| Billingsley, Alyssa |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$16,000 |
Creation of a one-person show directed by John Turner with music by Sheldon Corbett that coalesces music and neo-bouffon from October 2021-March 2022. |
| Frigon, Raphaele |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
Creation of a life-sized salt sculpture of my body in the Cypress Hills, dissolving through weather and animal interaction, exploring embodiment, erasure, and land memory. |
Fidelak, Terri
Christ the King School |
Regina |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Creation of a large, temporary sculptural installation using locally-sourced clay to engage students in learning about connection to land and sustainability through the creative process. |
| Campbell, Maria |
Saskatoon |
Other |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Creation of a dedicated website for my past work and as a portal for upcoming podcast project and other community interaction opportunities. |
| Moker Wernikowski, Connie |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$3,050 |
Creation of a contemporary dance duet to be accompanied by original poetry and music. |
| Payne, Laura |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$16,859 |
Creation of a body of electronic light-based work, consisting of light box compositions and projection installation, for public exhibition across Canada |
| Cabildo Esquivel, Priscila |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
Creation of 2 pieces of Arte Huichol in animal skulls for a Day of the Death altar display. |
| Willems, Alexander |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$4,249 |
Creation grant to write, storyboard, and develop a short film exploring how sobriety impacts social dynamics. |
| Yokozawa Farquharson, Hanna |
Saltcoats |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$18,000 |
Creation for a solo textile show of 2022 Autumn using antique kimono from Japan |
| Quewezance, Wendy |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2022-2023 |
$7,000 |
Creating traditional and modern styles of ribbon skirts and jewellry using custom-designed fabric and mixed textiles. |
| Yokozawa Farquharson, Hanna |
Saltcoats |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$7,500 |
Creating Textile Art for my solo show at the Community Hall in Saltcoats in October 2021. |
| Yokozawa Farquharson, Hanna |
Saltcoats |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
Creating Textile Art for my first solo exhibition at the Godfrey Dean Art Gallery in Yorkton from September 13th to October 31st , 2020. |
| Burzminski, Dalton |
Regina |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
Creating music about navigating as an urban indigenous male through life, the music scenes, high academia, and reflecting on insecurities caused by colonialism. Real deadly. |
| Yokozawa Farquharson, Hanna |
Saltcoats |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$14,000 |
Creating immersive artworks across diverse mediums for three solo exhibitions starting Autumn 2026 |
| Billingsley, Alyssa |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
Creating and live-streaming 'Angry At The Internet: A COVID-versary Birthday Cabaret' while working with David Connolly of Drayton Entertainment and producing high-quality support material. |
| Stinn, Cassandra |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$2,071 |
Creating an immersive performance experience for the release of my newest work, “Returnings,” my first work for small ensemble. |
| Reynolds, Jamie |
Regina |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2022-2023 |
$7,000 |
Creating a series of paintings that reflect on the use of crownland in Saskatchewan, and how it relates to
themes of reconciliation and the environment. |
| Matyushenko, Valentyna |
Grandora |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$10,405 |
Create, choreograph and present the first act of the play by famous Ukrainian writer, Lesya Ukrainka "Forest Song." |
| Friday, Tekeyla |
Webb |
— |
Share and Connect |
2022-2023 |
$20,000 |
Create the Stop-Motion Animation short film Escape from Residential School by mentoring youth to help with the production, pass on my skills and build community. |
| Lee, Yuji |
Regina |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
Create six artworks (paintings and drawings) and a zine exploring and highlighting trans/queer experience and ways of being, primarily by challenging current anti-trans rhetoric. |
| Iris, Loretta |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
Create portraits and sculptures for an online international exhibit titled "Variant ~ Ways of Seeing Through" |
| Conquergood, Lorna |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Create plaster sculptures that focus on human and wildlife interactions and provide an opportunity to practice a healthy and safe coexistence. |
| Thorburn, Crystal |
Assiniboia |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$548 |
Create packaging and ship 20 artworks to Winnipeg via Canada Post for solo touring exhibition with Manitoba Arts Network 2025. |
| Mahtabi, Iman |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$3,000 |
Create new multidisciplinary artworks merging Middle Eastern carpet patterns and traditional instruments, exploring shared cultural roots, sound, and the dialogue between heritage and contemporary art. |
| Neilsen, Ross |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Create new material. Record a live performance of said material. Use this fresh audio video for bookings for the 2024 festival season. |
| Hankewich, Melanie |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$8,000 |
Create music and lyrics for the Belle Plaine project that explores the theme of home. |
