| Hansen, Naomi |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
My first book, Only in Saskatchewan, is shortlisted for the 2023 Taste Canada Awards and I would like to attend the awards ceremony in Toronto. |
| Whitbread, Elizabeth |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I would like to take Maddie Tarbox's Voice Function 101 pedagogical online course in order to enhance my coaching and singing practice. |
| Poulin, Danielle |
Prince Albert |
Other |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
The project will consist of two foundational beading classes that will help individuals start to learn how to bead simple projects. |
| Csada, Hayley |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Access artistic development opportunities in the area of Latin dance by attending the Calgary International Salsa Congress. |
| Chadwick, Madison |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
With this funding I’d attend professional dance classes in Vancouver, British Columbia to further develop my artistic voice and technical training. |
| Nagyl, Jody |
La Ronge |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
I have been invited by Pixels at 20 Paces Art Collective to do my first solo photography exhibit during the month of May, 2025. |
| Haines, Cat |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
Develop and perform "After Abigail Shrier" a live cinema performance at Nuit Blanche YXE combining Super 8 film loops and live soundscapes. |
| Ylioja, Janna |
Macrorie |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
Take part in a conducting workshop with Luminous Voices and Dr. Timothy Shantz to improve my skills and meet other professionals in my discipline. |
| Pantel, Rowan |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
To attend training with Russian puppeteer Polina Borisova, at the National Puppetry Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center in June 2019. |
| These Young Hands |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Opportunity to present my solo ambient electronic project, GLAZ, to a wider audience including notable industry professionals. |
| Nicolle-Phillips, Shelly |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
I want to participate in a residency/workshop at the WIN Herbarium in Winnipeg to deepen my knowledge of species in native prairie for my art. |
| Skjeie, Cooper |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
"Poetry, Politics, and Embodiment" is a unique, thematic program that aligns well with and promises to enhance my poetry project, "post-immunity theory." |
| Baraniecki, Jordan |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
During this time, I'm looking for innovative ways that people can still experience thought-provoking art by creating immersive projections around the city. |
| Lumsden High School |
Lumsden |
Literary |
Artists in Schools |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
Author visits to explore the power of reading and writing fiction to help us to better understand our world outside and within. |
| Saskatoon Open Door Society |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
Establish a body to research and coordinate artistic programming in partnership with Saskatoon Open Door Society. |
| Malinsky, Charles |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
With this grant I intend to rescue paintings and drawings that are stranded abroad due to COVID-19 and are to be destroyed if not collected. |
| Grummett, S.E. |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
For theatre artist, S.E. Grummett to attend a Performing Arts Creation Residency at the Banff Centre for the creation of their new work: "Nude Parade". |
| passion2action Youth Empowerment |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
passion2action hopes to engage young artists to produce multidisciplinary content for INSPIRE, our flagship youth empowerment celebration that introduces students to new, local role models. |
| Ironstar, Katelyn |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
Seeking support to purchase equipment to create a highly requested series of online beading tutorials for beginners. |
| Mardell, Rachel |
Prince Albert |
Other |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
Expand my practice by attending an online course on Botanical Printing, and purchase supplies to complete. |
| Slusar, Zoe |
@level1.client.city@ |
Music |
Artists in Schools |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
Creative sessions with the Grade 6s, 7s and 8s to build on existing relationships and explore the students’ needs/interests in developing future artistic musical projects. |
| McPherson, Payton |
Regina |
Dance |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
— |
| Neilsen, Ross |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Create new material. Record a live performance of said material. Use this fresh audio video for bookings for the 2024 festival season. |
| Brenna, Beverley |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I am a Saskatoon-based artist and this Solo Exhibition will take place at Regina Beach/Last Mountain Lake at the Elsie Scherle Gallery |
| Hay, Mackenzie |
Regina |
Music |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
— |
| Swallow, Amy |
Regina |
Please Select |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
I would like to record and release my new song "Baby Back Bitch" accompanied by a music video. |
| Krause, Elena |
Regina |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
I've been invited to Denver to participate in Reading Den and attend a reception at the Center for the Arts Evergreen. |
| Alvarez, Kris |
Regina |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
Saskatoon's Kyuubi Culture Artist Collective has invited me to participate in their 2025 collaborative artist residency project as the artist for the month of May. |
| Tupper, Annika |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
— |
| Daigneault, Nap |
Beauval |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
To Create four Birch Bark Baskets and mentor other indigenous and metis individuals in this traditional art practice by offering a workshop in Ile-à-la Crosse. |
| Ledingham, Sandra Meryl |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
My work has been accepted into the 'Taiwan International Ceramic Biennial 2020' . I am applying for assistance in shipping. (Shipped by November 10, 2019) |
| Wolseley Public Library |
Wolseley |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
The Wolseley Public Library would lead a cultural inventory research project and offer trial programs to assess current community needs and services. |
| Cameron, Jay |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
A graphic novel which will be sold with my game, as of high requests we are making an additional novel to tell the story |
| Ferguson, Louisa |
Meacham |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
