| Bernbaum, Joel |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$5,000 |
To travel to Australia and do an artistic apprenticeship with BIGhART - Australia's leading social arts and social change organization. |
| Rose, Melanie |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To travel to and participate in the Artist Parent Residency - Mothra at Artscape Gibraltar Point. |
| Cameron, Ian |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$4,000 |
To travel from Regina, Saskatchewan, to St. Paul, Minnesota to learn about mechanical operation and maintenance of the pedal steel guitar. |
| Nepjuk, Elizabeth |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
To transcribe and compile research data gathered during the production/duration of the game EVERY BODY DOES IT at the Saskatoon Fringe in August 2023. |
| Reid, Sonia |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
To train for certification as a NeuroVocal Method® Licensee. |
| Gonie, Jalisa |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,200 |
To train at the Manitoulin Conservatory and receive direction and dramaturgy from John Turner for a festival-length clown piece. |
| Scantily Glad Theatre |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,921 |
To tour our award-winning queer theatre/comedy show "Creepy Boys" to Regina (presented by Curtain Razors), Winterruption festival (Saskatoon) and OUTStages festival (Victoria) in early 2024. |
Santa Maria Senior Citizens Home
Barbara Goretzky |
Regina |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
To test the feasibility of an arts-based program in the home with the hope of turning it into an artist in community residency |
| Parovsky, Karley |
Regina |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
To talk to organizations, associations, elected officials, artists and Elders in Central Regina to better understand the need for arts programming. |
| Syrnick, Daniel |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$6,673 |
To take time to develop and create a new series of 10-15 artworks, to show as a solo exibit in the coming fall. |
| Joa, Catherine |
Denare Beach |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$7,500 |
To take time to create six paintings for "View from the Edge of the World", a confirmed group exhibition at the AGR in August 2023. |
| Han, Xiao |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$3,280 |
To support Xiao Han's multidisciplinary creation on a sound-based performance which reflects the relationship between human, migration, and the environment with the Saskachewan landscape. |
| Neufeld, Travis |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$8,000 |
To support the writing and completion of a Saskatchewan-set feature film screenplay called Wildfire. |
| Cupid's Heart |
Prince Albert |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$2,000 |
To support the release and planned 15-show Eastern Canada tour around the latest single "Pick Me Up" from Cupid's Heart. |
| Maxwell, Aralia |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
To support the production of work and its documentation for confirmed exhibition at Neutral Ground in November 2020. |
| Uzelman, Kara |
Nokomis |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$13,000 |
To support the production and exhibition of new work from October 2, 2019 to October 1, 2020. |
| Wensel, Judy |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$17,000 |
To support the pre-production, rehearsal and presentation of a new performance work called The Last Children. |
| Radiant Press |
Regina |
Literary |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
To support the enrolment of our Managing Editor in the online Certificate in Publishing program from the Chang School of Continuing Education at Ryerson University. |
| Kuz, Tessa |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$3,367 |
To support the creation of a new contemporary dance solo choreographed by Adam Barruch and danced by Tessa Rae Kuz. |
| Hernani Merino, Bruno |
Regina |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
To support the completion of 20 paintings for a solo gallery exhibition, showcasing the painting style I have been developing for the last 10 years |
| Kuz, Tessa |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To support Tessa in the micro-development of a series of short self-choreographed solos via New Dance Horizon's Winter Blueprint Series. |
| Torwalt, Greg |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$571 |
To support my opportunity to attend the SK Writers' Guild facilitated retreat as I work on writing/editing poems, plus support the purchase of video-editing software. |
| Hip Hop Hoop Dance Productions |
Regina |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$2,000 |
To support Hip Hop Hoop Dance during a process of shifting their theatrical production from live performance to the digital realm of animated video. |
| Kozak, Kathryn |
Creighton |
Visual |
Indigenous/Metis Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$7,300 |
To support experimental sculptures, photographs and recorded soundworks to be made during and following a July 2019 land-based residency at the Sointula Art Shed. |
| Janvier, Sylvia |
LaLoche |
Other |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
To support cultural art in ribbon skirt making and beading practices. To keep traditional art and culture alive in the Dene/Metis community. |
| Uzelman, Kara |
Nokomis |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$18,000 |
