| Moneo, Cameron |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$12,000 |
To create the core systems, 3D models, and animation rigs for a Saskatoon-based video game called "Video Store: The Video Game." |
| Meneley, Barbara |
Val Marie |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$10,131 |
To create series of large drawings based on my research on Treaty 4 soil. |
| Rosenwald/Rose |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$18,000 |
To create new work for Journal of the Plague Year(s) exhibition and on-site residency at Remai Modern, Saskatoon. |
| Latendresse, Jacqueline |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$8,000 |
To create new contemporary choreographic work set to music from the operas Cosi Fan Tute and Marriage of Figaro inspired by Mozart's marriage. |
| Garcia-Luna, Gabriela |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$17,000 |
To create multimedia studies and works for a confirmed solo exhibition at the MJM&AG, exploring concepts of human and natural environment resilience and adaptation. |
| Barabas, Mishel |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
To create medium to large scale portrait (with unique settings) paintings. A body of work to exhibit, engage and connect with community. |
| Benning, Heather |
Swift Current |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$14,116 |
To create large scale installation sculpture "Winter Sleep" to exhibit at the 2020 Biennial of Contemporary Art at the Remai Modern. |
| Daigneault, Nap |
Beauval |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
To Create four Birch Bark Baskets and mentor other indigenous and metis individuals in this traditional art practice by offering a workshop in Ile-à-la Crosse. |
| Garneau, David |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$5,000 |
To create forty metaphoric still life paintings in which mundane objects are arranged and titled so they evoke complex themes and ideas. |
| Auger, Kristen |
Regina |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2023-2024 |
$7,500 |
To create editions of hand-pulled, beaded, and woodcut prints that will be a graphical demonstration of my journey of learning nêhiyawêwin (the Cree language). |
| Bohn, Brooke |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
To create art to prepare for the IA grant while experimenting new techniques & ideas to understand myself as an artist. |
| Fehr, Alex |
Nipawin |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
To create and shoot a dance film, to be presented throughout Saskatchewan and Canada at large. |
| Zdunich, Emily |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$4,600 |
To create and research a new body of work exploring the human condition for the purpose of exhibitions and professional development. |
| Schneider, Zoë |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,500 |
To create and heavily expand upon two bodies of work for two confirmed solo exhibitions that will take place in 2020. |
| Rose, Melanie |
regina |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
To create and develop new work with the intent of exhibition. Research of new techniques and materials. |
| Frison, Lucas |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$13,802 |
To create an inclusive short film about a young man with Down syndrome pursuing love. |
| Bates, Steve |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$9,400 |
To create an environmentally sensitive listening station and exhibition site from my home. Artworks will be exhibited from the same site and streamed online. |
| Peart, Greta |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$15,000 |
To create an empathy-focused videogame called “Mitch” that explores finding personal growth and groundedness amidst new and unfamiliar experiences. |
| Emma Artists Group |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$2,000 |
To create an artistic installation on the south side of Ness Creek, as a 10th Anniversary reprisal of a project started in 2010. |
| Favel, Floyd |
Paynton |
Literary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2023-2024 |
$10,000 |
To create an artistic book- 60 word lexicon of Plains Indian Sign Language in black and white photos, accompanied by the Cree word or phrase. |
| Gronsdahl, Troy |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$18,000 |
to create a video and sound installation comprised of a woodwind quartet playing in the northern Saskatchewan wilderness. |
Bernbaum, Joel
Pleasant Hill Community Association |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Artists in Communities |
2022-2023 |
$20,000 |
To create a verbatim theatre rap opera with the Pleasant Hill community, and present it in Pleasant Hill for high school students and the public. |
| Atkins, Amalie |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$15,500 |
To create a triple screen film installation for a confirmed solo exhibition at the Remai Modern opening April 5, 2019 |
| Furstenberg, Tia |
Prince Albert |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
To create a series of paintings for an upcoming collaborative exhibition at the John V. Hicks Gallery in March of 2022. |
| Red Smarteez Marionettes |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$14,000 |
To create a script and pre-production for a personal film about disability with a fiction about a former resident of our home. |
| Grummett, S.E. |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$16,000 |
