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. |
Wylie, Carol |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$800 |
Create a portrait of an Afghan woman refugee for an exhibition that pairs Saskatchewan female artists with Afghan women to help amplify their voices. |
Conquergood, Lorna |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$800 |
Create a portrait of a woman who fled Kabul in 2021 as part of a collaborative exhibition to highlight Afghan women's stories. |
Arcana Kings |
Regina |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,617 |
Create a new drum and percussion interactive performance piece for our band Arcana Kings that will be added to our new 2023 tour and on |
Morrison, Myles |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
Create a musical comedy album. Humour based songs featuring collaborations with celebrated Saskatchewan musicians, spanning multiple musical genres. |
John Diefenbaker Public School Leah Dorion |
Prince Albert |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2024-2025 |
$17,000 |
Create a mural for John Diefenbaker School honouring Victor Thunderchild & legacy artwork on vinyl prints for school windows to showcase artwork throughout the schhol. |
Jodoin, Berkley |
Leader |
Music |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2024-2025 |
$15,000 |
Create a full production music video for the song "White Man's World" The song describes the 1885 Fort Battleford Hangings of eight cree warriors |
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. |
Jodoin, Berkley |
Leader |
Music |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2022-2023 |
$5,250 |
Create a full length album of original songs rooted in truth and reconciliation, while touching on PTSD and showcase internationally at Folk Alliance International. |
Scarrow, Kristine |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$6,000 |
Create a fiction young adult manuscript exploring organ donation and its potential impacts. |
Normand, Alexis |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$10,000 |
Create a concert that recounts my francophone identity-building journey via my new musical repertoire, scored field recordings and storytelling. |
Goodon, Jayde |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2020-2021 |
$5,092 |
Create a collection that I can showcase in an art exhibition. These new pieces would include large cardboard sculptures and mixed media canvas paintings. |
Goretzky, Barbara Santa Maria Senior Citizens Home |
Lumsden |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2022-2023 |
$14,739 |
Create a collaborative, legacy mural for Santa Maria Senior Citizens Home. Design door decals to make exit doors unique and less confusing for dementia residents. |
Brilliant Star Montessori School Kevin Pee-ace |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2024-2025 |
$5,644 |
Create a collaborative outdoor Indigenous mural painting in schoolyard based on traditional First Nations knowledge while incorporating our school based ideas of learning. |
Chaos Encouraged Productions Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$2,000 |
Create a 4ft by 4ft stage for Trans and Genderqueer Drag performers to present a unique show at Nuit Blanche YXE in Saskatoon. |
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. |
Tootoosis, Lyndon |
Battleford |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2020-2021 |
$16,000 |
Create 6 large sculpture.
Sharing Our beliefs and customs pertaining to mourning and loss.
These I share with the blessings of my Elders and community |
Cupid's Heart |
Prince Albert |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$5,007 |
Create 5 new original songs during a creative retreat at Anglin Lake. |
Dunlop, Bonnie |
Swift Current |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$9,000 |
Create 10 new pieces and polish existing 22. On retreat, write 5 pieces utilizing archived material. Meld the material into a completed manuscript. Query publishers. |
Francoeur, Paige |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$835 |
Covering expenses for a site-specific research trip. |
Country at the Creek Music Fest Inc. |
Big River |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2022-2023 |
$8,000 |
Country at the Creek Music Festival is an annual outdoor Music event held just outside of the community of Big River. |
Country at the Creek Music Fest Inc. |
Big River |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$8,000 |
Country at the Creek Music Festival is an annual outdoor Music event held just outside of the community of Big River |
Country at the Creek Music Fest Inc. |
Big River |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2019-2020 |
$2,000 |
Country at the Creek is a first time applicant. We are a grass roots non profit organization that is 8 years old. |
Ripplinger, Matthew |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$8,500 |
Cosmic Tundra will be a short 16mm experimental film, aiming to represent surreal landscapes paralleling the rugged realism of the Yukon environment. |
Living Sky School Division No. 202 Bonny Macnab |
North Battleford |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Conversations with Nature brings together artists, storytellers and healers to lead students through a process of thinking like artists, scientists and stewards of the land. |
Pederson, Krystle |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$6,500 |
Continuing journey to prepare for recording first solo album with band rehearsal and composition work of five new songs to be recorded in 2021. |
