| Budgell-Eaglespeaker, Forrest Scott |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$7,500 |
I am applying for funding to financially support the recording of a full length album written about inter-generational trauma and healing. |
| Gobeil, Beth |
Prince Albert |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$565 |
I am applying for funding to cover the cost of poet Ronna Bloom’s online course, “Community Engagement through Poetry, a Primer and Practicum” |
| Wilcox, Zane |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$5,000 |
I am applying for funding for dedicated studio time to develop a new watercolour painting process. |
| Daniels, Carol |
Regina Beach |
Literary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2022-2023 |
$11,360 |
I am an established and award-winning author and poet in Canada. The project I wish to produce is a new collection of short stories. |
| Schiller, Lisa-Marie |
Carrot River |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,500 |
I am an emerging artist requesting funding to create a body of work from June to December 2025. |
| Coppens, Nathan |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
I am acting in a Fringe production that is touring Canada. This grant would help cover per diems for the 77 days on the road. |
| Macdonald, Daniel |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$1,200 |
I am a writer currently not owning a functioning laptop. My desktop and the MacBook (circa 2009) is no longer able to update nor function. |
| 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 |
| Edmunds, Alexander |
Saskatoon |
Other |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
I am a 2-Spirit Indigenous youth who wants to create a collection of beadwork each month. I want to celebrate my Indigeneity and queer identity. |
| de Gooijer, Nicole |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
I aim to create an elaborate bird statue costume for two Fringe Theatre Festivals this summer, engaging and entertaining crowds through interactive street performance. |
| Zafaremili, Elham |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$4,383 |
I aim to combine Persian calliography and painting. |
St. Frances Cree Bilingual School - Bateman
Zoe Kostuchuk |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2022-2023 |
$6,623 |
How to entice students/families back into school outside a school setting. Extra-curricular arts programming to engage students back into the school outside of school hours. |
| The Vertigo Series |
Regina |
Literary |
SaskFestivals |
2022-2023 |
$6,000 |
Hosting a series of diverse emerging and established writers and musicians from across Canada. Paying artists to extend their tour to include Saskatchewan's small audiences. |
| The Vertigo Series |
Regina |
Literary |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$7,000 |
Hosting a series of diverse emerging and established writers and musicians from across Canada. Paying artists to extend their tour to include Saskatchewan's small audiences. |
| Southwest Cultural Development Group Inc. |
Swift Current |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$2,000 |
Host four performances of "Leave it to Weavers" by Gordon Tootoosis Nikaniwin Theatre |
| City of Humboldt Cultural Services |
Humboldt |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Host community conversations about Treaty 6 and Reconciliation with a professional artist to build relationships to develop plans for public art at Original Humboldt. |
| 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. |
| Clinton Ackerman Music |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Host a week long summer camp of creativity and interdisciplinary art creation. |
| Brant, Chelsea |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$500 |
Host a collaborative pop-up arts market/event with local artists and organizations such as Nuit Blanche YXE to increase awareness of our contributions to the community. |
| Conly, Bonnie |
Grasswood |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$5,500 |
Honouring women’s resolve: an installation featuring Baba Yaga’s Hut and at least ten large photographs depicting the hut in Saskatchewan locations settled by Ukrainian immigrants. |
| Holy Guacamole Dance Festival |
Martensville |
Dance |
SaskFestivals |
2019-2020 |
$8,000 |
Holy Guacamole is a 350-person, 3-day Saskatoon community dance festival including workshops, performances, social dances. Predominantly Latin dance while featuring other cultural dance guest performances. |
| Noel-Maw, Martine |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$14,760 |
Hitch and Agatha: A play in which the Master of Suspense and the Queen of Crime meet, clash and then join forces for the better. |
| Polischuk, Katelyn |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$500 |
Hiring a dramaturge for final script edits. |
| Common Weal Community Arts Inc. |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
Hire a consultant to provide training on the ethics of online programming and support artists with strategies on how to engage community through virtual platforms. |
| Nwabuko, Daniel |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
Highlight, showcase and bring awareness to the beauty in diversity of black hair - the different types, forms and styles that it appears to come. |
| McKenzie, Tyrone |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Artists in Schools |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
