| Leader and District Arts Council |
Leader |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,820 |
Provide an affordable and accessible opportunity for rural youth to receive choral, speech arts, and music training by a professional. |
| Exclamation Productions |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,750 |
Provide affordable and engaging professional musical theatre productions to rural Saskatchewan communities while expanding theatre viewing and performance opportunities in Regina and area. |
| Lowry, Nancy |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Prototype new tools to assist me in painting new large scale work, phase 1 of 4 supporting my first solo exhibition in August 2023. |
| Eskowich, Graydon |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$17,000 |
Proposal for the production of the independant short film 'Headstones,' a 15-20 minute dark comedy/drama to be filmed in Saskatchewan in the Summer of 2025. |
| Bethany Manor |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Artists in Communities |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Project Title - Writing our Stories: Writing Workshops for Seniors |
| Wihak, Mark |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$12,000 |
Project Pedestrian will be a multi-platform exploration of the experiences of walking. |
Bishop James Mahoney High School
Cate Francis |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
Project grant to work with Health Science Academy students to create collaborative murals at BJM as well as a scientifically focused public art campaign. |
| 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. |
| Klassen, Hilary |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$4,500 |
Professional development in the form of mentorship for creative nonfiction book manuscript about a Saskatchewan land conflict, subsequent reconciliation and shared continuing quest for justice. |
| Merasty, Marcus |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$3,000 |
Professional development in dance creation. Exploring Indigenous storytelling as choreographic research. |
| Dunn, Shaunna |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Professional development by participating in an international study group on the Reggio Emilia Approach at the Loris Malaguzzi International Centre in Reggio Emilia, Italy. |
| Billingsley, Alyssa |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,309 |
Professional development at Manitoulin Conservatory for Creation and Performance of a solo bouffon show with Karen Hines and directorial mentorship under John Turner. |
| Chinese Dance Club of Saskatoon |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$2,000 |
Professional dance instructor Zhaojia Wu instructs Korean K-pop dance routines. They will be presented on January 22, 2023 at the Broadway Theatre in Saskatoon. |
| Devine-Tajgardan, Negar |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$2,290 |
production, installation and presentation of art works at the above mentioned art centers and provide artist talk and community engagement programs at ARTSPLACE gallery |
| St. Pierre, Laura |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$15,975 |
Production of new work towards the AGA/Remai 2020 Biennial and La Presence des Femmes at CAVA Edmonton. |
| St. Pierre, Laura |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$6,025 |
Production of new work towards solo exhibition at the U of S College Galleries (September 2022) and Art Placement Inc (January 2023). |
| 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). |
| Froese, Robert |
Moose Jaw |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$15,000 |
Production of ceramic and wood installation work based on material and musical composition/improvisation for exhibition at the Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, February 2020. |
| Kirk, Tommy |
Swift Current |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$500 |
Production of an original dragon puppet made of paper mache to be used in film and theatre |
| Snake River |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$6,530 |
Production of a live soundtrack for the silent film The Phantom Carriage presented at the Artesian in Regina and the Roxy Theatre in Saskatoon. |
| Ewenin, Ron |
Regina |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2022-2023 |
$2,000 |
Production and sale of 100, 2023 native art calendars to be sold across Saskatchewan. |
| Flamenco Borealis |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
SaskFestivals |
2024-2025 |
$7,000 |
Production and presentation of the 2025 Borealis Flamenco Festival Series consisting of two shows, a film screening, and various workshops. |
| Flamenco Borealis |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$7,000 |
Production and presentation of the 2024 Borealis Flamenco Festival Series consisting of three shows and various workshops. |
| Void Gallery |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$2,000 |
Producing zines with Indigenous peoples and newcomers for distribution in Princeton, USA and Dublin,
Ireland |
| Wilson, Nic |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$15,150 |
Producing an exhibition, artist's book, and texts as an artist and 2021-2022 writer-in-residence at Gallery 44 in Toronto. |
| Pawlowich, Raistlin |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2021-2022 |
$7,500 |
Produce, record & edit a single off my debut album. |
| Tienkamp, Christine |
St. Louis |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$7,500 |
Produce Metis beadwork pieces |
| Haines, Cat |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$13,200 |
Produce and present "Towards Liberation," a group exhibition featuring emerging and established Saskatchewan-based trans women artists at a time when our rights are under attack. |
| Schulz, Judith |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$13,000 |
Produce an eight-show performance of ‘Yaga’ by Kat Sandler in Saskatoon, SK, as an artist collective in collaboration with Live Five’s 2025/26 season. |
| Morgun, Jessica |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
Produce a short video artist talk to communicate the project "Thoughts and Prayers" |
| Pistachio, Mara |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$800 |
Produce a culturally focused, youth-friendly, community-based drag show called United Diversity: A Drag Show. |
| Thomson, Samuel |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$798 |