Rousseau, Marc |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$12,164 |
Continued creation of my graphic novel 'Death by Hot Dog', to be brought from it's current initial draft to full book completion. |
Li, Darren |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Continue, finalize, and install works for the GlogauAIR artist residents' Open Studios event on March 14-15, 2025. Create professional presentation tools (business cards, etc.) |
Lorer, Danica |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$9,000 |
Continue work on Ghosts and Other Grandfathers, a poetry and storytelling project that was supported by a Canada Council grant in its first phase. |
St. Pierre, Laura |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$11,922 |
Continuation of the Sower photographic project from a first-person perspective, using sustainable analog photography as a medium. |
Laird, Tonia |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$7,500 |
Continuation of planning and writing of high fantasy novel series with themes of decolonization, kinship, and intergenerational trauma and healing. |
Paoli, Loretta |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$9,060 |
Continuation and completion of a series of interactive installations, Take Hold. Combining painting, video projection and viewer participation, each installation provides an experience of connection. |
Estevan Art Gallery & Museum Ruth Langwieser |
Estevan |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2021-2022 |
$45,000 |
Contemporary Art Meets Parks (CAMP) is a COVID-19 friendly satellite artist residency featuring art and artist led projects in our regional and city parks. |
Merasty, Marcus |
Regina |
Dance |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Consultations with performing arts presenters in Regina, toward future mentorship and residency opportunities. |
Doyle, Eliza Mary |
Asquith |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
Consult with First Nations Artists and Trauma Counsellors to develop an Artist-In-Residency/Workshop Training Course to educate artists in program delivery from a trauma-informed culturally-sensitive perspective. |
Saskatchewan Seniors Association Inc. |
Vanscoy |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
Consult SSAI membership and individuals to assess interest and develop planning for artistic programming to help address issues of isolation for rural seniors in Saskatchewan. |
Hosaluk, Laura |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$930 |
Construction of shipping crates for "The Circle and the Dot" Exhibition July 8, 2025, at the Mann Gallery in Prince Albert, SK. |
Pewapsconias, Janelle |
Paynton |
Literary |
Indigenous/Metis Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$7,500 |
Connecting to the prairie plains and to water, Janelle Pewapsconias will reflect, create and flow poetry in the form of a 24 page poetry chapbook. |
Big River Metis Local #59 |
Big River |
— |
Share and Connect |
2024-2025 |
$19,550 |
Connecting communities through stories, music and a sense of place that can foster a deeper understanding and appreciation of cultural heritage. |
Carriere, Kenneth |
Air Ronge |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,500 |
Conduct and record Swampy Cree language interviews, record historical photos from family albums, attain permissions to use recorded photos and interviews for a book. |
Harris, Carla |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$4,290 |
Conduct a workshop for a multimedia script, consulting with a dramaturg, disabled artists, musicians, and actors hired to experience the script aloud. |
Ackerman, Clinton |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$16,000 |
Composition of an art song using the poetry of "The Lost Words." Written for voice, piano, and electronics. Connecting the poetry to environments across Saskatchewan. |
Lynch, Rory |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$6,000 |
Compose pieces designed to strengthen and diversify my band's repertoire, including a series of blues compositions and several stand-alone pieces. |
Minnema, Conner |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$5,500 |
Compose and complete 5 original instrumentals to promote online |
Kathrotia, Yash |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
Compose a one of its kind full-length orchestral concert solely showcasing Gujarati folk subject matter, music, spoken poetry, and dance. |
Kathrotia, Yash |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
Compose a multi-movement orchestral work that features Bansuri as a solo instrument and supplement it with professional looking scores and MIDI audio files. |
Cross, Roberta |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Complete writing a memoir essay, ready for publication, with the support of a SWG Writing Retreat and ten days of dedicated professional creative literary practice. |
Arnal, Caitlin |
Eastend |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$4,025 |
Complete the third draft of Dame, my novel-in-progress. |
Pottle, Adam |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$8,000 |
Complete the first draft, then revise and rewrite into a second draft my young adult horror novel FULL MOON CHRISTMAS. |
Ells, Chrystene |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$12,000 |
Complete six of 24 mythical oil portraits of prairie artists, build sundial prototype and sculptural elements, all toward 'Amor Fati' solo installation, 2028. |
Anderson, Bruce |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$9,000 |
