| Wilson, Nic |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$6,800 |
To research and produce a new performance about queer embodiment and history. |
| Thunderchild, Richard |
Spiritwood |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$6,800 |
Classes for adults and youth to learn the powwow craft of headroach-making. |
| Dahlem, Madeleine |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$6,791 |
A ten-day workshop to transform a written word cantata into a hybrid musical/spoken word form, including three days of musical improvisational work. |
| Klassen, Hilary |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$6,783 |
Request for subsistence to work full-time for nine months on a non-fiction book tentatively titled: Stolen Land: Young Chippewayans & Settlers Seek Justice |
| Norlen, Alison |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$6,752 |
“curio” will explore elements of spectacle through miniature welded sculptures in bell cloches, for exhibitions at Art Gallery of Guelph and Moose Jaw Art Gallery. |
| Friesen Reed, Tricia |
Yorkton |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$6,750 |
I am planning to revise and add to a collection of creative nonfiction essays titled, "A Field Guide to Travelling Home". |
| Laird, Tonia |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$6,750 |
Planning and writing of high fantasy novel with themes of decolonization, kinship, and intergenerational trauma and healing. |
| Hansen, Naomi |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$6,750 |
I am researching and writing the manuscript for my first book "Only in Saskatchewan," which highlights restaurants all across Saskatchewan through food, stories, and history. |
| Campbell, Tara |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Indigenous/Metis Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$6,725 |
I would like to create a collection of beaded jewelry and accessories that reflect the intertwining of Hip Hop culture and Indigenous culture. |
| Badger, Joanne |
Sturgeon Lake |
Please Select |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2023-2024 |
$6,719 |
To introduce the practice of porcupine quill zig zag stitching to women and men at the Lloyd Johnson Healing Lodge in Sturgeon Lake, Saskatchewan. |
| Rose, Karen |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$6,700 |
I wish to create material to choreograph three new solos for three individual dance artists, and in this creative process, advance my choreographic skills. |
| Regina Blues Association |
Regina |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2021-2022 |
$6,700 |
The 26th Mid-Winter Blues Festival is going back to its roots with a modified three-night, one-afternoon event featuring performers from Regina and across Western Canada. |
| Syrnick, Daniel |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$6,673 |
To take time to develop and create a new series of 10-15 artworks, to show as a solo exibit in the coming fall. |
| Nemoto, Kana |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$6,670 |
Create a dance duet with Ashley Johnson with choreographic guidance from Connie Moker Wernikowski, exploring authentic movement inspired by prairie landscapes and subtle somatic awareness |
St. Frances Cree Bilingual School - Bateman
Zoe Kostuchuk |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2022-2023 |
$6,623 |
How to entice students/families back into school outside a school setting. Extra-curricular arts programming to engage students back into the school outside of school hours. |
| Lehner, Katelyn |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$6,607 |
This grant would allow me to go on two seperate writing retreats, working alongside co-writers, to create music for my upcoming project. |
| Midale Central School |
Midale |
Theatre |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$6,600 |
Midale Central School to partner with Missoula Theatre Group to create 2 school and community theatre events. |
| Kennedy, Teesha |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2024-2025 |
$6,600 |
My grant proposal seeks to create a triptych of Métis portraits, celebrating traditional, modern, and future Indigenous perspectives for a solo exhibition. |
| Hagan-Egyir, Rebecca |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$6,573 |
Development of second draft of novella, Kingdom of Waking Dreams. |
| Snake River |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$6,530 |
Production of a live soundtrack for the silent film The Phantom Carriage presented at the Artesian in Regina and the Roxy Theatre in Saskatoon. |
| Pederson, Krystle |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$6,500 |
Continuing journey to prepare for recording first solo album with band rehearsal and composition work of five new songs to be recorded in 2021. |
| Oneschuk, Sarah |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$6,500 |
Printmaking residency at Banff Centre, magnifying crochet linework as it shifts from static object to abject subject, evoking the uncanny through failure, tension, distorted familiarity. |
| Tushabe, Irene |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$6,500 |
To write a book of creative nonfiction reflecting on my departure from the Christian God in whom I was raised to have absolute faith. |
| Candline, Randi |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Indigenous/Metis Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$6,500 |
I would like to take time off work to on a fully beaded Men's Grass Dance regalia. |
| Frison, Lucas |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$6,500 |