Ecological Restorative Art project is a site specific art installation designed and executed in collaboration with community members and The Meewasin Valley Authority. |
| Willey, Leon |
Regina |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
Developing and creating a door to door interactive theatre show. In consultation with artists in Stratford Ontario this May, to be performed outside, this summer. |
| Bogan, Jillian |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
I will attend my first ever residency at Chateau d"Orquevaux in France and develop my creative practice through a series of original paintings. |
| Ells, Chrystene |
Regina |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
Mentorship / professional development in poetry towards material generation for an upcoming art book project, combining new skills in bookmaking with long form poetic narrative. |
| Stoughton Central School |
Stoughton |
Music |
Artists in Schools |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
We would love to have Teagan Littlechief and Morgan Turk perform for the students in grades 7-12 and K-6 |
| Solheim, Krista |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
A rehearsal director apprenticeship in dance with Faye Thomson, one of the Artistic Directors of The School of Contemporary Dancers professional program. |
| Watchman, Matthew |
Regina |
Music |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
— |
| Wilcox, Zane |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
I am applying for funding to support the creation of new sculptural work for a confirmed exhibition at Remai Modern, November 2022 |
| Tootoosis, Lyndon |
Battleford |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
Travel to Regina to receive the Queen's Platinum Jubilee medal for the work I've done in the Arts in the province |
| Da Silva, Gabrielle |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
“Invisibly ill” is a free and accessible, 6-spread, DIY magazine for those who hold, or have experiences with invisible illnesses and disabilities in Saskatoon. |
| Ouellette, Dianne |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
To process and digitally scan super 8 film to 4k to use in my artistic practice. |
| Artesian Performing Arts Inc. |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
This project is to purchase two new MacBooks for use by Artesian management staff. |
| Berglund, Melanie |
Regina |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
A three-day song writing workshop and song coaching session offered on Zoom by Grammy nominated songwriter, Mary Gauthier. |
| Giesbrecht, Jessica |
Swift Current |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Attend the CANSCAIP Packaging Your Imagination 2023 Conference in person by traveling to Toronto. |
| Gilmour, Bonnie |
Meacham |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
To travel to the CAVA gallery in Edmonton for my exhibition setup, public reception, and then the takedown of my exhibition one month later. |
| Suchan, Paul |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Help cover artistic and travel costs for a live performance album launch by composers Paul Suchan and Silas Friesen at the Bassment by the SJO. |
| Mycyk, Sofia |
Riverside Estates |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I will prepare an informative lecture-recital to present Ukrainian composers, relating to the Saskatoon Jazz Orchestra fundraising concert “A Kolomyika Fantasy” on March 9, 2024. |
| Weber, Hailey |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Educational courses in traditional Japanese artmaking and support to conduct field research in Japan. This research will inform the creation of a body of work. |
| Slusar, Zoe |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Artists in Schools |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
ZHE will host regular workshops/creative sessions with students; focused on exploring students interests on what kind of musical/creative projects they would like to further explore. |
| Cafferata, Skyler |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
To record 4 new studio-quality songs with my band (The Faps) which will be released as digital singles throughout 2019. |
| Creative Options Regina, Inc. |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Creative Options Regina wishes to facilitate a Painting workshop, where participants would have the opportunity to partake in the art form while gaining artistic skills. |
| Simon-Worobec, Hillary |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Purchase supplies, raw materials, and equipment to aid in the production of several large volume ceramic orders. |
| Bogdan, Pearl |
Regina |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
Manuscript consultation from professional editor at publishing press. |
| Coppens, Nathan |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
I am acting in a Fringe production that is touring Canada. This grant would help cover per diems for the 77 days on the road. |
| Cando Community School |
Cando |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Indigenous culture through the arts - drumming |
| Naytowhow, Joseph |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
designing and manufacturing 500 CD singles of my original song "Born From Dirt" about my fragmented memories of being stolen away to attend residential school. |
| Wicks, Bob |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
Study Clown with Christopher Bayes and The Pandamonium Studio while they have reduced tuition and shifted classes online during the Covid Pandemic. |
| Grienke, Jennica |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
Travel to Braunschweig, Germany to represent Canadian Theatre for Young Audiences Directors & Creators in the ASSITEJ International Directors Seminar June 20- 27, 2021 |
| Minnema, Conner |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
Purchase a top of the line microphone to record live instruments and vocals to add a new dynamic to my music production. |
| Ecole Elsie Mironuck Community School |
Regina |
Music |
Artists in Schools |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
Tara Semple and Rosa Haynes will develop a sound (aural) experience program to for elementary students and their educators to explore mindfulness, creativity and self-care. |
| Wilson, Nic |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
I will be attending the winter 2022 Banff Centre Artist in Residence program to work on two new Artist's books. |
| Devine-Tajgardan, Negar |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
I would like a grant for installation and finalizing of my work for Mann Art gallery exhibition during Spring 2022. |
| Pask-Thompson, Karen |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
Exhibit 30-35 works at the Chapel Gallery in NB for first solo show outside Saskatoon. Taking advantage of an opportunity to exhibit in 2022. . |
| Ironstar, Katelyn |
Regina |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