Procure a new guitar to serve as a replacement for Sam's current instrument, which is no longer functional. |
| 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 |
| Raine, Nathan |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$8,000 |
Principle photography for a short crime film about the dehumanizing effects of capitalism, set in cold and snowy Saskatoon. |
| Pridmore, Helen |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$2,887 |
Presenting performances of self-created vocal works, plus voice/electronics improvised music, in Washington State, USA |
| Pridmore, Helen |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$6,402 |
Presenting my one-person show "Mother Calling" in a double bill with Regina singer/actor Shannon Holmes, via RISER Regina's presentation series |
| Wecker, Sabine |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$848 |
Presenting my MFA thesis exhibition at this year’s UAAC conference in London, Ontario at the panel “Left in the Dark” chaired by Anna O’Meara. |
| Wong, Wing Tak Nova |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$3,640 |
Presenting Historically Informed Performance of early and late Italian, French and German violin-harpsichord music, and Baroque dance step workshop, to the Saskatoon community. |
| Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery |
Moose Jaw |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,500 |
Presenting contemporary dance by New Dance Horizons in response to Edward Poitras' exhibition as part of National Day of Truth & Reconciliation community programming. |
| Pridmore, Helen |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$5,238 |
Presenting a performance of our multimedia musical work "Out Loud" in Regina, to coordinate with performances in Saskatoon and Edmonton |
| Alexander-Luna, Tina |
Regina |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
Presenting a lecture-recital with pianist Leanne Regehr at International Congress of Voice Teachers in Toronto, Ontario, about art song contributions of Canadian composer Violet Archer. |
| McDougall, Bradley |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$5,336 |
Presentation of my one man show Night Sweats, a personal story of coming out during the AIDS crisis and parallels with Covid. |
Mathieu, Veronique
Saskatoon Public Library |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
Present six free interactive and educational concerts involving different musical traditions at Frances Morrison Public Library (Saskatoon) and in North Battleford . |
| Katsiris, Constantine |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$700 |
Present current work-in-progress "Morose Code" in a live performance as part of Collide Festival. |
| Mathieu, Veronique |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Present and perform at SHE Festival of Women in Music in Arkansas during an international conference which celebrates the contributions of women in music. |
| Cummings Truszkowski, Sarah |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,500 |
Present a framed series of silkscreen and painted text-based works on paper to be shown at an Art Gallery of Regina group show in 2021. |
| Saskatoon Experimental Music Ensemble |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,070 |
Present a concert to premiere a collection of new compositions by Graeme Dyck. |
| Mathieu, Véronique |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
Present a concert featuring works by women composers with commentary prepared by a musicologist, and offer music workshops for students. |
| 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. |
| Aubichon, Holly |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$620 |
Prepare for solo exhibition in the fall 2024 and afford my studio while taking time off to do this work! |
| Atkins, Amalie |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$10,800 |
Prepare final elements (music licenses), Travel to present new feature film in for World Premiere (Copenhagen) and NorthAmerican Premiere (Toronto), followed by local confirmed events. |
| Malinsky, Charles |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$6,000 |
Preliminary development of a new narrative series of paintings entitled, "Alisa and the Seven Deadly Sins." |
Prairie Sculptors' Association
Manitou Beach Recreation Board |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Prairie Sculptors' Assoc. (PSA) and Manitou Beach Recreation Board will host a sculpture symposium including public art workshops and a community art project. |
| Ppl r Ppl Productions |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$2,000 |
Ppl r Ppl Productions presents:
{Title of Show}, a four person, 1 pianist, 1 act musical
Performed at the Refinery and The Dekker Centre |
| 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. |
| Ppl r Ppl Productions |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$5,935 |
Ppl r Ppl Productions is creating professional work for theatre artists and will present 'Hand to God' by Robert Askins in Live Five's 2022/2023 season. |
| Bellefleur, Stephanie |
Willow Bunch |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$4,885 |
Power Haus is a literary art book which explores; passion for community engagement and the introspective effects of colour therapy through the public art lens. |
| Miyawata Culture Association Inc. |
Paynton |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$2,000 |
Poundmaker-Life, Legacy, Liberty. An exhibition commemorating the exoneration of Chief Poundmaker from the false charge of Treason by this white supremacist state, Canada. |
| Graham, John |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$6,000 |
Post-production work on the art film STILL HERE and submissions to film festivals worldwide in 2024 & 2025. |
| Rice, Bruce |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,500 |
Poetry project travel and research; participation in solstice ceremonies and events, engagement with Indigenous people and other stewards of Ohio's Hopewell Earthworks. |
| Ecole St. Gerard School |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
Planning for future work with Kevin Peace. |
| Laird, Tonia |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$6,750 |
Planning and writing of high fantasy novel with themes of decolonization, kinship, and intergenerational trauma and healing. |
| Creative Options Regina Inc. |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Planning and artist engagement for the "Foundations - Indigenous Artist In Residency" program for COR / Inclusion Regina. |
