| Angus, Meagan |
Regina |
Theatre |
Indigenous/Metis Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$7,500 |
I would intern at the Globe Theatre to further my theatrical training and create a solo performance. |
| Wanotch, Tori-Lynn |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I wish to procure 7 buffalo skulls to paint. In my paintings I will share the 7 sacred teachings, depicted in acrylic paint. |
| Rose, Karen |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$6,700 |
I wish to create material to choreograph three new solos for three individual dance artists, and in this creative process, advance my choreographic skills. |
| Dieter, Mark |
Fort Qu'Appelle |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$592 |
I wish to attend the Acimowin Film Festival in Saskatoon to represent an independent documentary I wrote and directed titled "I Plowed the Sacred Soil." |
| Dieter, Mark |
Fort Qu'Appelle |
Media Arts |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2024-2025 |
$7,000 |
I wish to apply for funding to continue development on a new independent feature-length screenplay titled "The Hawk and the Sparrow." |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Worrell, Peggy |
Swift Current |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$13,000 |
I will work on the final three stories for a collection of short fiction titled Shame, doing some of the research and writing in Newfoundland. |
| Legris, Sylvia |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$6,000 |
I will work on developing the first draft of "Wake/Subwake," a new poetry collection. |
| Berenbaum, Jenna |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2021-2022 |
$2,500 |
I will use a laptop for writing scripts and filming audition videos using applications like QLab for sound editing and FinalCutPro for video editing. |
| Pottle, Adam |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I will travel to Toronto to present my new novel APPARITIONS at two events, and do a panel at the Unify Deaf Film Festival. |
| Powell, Marie |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$5,070 |
I will spend five months focused on my writing to complete a clean submission draft of my newest medieval fantasy novel, Chronicles of Meirionnydd: Excalibur. |
| Johnstone, Hilary |
La Ronge |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$6,439 |
I will spend a week at a remote cabin and make drawings and take photographs, to base my fabric works on. |
| Holmes, Shannon |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I will share my new work-in-progess devised peice "Brux" at the Freedom & Focus Conference and will receive critical freedback and support from voice-centred artists. |
| Worrell, Peggy |
Swift Current |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$5,000 |
I will revise and polish the manuscript for a novel about three generations of a Saskatchewan farm family. |
| Berglund, Blake |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$4,520 |
I will return home to the family farm to write new material influenced by family dynamic, rural culture and personal themes. |
| Pasqua, Anthony |
saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$4,000 |
I will research, develop, write and select 6-8 tracks for my album highlighting the modern day struggles and powerful resiliency of First Nations people. |
| Matyushenko, Valentyna |
Grandora |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$800 |
I will research deep meaning of Lesya Ukrainka play Forest Song, second and third acts. Make a plan of dances, music for future folk ballet. |
| Atimoyoo, Erland |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous/Metis Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$7,500 |
I will reach Descendants who were unable to attend the 2018 "Gathering", report on last year's Gathering, promote this year's Gathering and contact ceremonial Elders. |
| Grant, Colin |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I will re-compose a suite of old Jazz/Spoken Word compositions for Nuit Blanche 2023 and lead rehearsals for the performance. |
| Negraeff, Laura |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$10,000 |
I will produce & direct Sarah Ruhl’s play about relationships, women’s health, & sexuality, titled “In the Next Room” at Persephone’s Backstage in Saskatoon |
| Bérubé, Annie |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
I will present a new series of work about abandoned buildings and their inner stories at CAVA in Edmonton in February 2021. |
| 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. |
| Earle, Shawn |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$4,350 |
I will perform the Don Byron Clarinet Concerto with the SUNY Geneseo Wind Ensemble, then study clarinet repair with master clarinet repair technician Wojtek Komsta |
| MacDonald, Joel |
Regina |
@level1.MG-Artistic_Discipline@ |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
I will participate in masterclasses by cello professors Orfeo Mandozzi and Wen-Sinn Yang, including intensive individual instruction and ensemble playing. |
| Mendez, Edward |
Warman |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$3,000 |
I will obtain my Intermediate Actor/Combatant Certification through Fight Director's Canada at The 2024 National Stage Combat Certification Conference in Saskatoon, SK |
| Wilson, Nic |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,200 |
I will make an 8 hour video and several large photographic works that consider the emotional outcome and material culture of death and mourning. |
| Worrell, Peggy |
Swift Current |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$7,000 |
I will learn more about the craft of writing short fiction, polish five stories, research and write two new stories, working toward a story collection. |
| Matyushenko, Valentyna |
Grandora |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
I will learn in-depth characteristics of steps, music, and cultural details of the Volyn region of Ukraine, before choreographing a famous Ukrainian play. |
| 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. |
| Ouellette, Dianne |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$8,500 |
I will honour the memory of the extinct "buffalo wolves" and the strength of these beings, who at one time thrived in the prairie grasslands. |
| Belarmino, Jimuel |
Weyburn |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
I will explore themes (acculturation, social class, identity) that will inform my work to create body of work for my first solo exhibition in 2023. |
| Legris, Sylvia |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$12,000 |
I will expand the concluding long poem, then complete the final revisions/edits prior to publication of my poetry collection The Principle of Rapid Peering. |
| Bradshaw, Kathy |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I will enrich and develop my encaustic/oil painting practice at a one month invitational artist residency in February in Pouch Cove, Newfoundland. |
| Mendez, Edward |
Warman |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I will dive deeply into pedagogy, stage combat, and movement systems at the Paddy Crean Workshop taking place in Banff, AB January 3-9, 2024 |
| Rewuski, Lindsey |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
