Gauvin, Vanessa
Camp Shagabec Committee |
Swift Current |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2020-2021 |
$5,144 |
In partnership with Camp Shagabec, this project creates a dedicated youth music program, serving the Cypress Hills and area |
| Clinton Ackerman Music |
Regina |
Music |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$5,103 |
Students will practice mindfulness and independence in creative music practices, creating wind chimes while exploring different acoustic environments in Regina. |
| Gowan, Darren |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2020-2021 |
$5,092 |
Through interviews and research I plan to garner stories and legends from elders in the area and be interpreted in sculptural expressions in bronze& ceramics. |
| Goodon, Jayde |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2020-2021 |
$5,092 |
Create a collection that I can showcase in an art exhibition. These new pieces would include large cardboard sculptures and mixed media canvas paintings. |
| Powell, Marie |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$5,070 |
I will spend five months focused on my writing to complete a clean submission draft of my newest medieval fantasy novel, Chronicles of Meirionnydd: Excalibur. |
| Bonetto, Estelle |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$5,060 |
Faire « parler » les corps et les âmes à travers le prisme d'un miroir photographique et tenter de capturer leur essence, leurs mots et leurs images. |
| Friesen, Marcy |
Carrot River |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2022-2023 |
$5,050 |
I plan to create new beaded face and body work. I will preserve the work through photography, printing, framing and epoxying the original bead work. |
| SK Theatre Design Festival |
Vonda |
Theatre |
SaskFestivals |
2021-2022 |
$5,038 |
An annual theatre festival to provide opportunities for theatre designers to create, connect, and learn, featuring performances for the public in Saskatoon and Regina. |
| McKnight, Spencer |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$5,010 |
This grant will be to take significant time to develop and create the song recital "In Dreams". |
| Cupid's Heart |
Prince Albert |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$5,007 |
Create 5 new original songs during a creative retreat at Anglin Lake. |
| Benson, Scott |
Moose Jaw |
Music |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$5,000 |
A Carbon Fibre Violin would allow me to take my instrument into extreme conditions (hot and cold climates) without worrying about damaging the instrument. |
| 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. |
| Listen to Dis' Community Arts Organization Inc. |
Regina |
Theatre |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
Build digital capacity and aquire accessible digital equipment to increase organizational capacity, resilience and responsiveness within Saskatchewan through disability arts and culture. |
| Saskatchewan Festival of Words Inc. |
Moose Jaw |
Literary |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
We would like to work with a consultant and explore ways to increase our digital capacity and navigate/adapt to the future of the literary/arts/festival sector. |
| 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. |
| Shurniak Gallery Inc. |
Assiniboia |
Visual |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Porsandekhial, Narges |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
As part of an ongoing research, this project focuses on the multifaceted premise of bilingualism in artistic research and creation. |
| Janzen, Ava |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
A six-week professional development opportunity to attend Canada’s Music Incubator’s Artist Entrepreneur program in Toronto, receiving in-person mentorship and industry training in Spring 2025. |
| Zuck, Emma |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
A 30 Minute documentary film about the creation of the Ballroom Community in Saskatoon with Aldeneil's research, creating workshops for the queer BIPOC Community. |
| Boechler, Jared |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$5,000 |
To undertake production on project influenced by local study in arctic region of Lapland, Finland. |
| Kenderdine Art Gallery |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
To increase our organizational capacity to produce effective online content through increased community connections and redistribution of funds to skilled though precariously employed cultural workers. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Cabildo Esquivel, Priscila |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
Creation of 2 pieces of Arte Huichol in animal skulls for a Day of the Death altar display. |
| Oyatogun, Oluwafunmilayo |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
Enchanted Concerts fuses orchestral music and storytelling, celebrating 65 years of the rich legacy and global impact of Nigerian music through the Black Orchestra. |
| Burnouf, Jordyn |
ile a la Crosse |
Media Arts |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2021-2022 |
$5,000 |
Storytelling through media to share land-based practices and worldview from an Indigenous lens. Videography, storytelling, and a virtual exhibit to capture northern lifestyle and art. |
| Scott, Tallus |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$5,000 |
The proposed grant is to study with renowned drum educator Dave Elitch in his studio in Los Angeles. |
| 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. |