Complete several large format and medium sized oil paintings as the beginning of two new series expanding on the concerns examined in my previous work |
Metcalfe, Shayne |
Waldheim |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,832 |
Complete post-production on my feature film. |
Kovach, Jaye |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$4,500 |
Complete post-production for The Lovers 2, a short film exploring my trans-for-trans and butch-femme relationship with Cat C. Haines through kink and the everyday. |
Friends of the Broadway Theatre Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
Complete overhaul of our Ticketing, Point of Sale and Membership software, combining all into one web-based system. |
Lynch, Taidgh |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$6,000 |
Complete edits and order poetry manuscript, Developing Home. Evaluate then submit to publishers. |
Hobsbawn-Smith, Denise |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$9,124 |
Complete and revise collection of form poetry about essayist M.F.K. Fisher – including sonnets, villanelles, pantoums, ghazals, palindromes, abecedarians– ready for submission to publishers. |
Bagatim, Tabata |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
Complete a two-month residency at Medalta to develop large-scale ceramic sculptures and refine surfaces to deepen emotional impact and advance my artistic practice. |
Conly, Bonnie |
Grasswood |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
Complete a series of twelve drawings in preparation and prior to attending two, Sculpting Porcelain from Life, workshops with Ruth Chambers, March 26th and 27th. |
Podiluk, Mike |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Complete a selection of handcrafted knives to exhibit at the "one year later" exhibition by 2018 CARFAC mentorship participants at St. Thomas More Gallery. |
Vincent, Angus |
Yorkton |
Theatre |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2024-2025 |
$15,000 |
Complete a script/play in a musical format, along with music, with story lines of life and love on a reserve and urban setting. |
Svennes-Smith, Diana |
Eastend |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
Complete a polished draft of my novel Sob Lake for submission to my editor Martha Kanya-Forstner at Doubleday Canada. |
Gallagher, Thomas |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$800 |
Complete a draft of a screenplay for a short film over a two week period |
Mookerjee, Abhiroop |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Compete as an invited guest participant at the Calgary Hip-Hop and Street Dance Festival, while also attending street dance workshops led by pioneers of hip-hop. |
Common Weal Community Arts Inc. Eliza Mary Doyle |
Regina |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2020-2021 |
$46,500 |
Community Arts Mentorship Programming that engages community in music for self-expression/healing/reconciliation with intent on identifying, training and mentoring community members for future community program facilitation. |
Moose Jaw Cultural Centre Inc. |
Moose Jaw |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$2,000 |
Commissioning a mural for the new Wakamow Aboriginal Community Association permanent space in the Moose Jaw Cultural Centre and engaging an elder to bless it. |
Piggott-Suchan, Naomi |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
Commission a composition during the final stages of the current Covid-19 pandemic. To be performed in concert with compositions from other great historical pandemics. |
Harder, Kendra |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$2,000 |
Collating and expanding my research on composers from underrepresented demographics in order to create an online hub amplifying the voices of historical and living composers |
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. |
Gan, Jelly |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$14,500 |
Collaborative experimental video combining performance art, visual design, ambient music composition, and projections. |
Murray, Aryn |
saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$4,000 |
Collaborative creation of material for a concept album, "Speakeasy". Expansion of original works, increasing live repertoire. |
Paivand-Iranian Canadian Society for Cultural Dialogue Inc Yasaman Tarighatmanesh |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$15,400 |
Collaborative art work focusing on Middle Eastern women, using art to express impacts of ongoing Iranian women's movements on their own fight for women's rights. |
Rose, Karen |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$10,307 |
Collaborating with three composers to create the music/soundtrack for three of my choreographic solos. |
Aden Bowman Collegiate |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Collaborating with Rebecca La Marre to research and plan future Artist in School grants centering on ceramics and youth mental health. |
Zhao, JingLu |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
Collaborating with Jessica Morgun, this will assist with living expenses as I’m in artist residency at the Art Placement Gallery through the Biofeedback Collectives project. |
Yu, Skylar |
Regina |
Dance |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$1,125 |
Collaborating with four other emerging dancers to shape, choreograph, and rehearse a twenty minute long dance performance to be presented in April 2025. |
Eden Care Communities Foundation Inc. Misty Wensel |
Regina |
Dance |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$9,781 |
Collaborating with FadaDance Troupe our project will integrate the use of dance and movement to improve the overall well-being of our staff, artists and communities. |
