenplay development and writing. |
| Abbott, Mika |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
Seeking professional development through a residency, 1:1 instruction, workshops that will support my artistic growth while developing a photography-based project exploring space and class. |
| Scott, Tallus |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
Study advanced drum techniques & mentorship career paths for a 6 day period, Jan.15-20, 2025, with renowned drum educator Dave Elitch in Los Angeles, California. |
| One Take Super 8 Event |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
SaskFestivals |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
This project will help artists create and exhibit 25 new films as part of the annual OTS8 film event dedicated to developing filmmakers in Saskatchewan. |
| Reid, Sonia |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
To train for certification as a NeuroVocal Method® Licensee. |
| Holophon Audio Arts |
Regina |
Media Arts |
SaskFestivals |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
To host the second annual Wavefield sound art festival running from September 26th to September 27th, 2025. |
| Coflin, Caitlin |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$4,997 |
I will be travelling to Toronto to study Laban Movement Analysis and Bartenieff Fundamentals with Janet Kaylo and other certified instructors. |
| Weber, Angel |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$4,996 |
I've been invited to the first special event workshop and exhibition held by the international association for my art form - the International Tsumami-Zaiku Association. |
| Krips, Spencer |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$4,989 |
Immersive 360-degree music performance, pairing improvised music with recorded natural sounds. Custom visualizers will be created to respond to the music and projected during performance. |
| Megan Kent and Sara Kreuger |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$4,905 |
Megan Kent and Sara Kreuger want to further their study of Egyptian dance with master instructors at the Ya Salam Canada workshop in May 2020. |
| Fornwald & Wilson |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$4,900 |
We are working as a duo to produce an installation of 50 flags and wallpaper for the Alberta Biennial at the Remai Modern in Saskatoon. |
| Bellefleur, Stephanie |
Willow Bunch |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$4,885 |
Power Haus is a literary art book which explores; passion for community engagement and the introspective effects of colour therapy through the public art lens. |
| Baerwaldt, Wayne |
Assiniboia |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$4,884 |
To complete my research and writing to realize a collaborative artist book project with Richard Boulet |
| Petit, Marcel |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$4,862 |
Short film based on the book by J.M. Bergman, about a teenage girl who is kidnapped, illustrating the plight of missing and murdered Indigenous women. |
| Godfrey Dean Art Gallery Inc. |
Yorkton |
Visual |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$4,825 |
Upgrade and replace aging and soon to be obsolete computer and technology infrastructure. Manage change and succession for a new Director & Curator position. |
| Kuse, Stephanie |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$4,821 |
Three day artist residency in Quebec to workshop, develop and rehearse live visual set before departing on German tour in November and December. |
| Association of Manitou Arts & Cultures Inc. |
Manitou Beach |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2021-2022 |
$4,800 |
The 2022 Manitou Music Fest will deliver a quality festival, including an eclectic selection of professional musicians, songwriters, dancers, artisans, and performers. |
| Gobeil, Beth |
Prince Albert |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$4,800 |
Requesting funds to work on my poetry manuscript tentatively titled Of Rooms and Memory. I will revise 30 poems and write 25 new poems. |
| Garez, Simon |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$4,780 |
Direct and finish a narrative short film about beekeeping and the ecological issues effecting bees. |
| Hanwell, Drew |
Regina |
Music |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$4,768 |
My band would be able to take more gigs if we could start bringing our production equipment with us in the cargo trailer. |
| Meneley, Barbara |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$4,751 |
This proposal is to support travel costs related to the creation and development of my project "White Land / Treaty For?" |
| Mendez, Edward |
Warman |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$4,716 |
I will write a verbatim play based on interviews with first generation and Indigenous Canadians exploring loss of culture and the concept of "Being Canadian" |
| Johnson, Ashley |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$4,700 |
To develop a peer led somatic learning space to support the transition back to in person dancing with Ashley Johnson and Johanna Bundon. |
| Weber, Angel |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$4,670 |
To study tsumami-zaiku, the Japanese craft of folding silk squares into complex flora and fauna arrangements, and become a certified tsumami-zaiku teacher. |
| Lynch, Rory |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$4,644 |
A period of time dedicated to practice and research, with the goal of developing specific technical skills and expanding aesthetic horizons. |
| Zdunich, Emily |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$4,600 |
To create and research a new body of work exploring the human condition for the purpose of exhibitions and professional development. |
| Spilchen, Danielle |
Warman |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$4,583 |
Our collective will produce and present George F. Walker's Zastrozzi as part of Live Five's 2024-2025 season in November/December of 2024. |
Reimer, Joel Dash
E. D. Feehan Catholic High School |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2021-2022 |
$4,580 |
We will engage a group of 10th grade newcomer students in an exploration of spoken word poetry through the themes of identity & balance |
| Brochu Lambert, Anne |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$4,577 |
To create a multimedia triptych installation that integrates a motion activated soundscape, celebrating the close relationships and creative voices of four generations of Francophone women. |