| 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! |
| Reid, Sonia |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
A community weekend Black gospel choir workshop culminating in a live music performance. |
| Kathrotia, Yash |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
Compose a one of its kind full-length orchestral concert solely showcasing Gujarati folk subject matter, music, spoken poetry, and dance. |
| Cameron, Ian |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$5,000 |
To study C6th Pedal Steel Guitar with professional musician Burke Carroll by taking weekly lessons over Zoom video call. |
| 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. |
| Broadway Business Improvement District |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$5,000 |
RedBall is a traveling public art piece considered “the world’s longest-running street art work” and moves through a city with a new site each day. |
| Art Gallery of Swift Current |
Swift Current |
Visual |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
We will hire a professional videographer to create virtual tours of our next two upcoming exhibitions to help us regain, retain and broaden our audience. |
| Morin, Myrtle |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2021-2022 |
$5,000 |
Photography Book Series, and first in the series. Answers the question, "Who Am I" and will be around IRS, Sixties Scoop and Foster Care. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Shurniak Gallery Inc. |
Assiniboia |
Visual |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
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| 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. |
| 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. |
| Tenold, Darla |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
Research Joan Phipps' Assiniboia Downs, Marquis Downs and Exhibition Track thoroughbred racing career for a book length biography. |
| Kazan, Lina |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$5,000 |
We will develop techniques of Flamenco duet performance (Dance & Guitar) by inviting two top artists specialists in the area to coach us. |
| Saskatoon Symphony Society |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
Video capture training of SSO team and musicians as we launch online streaming/digital concerts to remove barriers of access for audiences during pandemic and beyond. |
| 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. |
| 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'. |
| 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 |
| Escanlar, Pepito |
Regina |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
To cover framing and related expenses for art exhibition of paintings capturing the evolving urban landscape of Regina since the 1980s from an immigrant's perspective. |
| Stevens, Tracy |
Regina |
Literary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2021-2022 |
$5,000 |
To write a film script titled: THE RIVERS FLOW: A NATIONAL TRAGEDY, the untold love story of Marguerite Monet dit Bellehumeur and Louis Riel. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Baudemont, David |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
From Jan 1 to Aug.31, 2026, write and revise the second half of Surtout ne pas bouger, a 140 page-long work of poetry-fiction |
| Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan Festival Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
Staff and board will take a 6-day training course and create concrete change for more equitable, diverse, and inclusive environments for our staff and public. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Kuz, Tessa |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
A professional development project for Saskatchewan based dance artist Tessa Rae Kuz to research the creative process of Margie Gillis via The Legacy Project. |
| An, Andrea |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$5,000 |
Funding will cover rent and grocery costs, while I take a five month unpaid work leave, to prioritize songwriting and composition for my upcoming LP. |
| Mikkola, Elian |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2021-2022 |
$5,000 |
Purchase of a laptop for portable video editing to participate in professional development mentorship program and further post-production capacity. |
| 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. |
| Idowu, Moses |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
Addressing a need: Reconnecting African youth to their roots through musical, artistic, and cultural performances during Black History Month to foster pride in identity |
| Johnson, Ashley |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
A continuation of a collaborative project The Moving Heart between Karlie King and Ashley Johnson. We combine dance, sculpture with an interactive exhibit exploring anatomy. |
| Daniels, Kelly |
Cando |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2021-2022 |
$5,000 |
A workshop of deer hide preperation and hand drum making following protocol and the participants will learn ceremonial and social Cree songs and sacred stories. |
| Epp, Carole |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$5,000 |
Attend a ceramic residency at The Skopelos Foundation for the Arts to research ancient Greek vase painting and make contemporary narrative political pottery. |
| The Salt Shaker Festival |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2022-2023 |
$5,000 |
This application is seeking funding for the Salt Shaker Festival, a 3-day multi-media arts festival set in Manitou Beach on July 7-9. 2022. |