Research and develop a treatment and pitch deck for a film about dementia and inclusivity in the disability landscape. |
| Dubnick, Caron |
Air Ronge |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$6,500 |
I will spend time at Athabasca Sand Dunes creating sketches, then spend the winter creating larger works in studio and looking for exhibition opportunities. |
| Hamel, Madonna |
Val Marie |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$6,500 |
Write 6 months, complete 2nd draft of novel "The Hem of the World' using monologue 'Mother's Apron' as template. All scenes outlined if not finished. |
| One Take Super 8 Event |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$6,500 |
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. |
Colette Bourgonje School
Diana Roelens |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2023-2024 |
$6,486 |
Grade 7 large scale collaborative collage mural project exploring individual and collective experiences depicting how place, history and environment contribute to the formation of community. |
| Elixir Ensemble |
Riverside Estates |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$6,485 |
Rehearsal and performance of two programs (three concerts) of chamber music in Saskatoon and Rosthern, SK for the Elixir Ensemble 2023-24 season. |
| Ruep, Jill |
Torquay |
Media Arts |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2024-2025 |
$6,440 |
"Ma Fii Lii Rasaad" is a software application promoting Indigenous beading education, preserving Indigenous culture, and celebrating artistry through accessible tutorials and resources. |
| Johnstone, Hilary |
La Ronge |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$6,439 |
I will spend a week at a remote cabin and make drawings and take photographs, to base my fabric works on. |
Stonhouse, David
Bridges Art Movement |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2020-2021 |
$6,408 |
Artist David Stonhouse is working with newcomer youth from Open Door Society to learn and create artwork that will lead to an exhibition at BAM |
| Pridmore, Helen |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$6,402 |
Presenting my one-person show "Mother Calling" in a double bill with Regina singer/actor Shannon Holmes, via RISER Regina's presentation series |
| Popoff, Alexandra |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$6,398 |
To produce a first draft of a biography of a prominent investigative journalist and daughter of a Ukrainian UN diplomat, Anna Politkovskaya. |
| Janvier, Bobby |
La Loche |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$6,370 |
i would like to build a skiff, sled and a canoe. I would like to build more if i could get the tools. |
| One Take Super 8 Event |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
SaskFestivals |
2022-2023 |
$6,350 |
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. |
| Kovach, Jaye |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$6,295 |
To produce a solo exhibition that examines society’s view of my body and subjectivity as a queer, disabled, butch trans woman. |
| Zhao, JingLu |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$6,197 |
To create a new series of paintings in my home studio and two residencies in Saskatoon, SK. |
| One Take Super 8 Event |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
SaskFestivals |
2021-2022 |
$6,162 |
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. |
Ecole River Heights School
Kevin Pee-ace |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2024-2025 |
$6,160 |
We aim to create an exploratory experience guided by Kevin Pee-ace for our student to express interpretations and perceptions of land and the treaty relationship. |
| McFadzean, Credence |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$6,153 |
To write the first draft of a fiction manuscript exploring the intricate mythology of an invented slasher movie villain or 'supernatural killer.' |
| Agecoutay, Richard |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2022-2023 |
$6,125 |
I want to produce an independent feature length video documentary on Saskatchewan Pow Wows. |
| Van Rees, Ken |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$6,091 |
This project is to further my artistic practice in charcoal mark-making in burnt forests in northern Saskatchewan by examining the impacts of weather and time |
| Friesen, Marcy |
Carrot River |
— |
Share and Connect |
2023-2024 |
$6,084 |
I would like to carry out a mentorship that is shaped by ideas of matriarchy and intergenerational relationships. |
| Belanger, Maureen |
Saskatoon |
— |
Share and Connect |
2023-2024 |
$6,084 |
The funds will assist in the creation and development of new material for Kokum Ernestine and her pet bird Muckatoon (puppet) . |
Badger, Joanne
Sturgeon Lake Health Centre |
Sturgeon Lake |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2022-2023 |
$6,080 |
To introduce the skill of porcupine quilled birchbark basket making to women and men at the Lloyd Johnson Healing Lodge in Sturgeon Lake, Saskatchewan. |
| derdie |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$6,050 |
This workshop introduces ceramic-making techniques and interactive art concepts, culminating in a collaborative miniature golf course installation to explore play and creativity in Winnipeg. |
| St. Pierre, Laura |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$6,025 |
Production of new work towards solo exhibition at the U of S College Galleries (September 2022) and Art Placement Inc (January 2023). |
| Kitchen Party Music, Inc. |
Forget |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2022-2023 |
$6,000 |
