| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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). |
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. |
| Southwest Cultural Development Group Inc. |
Swift Current |
Theatre |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2023-2024 |
$17,430 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Creative City Centre Inc. |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2023-2024 |
$17,440 |
For general operating and programming support. |
Buena Vista School
Jillian Ross |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2024-2025 |
$17,560 |
Students will use various printmaking techniques (letterpress, silkscreen, linocut and collograph) to give positive feedback to those in the community that creating place for pollinators. |
| 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. |
| L'Hirondelle, Cheryl |
Saskatoon |
— |
Share and Connect |
2024-2025 |
$17,752 |
To share, with Metis songwriter Berk Jodoin, my method of co-writing songs with incarcerated relatives in 2 SK correctionals & arrange/record/produce/master a song from each. |
| 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. |
| Savage, Candace |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$18,000 |
I will collaborate with members of the Young Adult Buffalo Lifeways Society to create a nonfiction book about the restoration of buffalo to Indigenous lands. |
Community Arts Mentorship Program Incorporated
Zoe Slusar |
Asquith |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$18,509 |
Building local capacity/creating mentorship opportunities with a music camp centred on empowering Indigenous females/female-identifying youth through music/cultural arts in the underserved community of La Ronge. |
Friends of the Royal Saskatchewan Museum
Glenn Sutter |
Regina |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$19,000 |
In 2024, Songs for Nature aims to offer a summer youth camp in Regina, and a fall adult camp in Prince Albert National Park. |
Saskatoon Industry Education Council
Muveddet Al-Katib |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$19,000 |
Newcomer youth will learn the Indigenous culture in our community, in this land, and share and continue their cultures through hands-on experiences and stories. |
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. |
| 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. |
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 |
| 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. |
Core Neighbourhood Youth Coop
Muskwa Lerat |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$19,800 |
FAM is an Indigenous-run youth art collective providing accessible, anti-oppressive studio spaces. Amplifying youth voices, celebrating diversity, and challenging the status quo through artistic expression. |
| 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. |
| Weyburn Art Gallery |
Weyburn |
Visual |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2019-2020 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Free Flow Dance Theatre Company |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2019-2020 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Station Arts Centre Cooperative |
Rosthern |
Multidisciplinary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2019-2020 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Community Radio Society of Saskatoon Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2019-2020 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Southwest Cultural Development Group Inc. |
Swift Current |
Multidisciplinary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2019-2020 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Creative City Centre Inc. |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2019-2020 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Last Mountain Lake Cultural Centre Inc. |
Regina Beach |
Visual |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2019-2020 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Tonight It's Poetry Performance Series Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2019-2020 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| J.M. Curtain Razors Inc. |
Regina |
Theatre |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2019-2020 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Wide Open Theatrical Escapades Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2019-2020 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Articulate Ink Press Inc. |
Regina |
Visual |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2019-2020 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Northern Lights Bluegrass and Old-Tyme Music Society, Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2019-2020 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
Dene High School
Tenille Campbell |
La Loche |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2020-2021 |
$20,000 |
We will build the capacity of Dene youth to express themselves musically, in written word story building and through visual imaging of photography. |
| Weyburn Art Gallery |
Weyburn |
Visual |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2020-2021 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Articulate Ink Press Inc. |
Regina |
Visual |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2020-2021 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Community Radio Society of Saskatoon Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2020-2021 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Creative City Centre Inc. |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2020-2021 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| J.M. Curtain Razors Inc. |
Regina |
Theatre |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2020-2021 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Free Flow Dance Theatre Company |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2020-2021 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Last Mountain Lake Cultural Centre Inc. |
Regina Beach |
Visual |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2020-2021 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Listen to Dis' Community Arts Organization Inc. |
Regina |
Theatre |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2020-2021 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Southwest Cultural Development Group Inc. |
Swift Current |
Multidisciplinary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2020-2021 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Station Arts Centre Cooperative |
Rosthern |
Multidisciplinary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2020-2021 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Tonight It's Poetry Performance Series Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2020-2021 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Wide Open Theatrical Escapades Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2020-2021 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Radiant Press |
Regina |
Literary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2020-2021 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Deaf Crows Collective |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2020-2021 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Northern Lights Bluegrass and Old-Tyme Music Society, Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2020-2021 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
Sum Theatre Corp.
Pleasant Hill Community Association |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Artists in Communities |
2020-2021 |
$20,000 |
An artistic inquiry process developed in the Pleasant Hill community, culminating in a documentary play. |
Listen to Dis' Community Arts Organization Inc.
Judy Wensel |
Regina |
Theatre |
Artists in Communities |
2020-2021 |
$20,000 |
LTD' Artists and Judy Wensel will support creative community members with disabilities in an online-focused exploration of Caryl Churchill's play, Love and Information. |
Prairie Sky School
Holly Yuzicapi |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2020-2021 |
$20,000 |
Students will learn some traditional indigenous beading techniques, and prepare a spring cultural festival that includes display and demonstration of beading, powwow dancing, and songwriting. |
Art Gallery of Regina Inc.
Linda Duvall |
Regina |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2020-2021 |
$20,000 |
Artists Linda Duvall (SK) and Jillian McDonald (MB/NY) will lead a community-engaged artwork and residency that responds to historical, cultural and discipline-specific approaches to excavation. |
Ecole St. Pius X
Chancz Perry |
Regina |
Dance |
Artists in Schools |
2020-2021 |
$20,000 |
Artists Chancz Perry and Ashley Johnson will develop innovative programming in kindergarten classrooms focusing on cross-curriculum, self-regulation, and cross-cultural learning experiences, through dance and music. |
| Radiant Press |
Regina |
Literary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2021-2022 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Burnt Thicket Theatre |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2021-2022 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Listen to Dis' Community Arts Organization Inc. |
Regina |
Theatre |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2021-2022 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Artesian Performing Arts Inc. |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2021-2022 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