| 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. |
| Creative City Centre Inc. |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
We want to increase our digital production capabilities, to enable us to record and broadcast Saskatchewan artists via podcast, live stream, etc. |
| Bennett, Andrew |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$5,000 |
My computer is struggling to keep up with the CPU demands of contorting and producing my voice within Ableton Live. |
| 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. |
| Latinos en Regina Mariachi Band |
Regina |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
We are a musical group that is asking for support to purchase traditional mariachi outfits to perform all over Canada representing Saskatchewan and Latino America. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Reid, Sonia |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
To train for certification as a NeuroVocal Method® Licensee. |
| Keating, Bridget |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$5,000 |
This application requests financial assistance from the Saskatchewan Arts Board for the development of Culling Season, my second book of poetry. |
| Scott, Tallus |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$5,000 |
Educational project to develop drum performance practices and recording practices under the tutelage of Stephane Chamberland, Dave Elitch, and Flavio Cirillo. |
| Wilcox, Zane |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$5,000 |
I am applying for funding for dedicated studio time to develop a new watercolour painting process. |
| Wagner, Bernadette |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$5,000 |
To revise and polish a children's literature manuscript, Crybaby. |
| Kyuubi Culture |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
Kyuubi Culture Artist Collective facilitates visual art workshops to share culture experience and foster relations between YXE-based Asian artists and the non-BPOC communities in Saskatoon. |
| Latinos en Regina Mariachi Band |
Regina |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
The Mariachi Latino Band would like to record their first album consisting of 6 six songs and be able to perform all over Canada! |
| Lepage, Mario |
St. Denis |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$5,000 |
A two month musical "boot camp" aiming to improve my technical and creative music abilities. |
| Eve, 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. |
| 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. |
| Burke, Kelley Jo |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$5,000 |
To spend three months completing a working draft of a play, "Rigby" to be workshopped with Listen To 'Dis Community Arts Organization in spring/summer 2023. |
| Akintade-Oluwagbeye, Oluwaseun Peace |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
This grant supports the development and presentation of Ori Ara Emi, an Afro-centric exhibition and workshop blending Poet Laureate, Peace Akintade’s, visual and auditory poetry. |
| Knutson, Cole |
North Battleford |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$5,000 |
The study and performance of lieder and opera in Europe and the prairies ie. lessons with professional coach, and concerts in the prairies. |
| Free Flow Dance Theatre Company |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
The purpose of this project is to perform technological upgrades to improve our ability to deliver programming and content online via video and live streaming. |
| Kuse, Stephanie |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2021-2022 |
$5,000 |
Purchase of a custom built computer for 3D rendering that will advance technical complexity of artist's work. |
| Kyler, Gabrielle |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
to record and release my first EP. All songs will be original compositions by myself and my team. to record a live studio presentation |
| Garneau, David |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$5,000 |
To create forty metaphoric still life paintings in which mundane objects are arranged and titled so they evoke complex themes and ideas. |
| AKA Gallery Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
Re-envision AKA's organizational framework, working with diverse consultants and colleagues challenge institutional assumptions and biases in order to better support artists, communities, and staff. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Klassen, Vanessa |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
This is a 2-part project for which I will create new typeset editions of four selected clarinet works by Canadian composers, then record each one. |
| Yoageeswaran, Luxmi |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
Lux Productions empowers South Asian youth through dance, fostering cultural pride and creative expression. Funding supports inclusive programs, performances, and mentorship in underserved communities. |
| 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 |
| Robinson, Kemesha |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
Vocal coaching under the mentorship of Sonia Reid in Jazz & Blue |
| Common Weal Community Arts Inc. |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
Hire a consultant to provide training on the ethics of online programming and support artists with strategies on how to engage community through virtual platforms. |
| 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. |