To support a solo exhibition at the MacKenzie Art Gallery, including production of new work and remounting of older work, scheduled for March 2022. |
| Wensel, Judy |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$14,000 |
To support a research and creation term to develop a new performance work called "The Last Children." |
| Tienkamp, Christine |
St. Louis |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2023-2024 |
$4,500 |
To support a Metis Womens Artists evening with an exhibit following, completing and adding new 'li rooz di no piyii' pieces to the exhibit. |
| Wagner, Bernadette |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$3,169 |
To substantially revise and rewrite the mixed-genre manuscript, Unclear Future: Situating Uranium. |
| Weber, Angel |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$4,670 |
To study tsumami-zaiku, the Japanese craft of folding silk squares into complex flora and fauna arrangements, and become a certified tsumami-zaiku teacher. |
| Benjamin, Paul |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
To study traditional Māori music and instruments in Marae (Māori community) with Cultural Expert Tohunga (Elder) Dr. Pouroto Ngaropo and Grammy winning instrumentalist Jerome Kavanagh. |
Bernbaum, Joel
Oskayak High School |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Artists in Schools |
2024-2025 |
$10,000 |
To study the play Reasonable Doubt with Oskāyak High School students, work with them to create an artistic response, and share this response with public |
| Cameron, Ian |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
To study C6th Pedal Steel Guitar with professional musician Michael Eckert by taking weekly lessons over internet video call. |
| Cameron, Ian |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$5,000 |
To study C6th Pedal Steel Guitar with professional musician Burke Carroll by taking weekly lessons over Zoom video call. |
Goretzky, Barbara
Town of Lumsden |
Lumsden |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
To start the first stage of a large mural at the museum, depicting the settlement of the area, beginning with Indigenous people to the present. |
Centre Francophone BDS
Alexis Normand |
Bellevue |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
To start a youth choir who will perform three songs in French for “Les rendez-vous de la francophonie” and host Café Culture gatherings in Bellevue/St.Louis/Domrémy. |
| Harpham, Lindsay |
Tisdale |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$2,500 |
To spend time developing a contemporary dance curriculum focusing on floor work, partnering, and injury prevention/cross-training. Used for company, master classes and tour. |
| Burke, Kelley Jo |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$5,000 |
To spend three months completing a working draft of a play, "Rigby" to be workshopped with Listen To 'Dis Community Arts Organization in spring/summer 2023. |
| Scantily Glad Theatre |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$2,000 |
To spend a week experimenting and playing in development of our queer, physical comedy collaboration: "Creepy Boys" for Melbourne Fringe Festival and future touring. |
| Hebert, Dakota |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2023-2024 |
$14,780 |
To showcase the hard work and talent of Saskatchewan's Indigenous Comedians in Regina, Saskatoon, Toronto, and Ottawa. |
| Staples-Jetko, Sandra |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$450 |
To shoot a participatory Documentary with three older women living independently in rural Saskatchewan in the time of COVID 19. |
| L'Hirondelle, Cheryl |
Saskatoon |
— |
Share and Connect |
2024-2025 |
$17,752 |
To share, with Metis songwriter Berk Jodoin, my method of co-writing songs with incarcerated relatives in 2 SK correctionals & arrange/record/produce/master a song from each. |
| Beaucage, Marjorie |
Duck Lake |
Literary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2020-2021 |
$7,200 |
To shape Movements- a collection of 7 decades of journal entries, poems and reflections- into a publication, with the help of an editor. |
| Neumier, Jane |
Langenburg |
Theatre |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$495 |
To set up my home studio with this microphone interface kit replacing my current set-up, leading to greater quality of recording of my voice work. |
| Live Out Loud Performing Arts |
Regina |
Theatre |
Artists in Communities |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To run a Ranch Camp: Arts Edition in collaboration with Journey To Hope and Ponderosa Connection |
| Kruger, Samuel |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$13,570 |
To rewrite, remount and produce solo physical theatre show, "Bat Brains or lets explore mental illness with vampires" as part of Live Five's 2023/2024 season. |
| Wagner, Bernadette |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$5,000 |
To revise and polish a children's literature manuscript, Crybaby. |
| Campbell, Jesse |
Prince Albert |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$7,000 |
To research, conduct studio visits, and write texts for an exhibition in March 2025 that commemorates the 50th anniversary of George Glenn's residency in P.A. |
| Schindelka, Dara |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$6,000 |
To research, arrange, and create a modern interpretation of traditional folksongs that highlight the historic plight of women with connections to the present. |