To create a new Theatre for Young Audiences show exploring gender diversity for presentation in Calgary and Saskatoon planned for May 2023. |
| Zhao, JingLu |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$6,197 |
To create a new series of paintings in my home studio and two residencies in Saskatoon, SK. |
| Shaw, Carey |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$8,000 |
To create a narrative short film about a 2SLGBTQ+ character who who has an unexpected encounter during an isolated period in her life. |
| Brochu Lambert, Anne |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$4,577 |
To create a multimedia triptych installation that integrates a motion activated soundscape, celebrating the close relationships and creative voices of four generations of Francophone women. |
| Kazan, Lina |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$16,585 |
To create a Flamenco screen dance film with original music and choreographies to be presented at the Victoria Flamenco festival and other digital platforms. |
| Petit, Marcel |
Saskatoon |
— |
Share and Connect |
2023-2024 |
$10,000 |
To create a first draft of the documentary film Queer Seniors by editing twelve existing interviews of queer Indigenous Elders and settler senior citizens. |
| Holland, Matthew |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$4,000 |
To create a film using archival photographs of the Regina tornado of 1912. |
| Bear's Song Collective |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,500 |
To create a documentary short that features drag queens and king who have read stories to children to discuss the backlash in an artistic response. |
| The Dim Coast |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$16,000 |
To create a custom digital instrument that ‘performs’ a group sound installation, online audio stream and audiobook inspired by Moose Jaw writer, Vivian Darroch-Lozowski. |
Olafson, Marea
Wynyard Elementary School |
Wynyard |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2022-2023 |
$20,000 |
To create a 2-D mural and 3-D functional pottery depicting personal land acknowledgment with grades 1,3,5 and 7 students. |
| Bennett, Andrew |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$7,500 |
To create 8 new ambient tracks using only my voice. |
| Poitras-Jarrett, Phyllis |
Regina |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$7,500 |
To create 6 mixed-media paintings honouring 6 Sk. animals necessary for the survival of the Indigenous people throughout history to be included in future exibitions. |
| Thistledown Press Ltd. |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
To cover expenses of Thistledown Press’ transition in ownership. |
| City of Prince Albert |
Prince Albert |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
To contract Jesse Campbell as a Curator for Artists in Community project coordination in Prince Albert. |
| Bridge Theatre Collective |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$2,000 |
To contract 15 theatre artists to be a part of a readthrough workshop of a new edit of Coriolanus by William Shakespeare. |
| Martin, Monique |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$9,000 |
To continue the touring of my installation based work "Continuous" and "Context is Everything" to 7 different exhibitions, solo and group. |
| Nelson, Josiah |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$7,500 |
To continue drafting poems for a poetry manuscript exploring the interconnectedness of the self and the natural world. |
| Shurniak Gallery Inc. |
Assiniboia |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To consult and imagine with our diverse public to develop new plans for creative programming by the Shurniak Art Gallery and its partners |
| Blom, Monique |
Waldheim |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$9,350 |
To construct a sod house for my performance "Ethics of the Dust" for Remai Modern Sustained Artist Project. |
| River Road Festival |
St. Louis |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To conduct surveys to research next River Road Festival events and direction. |
| Hendrickson, Raye |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$7,500 |
To conduct research for, receive consultation about, and complete a poetry manuscript chronicling my great-grandmother's life story in her voice. |
| Baerwaldt, Wayne |
Assiniboia |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$16,116 |
To conduct original research, develop curatorial premises, write critical essays and deliver art exhibitions in Saskatchewan and abroad |
| Macdonald, Daniel |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$11,000 |
To conduct an in-person workshop, hold public staged readings, and engage in subsequent rewrites of my play MERCY between January and March , 2022. |
| Brochu Lambert, Anne |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$8,300 |
To conceive and create an interactive slide projection-based art installation, complementing two-dimensional works for a curated duo show at the AGR in 2023. |
| Saskatoon Experimental Music Ensemble |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$8,125 |
To compose, develop, rehearse, and perform three concerts worth of communally-focused experimental music in Saskatoon. |
| McKenzie, Tiess |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$7,178 |
To compose and workshop three new pieces for string quartet, in collaboration with local performers in Saskatoon. |
| Fletcher, Étienne |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$7,500 |