High school bands in two communities: Engage students in conversations to develop a new composition. Provide workshops, partnering with students to develop a virtual concert. |
| Cuthand, Shawn |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Help to travel with Full Metal Comedy (Myself, Ryan Moccasin, Shy Sapp) to Vancouver Fringe, where we were picked for a spot in the festival. |
| 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. |
Harmony Arts Program
JanLaree Denbigh |
Moose Jaw |
Theatre |
Artists in Communities |
2024-2025 |
$15,000 |
Harmony Arts Program will produce a musical theatre production for adults and children to enhance community reducing any financial barrier to participation. |
| Gwepa |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$2,000 |
Gwepa dance team hosts professional salseros Yasbek Cervantes and Rocio Reyes (Mexico) for 2 days and 1 half day of intensive professional development workshops |
| Gordon Tootoosis Nīkānīwin Theatre |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$2,000 |
GTNT will hire fluently Cree Indigenous artists to partially translate Shakespeare's King Lear into Cree in November 2021 |
| Wecker, Sabine |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$7,500 |
Growing Roots: Working towards becoming an established ceramic artist, step one. |
| Grimelda |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$2,000 |
Grimelda will be touring through Southern Ontario & Quebec to re-establish awareness prior to performing at NXNE in Toronto. |
| Carroll, Jonathan |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$9,000 |
Gridlocked is an augmented reality project about the history technology and how it changes our relationship to land. |
| Greystone Community Association |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Artists in Communities |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Greystone Heights Community Association would like to promote personal, social, and cultural well-being through multiple, cultural, dance styles. |
| Kayler, Christopher |
Moose Jaw |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$500 |
Greg and I would collaborate in performing music related to the theme of the above conference: a response to trauma and a call to action. |
| O'Shea, Myek |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
Grant will go towards purchase of a green screen kit and to finish a micro documentary illustrating the life and work of the artist. |
Colette Bourgonje School
Diana Roelens |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2023-2024 |
$6,486 |
Grade 7 large scale collaborative collage mural project exploring individual and collective experiences depicting how place, history and environment contribute to the formation of community. |
Chief Gabriel Cote Education Complex
Treaty 4 Education Alliance |
Kamsack |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Grade 4 – 8 students will complete traditional art projects surrounding the theme of identity and sense of self with Dakota artist Holly Yuzicapi. |
| Andino Suns |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$5,600 |
Goal: Develop a psychedelic cumbia album by refining draft musical / lyrical concepts, merging traditional cumbia rhythms with innovative experimental sounds. |
| Girls Rock Camp Saskatoon |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
Girls Rock Saskatoon (GRS) is a volunteer-based organization dedicated to empowering self-identified female, trans, two-spirit, and gender non-conforming youth through collaborative music creation and performance. |
| The Saskatchewan Council for International Cooperation (SCIC) |
Regina |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
Generating Momentum is an activist leadership training camp for youth between the ages of 18-35 that is largely facilitated by Artists. |
| Bluemke, Cat |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
GAN of Living Skies is a project that spans machine learning, video, and installation work. |
| Alpha Kids Crew |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$7,000 |
Game Theory VI is a free community festival focusing on youth, female, and non-binary involvement in Breakin’ and growing awareness to the street dance culture. |
| Alpha Kids Crew |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
SaskFestivals |
2022-2023 |
$8,000 |
Game Theory V is a free community festival focusing on youth, female, and non-binary involvement in Breakin’ and growing awareness to the street dance culture. |
| Alpha Kids Crew |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
SaskFestivals |
2024-2025 |
$7,000 |
Game Theory is a free community festival showcasing live deejays, street dance performances, cyphers, and Breakin' battles with its seventh edition focusing on bgirls. |
| Dishaw, Jessie |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Further my development of the business side of the art while working towards an Emerging Artist grant for a solo exhibit advocating woman's mental health. |
| Ministik Community School |
Cumberland House |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Fur hat workshop for Grade 12 students. Teaching our graduating class how to create a fur hat from raw materials and used as graduation caps. |
| The Coterie |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$15,000 |
Funds to produce Measure For Measure with Live Five in March, 2023. |
