| Dumont Walker, Dawn |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$15,000 |
To outline and write a novel in supernatural genre about a woman who is possessed by the spirit of a deceased cop and a cow. |
| Ntibandetse, Diana |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$700 |
To organize a painting workshop. The workshop will promote cultural awareness and act as abridge between communities by exposing participants to a neo-African painting style. |
Association communautaire fransaskoise de Regina
Giselle Lemire |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2025-2026 |
$15,000 |
To offer writing workshops, performance training, to participants to present their work in a stage performance during the Mois de la Francophonie in March 2026. |
| Knight, Lindsay |
Saskatoon |
— |
Share and Connect |
2022-2023 |
$19,997 |
To mentor and then host an itwewiniyiniwak("word people") storytelling gathering based on creation story(ies) of Treaty Six Territory, including contemporary/traditional rap, comedy, poetry and songwriting. |
| Deiter, Christine |
Balcarres |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2021-2022 |
$7,500 |
To learn how to construct a tipi with tranferable indigenous teachings, documenting as a teaching aid with powerpoint. |
| Anderson, Skyler |
Regina |
— |
Share and Connect |
2023-2024 |
$10,000 |
To lead, mentor, and direct a group of young and emerging indigenous artists from Treaty 4 through a devised performance at the Treaty 4 Grounds. |
| Holophon Audio Arts |
Regina |
Media Arts |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$8,000 |
To launch Regina’s inaugural sound art festival running from October 26th, 2024 to October 27th, 2024. |
| Prairie New Music Festivals Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,400 |
To kickstart the formation of The Saskatoon Experimental Music Ensemble: a community music ensemble in association with Prairie New Music Festivals. |
| Reimer, Joel Dash |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$990 |
To kickstart a monthly poetry slam in Saskatoon utilizing the 'underground' slam format that highlights the 'underground' gems of Saskatoon through both location and poets |
Art Gallery of Swift Current
Aurora Wolfe |
Swift Current |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2025-2026 |
$15,250 |
To invite visitors and local communities to consider their relationship to the landscape via engagement with artists at Saskatchewan Landing Provincial Park. |
| Firmly Rooted Homeschool Support & Resource Centre Inc. |
Stenen |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To introduce, homeschooled kids, to the benefits and joys of art; and to help build community within a broad spectrum of economically divers families. |
Badger, Joanne
Sturgeon Lake Health Centre |
Sturgeon Lake |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2022-2023 |
$6,080 |
To introduce the skill of porcupine quilled birchbark basket making to women and men at the Lloyd Johnson Healing Lodge in Sturgeon Lake, Saskatchewan. |
Badger, Joanne
Sturgeon Lake Central School |
Sturgeon Lake |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2022-2023 |
$4,048 |
To introduce the skill of porcupine quill zig zag stitching on felt, to youth in school, on the Sturgeon Lake First Nation, Saskatchewan. |
Badger, Joanne
Sturgeon Lake Central School |
Sturgeon Lake |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2023-2024 |
$5,672 |
To introduce the skill of porcupine quill zig zag stitching on felt, to youth in school, on the Sturgeon Lake First Nation, Saskatchewan. |
| Badger, Joanne |
Sturgeon Lake |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2022-2023 |
$7,500 |
To introduce the practice of porcupine quilled birchbark basket making to women and men at the Lloyd Johnson Healing Lodge in Sturgeon Lake, Saskatchewan. |
| Badger, Joanne |
Sturgeon Lake |
Please Select |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2023-2024 |
$6,719 |
To introduce the practice of porcupine quill zig zag stitching to women and men at the Lloyd Johnson Healing Lodge in Sturgeon Lake, Saskatchewan. |
| Badger, Joanne |
Sturgeon Lake |
— |
Share and Connect |
2023-2024 |
$11,780 |
To introduce the practice of porcupine quill placement on birchbark to Nehiyawak(Cree Peoples), on Treaty Six Territory. |
Badger, Joanne
Sturgeon Lake Central School |
Sturgeon Lake |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2023-2024 |
$9,769 |
To introduce the practice of porcupine quill placement on birchbark to Grade 7 to 12 at the Sturgeon Lake Central School, Sturgeon Lake Reserve, Saskatchewan. |
Badger, Joanne
Sturgeon Lake Central School |
Sturgeon Lake |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2024-2025 |
$8,896 |
To introduce the art of porcupine quill placement on birchbark, to youth in school, on the Sturgeon Lake First Nation, Saskatchewan. This is intermediate level. |
| Bigeagle-Kequahtooway, Joely |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2025-2026 |
$10,000 |
To interview 13+ matriarchs to ask questions about the important matriarchs in their life. Lessons learned and future visions/hope for future and their legacies. |
| Bornstein, Eli |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To initiate the several processes, especially in-person interviews, of publishing my Arctic Journals, 1986 and 1987, in collaboration with art historian and curator, Roald Nasgaard |
| Yorkton Regional High School |
Yorkton |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
To initiate a pilot ceramic program at the YRHS with SK Artist- Marea Olafson collaborating with art teacher Jana Martinuk supporting the Art Curriculum. |