Kitchen Fest: A series of 8 inter-ractive evening concerts over two weeks presenting Saskatchewan musicians collaborating with professional musicians from across Canada and the World. |
| Saskatoon Spinners and Weavers Guild |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
SaskFestivals |
2022-2023 |
$6,000 |
Three-day textile art festival including an art exhibition showcasing SK-sourced fibres, demonstrations, public collaborative art piece, and opportunity for the public to try fibre-arts techniques. |
| Van Opstal-Tamez, Ingrid |
Kipling |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$6,000 |
This proposal is to support research, drafting, and creation of new work combining both traditional paper mâché and paintings for future exhibitions and professional development. |
| Hope, Lauren |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2024-2025 |
$6,000 |
This project seeks to research and record traditional Metis songs as a means to preserve them for future generations. |
| Fenrich, Miguel |
Battleford |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$6,000 |
To continue work on a contemperary coming-of-age novel '273 Days' with the intention of finishing a first draft to be committed to further development. |
| Graham, John |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$6,000 |
Post-production work on the art film STILL HERE and submissions to film festivals worldwide in 2024 & 2025. |
| Weber, Hailey |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$6,000 |
I am seeking funding to create work for a successful exhibition at the Frances Morrison Library Gallery. |
Northern Saskatchewan International Children's Festival Inc.
Laura Hosaluk |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$6,000 |
Sock Puppet workshop |
| Tic Toc TEN |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2022-2023 |
$6,000 |
Tic Toc TEN is a short performance arts festival (in person and online) featuring ten, brand new, multidisciplinary performances by emerging and established Saskatchewan artists. |
| Smith, James |
Muskoday |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$6,000 |
I want to compose, sketch, paint with the use of storyboarding the history of the Cree in our area. This will involve exploring and research. |
| Farm Fest Terre Ferme Festival Ltd. |
Regina |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2021-2022 |
$6,000 |
Bilingual music festival held on a working organic farm in southern Saskatchewan, with emphasis on organic agriculture, spirituality, visual arts and high quality music. |
| Lerat, Muskwa |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2021-2022 |
$6,000 |
I want to write 6-8 songs about my Indigenous experience in Canada, as well as growing up with learning and mental disabilities being ignored. |
| It's Not a Box Theatre |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$6,000 |
To write and design a series of vignettes for an outdoor digital immersive installation about climate grief and justice, to be played live by audiences. |
| Avramenko, James |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$6,000 |
The creation of a new collection of poetry and micro-fiction titled "First Dates with Pro Wrestlers" |
| The Vertigo Series |
Regina |
Literary |
SaskFestivals |
2022-2023 |
$6,000 |
Hosting a series of diverse emerging and established writers and musicians from across Canada. Paying artists to extend their tour to include Saskatchewan's small audiences. |
| Anderson, Charles |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$6,000 |
I'm seeking funding to complete a short story collection entitled Naked in a Graveyard. |
| Neufeld, Clint |
Osler |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$6,000 |
This project uses ceramic figurines of 1990s Canadian peacekeepers to explore memory, trauma, and identity, preserving personal and collective histories through fragile, reflective forms. |
| Scarrow, Kristine |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$6,000 |
Create a fiction young adult manuscript exploring organ donation and its potential impacts. |
| Saskatoon Spinners and Weavers Guild |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2025-2026 |
$6,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Straker, Jeffery |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$6,000 |
This project is to compose 8 new songs covering a broad range of themes. Works will be used in performance & recording. |
| Lynch, Taidgh |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$6,000 |
Complete edits and order poetry manuscript, Developing Home. Evaluate then submit to publishers. |
| Simon-Worobec, Hillary |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$6,000 |
To purchase equipment/materials to for my home pottery studio to enable me more freedom within my craft and become a full-time potter. |
| Coronach Old Town Street Festival |
Coronach |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2021-2022 |
$6,000 |
The Old Coronach Street Festival will reinvigorate the rural community through a multi-disciplinary, participatory arts experience which celebrates Coronach's unique cultural identity. |
| Fayant, Stacey |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$6,000 |
I plan to travel to Halifax with my partner and my daughter, to receive and document my own chin tattoo from Métis artist Amy Malbeuf. |
| Cathedral Area Community Association |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2022-2023 |
$6,000 |
We're applying for funds to help provide exceptional and diverse programming free for the public to attend at our 32nd annual Cathedral Village Arts Festival. |
| Berglund, Melanie |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$6,000 |