| Pantel, Rowan |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
Funds to enrol in online puppetry course. Continue my training in the art form with a Master Puppeteer. |
| JackPine Press Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$2,000 |
Funds to attend the Fisher Library (Toronto) small and fine press fair on September 10. |
| McLeod, Kenn |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$7,500 |
Funds to assist in the writing and workshopping of a new script, "Infinite Jest", by Kenn McLeod. A show incorporating Clown, Shakespeare, and Family. |
| 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. |
| The Women's Company |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$10,000 |
Funds for the production of "Annette is a Bimbo" as part of RISER Regina 2023 presented by On Cue and Why Not Theatre. |
| Bundon Pfeifer Henderson |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$10,000 |
Funds for bundonpfeiferhenderson to develop audio, projection, and installation concepts for the new play 'Tommy & Pere', by Arthur Milner. |
| Currie, Dillon |
Swift Current |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$750 |
Funds are requested to assist in paying for audio production, mixing/mastering, and lyric video fees allotted for production of Christmas single, 'Staying Home This Christmas.' |
| Haywire Farm Festival |
Codette |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,539 |
Funding would be used to bring artists together to offer workshops at the festival. |
| Mercier, Isabelle |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Funding will help cover the cost of a unique recording opportunity for a special francophone project to be released during Winnipeg's Festival du Voyageur. |
| An, Andrea |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$5,000 |
Funding will cover rent and grocery costs, while I take a five month unpaid work leave, to prioritize songwriting and composition for my upcoming LP. |
| Pickrell, Jonathon |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$4,500 |
Funding to support a dramaturgy cycle and two day workshop for my play "66 No Exit Lane" to prepare it for production. |
| The Local Group |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$2,000 |
Funding to help cover costs of a unique writing/recording opportunity |
| McCullam-Arnal, Caitlin |
Eastend |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Funding to cover tuition for:
Sage Hill Writing
Emerging Writers Workshop
Writing For Your Life:
Crafting with Courage, Imagination, and Care |
| Campbell, John |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,500 |
Funding to build and exhibit a body of kinetic sculptures responding to facial recognition. Confirmed exhibits in SK, ON; plus international residency and touring options. |
| Crowe, Lisa |
Regina |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2023-2024 |
$6,000 |
Funding to assist in the creation of a beaded mens regalia including vest, side drops, arm cuffs, headband, hair ties, neck tie, leggings and moccasins. |
| Polischuk, Katelyn |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$4,000 |
Funding production of The Josephine Knot by Meg Braem as a part of Live Five's 2023/2024 season. |
| Ruecker, Gerry |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
Funding is requested to assist with the costs of transporting my artwork to numerous scheduled solo exhibitions in Saskatchewan and Manitoba beginning in January 2021. |
| Reid, Sonia |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Funding is needed to research and locate an appropriate venue for a Black Gospel Music workshop. |
| Maier, Lenore |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$870 |
Funding from this grant will help me to attend Trauma-Informed Culturally-Sensitive Arts Delivery Training course at the Ness creek site from July 9-11, 2021. |
| Anderson, Bruce |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
Funding for the costs of shipping and packing paintings for exhibition at the Chapel Gallery, North Battleford, September 17 - November 17, 2022 |
Oxbow Arts and Cultural Committee
Oxbow Arts and Cultural Committee |
Oxbow |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2019-2020 |
$2,500 |
Funding for the Bow Valley Jamboree Music and Arts Festival. |
| 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. |
| Girls Rock Camp Saskatoon |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Funding for Girls Rock Camp Saskatoon 2024 in order to offer an honorarium to the 10 instrument instructors who support the campers. |
| Himsl, Jaynie |
Weyburn |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$500 |
Funding for a residency at Wallace Stegner House for November 2022. |
| Larson, Melanie |
Simmie |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$500 |
Fund two virtual exhibitor booths for children’s books that I was invited to. North Central Teachers Convention & Might Peace Teachers Convention, based in Alberta. |
| Gladue, Raeanne |
Regina |
— |
Share and Connect |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Fund research hours for cultural film. Documentary on a native man's journey how sixty scoop and residential schools had an impact on cultural self identity. |
| Sylvia Fedoruk Elementary School |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