| Battie, Kyath |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
To research the creation of multiple fictional landscapes by unifying 16mm colour film imagery and digital editing techniques. |
| Age Friendly Outreach & Resource Network |
Bushell Park |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To research Northern and rural Saskatchewan and build relationships to develop art programs that are meaningful to a more diverse public. |
| Gereaux, Tara |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,369 |
To research and write the first draft of a novel about a Métis woman who reconnects with her cultural identity through beading. |
| Hobsbawn-Smith, Denise |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$12,600 |
To research and write a first draft of book-length nonfiction about M.F.K. Fisher, Madeleine Kamman, and Anthony Bourdain, pivotal authors in food writing. |
| Luhning, Holly |
Lumsden |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To research and write a collection of poetry centred on and informed by the end/renewal of a Saskatchewan prairie farm. |
| Wilson, Nic |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$6,800 |
To research and produce a new performance about queer embodiment and history. |
| Standing, Lorraine |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous/Metis Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$7,500 |
To research and develop my stories of my father’s stories of song and drumming when I was a child. |
| Standing, Lois |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
To research and develop Dakota women's geometric beaded designed dresses and produce a dress with the influence of past designs. |
| Moker Wernikowski, Connie |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$8,104 |
To research and create a dance piece/study for five local dancers, informed by the work of Saskatchewan dance pioneer, Amelia Itcush. |
| Bundon, Johanna |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$3,000 |
To research and create a dance piece, within a body of solo work, through Fall 2023. |
| Kybalion Movement |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$2,000 |
To request a micro-grant for alleviating expenses for a unique opportunity to present a Canadian Breaking artist at the international street dance festival “Hip-Fest 2019”. |
| Langhorne, Donna |
Air Ronge |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
To reimagine the Seven Sacred Teachings by creating portraiture of the associated animal figures in a hybrid rendition of Woodlands and Realist styles. |
| Wishlow, Isabella |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
To rehearse, adapt and perform “Holloway”. Originally an outdoor site specific contemporary dance performance, to be presented at Darke Hall in April 2023. |
| Semple, Zenaya |
regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$624 |
To rehearse, adapt and perform “Holloway,” originally an outdoor site specific contemporary dance performance, to be presented at Darke Hall in April 2023. |
| Brown-McEwen, Belle |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
To rehearse, adapt and perform “Holloway,” originally an outdoor site specific contemporary dance performance, to be presented at Darke Hall in April 2023. |
| Francis, Jaron |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$2,750 |
To rehearse and stage the full-length drama 'Manuscript' by Paul Grellong, performing at the Refinery Arts & Spirit Centre Aug29-Sep1 and Sep5-8, 2019. |
| Tajik, Noor |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
To rehearse and showcase a 5 minute piece of original dance choreography for an event entitled Ghungroo: The South Asian Experience. |
| Moker Wernikowski, Connie |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$5,714 |
To rehearse and present Full Tilt Two, a performance of my recent choreography, at Regina's Artesian on Treaty 4 Land, April 27-29, 2023. |
| Wensel, Misty |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
To refine existing segments of dance creation, “Trails” into a full length, open-air production featuring Saskatchewan artists from multiple disciplines. To be presented Summer 2021. |
| Knight, Lancelot |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To record an album and branding as an artist. |
| Cafferata, Skyler |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
To record 4 new studio-quality songs with my band (The Faps) which will be released as digital singles throughout 2019. |
| Currie, Dillon |
Swift Current |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$250 |
To record 2 studio-quality demos to include in application for Sound Recording grants, which is intended to partially fund 2022 debut full-length solo LP. |
| Tushabe, Irene |
Regina |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
To receive feedback and finish edits on my debut novel, Everything is Fine Here, under the guidance of accomplished novelist Marina Endicott. |
| Bates-Hardy, Courtney |
Regina |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$951 |
To receive a manuscript evaluation from writer and editor Jennifer LoveGrove and attend a writing retreat to work on the same manuscript. |
| Virgo, Sean |
Eastend |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
To read, assess and select unpublished stories by the late Patrick Lane, and to assemble and propose a collection for publication, with editorial suggestions. |
| Bates-Hardy, Courtney |
