| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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”. |
| 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 |
| Rose, Melanie |
Regina |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2023-2024 |
$13,000 |
To provide documentation and artist fees for the project, Sisopekinam//"S/he rubs medicine of it", a collection of wearable art by Metis designers. |
YWCA Regina
Lloyd Dubois |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2022-2023 |
$10,000 |
To provide art-making workshops and co-create a kinship mural that explore Indigenous experiences under colonialism for YWCA residents, staff and public. |
| Firmly Rooted Homeschool Support & Resource Centre Inc. |
Stenen |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To provide an opportunity for rural homeschool children, of various economic backgrounds, to connect with, and build, community through the art of photography. |
| Arcola Community School |
Regina |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2023-2024 |
$850 |
To provide an opportunity for our students to collectively participate in a beading activity . |
| Deaf Crows Collective |
Regina |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$2,000 |
To provide accessibility to future Deaf Crows Collective theatre productions for deaf, hard of hearing, and Deaf patrons through the use of surtitling equipment. |
Art Gallery of Swift Current
Shon Profit |
Swift Current |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$45,000 |
To provide a professional artist-led weekly creative art class for the Long-Term Care facilities in Maple Creek, Shaunavon and Eastend Saskatchewan. |
| Nolan, Yvette |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$16,000 |
To produce The Art of War, an original play by Yvette Nolan at the Refinery in September 2020. |
| Shadowpaw Press |
Regina |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$2,000 |
To produce Shadowpaw Press's first audiobooks, for two novels to be published this fall. |
| Nind, Monique |
Grenfell |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2020-2021 |
$2,000 |
To produce four original paintings (24x30)in a series titled "The Love of Fishing' and artistic journals describing the creative process for each piece. |
| Duesterbeck, Florence |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To produce exhibition-ready large-format photographs on canvas for "Litter 2020" for confirmed exhibition at Art Gallery of Regina Out of the Box space. |
| Garcia-Luna, Gabriela |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
To produce digital prints to complete works for installation at confirmed exhibition in February 2021 |
| Gomez, Felipe |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$14,000 |
To produce and present “Soundtrack for Adventurous Kids” a 45-minute interactive musical experience. |
| Oh, Julie |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$12,000 |
To produce and present a new installation of objects for a confirmed solo exhibition at the Dunlop Art Gallery opening Fall 2019. |
| Kuz, Tessa |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$2,100 |
To produce and premiere 'The Open Soul Of The Prairies' - a solo dance work choreographed by Margie Gillis, performed by Tessa Rae Kuz. |
| Blom, Monique |
Waldheim |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
To produce and perform "(In)terfertilization: Of Word and Flesh" at (UNAM) Encuentro 2019:The World Inside Out in Mexico City in June 2019. |
| Kovach, Jaye |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$6,295 |
To produce a solo exhibition that examines society’s view of my body and subjectivity as a queer, disabled, butch trans woman. |
| Graham, John |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$6,000 |
To produce a short experimental film during a 3-month artist residency at GlogauAIR in Berlin, Germany. |
| Janzen, Ava |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
To produce a new, experimental alternative pop single with Juno-award winning producer Ryan Stewart. A musical bridge between my recent and upcoming EPs. |
| Haines, Cat |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
To produce a mixed medium sex-ed zine for trans girls who have had bottom surgery. |
| McKenzie, Tiess |
Estevan |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$4,500 |
To produce a five-track cycle of experimental, soundscape-based, electronic music. Working title: "Walking Music." |
| Popoff, Alexandra |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$6,398 |
To produce a first draft of a biography of a prominent investigative journalist and daughter of a Ukrainian UN diplomat, Anna Politkovskaya. |
| Cuthand, Shawn |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2023-2024 |
$10,031 |
To produce a comedy web series "That Deadly Cousin," which uses super 8/digital film which focuses on urban Indigenous kinship bonds. |
| Thurmeier, Tim |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$17,000 |
To produce a 45-60 minute documentary called The Great Train Reverie, which follows four Saskatchewan musicians who toured Eastern Canada by train. |
| Ouellette, Dianne |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
To process and digitally scan super 8 film to 4k to use in my artistic practice. |
| Broussard, Rachel |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$965 |
To print adhesive photographs for my show (April 1 - May 15) in the window gallery at Neutral Ground and travel to Regina to install. |
| Unheard Sound Collective |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
SaskFestivals |
2022-2023 |
$8,000 |
To present the 11th edition of Sounds Like: An Audio Festival with the theme "Duality" in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, May 12-13 and October 13-14, 2023. |
| Unheard Sound Collective |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
SaskFestivals |
2019-2020 |
$7,050 |
To present the 10th edition of Sounds Like: An Audio Festival "Corporeal Origins" in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, October 1-4, 2020. |
| Van Rees, Ken |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$650 |
To present SK Arts Board grant on wildfire art and interact with other scientists/artists exploring the Science/Art interface at the Vienna EGU conference in April |
| Alvarez, Kris |
Regina |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
To present my work at the 4th International Babaylan Conference, Muling Pag-Uugat: Re-Rooting, near Toronto (Torrance, ON) September 20-22, 2019. |
| Garez, Simon |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
To present my film Gentle Hum of Spring at two back-to-back festivals on the West Coast: 2023 Vancouver International Film Festival and Tacoma Film Festival. |
| Elixir Ensemble |
Riverside Estates |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,814 |
To present a series of three concerts in Saskatoon, featuring the Elixir Ensemble and guests. |
| Harpham, Lindsay |
Tisdale |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$7,500 |
To present a full-length show entitled "Behind Us" in Saskatoon, SK. Intended for future goals of national and international touring as well as festival submissions. |
| Horowitz, Risa |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$9,872 |
To prepare for and attend an artist retreat in Longyearbyen, and a residency circumnavigating the Svalbard Archipelago, undertaking a series of documented performance art actions. |
| Herriot, Trevor |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
to prepare a final draft of the novel I am writing to submit to my editor at HarperCollins. |
| Knight, Lindsay |
Saskatoon |
— |
Share and Connect |
2023-2024 |
$16,336 |
To plan, present, mentor and perform "The TMRWS" Indigenous Women in Hip Hop Festival in Treaty Six Territory on July 12, 2024. |