seeking support to provide one month of beading classes to the Grade 8 classroom at Kitchener Community School with assistance from a knowledge keeper. |
| Johnson, Adam |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
I have been given the oppertunity to perform at two showcases during CCMA week in Calgary, AB. |
| Perry, Chancz |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
Deliver a movement-based workshop at Connectively Moving Our Dance and screen two short-videos at the IABD International Conference and Festival of Blacks in Dance. |
| Jodoin, Berkley |
Leader |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
attend and showcase at the Canadian Folk music awards in Vancouver, British Columbia |
| Hay, Mackenzie |
Regina |
Music |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
— |
| Kim, Hyon Suk |
Regina |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I would like to participate in 50th International Clarinet Festival. |
| Buffalo, Myrna |
Regina |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Engaging with participants at the "Renewing Our Spirit" event regarding stories and teachings from Residential School Survivors. |
| Brander, Leone |
Regina |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
I will be attending the Sage Hill summer fiction program to develop a novel. |
| Brophey, Erin |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
I would like to attend the 53rd International Double Reed Society 2024 conference. |
| La Ronge Public Library |
La Ronge |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Run two public engagement/information events in town and on the LLRIB reserve, to canvas the public wants and needs for community art programming. |
| Li, Darren |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Continue, finalize, and install works for the GlogauAIR artist residents' Open Studios event on March 14-15, 2025. Create professional presentation tools (business cards, etc.) |
| Farrow, Kody |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
To attend the FDC National Stage Combat Certification Conference in Saskatoon in August 2025, receiving my Basic Actor Combatant Certification. |
| Stoughton Community Players |
Stoughton |
Media Arts |
Artists in Communities |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
A non profit organization looking to offer an inclusive affordable summer program to youth in our community. |
| Ferraton, Dominique |
Gravelbourg |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
Framing eight photographs for a juried group exhibition at the Art Gallery of Swift Current opening in October 2025. |
| Silverthorne, Judith |
Regina |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
To attend the launch of the German translation of Honouring the Buffalo at the Frankfurt Book Fair and do presentations at a related Conference. |
| Dieter, Mark |
Fort Qu'Appelle |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
To workshop "A Path Of Ghosts And Warriors" at Native Earth Performing Arts 30th Annual Weesageechuk Begins To Dance festival in Toronto. |
| Francoeur, Paige |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
This microgrant will help cover the costs of living in another city while I receive directing mentorship at The Globe Theatre. |
| McFarlane, Melanie |
Moose Jaw |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
I will work with Robert Currie, former poet laureate of Saskatchewan, in a poetry mentorship focused on writing poetry about growing up in Saskatchewan. |
| Mendez, Edward |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
I will attend the inaugural Coyuntura conference presented by Canadian Latinx Theatre Artist Coalition to further my professional development as a latinx theatre artist. |
| Dureault, Mitchell |
Wolseley |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
To visit, access, and develop, a long term, sustainable music programming that is focused on youth, based on the needs and wants of the community. |
| Loreburn Central School |
Loreburn |
Music |
Artists in Schools |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
To develop drumming as part of the music in class, and potentially have a group for students to take part in outside of class time. |
| Oehlerking, Darrin |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
This project aims to rehearse and perform large chamber music for winds that requires a conductor. The performance will be video recorded. |
| Schneider, Zoë |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
'Subaqualus' is a video work depicting the elusive Unidentified Submerged Object (U.S.O.) shot in various
locations throughout the Land of the Living Skies. |
| Luhning, Holly |
Lumsden |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To research and write a collection of poetry centred on and informed by the end/renewal of a Saskatchewan prairie farm. |
| Sealy, David |
Regina |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
Rehearse the original one-act play The Weavers for three weeks as preparation for On Cue Performance Hub’s Test Drive season. |
| Gauthier, Jean-Sébastien |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
Assistance to attend Emma Collaboration 2022, July 27th - August 4th, 2022, Big River, Saskatchewan. |
| Weber, Angel |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
I would like to create a pieces and apply to show at the Jack Millikin Centre & Wiebe Works Wearable Art Gala. |
| Brown-McEwen, Belle |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
To rehearse, adapt and perform “Holloway,” originally an outdoor site specific contemporary dance performance, to be presented at Darke Hall in April 2023. |
| Sova Design |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
Sherri would like to travel to Chazelles-Sur-Lyon, France to study the art of operating a Paille Cousue Machine under Jean-Pierre Tritz. |
| Sun, Qiming |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I plan to create an ephemeral sculptural installation accompanied by a ritualistic performance piece during my stay at Monica Bodirsky's "Awakening" Artist Residency. |
| Veith, Ulrike |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Print a large format photograph in 9 panels for installation in a bus shelter, part of Kunst im Weg, a 2 day event in Germany |
| Art Gallery of Regina Inc. |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Research community partners, quantify needs & ensure meaningful impact to fashion free workshops on experiential anatomy in response to community needs & challenges. |
| Holy Rosary Community School |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Our school is permanently closing in June of 2023. We are implementing a school-wide art project to assist with the transition, through art and self-expression. |
| Heinek, Emily |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I want to be able to take the 3 week devising intensive hosted by Ghost River Theatre in Calgary. |