Regina |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
To read from my second book, Anatomical Venus, in Vancouver, BC for the Real Vancouver Writers' Series and make connections with the writing community there. |
| Phelps Bondaroff, Amber |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
To re-visit The Objects of our Desires, a collaborative, social-practice, music project, resulting in a series of original songs written for objects and contributing participants. |
| Slow Down Molasses |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
To put together video content for streaming/promotional purposes in advance of the upcoming Slow Down Molasses album release. |
| Kirchmeier, Kurt |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,000 |
To put together a short story collection of 18-20 pieces of speculative fiction for young readers. To be titled “Souls on Display & Other Stories.” |
| Severight, Tanya |
Whitecap |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To purchase supplies needed to create items that I have not created in the past. |
| Thevenot, Michelle |
Osler |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
To purchase photography and video equipment required to capture and present my work and that of artistic collaborations in a professional way. |
| Simon-Worobec, Hillary |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$6,000 |
To purchase equipment/materials to for my home pottery studio to enable me more freedom within my craft and become a full-time potter. |
| Weber, Janice |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
To purchase an exposure unit and screens for home printmaking studio, supporting artistic development into textile printing and increasing capacity to initiate professional projects. |
| Blackman, Shawn |
Prince Albert |
Music |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2021-2022 |
$2,492 |
To purchase an Amp Profiler which is essential equipment needed to expand my musical practice to a greater extent into live performance and remote recording. |
| Williams, Janet |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2021-2022 |
$944 |
To purchase an all-in-one HEPAclean desk-top polisher to produce finer quality work with my jewelery practice. |
| Buffalo People Arts Institute |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
To purchase a video recording device, lighting and microphone to use in creating videos on how to create a variety of Indigenous-related art workshops |
| Van Rees, Ken |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2021-2022 |
$1,700 |
To purchase a specialized desktop kiln |
| Bandur, Breanne |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2021-2022 |
$712 |
To Purchase a Metaltech Maxi Round 6 foot Scaffold to produce large drawings. |
| Bigeagle-Kequahtooway, Joely |
Regina |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
To purchase a long arm quilting machine to assist me in designing and creating my starblankets. |
| Brophey, Erin |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2021-2022 |
$2,500 |
To purchase a gouging machine to precisely remove the interior of bamboo in order to produce reeds for my oboe. |
| Lerat, Muskwa |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2021-2022 |
$2,000 |
To purchase a Dracast X-Series 1000 Lighting Kit to enable me to control lighting on location shoots and better edit my film projects. |
| Xiao, Li |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
To purchase a computer, an external hard drive and updated software for my professional photography development. Current computer works very slowly and malfunction frequently. |
| Craig, Robert |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2021-2022 |
$2,500 |
To purchase a 16 inch Mac Book Pro to facilitate my video production, writing and digital art practice. |
| Watson, Lyndon |
Regina |
Visual |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$1,200 |
To purchase a 14-inch bandsaw which will allow me to create my woodwork pieces without limits. |
| Lazurko, Anne |
Weyburn |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
To provide writing and research time for completion of a draft of my novel "One Woman". |
Badger, Joanne
Mistawasis Nehiyawak |
Sturgeon Lake |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$9,916 |
To provide workshops as a series of porcupine quillwork artistry and preservation of a centuries old Indigenous decor. |
| McKnight, Spencer |
SASKATOON |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$3,500 |
To provide two months of living expenses to be able to develop a recital for touring in Saskatchewan for summer of 2020. |
| Perry, Chancz |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To provide support to a professional BIPOC artist who is developing new work in Saskatchewan that is advancing his artistic practices beyond Canadian borders. |
| Bear's Song Collective |
Saskatoon |
— |
Share and Connect |
2022-2023 |
$15,500 |
To provide intergenerational teachings about birch, spruce and porcupines and using their natural resources to create birch bark baskets and documenting the entire process. |
| Dussion, Mary |
Nipawin |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
To provide financial support to purchase materials to start my own business making moccasins and ribbon skirts. |
| Bridges Art Movement |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$2,000 |
To provide financial support for BAM as we develop our Artist Residency program |