I will develop an immersive installation and photo series for a confirmed online exhibition, as well as future exhibitions. |
| Robson, Frances |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
I will create joyful spring portraits of my neighbours amid blossoming trees. I will use my large format 8"x10" film camera for superb quality. |
| Peart, Greta |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$9,000 |
I will create an empathy-focused videogame called “Mitch” that explores finding personal growth and groundedness amidst new and unfamiliar experiences. |
| Peart, Greta |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$3,415 |
I will create a story-based, hand drawn web game that explores the inevitably of change, the elusiveness of time, and material existence. |
| Peart, Greta |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
I will create a short, story-based videogame called Margo that explores the inevitably of change, and the elusivity of time and material existence. |
| Daniels, Carol |
Regina Beach |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
I will create a one-woman production of spoken word, song and dance for the Regina Fringe Festival 2021. |
| 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. |
| Moore, Tim |
Swift Current |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$8,000 |
I will continue to create a body of work "Erasure is Futile" to be exhibited at the 2020 Biennial of Contemporary Art at the Remai Modern. |
| Keighley, Ray |
Warman |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2021-2022 |
$12,000 |
I will continue in the producing of artwork that explores Truth and Reconciliation and my first nation sensibility , paintings and carvings primarily. |
| Powell, Marie |
Regina |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
I will conduct primary research in England and Wales to increase authentic details and emotional nuances in my three-book historical fantasy series, Chronicles of Meirionnydd. |
| Peart, Greta |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$7,500 |
I will complete the first stage of a story-based videogame featuring original art/music that explores finding personal groundedness amongst unfamiliar psychological and social spaces. |
| 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. |
| Matyushenko, Valentyna |
Grandora |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
I will choreograph a piece of a larger project about the importance of tradition and culture. The project's centerpiece is Ukrainian Easter Egg, Pysanka. |
| Tupper, Katharine |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$7,500 |
I will be writing a new EP collaborating with my producer, remotely and online over the next several months. |
| Harder, Kendra |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
I will be working with Saskatoon ensemble, Mistral 5, to create a new piece of concert music for wind quintet. |
| 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. |
| Coflin, Caitlin |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$4,997 |
I will be travelling to Toronto to study Laban Movement Analysis and Bartenieff Fundamentals with Janet Kaylo and other certified instructors. |
| Martin, Monique |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$13,025 |
I will be travelling to Gothenburg, Sweden to work with Alexandra Hedberg on a printmaking project that will be exhibited in Sweden and Canada. |
| Parovsky, Karley |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$3,770 |
I will be travelling to Brevard, North Carolina to participate in the auditioned Blue Ridge Fiddle Camp led by Cassey Dreisen and Darol Anger. |
| Wilson, Nic |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
I will be traveling to Venice, Italy to participate in a workshop with Marilyn Arsem and present a performance at Venice International Performance Art Week. |
| Plett, Devo |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
I will be showing my work with in a group exhibition in LA, I plan to attend the show. |
| Nepjuk, Elizabeth |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$9,275 |
I will be researching and developing, and then presenting my death-centred production TEA. CAKE. DEATH. at the 2023 Saskatoon Fringe. |
| Speed, Jaime |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$400 |
I will be providing three poetry readings for an interdisciplinary art exhibition alongside three visual artists focussing on multiple representations of the prairies. |
| Stonhouse, David |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
I will be participating in BAM's artist residency, November 2020. I will create an installation to wrap up and document my POWER BOX series. |
| Martin-Arcand, Logan |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2021-2022 |
$7,500 |
I will be doing a writing workshop to further develop my play The Gay Card to be tour ready when safe to do so. |
| Romero, Alejandro |
Battleford |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I will be creating on site a mixed media installation using wood, clay and other materials |
| Hagel, Mandie |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$3,611 |
I will be continuing the work of my poetry manuscript that examines how my relationships we affected throughout or by the pandemic. |
| Jarrett, Alexandra |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2023-2024 |
$7,500 |
I will be conceptualizing 50 poems dedicated to the land and nehiyaw language. I will be incorporating political, matriarchal and MMIW elements. |
| 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. |
| Brander, Leone |
Regina |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
I will be attending the Sage Hill summer fiction program to develop a novel. |
| 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. |
| Broussard, Rachel |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
I will attend the Alchemy Island residency at Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts on Toronto Island for two weeks in May 2024 |
| 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. |
| Van Vliet, Hope |
Regina |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$500 |
I will attend a three week devised theatre intensive. There will be classes on grant writing, healthy creation practices and dramaturgy. |
| 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. |
| Lerat, Muskwa |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2021-2022 |
$6,000 |
I want to write 6-8 songs about my Indigenous experience in Canada, as well as growing up with learning and mental disabilities being ignored. |
| Tegenkamp, Diana Hope |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I want to work with manuscript editor, Anne Simpson, to complete the final stage of my poetry manuscript about my father, Metis activist Don Nielson. |
| Ledoux, Maureen |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I want to purchase Embroidery Embrilliance applications to create and develop embroidery to sew onto clothing, mossbags, shirts, skirts or quilts. |
| Agecoutay, Richard |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2022-2023 |
$6,125 |
I want to produce an independent feature length video documentary on Saskatchewan Pow Wows. |
| Sanchez Espitia, Esperanza |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I want to honour Saskatchewan land by creating an experimental cameraless short film.