| McKenzie, Tiess |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$4,570 |
To present three musical events in Saskatoon: An outdoor, interactive soundwalk, a concert of string and piano music, and a concert of electro-acoustic trombone music. |
| Semko, Jacob |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$4,555 |
Expanding traditional fine-art wood block printmaking by developing methods with novel tools and techniques |
| Regina Blues Association |
Regina |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2022-2023 |
$4,550 |
The Mid-Winter Blues Festival features mainstage and free live blues music events featuring a mix of diverse local, national, and international performers. |
| Manitou Beach Literary Festival |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
SaskFestivals |
2022-2023 |
$4,550 |
Multi genre contemporary literary festival celebrating excellence in local, provincial, national and international literature through presentation of book launches, author readings, workshops, panels and performance. |
| Regina Jazz Society Inc. |
Regina |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2022-2023 |
$4,550 |
JazzFest Regina 2023 celebrates its 15th. annual festival kicking off summer and our festival event season. |
| Fourstar, Gabrielle |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2020-2021 |
$4,536 |
I intend to paint an art series of 100 abstract acrylic blob paintings on 18"X 24" canvases. Remaining paintings with vegan paint. |
| Berglund, Blake |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$4,520 |
I will return home to the family farm to write new material influenced by family dynamic, rural culture and personal themes. |
| Lavallee, Terri |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$4,500 |
I would like to create a stylized bridal gown embellished with Nehiyaw bead work, along with beaded accessories and matching mens cufflinks and tie clip. |
| Cuthand, Shawn |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2020-2021 |
$4,500 |
We want to continue our series of satirical news monologues centred around an Indigenous Comedy perspective and expand into comedy skits. |
| McKenzie, Tiess |
Estevan |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$4,500 |
To produce a five-track cycle of experimental, soundscape-based, electronic music. Working title: "Walking Music." |
| Baird, Gavin |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$4,500 |
8th Street Menace is an online series about protagonist Mitchell “Menace” Dubois, a failed welder and aspiring Métis musician who moonlights as an auto-parts thief. |
| Lobb, Greg |
La Ronge |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$4,500 |
A mosaic visual piece utilizing scraps and off cuts from sign production focusing on reclamation, conservation and salvage. |
| Brenna, Beverley |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$4,500 |
--A YA novel following eighteen-year-old Kay as she navigates FASD and grade twelve in a new school, discovering her bio mom, and a twin brother. |
| Olsen, Farideh |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$4,500 |
To write a 60-90min show about motherhood that integrates music and comedy. |
| Tienkamp, Christine |
St. Louis |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2023-2024 |
$4,500 |
To support a Metis Womens Artists evening with an exhibit following, completing and adding new 'li rooz di no piyii' pieces to the exhibit. |
| Hansen, Yolanda |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$4,500 |
A mentorship with an established Saskatchewan poet to learn more about the craft of poetry and work on a full-length collection. |
| Pickrell, Jonathon |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$4,500 |
Funding to support a dramaturgy cycle and two day workshop for my play "66 No Exit Lane" to prepare it for production. |
| Billingsley, Alyssa |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$4,500 |
Dramaturgy, rewrites, & remounting 'Identity Crisis' for a 2024 tour to the Winnipeg & Edmonton Fringe Festivals with John Turner, Karen Hines, Kenn McLeod. |
| Klassen, Hilary |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$4,500 |
Professional development in the form of mentorship for creative nonfiction book manuscript about a Saskatchewan land conflict, subsequent reconciliation and shared continuing quest for justice. |
| Littlechief, Teagan |
Carylyle |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$4,500 |
We need grant funding to attend the OSAC Showcase, aiming to secure bookings for the 2025-2026 season and expand our performance opportunities. |
| Kovach, Jaye |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$4,500 |
Complete post-production for The Lovers 2, a short film exploring my trans-for-trans and butch-femme relationship with Cat C. Haines through kink and the everyday. |
| Standing, Cyrus |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous/Metis Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$4,488 |
Developing my art form of story telling and tell the stories of Dakota history, Kinship, language and my community in Saskatchewan |
| Bellegarde, Bradley |
Regina |
Music |
Indigenous/Metis Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$4,487 |
To write 6 songs, all stories with Indigenous relevance for an EP with the working title, "Rediculous Stories". |
| Zhao, JingLu |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$4,480 |
To assist with the costs of childcare for my three children while I create a new body of paintings for exhibition. |
| Gares, Jessica |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$4,474 |
I am seeking funds to complete post production work on my short film "Fuck" I shot this past summer, which I wrote, directed, and produced. |
| Okemaysim, Aren |
Regina |
Music |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2023-2024 |
$4,470 |
This grant is to cover subsistence & living expenses while writing new music for my OKIMAW ᐅᑭᒪᐤ music project. |
| Harder, Kristel |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$4,466 |
To gain the professional skills necessary to develop "EmotionLoss", a comedic cabaret exploring mental health, through two workshops and a mentorship program. |
| Rewuski, Lindsey |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$4,440 |
Support in presentation and transportation of works for first solo exhibition in March 2025 in Yorkton, SK. |
