25th Street Theatre Centre Inc.
The Dark Lady Collective |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Artists in Communities |
2022-2023 |
$20,000 |
William Brooks will work with theatre and visual artists to engage with the community by creating large-scale, interactive, outdoor theatre-based installations. |
Lester B. Pearson Elementary School
Kathleen Arndt |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2022-2023 |
$20,000 |
Lester B. Pearson Elementary (Gr.1-8) explore personal wonders & cross curricular big ideas, through technical visual arts training, to develop holistical understanding & creative skills. |
| Northern Lights Bluegrass and Old-Tyme Music Society, Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2022-2023 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Nuit Blanche Saskatoon Contemporary Arts Festival Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
SaskFestivals |
2022-2023 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and program support. |
Bernbaum, Joel
Pleasant Hill Community Association |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Artists in Communities |
2022-2023 |
$20,000 |
To create a verbatim theatre rap opera with the Pleasant Hill community, and present it in Pleasant Hill for high school students and the public. |
Olafson, Marea
Wynyard Elementary School |
Wynyard |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2022-2023 |
$20,000 |
To create a 2-D mural and 3-D functional pottery depicting personal land acknowledgment with grades 1,3,5 and 7 students. |
| Muskoday First Nation Community School |
Muskoday |
— |
Share and Connect |
2022-2023 |
$20,000 |
We will teach youth traditional Pow-Wow drumming, singing and regalia making. We will teach youth to make Indigenous hand drums and rattles. |
| Friday, Tekeyla |
Webb |
— |
Share and Connect |
2022-2023 |
$20,000 |
Create the Stop-Motion Animation short film Escape from Residential School by mentoring youth to help with the production, pass on my skills and build community. |
| Big River Metis Local #59 |
Big River |
— |
Share and Connect |
2022-2023 |
$20,000 |
The project animates community through our stories, music and connection to our land by highlighting knowledges of past to create new pathways forward. |
Martin, Monique
Brevoort Park School |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2023-2024 |
$20,000 |
Students will make art inspired by working with a Saskatoon Symphony musician, the art will be displayed digitally in conjunction with Symphony events. |
| Northern Lights Bluegrass and Old-Tyme Music Society, Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Nuit Blanche Saskatoon Contemporary Arts Festival Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and program support. |
Wildeman, Tatum
Father Megret High School |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Artists in Schools |
2023-2024 |
$20,000 |
The project will provide youth access to dance for promotion of mental health through connection, celebration of culture, and foster expression of grief and trauma. |
City of Prince Albert
Jesse Campbell |
Prince Albert |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$20,000 |
Through peer support, curatorial guidance, and professional development, we develop artists' capacity to build long-term community arts programming & projects for marginalized or underserved groups. |
Kitchen Party Music, Inc.
Mitchell Dureault |
Forget |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$20,000 |
KLKP Kids Camp: Provide an barrier-free opportunity for children from all walks of life to explore their creativity in collaboration with Saskatchewan musicians and artists. |
| Chokecherry Studios |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2024-2025 |
$20,000 |
— |
| Nuit Blanche Saskatoon Contemporary Arts Festival Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
SaskFestivals |
2024-2025 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and program support. |
| Northern Lights Bluegrass and Old-Tyme Music Society, Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2024-2025 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Knight, Lindsay |
Saskatoon |
— |
Share and Connect |
2022-2023 |
$19,997 |
To mentor and then host an itwewiniyiniwak("word people") storytelling gathering based on creation story(ies) of Treaty Six Territory, including contemporary/traditional rap, comedy, poetry and songwriting. |
| GGFN Elders |
@level1.client.city@ |
— |
Share and Connect |
2023-2024 |
$19,752 |
Create an after-school program aimed at First Nation Arts in collaboration with Students, Elders, and community members, showcasing students' work in a final celebration. |
Reimer, Joel Dash
Bedford Road Collegiate |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2021-2022 |
$19,500 |
We will create a spoken word workshop series on community care with video resources for the Grade 9 Land Based program at Bedford Road Collegiate |
| Gabriel Dumont Local #11 |
Saskatoon |
— |
Share and Connect |
2023-2024 |
$19,400 |
Sewing Circle hosts Metis cultural arts workshops and then gathers weekly where artists mentor and support the learning of our members. |
Community Arts Mentorship Program Incorporated
Zoe Slusar |
Asquith |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$19,329 |
Building local capacity/mentorship opportunities through a music camp centered on empowering/encouraging Indigenous females/female identifying youth through music/cultural arts in the under-served community of Stanley Mission. |
| Mackasey, Michèle |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$18,000 |
To create two Memory-bottle-portraits commemorating lost family members, using tiny glass bottles filled with coloured transparent liquid; a pixelated process resulting in two-dimensional sculptural works. |
| Emel, Tod |
Invermere |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$18,000 |
To complete a new body of intermedia work combining audio, sculpture and painting; using post-painterly abstraction to explore 'natural' and 'artificial' worlds |
| Gronsdahl, Todd |
Clavet |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$18,000 |
Funding for materials and some living expenses to create new sculptures, prints and a video for three upcoming solo exhibitions. |