| Baudemont, David |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$4,000 |
Plaines aquarelles is a collection of water color paintings and poetic aphorism in reaction to confinement in the western plain. |
| Brass, Philip |
Balcarres |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2024-2025 |
$2,000 |
Pipe Stone carving youth mentorship opportunity at Community and School Chief Payepot, First Nation. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Hoggarth, Opal |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$3,163 |
Peyote Ugly is a show that combines live music with alternative drag in Regina and Saskatoon. |
| Mathieu, Veronique |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$830 |
Perform, and offer outreach teaching and presentations during the first Lincoln Crossroads Music Festival in Nebraska this coming August. |
| Mathieu, Veronique |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
Perform of a recital, assess the needs of the community, and evaluate possibilities for developing a longer term residency. |
| Dump Babes |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$2,000 |
Perform 5 shows in Western Canada to promote our new album 'Known Liar', 4 of them as tour support for Miesha and the Spanks. |
| KSAMB Dance Company |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$9,955 |
Perfecting the technique of live amplification of dancers’ heartbeats and integrating the technique into a work in progress performance. |
| Per Sonatori |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$11,504 |
Per Sonatori will be presenting two concerts as part of their 11th season, as well as workshops for both professional and emerging musicians. |
| Per Sonatori |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$8,000 |
Per Sonatori will be presenting three concerts as part of their 14th season, as well as workshops for both professional and emerging musicians. |
| Per Sonatori |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$14,496 |
Per Sonatori will be presenting three concerts as part of their 12th season, as well as workshops for both professional and emerging musicians. |
| PAVED Art + New Media |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$2,000 |
PAVED Arts is hosting the Saskatoon iteration of the One Take Super 8 event taking place on Tues. Sept. 10th, 2019. |
| PAVED Art + New Media |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
PAVED Arts intends to create an online open-source equipment booking and members access portal, in partnership with Video Pool artist-run in Winnipeg. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Longman, Mary |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2024-2025 |
$15,000 |
Passage Home: Public Bronze Sculpture and Custom Healing Park.
Fund request to complete work: Phase 2: 3D printing and casting in bronze |
| Bourque, Marie-Véronique |
Regina |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$500 |
Participation in the The Ali Ryerson Jazz Flute Master Class. This training will be offered online from January 3 to January 8, 2021. |
| Zegeye-Gebrehiwot, Hagere Selam "shimby" |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
Participation in the Oberhausen Seminar: examining global moving image practices in the context of a festival, interrogating the infrastructures that allow film to circulate. |
| Fortier, Zoe |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
Participation in Orange, contemporary art group exhibition at the Expression professional arts centre in St-Hyacinthe Quebec in June. |
| Harder, Kendra |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
Participation in Fresh Squeezed Opera's Online Vocal Lab 2022 where I will collaborate on a new operatic work |
| Lebel, Emilie |
Moose Jaw |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
Participation at the Banff Musicians in Residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts in January 2023 |
| Paquet, Daniel |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Participation as photographer in the creation of the work "What belongs to us" at the International Center for Contemporary Culture Tabakalera, with choreographer, Suzanne Miller. |
| Peters, Charles |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$700 |
Participating in a devised theatre workshop with Frantic Assembly, a celebrated UK theatre company while they are in Saskatoon for the first time. |
| Stonhouse, David |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$5,000 |
Participate in the Wassaic Project Summer Artist Residency, New York. |
| Goodpipe, Erin |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Participate in a theatre workshop; supporting the creation and development of Children of the Bear, created by Todd Houseman, which I am a co-director. |
| Lebel, Emilie |
Moose Jaw |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Participate at Contact Ontarois |
| Roelens, Diana |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
Paper sculpture and collage installation with Grade 8 class highlighting prairie wetlands in conjunction with a Ducks Unlimited WCE Project with the school |
| Van Opstal-Tamez, Ingrid |
Windthorst |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Paint a mural at a local music festival to expand my skills in public art and meet the needs of visual arts in small communities. |
| Wilson, Nic |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$10,000 |
Over the next year, I would like to pursue three projects that will focus on new material processes and collaboration. |
| 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” |
| SUNTEP Prince Albert |
Prince Albert |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Over six weeks SUNTEP Prince Albert students will work with an artist to learn the cultural teachings, design and create a ribbon skirt. |
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. |
Holy Family School
Kevin Pee-ace |
North Battleford |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2023-2024 |
$10,000 |
Our students will work with Kevin Peeace to create a legacy piece (painting) in the hall of our school to represent our students and community. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Westview Public School |
Prince Albert |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2025-2026 |
$30,130 |
Our resident would instruct a music, drama, and dance program in our school, since we that don't have a current music program in place. |