Project name: Prairie Tribute
Genre: Experimental 16 mm cameraless
Length: 3 minutes |
| Hyggen, Vanessa |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2021-2022 |
$7,500 |
I want to highlight the diversity, beauty, importance and plight of northern Saskatchewan muskegs, land that is being threatened with strip mining. |
| Umeh, Charles |
Regina |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$4,000 |
I want to develop a screenplay of my cultural feature film title Dirty Hands. |
| Reimer, Joel Dash |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$5,571 |
I want to create a poetry manuscript of about 80 pages based around a variety of approaches to the idea of 'nothing'. |
| Anderson, Darryl |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
I want to continue my artist development and increase my knowledge in my craft. |
| Cuthand, Shawn |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2021-2022 |
$7,500 |
I want to complete a first draft of a screenplay and script for stage about interracial dating in Saskatchewan in the post Gerald Stanley era. |
| Abo Al Shamat, Abdul Salam |
Regina |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I want to compete in the national poetry slam competition, and hopefully, win it! |
| McArthur, Robert |
Carlyle |
Music |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2020-2021 |
$16,000 |
I want to build on my existing work; the creation of Nakoda lullabies, and the creation of a recording, a book, and a presentation series. |
| 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. |
| Philips, Elizabeth |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I want to attend the Sage Hill Spring poetry colloquium led by poet Jane Munro to work on finishing revisions to a poetry manuscript. |
| Benjamin, Paul |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$2,200 |
I use my 12-year-old computer with outdated IOS for music production and editing photos for my Photo Exhibitions: a new MacBook Pro would remediate. |
| Kroczynski, Jackie |
North Battleford |
Music |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$2,449 |
I sing, play keyboards, guitar and more with my interface and computer as I create demo tracks of my music using Logic Pro. |
| Vryenhoek, Leslie |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$12,000 |
I require support to draft a novel, tentatively called Separate and Apart, that follows the journey of a woman whose husband is being held overseas. |
| Marshall, Edie |
Riverhurst |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
I request funding to frame new gouache paintings and make-ready my garage/studio for a weekend art exhibition at my home in Riverhurst. |
| Dishaw, Jessie |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$250 |
I received feedback on my Independent Artist grant that my portfolio needed stronger visuals. I'm requesting funding to hire a photographer to document my work. |
| Knight, Daniel |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2023-2024 |
$7,500 |
I plan to write a rock musical exploring the theme of the integration of indigenous men in a colonial society |
| Fayant, Stacey |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$6,000 |
I plan to travel to Halifax with my partner and my daughter, to receive and document my own chin tattoo from Métis artist Amy Malbeuf. |
| Ramsay, Jessica |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$5,000 |
I plan to study with a teacher in Berlin who is both an incredible mentor and networker, but also specializes in teaching physiology of violin. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Woytiuk, Jamie |
Buena Vista |
Media Arts |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I plan to offer an introduction to photographic storytelling. |
| Anderson, Charles |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$8,000 |
I plan to finish writing a novel-in-stories entitled Penny Fictions which is presently one-sixth complete. |
| Billings, Terry |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$6,000 |
I plan to develop several years of video documentation of ponds into a form that can be exhibited. |
| Friesen, Marcy |
Carrot River |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2022-2023 |
$5,050 |
I plan to create new beaded face and body work. I will preserve the work through photography, printing, framing and epoxying the original bead work. |
| 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. |
| Sun, Qiming |
Saskatoon |
@level1.MG-Artistic_Discipline@ |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
I plan to create a new series of artworks while attending the Awakening 2024 Artist Residency at Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto. |