| Bird, Keith |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$18,000 |
I will continue to create and finish a visual collection of art pieces using traditional and spiritual values to be disseminated for our youth. |
| Philips, Elizabeth |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$18,000 |
I intend to complete a new poetry manuscript centred around the long poem as a conduit for the transcendent power of personal and environment grief. |
| Jodoin, Berkley |
Leader |
Music |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2020-2021 |
$18,000 |
Create a full length album of original songs, while bringing light to the suicide crisis our communities have been experiencing. |
| Legris, Sylvia |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$18,000 |
During my project period I will complete the first draft of a new poetry collection, The Principle of Rapid Peering. |
| Pottle, Adam |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$18,000 |
Finishing the first handwritten draft of my new novel, tentatively titled APPARITIONS, and typing, arranging, and editing the manuscript's second draft. |
| Kirkby, Mary-Ann |
Prince Albert |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$18,000 |
Over the course of a year, I plan to write the first draft of an historically based, non-fiction book titled “Untold, The Hutterite Story” |
| YXE Drag Collective |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$18,000 |
Drag Me Across Saskatchewan a Drive-In Drag Show Tour will provide drag entertainment for prides across Saskatchewan in a drive-in setting this summer. |
| Bornstein, Eli |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$18,000 |
Publication of my journals from two Arctic trips (1986-1987), together with artwork and photographs, for my 100th birthday in 2022; introduction, editing by Roald Nasgaard. |
| Uzelman, Kara |
Nokomis |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$18,000 |
To support a solo exhibition at the MacKenzie Art Gallery, including production of new work and remounting of older work, scheduled for March 2022. |
| Rosenwald/Rose |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$18,000 |
Develop "exhibition-in-a-box" package to tour our installation, Journal of the Plague Year, plus create new work that chronicles the temperature of the times. |
| Atkins, Amalie |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$18,000 |
WATCH YOUR CORNER will be a new cinematic film installation created for a confirmed exhibition in Alaska and research stage for an Artist book |
| The Feather |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2021-2022 |
$18,000 |
This project is to help us produce season four of our satirical streaming series, The Feather News. |
| Vanderhaeghe, Guy |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$18,000 |
I will be working on a collection of creative nonfiction tentatively entitled Because Somebody Asked Me To. |
| Sheikh, Sheheryar |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$18,000 |
To complete and refine a literary fiction novel (titled After) about the Covid-19 pandemic, and about a father-son relationship within it, from 05/2022 to 01/2023. |
| Yokozawa Farquharson, Hanna |
Saltcoats |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$18,000 |
Creation for a solo textile show of 2022 Autumn using antique kimono from Japan |
| Pelletier, Jeanne |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2021-2022 |
$18,000 |
This project will chronicle the life of Métis Elder and knowledge keeper, Jeanne Pelletier, and will include perspectives from those who know her. |
| Goobie, Beth |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$18,000 |
I want to write a novel, titled Dark Rainbow, that explores Phillipa Upchurch's expansion of consciousness in her senior year at a bible college. |
| Hlady, Dustan |
Moose Jaw |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$18,000 |
Looking for funding to assist in the production and distribution of a highly engaging web-series. |
| Richter, Jessica |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$18,000 |
This proposal seeks funding to support the creation of a solo exhibition of film and installation work at the Estevan Art Gallery in February 2023. |
| Dorion, Leah |
Prince Albert |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2022-2023 |
$18,000 |
Create and Install a Metis healing garden and create interdisciplinary artworks while Mentoring a local Metis Artist in the process. |
| L'Hirondelle, Cheryl |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2022-2023 |
$18,000 |
create a 360°VR music video/installation of the song 'To All Our Nations' from my Why the Caged Bird Sings project for exhibition in Regina 2023. |
| Profit, Shavaun |
Eastend |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$18,000 |
An artistic response of personal reflections to the previous 3 years spent developing programming and facilitating art with individuals residing in Long Term Care. |
| Lazurko, Anne |
Weyburn |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$18,000 |
This project is for 5.5 months writing time, with one month of travel to Italy and Germany embedded, to complete my novel, One Woman. |
| Rosenwald/Rose |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$18,000 |
To create new work for Journal of the Plague Year(s) exhibition and on-site residency at Remai Modern, Saskatoon. |
| Wicks, Bob |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$18,000 |
A staged production of the "Multi-Cultural, Multi-Lingual King Lear: Cree, French, English" script adapted in 2021-2022. |
| Goodon, Jayde |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2022-2023 |
$18,000 |
My proposal is to create a body of work that fosters personal healing and inspires others to pursue their life's dreams. |
| The Feather |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2022-2023 |
$18,000 |
This project is to help us write season two of our comedy series "The Feather News" streaming on APTN Lumi. |
| Vincent, Angus |
Yorkton |
Theatre |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2022-2023 |
$18,000 |
Create a script/play in a musical format, along with music, with story lines of life and love on a reserve and urban setting. |
Eden Care Communities Foundation Inc.