| Lowry, Nancy |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$16,918 |
Create large scale paintings which push my perceived physical limits while highlighting the important intergenerational role of non-male artists from the Emma Lake Artists’ Workshops. |
| Matyushenko, Valentyna |
Grandora |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
Create choreography project about Easter in Pysanka and showcase it. Awake Tradition through the dance vision. |
| Moore, Alana |
Borden |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2026-2027 |
$1,000 |
Create and print a photographic series documenting hand-knitted I-cord fibre work in domestic and rural settings, exploring constraint, care, and chronic illness through still images. |
| Dorion, Leah |
Prince Albert |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2022-2023 |
$18,000 |
Create and Install a Metis healing garden and create interdisciplinary artworks while Mentoring a local Metis Artist in the process. |
| Harpham, Lindsay |
Tisdale |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$7,600 |
Create and develop Contemporary dance choreography intended for use in a full-length show set in Saskatoon and film final material for future development. |
| Flamenco Borealis |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$11,114 |
Create and develop a flamenco dance theatre work fusing electronic and acoustic/live music with operatic and flamenco vocals, using story telling elements and dramaturgy. |
| Mwela, Nyasha |
Regina |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
Create and compose 4 songs. |
| Mahdian, Mahdi |
Regina |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
Create an oil painting series linking the skies of Iran, Ukraine, and Canada, transforming landscapes into reflections on migration, belonging, and the universality of horizon lines. |
| Andrew Stuckel, Cristine |
Grandora |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
Create an immersive experience in the gallery with floor to ceiling drawings highlighting the importance of urban forestation and preservation of essential ecosystems within cities. |
| Bauche, Dean |
Eastend |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$18,000 |
Create an exhibition of contemporary portraiture exploring stories related to grief, loss, trauma and mental health, providing insight and hope for both contributors and audience |
| GGFN Elders |
Punnichy |
— |
Share and Connect |
2023-2024 |
$19,752 |
Create an after-school program aimed at First Nation Arts in collaboration with Students, Elders, and community members, showcasing students' work in a final celebration. |
| Campbell, Jesse |
Prince Albert |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$568 |
Create a website to share content from the "Looking Through Time" exhibition (March 1st-April 23rd, 2025), contributing to discourse on art practices in north-central SK. |
| Morgan, Zac |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
Create a virtual musical production of A Killer Party: A Murder Mystery Musical and present the live production on our streaming platform on April 3rd. |
| Tootoosis, Lyndon |
Battleford |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2023-2024 |
$9,000 |
Create a series of sculptures that will speak about nehewuk way of dealing with loss and grieving, geared to those who never learned these techniques |
| 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 |
| Garcia-Luna, Gabriela |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$14,210 |
Create a new body of work incorporating analogue methods and materials to explore and expand ideas of hybrid identities and cultural fluidity. |
| 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. |
| Lagria, Jun Yves |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
Create a fall programming, September to November of Bahay Kubo, a Filipinx drag collective, a monthly drag showcases the BIPOC drag artists of Saskatoon. |
| Nemoto, Kana |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$6,670 |
Create a dance duet with Ashley Johnson with choreographic guidance from Connie Moker Wernikowski, exploring authentic movement inspired by prairie landscapes and subtle somatic awareness |
| 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. |
Goretzky, Barbara
Santa Maria Senior Citizens Home |
Regina |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2025-2026 |
$13,735 |
Create a collaborative (residents, families, artists and staff) 3-D legacy mural that celebrates and beautifies their space. |
| Mwela, Nyasha |
Regina |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$3,160 |
Create a 5 song project |
| 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. |
| Barreno, Cristian |
Regina |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
Create 2 new paintings for an OSAC touring exhibition called 'Nisto'. |
| 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. |
| Lopez, Roberto |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
Cover framing costs for five paintings within a broader exhibition display, ensuring professional presentation for public exhibition on January 23rd and beyond. |
| 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. |
Badger, Joanne
Sturgeon Lake Central School |
Sturgeon Lake |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2025-2026 |
$10,000 |
Continue the art of porcupine quill placement on birchbark and quill stitching, to youth in school, on the Sturgeon Lake First Nation - intermediate. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Gonzalez, Martin |
Regina |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
Compose and refine the arrangement of six new songs for the Mariachi Latino Band. |
| 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 |
$14,030 |
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. |