Fund beading artists to teach students indigenous beading. Develop a relationship with students, create therapeutic art opportunities and share indigenous knowledge. |
| Tootoosis, Shelly |
Cut Knife |
Visual |
Indigenous/Metis Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$7,500 |
Fully porqupine quilled Woman's accessory set will include a chocker with breast piece attached, two braid-ties,back barrette, and side of head medicine wheel. |
Bellefleur, Stephanie
Qu'Appelle Valley Friedship Centre Inc |
Willow Bunch |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2024-2025 |
$9,700 |
Friendship Centre inclusive contemporary indoor mural, facilitating mentorship related to themes of; Nature, Mental Health and Community Civic Pride. |
| Ritornello Chamber Music Festival |
Saskatoon |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2019-2020 |
$8,000 |
Fresh. Homegrown. Inspired. Original. Ritornello is building on years of success and looking towards the future. 3 great concerts exploring chamber music in Saskatoon's core. |
Hale, Laura
Wild about Saskatoon NatureCity Festival |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Free, drop-in, community-engaged, environmental art project using locally found plants to explore material potential and create sculptural artworks and to create space for community dialogue. |
| St. Pierre, Laura |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$14,000 |
Framing new work for solo exhibitions Art Placement (Jan-Feb. 2023) and VivianeArt/Exposure Photography Festival, Calgary (Feb. 2023). |
| Desgranges-Jean, Elizabeth (Ellie) |
Birch Hills |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
Framing and printing supplies to create the "Individuality" installation to be exhibited at the Winter Festival Art Show and Sale in the winter of 2021. |
| Zhao, JingLu |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
Framing a series of oil pastel and pencil drawings for future exhibitions. |
| Wilson, Katie |
Regina |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$64 |
Four-week three-hour sessions on songwriting, covering topics: process, song structure, genres, song forms, melodies, editing, co-writing, chord progressions, performance, copyright, releasing music and next steps. |
| Berglund, Blake |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$7,000 |
Four months of deep focused music creation inspired by the rural Saskatchewan experience and greater thematic narratives. |
| Worrell, Peggy |
Swift Current |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
Four contributors to "apart", SWG's pandemic anthology, will do readings in Swift Current and Eastend to promote the book and contribute to their professional development. |
| Ricketts, Kathryn |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2024-2025 |
$750 |
Fostering relations with a community towards a project integrating story, paint and movement towards a deeper understanding of our relationship to place, relations and land. |
| Conlon, Emily |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$3,500 |
Forming relationships to the body through visual language by creating large-scale drawing installations that mimic experiences navigating through natural spaces and the act of walking. |
| Pewapsconias, Janelle |
Paynton |
— |
Share and Connect |
2023-2024 |
$9,900 |
For youth descendants of Indian Residential School to capture survivance stories through family tree art, spoken word, and storytelling for Orange Shirt Day 2023. |
| Grummett, S.E. |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
For theatre artist, S.E. Grummett to attend the Mask and Clown Intensive, under the direction of John Turner at the Manitoulin Conservatory in summer 2020. |
| 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". |
| Mikkola, Elian |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$13,500 |
For the production and presentation of a time-based media installation for an upcoming solo exhibition |
| Payne, Laura |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$8,491 |
For the creation of work, including paintings and electronic media, for a solo exhibition at Galerie Roberston Arès, Montréal QC |
| Elixir Ensemble |
Riverside Estates |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$5,600 |
For the 2022 Winter/Spring season, Elixir proposes the rehearsal, production and presentation of two concert programs of Trios for violin, cello and piano. |
| Farm Fest Terre Ferme Festival Ltd. |
Regina |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2022-2023 |
$5,000 |
For support towards a (mostly) folk music festival which includes market, workshops and visual arts exhibit. |
| Sirett, Nicola |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
For one hundred consecutive days over the summer, I will make one public sidewalk chalk drawing (usually of an animal) each day. |
| Merasty, Marcus |
Creighton |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
For my continued professional development at a dance artist over the summer with a focus in somatic movement practices |
| Saskatchewan Filmpool Cooperative |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2019-2020 |
$102,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Weyburn Art Gallery |
Weyburn |
Visual |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2019-2020 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| La Troupe du Jour Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2019-2020 |
$79,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