Heather Cameron |
Regina |
Dance |
Artists in Communities |
2022-2023 |
$18,000 |
To deliver innovative multigenerational programming to Eden Care Communities involving creative dance, musical exploration and capturing the process through the creation of a music video. |
Core Neighbourhood Youth Coop
Muskwa Lerat |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2022-2023 |
$18,000 |
The Future Artistic Minds (FAM) is a program at CNYC for youth to explore their creative practice in a safe, identity affirming space. |
| Gronsdahl, Troy |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$18,000 |
to create a video and sound installation comprised of a woodwind quartet playing in the northern Saskatchewan wilderness. |
| Cameron, Heather |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$18,000 |
To create “helix” - a 10 minute contemporary dance duet in collaboration with acclaimed contemporary music composer Nicole Lizée. |
| Piper, Lynette |
Lebret |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$18,000 |
'Driver's Licence' is the story of an elderly man who loses his licence after a series of accidents and run-ins with police. |
| Hebert, Dakota |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2023-2024 |
$18,000 |
We want to develop our standup comedy careers by showcasing in Saskatchewan and California, meeting with Industry Professionals, and securing our Social Security Numbers. |
| wilson, Thorina (Nina) |
Broadview |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2023-2024 |
$18,000 |
The project focuses on the Cree creation story regarding the importance of the moose, using color, symbolism, syllabics to retain the story for the future |
| Wanuskewin Heritage Park |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2024-2025 |
$18,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Community Arts Mentorship Program Incorporated |
Asquith |
Multidisciplinary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2024-2025 |
$18,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Cando Metis Local 55 Incorporated |
SASKATOON |
— |
Share and Connect |
2023-2024 |
$18,000 |
We'd tell the story of the Cando and District Metis. Cando, Willowfield and Beljennie had a big Metis population with a story to tell. |
| Artesian Performing Arts Inc. |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2024-2025 |
$18,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Seesequasis, Paul |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$17,600 |
Enclosing Some Snapshots: The photography of Métis activist James Brady. A photobook coinciding with Saskatchewan exhibitions. |
| Creative City Centre Inc. |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2023-2024 |
$17,440 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Southwest Cultural Development Group Inc. |
Swift Current |
Theatre |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2023-2024 |
$17,430 |
For general operating and programming support. |
OUTSaskatoon Inc.