To write songs for a new album and conceptualize the videos, photos, on-stage patter, images, etc that relate to the music. |
| Billings, Terry |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$6,000 |
I plan to develop several years of video documentation of ponds into a form that can be exhibited. |
| Schindelka, Dara |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$6,000 |
To research, arrange, and create a modern interpretation of traditional folksongs that highlight the historic plight of women with connections to the present. |
| Waskesiu Recreation Association Inc. |
Waskesiu Lake |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2022-2023 |
$6,000 |
The Lakeside Music Festival is a free, family-friendly outdoor festival. 2022 attendance was 4000+. All performers are from Saskatchewan, and Sunday specifically highlights Indigenous performers. |
| Malinsky, Charles |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$6,000 |
Preliminary development of a new narrative series of paintings entitled, "Alisa and the Seven Deadly Sins." |
| Regina Pride Inc. |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2022-2023 |
$6,000 |
A celebration of Regina’s gender and sexually diverse communities with a series of artistic, cultural, and social events intended to educate and entertain our audience. |
| Fortier, Zoe |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$6,000 |
This grant will help fund the creative production of Latente, a Mexican-Canadian sound art intervention project produced through two artist-residencies. |
| Crowe, Lisa |
Regina |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2023-2024 |
$6,000 |
Funding to assist in the creation of a beaded mens regalia including vest, side drops, arm cuffs, headband, hair ties, neck tie, leggings and moccasins. |
| Flamenco Borealis |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
SaskFestivals |
2022-2023 |
$6,000 |
To host the third edition of the Borealis Flamenco Festival consisting of performances by local artists, introductory workshops and Flamenco dance master classes. |
| Slow Down Molasses |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$6,000 |
To write, arrange and collaborate on a new album's worth of songs for the band Slow Down Molasses. |
| Lynch, Rory |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$6,000 |
Compose pieces designed to strengthen and diversify my band's repertoire, including a series of blues compositions and several stand-alone pieces. |
| Saskatoon Spinners and Weavers Guild |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2024-2025 |
$6,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Graham, John |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$6,000 |
To produce a short experimental film during a 3-month artist residency at GlogauAIR in Berlin, Germany. |
| Baird, Gavin |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$6,000 |
This grant is to help fund the post-production of the horror short film, KLEE. |
| Savage, Candace |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$6,000 |
'Buffalo Is Our Relative' is a nonfiction book that honours the return of buffalo to Indigenous lands by amplifying the voices of young Indigenous adults. |
| Swamp Fest Inc. |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2019-2020 |
$6,000 |
We are requesting funding to pay artists and administrators fairly for their work at Swamp Fest 2020. |
| Coughlan, Conor |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$6,000 |
This grant would enable me to take a temporary leave from work and turn my primary focus towards songwriting and recording. |
| Legris, Sylvia |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$6,000 |
I will work on developing the first draft of "Wake/Subwake," a new poetry collection. |
| Parenteau, Donny |
Prince Albert |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$5,989 |
1st month to write and create songs
2nd month demo songs for my next album I plan to release in 2022. |
| Ppl r Ppl Productions |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$5,935 |
Ppl r Ppl Productions is creating professional work for theatre artists and will present 'Hand to God' by Robert Askins in Live Five's 2022/2023 season. |
Prairie Sky School
Miriam Körner |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2024-2025 |
$5,872 |
This project is for students to collaboratively write, illustrate, and photograph two multi-media stories, inspired by the works of author/illustrator Miriam Korner. |
| Willett, Edward |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$5,809 |
To write a creative nonfiction book ruminating on the writing of science fiction and fantasy, drawn from experience and interviews with more than 100 authors. |
| Saskatchewan Jewish Arts Festival |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$5,800 |
To fund the creation & production of a series of Saskatchewan Jewish Arts Festival "pop up" events, leading up to our next full festival (2025) |
| Actor Director |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$5,800 |
In preparation for a debut album, we will workshop and develop existing demos and lyrics, and collaborate and rehearse with local musicians to provide orchestration. |
| Welbourne, Jordan |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$5,800 |
The composition and recording of Ukrainian choral arrangements, musical theatre pieces, country songs, as well as Ukrainian-influenced contemporary songs. |
| Kumar, Madhu |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$5,800 |
An adaptation of both new and existing paintings with the use of Augmented Reality and Audio content to create immersive storytelling and deepen audience experience. |