| Dowling, Katherine |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$8,000 |
To independently produce and present “The Elegy Project”—an intimate solo piano performance on expressions of grief and loss—at three historical Saskatchewan venues in May 2023. |
| Kenderdine Art Gallery |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
To increase our organizational capacity to produce effective online content through increased community connections and redistribution of funds to skilled though precariously employed cultural workers. |
| Live Five Theatre Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$2,000 |
To increase our capacity and solidify our future goals through the creation of an organizational strategic plan with guidance from an external facilitator |
| McCrea, Debbie |
Mankota |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$3,000 |
To increase my body of work which is of paper Mache sculptures of cattle, horses and bison in order to approach a gallery. |
| Malbeuf, Nolan |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
To immerse myself in culturally specific environments that enrich my understanding, provide opportunities for networking, and foster growth in my personal life and professional career. |
| Eastend Branch Library |
Eastend |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2021-2022 |
$995 |
To host two cultural events; a live musical performance and a visual art exhibition to reignite our community interest and supports in the arts. |
| Flamenco Borealis |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
SaskFestivals |
2022-2023 |
$6,000 |
To host the third edition of the Borealis Flamenco Festival consisting of performances by local artists, introductory workshops and Flamenco dance master classes. |
| Holophon Audio Arts |
Regina |
Media Arts |
SaskFestivals |
2025-2026 |
$8,000 |
To host the third annual Wavefield Experimental Music and Sound Festival in September 2026. |
| Flamenco Borealis |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2019-2020 |
$8,000 |
To host the second edition of the Borealis Flamenco Festival consisting of performances by local and critically acclaimed international artists, and many workshops and classes. |
| Holophon Audio Arts |
Regina |
Media Arts |
SaskFestivals |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
To host the second annual Wavefield sound art festival running from September 26th to September 27th, 2025. |
| Pewapsconias, Janelle |
Paynton |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
To host and perform at "Restorying Justice", a reserve-based spoken word and storytelling showcase on the topic of restorative justice, women, and cultural intervention. |
| Bigeagle-Kequahtooway, Joely |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2022-2023 |
$12,320 |
To honour the land and the formations that have existed her for millennia by creating new compasses for future generations. |
| Prairie Saxophone Initiative |
North Battleford |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$2,818 |
To hold the Canadian premiere of Joseph Lai's new work for 2 saxophones and piano entitled 3 M's of a Union. |
| Saskatoon Open Door Society |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
To hold an exploratory one-day virtual art workshop for 30 newly arrived refugees from Afghanistan. |
| Harris, Carla |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$7,500 |
To hold an active reading workshop with disabled actors and a disabled dramaturg as a basis for refining a play about discovering a hidden disability. |
| Ledoux, Maureen |
Saskatoon |
— |
Share and Connect |
2023-2024 |
$12,664 |
To hold a three day Moccasin-making class in Mistawasis reserve. |
| Saltzman, Vera |
Fort Qu'Appelle |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
To help fund printing, framing, and shipping of art and attend the opening of a group exhibition in Ottawa with 9 artists I’m collaborating with. |
| Stooshinoff, Alexander |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
To help fund a twelve-date Japanese tour in support of the reissue of "Stoic" on Japanese record label, Moorworks. |
| Coppens, Nathan |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$10,800 |
To help cover costs associated with producing I Have No Idea with Live Five in March, 2024. |
| Westview Public School |
Prince Albert |
Music |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
To have local Aboriginal artists in our community come to school and teach our kids Aboriginal art and have them learn from these people. |
| Mirlin, Mike |
Warman |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$825 |
To have a custom tap dance floor/box designed & built to amplify and integrate tap into the creation of future work with rock musicians. |
| Britski, Jason |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
To get 4K digital Timed Scan of five of my 16mm films. |
| Harder, Kristel |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$4,466 |
To gain the professional skills necessary to develop "EmotionLoss", a comedic cabaret exploring mental health, through two workshops and a mentorship program. |
| Wagner, Bernadette |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,914 |
To further develop, inform, and strengthen the hybrid manuscript, Unclear Future, with land-based information and experience. |
| Phelps Bondaroff, Amber |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$4,015 |
To further develop my performance art practice through attendance at a ten day workshop in Merida Mexico, with Guillermo Gomez Pena and LaPocha Nostra. |
