| Phelps Bondaroff, Amber |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
To re-visit The Objects of our Desires, a collaborative, social-practice, music project, resulting in a series of original songs written for objects and contributing participants. |
| Piper, Lynette |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
I plan to shoot a short film in September about an elderly man with dementia who escapes the nursing home and returns to his field. |
| Holt, Savannah |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
'Analemma' is a collection of 13 ceramic moon jars, each with a unique glaze application symbolically related to ancient names for each month's full moon. |
| Weber, Hailey |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
— |
| Houghtaling, Theo |
Swift Current |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
Travel to Toronto to attend Canzine- Canada's national zine and printed matter convention. Meet other printed matter artists and professionals. Attend workshops and lectures. |
| Andrew Stuckel, Cristine |
Grandora |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
Create an immersive experience in the gallery with floor to ceiling drawings highlighting the importance of urban forestation and preservation of essential ecosystems within cities. |
| Portal of Understanding |
North Battleford |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Our sculpture is based on the idea of a multicultural totem using wood carving, paper making and forming, welded steel, felting and various other techniques. |
| Aden Bowman Collegiate |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Collaborating with Rebecca La Marre to research and plan future Artist in School grants centering on ceramics and youth mental health. |
| 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, Liz |
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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Budgell-Eaglespeaker, Forrest Scott |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
Showcase and panelist speaker at Breakout West 2025 in Winnipeg |
| 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. |
| Barreno, Cristian |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
I want to frame 3 original paintings and 2 prints on canvas for a 3-year touring exhibition presented by OSAC. |
| Larsen, Mitchell |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
I will train with IDC for my role as intimacy coordinator in an upcoming production of The Wives. The Concubines. The Ritual. |
| 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." |
| McLellan, Joseph |
Regina |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
Attendance at the Paddy Crean International Workshop, receiving professional stage combat training to strengthen physical performance skills and safety in theatrical acting practice. |
| 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 |
Saskatoon |
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 |
| 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. |
| 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 |
— |
| Sadikov, Shokhrukh (Shah) |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
One-week long residency as a conducting fellow at the Cabrillo Music Festival of Contemporary Music to participate in a conducting Masterclass with maestro Cristian Măcelaru. |
| 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) |
| Wilson, Katie |
Regina |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
Travel to/from Banff Arts Centre for Indigenous Musician residency (one-month)–as participant to advance industry expertise via in-studio music production, performances (2) with video projection accompaniment. |
| 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. |
| Hankewich, 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. |
| Saskatchewan History and Folklore Society |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2021-2022 |
$998 |
This Development Project aims to design an innovative youth storytelling program that explores identity through painting, video, and sound. |
| Eastend Branch Library |
Eastend |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2021-2022 |
$995 |
To host two cultural events; a live musical performance and a visual art exhibition to reignite our community interest and supports in the arts. |
| Karpinka, Shawn |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$994 |
I need a video reel of my recent work as a film composer, and a professional headshot to create an IMDB profile for prospective clients. |
| Town of Mossbank |
Mossbank |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2025-2026 |
$991 |
We will be bringing in a professional artist to plan a project for Old Wives Lake Festival 2026 with Tourism and Council. |
| Town of Lumsden |
Lumsden |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$990 |
Local artist to create an outdoor public mural in collaboration with a wide range of community members, wide range in age, displayed at the Museum. |
| Reimer, Joel Dash |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$990 |
To kickstart a monthly poetry slam in Saskatoon utilizing the 'underground' slam format that highlights the 'underground' gems of Saskatoon through both location and poets |
| Santa Maria Senior Citizens Home |
Regina |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$990 |
To establish a relationship and work collaboratively with 2 artists to develop concrete plans for an artistic project in a special care home |
| King, Karlie |
Regina |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$987 |
Host a “Paint Night” (during the day) where students invite a parent, guardian, or family member/friend to join them in painting self-portraits that explore identity. |
| Eden Care Communities Foundation Inc. |
Regina |
Literary |
Artists in Communities |
2022-2023 |
$984 |
In collaboration with artist Kevin Wesaquate we will participate in 3 poetry workshops to enhance our understanding of Truth and Reconciliation. |
| Merasty, Marcus |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$980 |
Professional development, see the first multilingual Métis Opera celebrating Riel's life, the roles that women have played in it, and includes Métis and contemporary dance. |
| Rymestone |
Prince Albert |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$977 |
Western Canadian Tour in support of Album 'Neighborhood', which Rymestone released October 31st, 2019. 7 venues confirmed, 3 Collage radio station interviews confirmed. |
| Bracht, Kathryn |
Regina |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$976 |
This proposal is for a free, live online reading of the new play Bros/Les Boys, which will involve 6 Saskatchewan actors. |
| McNaughton, Judy |
Prince Albert |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$975 |
Prepare, pack, and drive six artworks for the Between Us exhibition at Art Gallery of Regina for the opening on January 18, 2023. |
| Boyes, Amy |
Warman |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$973 |
Co-present with Karen Gerelus a better-practice presentation at the Music Teachers' National Association - Conference 2025 in Minneapolis, MN from 16/03/25 to 18/03/25. |
| Langwieser, Ruth |
Estevan |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$973 |
I plan to purchase the material to build a specific Gas - Kiln for the process of Raku - firing. |
| Lavallee, Wade |
Regina |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$972 |
Travel support to attend the Toga da wôhnagabi Music Residency in Banff to develop and advance my album project Acimowina.