Sedgwick, Edward |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Collaborating with a fellow artist to explore digital animation, lighting and compositing techniques in preparation for an Independent Artists Grant application. |
Calf Child-Dubois, Acahkos |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
Collaborated on application called Buffalo Futurism that was selected for imagineNATIVE; need funding for travel/accommodations |
Benjamin, Paul |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$4,179 |
Collaborate with Toronto composer Sodhivine and Saskatoon Cree songwriter Falynn Baptiste. Create new music that will be adapted for my upcoming CQ Concert performances. |
Boyes, Amy |
Warman |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$973 |
Co-present with Karen Gerelus a better-practice presentation at the Music Teachers' National Association - Conference 2025 in Minneapolis, MN from 16/03/25 to 18/03/25. |
Sheikh, Sheheryar |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Co-Lead a 4-Day Creative Writing Workshop for candidates from across the country, followed by launching my two novels at the literary festival to follow. |
Canadian Light Source Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Artists in Communities |
2020-2021 |
$500 |
CLSI's Bison Project engages Indigenous students through Traditional Cultural Expressions (play scripts), that incorporate Indigenous women’s role in Bison ecology, synchrotron science, and Traditional Knowledge. |
Thunderchild, Richard |
Spiritwood |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$6,800 |
Classes for adults and youth to learn the powwow craft of headroach-making. |
Chrysalis Theatre |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$2,000 |
Chrysalis Theatre will produce the play My Name is Rachel Corrie, at La Troupe du Jour. |
Matyushenko, Valentyna |
Grandora |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$11,000 |
Choreograph and perform the folk ballet of the play by Lesia Ukrainka "The Forest Song". |
Harpham, Lindsay |
Tisdale |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$12,000 |
Choreograph 35-minutes of original Contemporary choreography and refine an existing 25-minutes, in order to develop a cohesive full-length work intended for in-person presentation. |
Pocha, Michael |
Lloydminster |
Literary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2024-2025 |
$2,000 |
Children's book 'Junior Paranormal Investigators' about the Dene legend of the Skinwalker. Set within Cold Lake First Nation where many Dene legends are explored. |
Cote, Toby |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$2,500 |
Ceramic Kiln at Cone 10 level to expand glass working, fusing moulds, texture tiles, and expand work in glass bodies. |
Carlton Trail College - Four Winds Learning Centre |
Punnichy |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Carlton Trail College wants to work with an Indigenous Cultural Artist to learn about the buffalo and it's significant role in the First Nation worldview. |
Lavallee, Zachary |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2021-2022 |
$3,400 |
Capture the images of Indigenous people experiencing poverty to display their enduring attitude despite living in a society that marginalizes Indigenous people. |
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. |
Community Arts Mentorship Program Incorporated Zoe Slusar |
Asquith |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2024-2025 |
$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. |
Prince Albert Association for Community Living |
Prince Albert |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
Build relationship with artist and gallery partnership to assist PAACL in the research required in the development of a disability art exhibition. |
Listen to Dis' Community Arts Organization Inc. |
Regina |
Theatre |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
Build digital capacity and aquire accessible digital equipment to increase organizational capacity, resilience and responsiveness within Saskatchewan through disability arts and culture. |
Wozny Siemens, Gladys |
Rush Lake |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
Build crates to transport my relief sculptures to a confirmed exhibition at the Art Gallery of Swift Current, January 14-March21, 2023. |
L'Hirondelle, Cheryl |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
build at least four prototypes of small spotlight holders as part of my ongoing yāhkaskwan mīhkiwap (aka light tipi) project for Nocturne Halifax (Oct 2024). |
Macdonald, Daniel |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$9,000 |
Build a touring production of my play IAGO SPEAKS to tour to High Schools students through arts centres across the province in 2024/25. |
17 Wing Detachment Dundurn |
Dundurn |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Bringing an Art based summer camp to the rural community of Dundurn and surrounding areas. |
Gauthier, Jean-Sébastien |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Bring together JS Gauthier and Demilade Otayemi for a collaborative studio intensive inspired by the Benin Bronzes using 3d scans, traditional sculpture and 3D printers. |
Dureault, Mitchell Minahik Waskahigan Elementary School |
Wolseley |
Music |
Artists in Schools |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
Bring a music educator into our Northern community to rejuvenate lost culture, strengthen intergenerational connections, teach music to youth and build local capacity through mentorship. |