| Andronyk, Jeanie |
Shaunavon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,500 |
To fund the creation of a large scale bronze sculpture. |
| Saskatchewan Jewish Arts Festival |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$5,800 |
To fund the creation & production of a series of Saskatchewan Jewish Arts Festival "pop up" events, leading up to our next full festival (2025) |
| Never Never Shakespeare |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$7,666 |
To fund a theatrical production of Twelfth Night through the lens of Queer culture, for presentation in Saskatoon, in January of 2025. |
| Parent, Anna |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
To finish the writing and create paintings for a story about a raven raised by geese learning to fly, a sixties scoop survivors story. |
| Grummett, S.E. |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$16,500 |
To finish the development of my next solo-show, “Nude Parade” unpacking trans trauma porn and the commodification of identity through a month-long workshop with collaborators. |
| Morken, Jaclyn |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$7,500 |
To finish outlining and drafting my short story collection, "Inter(n)ment," and to revise the manuscripts for publication. |
| Bernbaum, Joel |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$13,628 |
To finish development & produce a new verbatim theatre play with music about the Palestine / Israel conflict and its impact on people in Saskatchewan. |
| Skjeie, Cooper |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2021-2022 |
$7,500 |
To finalize my first full-length poetry manuscript, titled, "post-immunity theory." |
| Atkins, Amalie |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$2,500 |
To film the November chapter for Agatha's Almanac, a 12 chapter experimental documentary and to begin time-lapse experiments with plants for intervals between chapters |
| Shine Reggae Network Saskatchewan |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,348 |
To facilitate much needed market research and conduct promotional workshops for the 2022 Shine Reggae Network Saskatchewan reggae festival. |
| City of Humboldt Cultural Services |
Humboldt |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To facilitate four community dialogues with Indigenous artist Kevin Peeace and the Humboldt community, especially youth, to collaborate on a Reconciliation art project. |
| Thorburn, Crystal |
Assiniboia |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$948 |
To facilitate 2 half day visual art sessions to research and assess community needs in partnership with the Shurniak Art Gallery. |
| Living Sky School Division No. 202 |
North Battleford |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
To explore ideas about ecological art with traditional Indigenous knowledge to deepen our relationship with the land and planning for an Artist in Schools project. |
| Johnson-Harder, Harmony |
Prince Albert |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
To explore different techniques that will create a painting / mixed media image that depicts the connection of Story & Evolution. |
| Foster, Traci |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$15,000 |
To explore and cultivate material for a multidisciplinary interactive installation performance, exploring the fertility of grief and its positive transformative aspects. |
| Jegede-Ikpen, Oghenerukevwe |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
To explore a new musical frontier by blending traditional African rhythms with modern synths and diverse languages, and fusing Afrobeats with the Canadian sound. |
| Goretzky, Barbara |
Lumsden |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
To experiment with wood and metal in creating a time-sensitive, small-scaled, permanent wall piece in collaboration with young adults, who experience intellectual disabilities. |
| Lawrence, Katherine |
saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
To expand my readership beyond Saskatchewan by presenting my new poetic memoir, Black Umbrella, at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival and Art Bar reading series. |
| La Marre, Rebecca |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$11,600 |
To exhibit ceramic works, and produce a catalogue with a critical essay for presentation at Western Front, Vancouver, in November, 2024. |
| Inglis-McQuay, Darren |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
To exhibit a photo-based installation of fieldwork collected from the WeTu artist residency over a two week period at the Maritime Museum of Saskatchewan. |
| Wensel, Misty |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$10,534 |
To evolve the contemporary dance solo, Trails, with an ensemble of dancers. Taking a personal narrative and allowing it to grow into its next translation |
| St. Francis Community School |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
To establish partnerships with local indigenous artists and elders in order to develop and present an original collective creation as an act of reconciliation. |
| Santa Maria Senior Citizens Home |
Regina |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$990 |
To establish a relationship and work collaboratively with 2 artists to develop concrete plans for an artistic project in a special care home |
| Half Breed Creations |
Maple Creek |
— |
Share and Connect |
2025-2026 |
$2,000 |
To establish a collective to apply for funding in January 2026 for an arts and culture day at Nekaneet First Nation during Culture Days 2026. |