|
| Trapp, Amanda |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$969 |
I have drafts of songs saved from several years that I’d like to refine to a set for a concert and/or recording an EP. |
| Friesen, Marcy |
Carrot River |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2021-2022 |
$966 |
I will lead a beading class focusing on our mental health. Class will be held once a month at The Nest located downtown Prince Albert. |
| Broussard, Rachel |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$965 |
To print adhesive photographs for my show (April 1 - May 15) in the window gallery at Neutral Ground and travel to Regina to install. |
| Ecole Lumsden Elementary School |
Lumsden |
Literary |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$962 |
Nakoda Knowledge Sharing Day with Bronte BigEagle and Keegan MacArthur
A few Nakoda writers and speakers will come and present their oral and written stories. |
| Akintade-Oluwagbeye, Oluwaseun Peace |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$960 |
Purchase African textile prints, linens, and sewing equipment to create Interdisciplinary Art-pieces for my BAMSaskatoon Residency |
| Bates-Hardy, Courtney |
Regina |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$951 |
To receive a manuscript evaluation from writer and editor Jennifer LoveGrove and attend a writing retreat to work on the same manuscript. |
| Thorburn, Crystal |
Assiniboia |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$948 |
To facilitate 2 half day visual art sessions to research and assess community needs in partnership with the Shurniak Art Gallery. |
| Williams, Janet |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2021-2022 |
$944 |
To purchase an all-in-one HEPAclean desk-top polisher to produce finer quality work with my jewelery practice. |
| Shannon, Dianne |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2025-2026 |
$941 |
Engaging and supporting adults with intellectual disabilities in contemporary ceramic arts with studio space, instruction, and technical support for producing home wares and sculpture. |
| Heppner, Annalisa |
La Ronge |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$940 |
Together Brandon White and I have created a series of themed pieces about our love for local ecology and the land to exhibit next month. |
| Cram, Kathie |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$937 |
I will work with a mentor, Tara Gereaux, to complete a solid draft of the second third of my novel. A draft of the first third of the novel is complete. |
| Hosaluk, Laura |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$930 |
Construction of shipping crates for "The Circle and the Dot" Exhibition July 8, 2025, at the Mann Gallery in Prince Albert, SK. |
| Corbett, Emily |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$930 |
Travel to Regina for a 2-day handbuilding workshop with internationally renowned ceramic artist Sunshine Cobb. |
| Lebel, Emilie |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$929 |
Artistic development at the Banff Center for Arts and Creativity through Entr'Arts, a francophone multidisciplinary art program. |
| Bourque, Marie-Véronique |
Regina |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$918 |
Purchase of effect pedals for flute to use in new creative duo project with Christine Tassan, jazz guitarist from Montreal, QC |
| Martineau, Andrea |
Regina |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$916 |
I plan to participate in two virtual bookbinding/bookmaking educational opportunities to later apply that knowledge to two personal chapbook-length poetry projects. |
| Kinner, Monika |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$908 |
Attend my first artist residency, enrich my artistic language of Prairie by deep-diving into botany, ecological research, ecoprinting, dying, regeneration, plant medicine, communication, pollination. |
| Tagseth, Martin |
Lake Lenore |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$905 |
Accept invitation to create new work with master ceramists
Robert Shay, Brad Schwiegger, Matt Long & Jeremy Kane at Red Lodge Center for the Ceramic Arts |
| L'Association fransaskoise de Zenon Park Inc. |
Zenon Park |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$903 |
Explore the possibility of doing a music project with artist Alexis Normand and determine how to best serve the community of Zenon Park. |
| Dirty Sanchez Orchestra |
Prince Albert |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$900 |
Travel to Brandon MB July 18 and Winnipeg MB July 19 to play an all ages punk show and a two day punk festival |
| Kuz, Tessa |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$900 |
A 3-day micro-choreographic lab between Saskatchewan dance artist Tessa Kuz and collaborator Tia Kushniruk to research and develop a collaborative contemporary dance duet. |
| McKay, Jory |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$900 |
We are doing a 1989 album based drag show on the 29th of December at Divas Nightclub. |