To compose 8 songs to be added to bilingual live concert, and eventual recording. |
| Murza, Michael |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$8,500 |
To compose "Cold and Lonely Kingdom," an album telling stories of a fantasy world that contains parallels to the history and geography of Saskatchewan. |
| Hebert, Dakota |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
To completely gut and redo my three-act play about Jack the Ripper into a way better two-act. |
| Stooshinoff, Alexander |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$3,443 |
To complete the writing of my third LP, "Cold House," which features finger-style guitar and voice with an emphasis on performance. |
| Moore, Tim |
Swift Current |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2022-2023 |
$16,000 |
To complete the body of work "Erasure is Futile" for a scheduled group exhibition and future solo exhibition potential. |
| Baerwaldt, Wayne |
Assiniboia |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$4,884 |
To complete my research and writing to realize a collaborative artist book project with Richard Boulet |
| Noel-Maw, Martine |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$9,000 |
To complete my "Will James Triad" by writing a novel based on my play "Dans l’ombre de Will James". |
| Sheikh, Sheheryar |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$18,000 |
To complete and refine a literary fiction novel (titled After) about the Covid-19 pandemic, and about a father-son relationship within it, from 05/2022 to 01/2023. |
| Sheri & Heather Benning |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$15,000 |
To complete a short film cycle, "Let Them Rest," which will give affective voice to the seismic shift in rural Saskatchewan to intensive farming practices |
| Kirchmeier, Kurt |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
To complete a rewrite on the first half of a YA fantasy novel titled The Bone Shepherds, as requested by an interested editor. |
| Hunter, Jennie |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
To complete a new literary novel titled 'Factor of Safety', which focuses on my continuing theme of women working in non-traditional roles. |
| Emel, Tod |
Invermere |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$18,000 |
To complete a new body of intermedia work combining audio, sculpture and painting; using post-painterly abstraction to explore 'natural' and 'artificial' worlds |
| Larouche Ellard, Diane |
Biggar |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
To complete a mixed media encaustic mentorship with Bobbi Clackson-Walker consisting of 8 one-on-one sessions. |
Michael A. Riffel High School
Judy Wensel |
Regina |
Theatre |
Artists in Schools |
2023-2024 |
$13,026 |
To collaborate with artists Judy Wensel and Shaunna Dunn in Riffel High School's Integrated Theatre Program, That's Possible. |
| Bandur, Breanne |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To collaborate with Alison Norlen on her project, "Moulin de la Nouvelle Orleans," as part of the New Orleans Luna Fete. |
| Live Five Theatre Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$2,000 |
To co-produce and co-facilitate an unconference to foster new relationships among Saskatchewan theatre artists and audiences in the service of growing an equitable, diverse, inclusive, and anti-oppressive theatre culture. |
| Rose, Melanie |
Regina |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2021-2022 |
$15,500 |
To build upon the theme of ‘The Flower People’ and create 13 new 2D and wearable art pieces for an exhibition at Godfrey Dean Gallery. |
| Janvier, Bobby |
La Loche |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2021-2022 |
$7,500 |
To build an separate studio/workshop so I can safely continue my art projects like woodworking outside. |
| Gomez, Felipe |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$757 |
To build a Tubulum a pipe instrument famously used in the “Blue Man Group” a fun and inventive percussion instrument. |
| Evans, George |
Regina |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
to bring jazz pianist Nancy Walker to Saskatoon for a coaching and joint performance opportunity. |
| Free Flow Dance Theatre Company |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,500 |
To bring guest choreographers Danny Grossman, Graham McKelvie and Newton Moraes to Saskatoon to participate in our 25th anniversary season special events/Gala. |
| Friday, Kristi |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Artists in Schools |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To bring artists and educators together to create arts resources, such as an interactive play and workshops, that educate students and staff on systemic racism. |
| Rosenwald, Betsy |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
To be one of four participants in a unique online Encaustic Workshop on October 3, 2020 presented by the A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas. |
| Keshane, Claudette |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
to be able to purchase all the supplies required to create new items that I have never made before |
| Last Mountain Lake Cultural Centre Inc. |
Regina Beach |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$2,000 |
To be able to pay fair musician fees to the performers at the LMLCC's first ever outdoor Music Festival on July 2, 2022. |
| Pantel, Rowan |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