Marjorie Beaucage |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$17,125 |
OUTSaskatoon will create a two spirit drum group through drum making and singing in Saskatoon through a 10 week project called Healing Through The Drum. |
| Goodwyn, Amber |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$17,110 |
We are seeking funding for the collaborative production of an episodic experimental feminist science fiction musical called Porous (working title). |
| Froese, Ellen |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$17,077 |
Ellen Froese will be presenting her brand new album via residency and touring from November 2022 - March 2023. |
| Listen to Dis' Community Arts Organization Inc. |
Regina |
Theatre |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2019-2020 |
$17,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Winston Knoll Collegiate |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2019-2020 |
$17,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Thurmeier, Tim |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$17,000 |
To produce a 45-60 minute documentary called The Great Train Reverie, which follows four Saskatchewan musicians who toured Eastern Canada by train. |
| Burnt Thicket Theatre |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$17,000 |
Develop the script and music of the musical Breathe by Sienna Holden and produce the world premiere in Saskatoon |
| Fidelak, Terri |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$17,000 |
Creation of new, large scale, sculptural installation, with exploration of performative elements, occurring from November 2020 to October 2021. |
| Wensel, Judy |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$17,000 |
To support the pre-production, rehearsal and presentation of a new performance work called The Last Children. |
| Garcia-Luna, Gabriela |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$17,000 |
To create multimedia studies and works for a confirmed solo exhibition at the MJM&AG, exploring concepts of human and natural environment resilience and adaptation. |
| Creative City Centre Inc. |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2022-2023 |
$17,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Southwest Cultural Development Group Inc. |
Swift Current |
Theatre |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2022-2023 |
$17,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Garcia-Luna, Gabriela |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$17,000 |
New body of work and research in relation to my feminine Mexican ancestry, based on photographic documentation of Mexican and Saskatchewan flora. |
| Ppl r Ppl Productions |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$17,000 |
Ppl r Ppl Productions is creating professional work for theatre artists and will present 'Spring Awakening' by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater, February 23-March 2. |
| Oblong and Oboe |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$17,000 |
The final stage of development and world premiere of Oblong and Oboe Stir the Pot as part of Live Five’s 20th Season in Saskatoon. |
| Al-Harthi, Rania |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$17,000 |
Funds from this grant will be used to support an upcoming collaborative project at PAVED Arts. |
Riversdale Community Association
Jasmyn Albert |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$17,000 |
The Riversdale Community Association seeks to hire three Ribbon-Skirt Designers to teach our residents how to sew their own, and showcase those skirts around Riversdale. |
| Big River Metis Local #59 |
Big River |
— |
Share and Connect |
2023-2024 |
$17,000 |
The project connects community through stories, music and connection to our land by highlighting knowledges of past to create new pathways forward. |
| Lowry, Nancy |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$16,918 |
Create large scale paintings which push my perceived physical limits while highlighting the important intergenerational role of non-male artists from the Emma Lake Artists’ Workshops. |
| Payne, Laura |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$16,859 |
Creation of a body of electronic light-based work, consisting of light box compositions and projection installation, for public exhibition across Canada |
| Weber, Joanne |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$16,714 |
The project is the development of a script by Joanne Weber about the Deaf settlers who immigrated to Qu'Appelle Valley in the early 1900's. |
| Kazan, Lina |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$16,585 |
To create a Flamenco screen dance film with original music and choreographies to be presented at the Victoria Flamenco festival and other digital platforms. |
| Wensel, Judy |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$16,543 |
Collaborative exploration and development phase of new interdisciplinary work with visual artist Shaunna Dunn. |
| Hill, Gerald |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$16,500 |
I’ll complete the first draft of a book of poems called The Table. |
| C. Lysias Designs |
Rosthern |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2022-2023 |
$16,500 |
Passion for Fashion Project, "Project Iskotew" raises awareness on the residual effects of residential schools, while promoting culture, and healing through fashion. |
| LaRiviere, David |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$16,448 |
Production of new large-scale artwork for the 2020 Biennale of Contemporary art, opening September 26th at the Alberta Gallery of Art (confirmed). |
| Knight, Lindsay |
Saskatoon |
— |
Share and Connect |
2023-2024 |
$16,336 |
To plan, present, mentor and perform "The TMRWS" Indigenous Women in Hip Hop Festival in Treaty Six Territory on July 12, 2024. |
| Erwin, Keisha |
Spiritwood |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$16,300 |
This project is to produce a short 10-minute film about a disconnected Sixties Scooped father and his reconnecting half-Black daughter returning home to La Ronge. |
| Rowley, Mari-Lou |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$16,200 |
This grant will allow me to complete, revise and polish my manuscript Palingenesis, a poetic memoir of trauma, survival, revival and ultimately, redemption. |
| Baerwaldt, Wayne |
Assiniboia |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$16,116 |
To conduct original research, develop curatorial premises, write critical essays and deliver art exhibitions in Saskatchewan and abroad |
| Knight, Daniel |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2020-2021 |
$16,080 |
We want to continue our series of satirical news monologues and comedy skits centered around an indigenous comedy perspective, and develop into an episodic series. |
| Anskohk Aboriginal Writers' Circle Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
SaskFestivals |
2019-2020 |
$16,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