To attend training with Russian puppeteer Polina Borisova, at the National Puppetry Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center in June 2019. |
| Bird-Wilson, Lisa |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2023-2024 |
$7,500 |
To attend three writing residency/retreat locations as I research, write, edit, and revise my book-length memoir, Magpie Dreams. |
| Tushabe, Irene |
Regina |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
To attend the two-week Summer Writers Residency 2023 at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. |
| Bates-Hardy, Courtney |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,740 |
To attend the Sage Hill Summer Poetry Workshop, where I will work on my second poetry manuscript, tentatively titled "The Anatomy of a Monster". |
| Silverthorne, Judith |
Regina |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
To attend the launch of the German translation of Honouring the Buffalo at the Frankfurt Book Fair and do presentations at a related Conference. |
| Baerwaldt, Wayne |
Assiniboia |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
To attend the exhibition installation, opening events and media promotion of my guest-curated Toronto exhibition of works by Taras Polataiko |
| Goretzky, Barbara |
Lumsden |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$635 |
To attend the Big Skies Open Spaces Watercolour Symposium 2023 in Regina and partake in Alberta based, Jean Pederson's and Quebec based, Shari Blaukopf's workshops. |
| Baggett, Brian |
Fort Qu'Appelle |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$750 |
To attend the 2019 Chapman Stick 4-day Workshop featuring Stick inventor Emmett Chapman and master instructors Greg Howard and Steve Adelson. |
| Haldoupis, Nicole |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
To attend Sage Hill Writing’s 2019 Summer Program (Fiction Course) and work with writer Jacqueline Baker, July 2-12. |
| Ay, Caramba! Theatre |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$2,000 |
To attend COYUNTURA, a National Latinx Theatre Gathering to connect and network with Latinx artists across Canada |
| Wensel, Misty |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$700 |
To attend Chhandika Summer Intensive in Boston, MA from July 6- 10 to study with guest artists Joanna de Souza & Marni and Chris Ris. |
| Rosenwald, Betsy |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
To attend and create new work at an artist residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Amherst, Virginia. |
| Han, Xiao |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
To attend an artist residency which aims to research and develop my photograph into public art which creates spaces and connections for Saskatoon-based BIPOC communities. |
| Zhao, JingLu |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$4,480 |
To assist with the costs of childcare for my three children while I create a new body of paintings for exhibition. |
| Meldrum, Jeff |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$3,800 |
To assist in production of a touring exhibition exploring my project Art For Animals which introduces sculpture to the forest and wildlife of Northern Saskatchewan. |
| Hunter, Della |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
To assist in making an important professional developmental transformation I will be consulting two feminist artists to provide mentorship on a new body of work. |
| Atcheynum, Kasey |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Artists in Communities |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
To assess the creative literary community needs of Black diaspora by conducting research analysis to develop a plan for a longer term project and residency. |
| Bernbaum, Joel |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$5,000 |
To apprentice with Forklift Danceworks' Artistic Director Alison Orr on her new community engaged production of Givens Swims - the culmination of a 3-year residency. |
| Dr. Martin LeBoldus Band Program |
Regina |
Music |
Artists in Schools |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To allow students to engage with professionals on their respective instruments in order to foster growth, enable mentorship, and expand their horizons. |
| Langhorne, Donna |
Air Ronge |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2022-2023 |
$14,975 |
To acquire materials and equipment required to create and document Aanjitoon, a series of twelve large paintings using an original hybrid Woodlands/Realist style. |
| Hale, Laura |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
To accept an invitation to travel to and participate in a unique career development opportunity, an environmental art focused residency in Nova Scotia, Canada. |
| The Word on the Street Saskatoon Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
SaskFestivals |
2019-2020 |
$8,000 |
To gain financial support for Saskatoon's free literary arts festival, The Word On The Street. |
| Hale, Laura |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$10,040 |
Time for creative exploration, investigation, experimentation, risk taking, discovery, dialogue and critique, development and creation of new artworks and works in progress. |
| Tic Toc TEN |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
Tic Toc TEN is a short performance arts festival featuring ten, brand new, multidisciplinary performance pieces by both emerging and established Saskatchewan artists. |