| Kyuubi Culture |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
To engage with Regina’s cultural community organizations and cemetery caretaker, initiate relationships, and share stories and experiences of grief, the supernatural, and non-human beings. |
| La Ronge Arts Council Corp. |
La Ronge |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$2,000 |
To engage local indigenous artist DLanghorne to give artist talks and painting sessions to school groups and others while OSAC exhibit 'Common Truths' is here. |
| First Nations University of Canada |
Regina |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To engage knowledge keepers that hold the history of natural color pigments (plant, animal, mineral). building capacity to hold public workshops on pigment use. |
| Haines, Cat |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$4,000 |
To Engage in the CARFAC Sask Art Writing Mentorship with Nic Wilson to develop Trans Feminist Self Help Zine: Volume 1 (November 2024-May 2025). |
| Baerwaldt, Wayne |
Assiniboia |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To enable me to install artwork by Richard Boulet and participate in the public program for the exhibition "La ragione c’entra poco (reason has little to do with it)" at Thetis Foundation, Venice, Italy, Sept. 12-22. |
| Camp fYrefly Saskatchewan |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$9,000 |
To empower LGBTQ2S youth by highlighting art as a formative part of expressing identity and as a vehicle for social change. |
| Nelson, Josiah |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$5,353 |
To edit my collection of fabulist short stories, which explores relationships, solitude, and the artist's life. |
| Silverthorne, Judith |
Regina |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To do presentations at the Frankfurt Book Fair and cities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland at universities, schools, literary events and for community art groups. |
| Graham, John |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$789 |
To do a film shoot in Berlin of my new short experimental film THE COLOUR OF SOUND with a small team of creative collaborators. |
| Francis, Jaron |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
To do a comprehensive rewrite of my award-winning script Like Parting Water, in preparation for its second production, which will tour from November/21 through January/22. |
| Bernbaum, Joel |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
To do 20 interviews with Saskatchewan Jews and Muslims to begin a verbatim theatre play about the Gaza war and its effect on our community. |
| Centre Francophone BDS |
Bellevue |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
To discover through community consultations, research, and project planning how to bring music back to our communities. |
| Scantily Glad Theatre |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$10,000 |
To devise, rehearse and perform "Homebuddies" an absurdist interactive outdoor performance exploring housing insecurity and biopolitics, in Saskatoon, in preparation for the Prague Quadrennial. |
| It's Not a Box Theatre |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$15,000 |
To devise and stage a live Overhear pod-play with Prague storytellers for the Prague Quadrennial 2019 and bring local content for geocache stories. |
| Garez, Simon |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$5,500 |
To develop, write, and storyboard my debut feature-length bilingual screenplay. |
| Meneley, Barbara |
Val Marie |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$13,724 |
To develop, document and disseminate my project "Soil." |
Sâkêwêwak First Nations Artists' Collective Inc.
Skyler Anderson |
Regina |
Theatre |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$10,000 |
To develop traditional stories into stage performances with puppets. |
| Weber, Joanne |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$13,319 |
To develop the script through exploration of physical movement, sign language, projected visuals, and surtitles to present to an invited audience (workshopped presentation). |
| Erickson, Shannon |
Yorkton |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
To develop terrarium art displays for a two-month self-directed residency at GDAG, Jan-Feb 2023, and to expand my artistic work and develop an exhibition proposal. |
| McCreary, Sara Michelle |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
To develop recipes for natural fabric dye paste that I can use to design and hand dye Métis floral patterns. |
| Zong, Megan |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To develop Production Dramaturgy resources (including web articles, videos and Afterplay facilitators) that engage audiences beyond the stage during Yin Yang Theatre's production of Unmasked. |
| Favel, Floyd |
Paynton |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
To develop my research on Indigenous theatre methods combined with my literary text Red People Red Magic. Create a virtual platform for global artistic presentation. |
| Bennett, Andrew |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$8,000 |
To develop live versions of my vocal music and present a live show at The Refinery in Saskatoon on December 11th. |
| Loreburn Central School |
Loreburn |
Music |
Artists in Schools |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
To develop drumming as part of the music in class, and potentially have a group for students to take part in outside of class time. |
| Zong, Megan |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$15,000 |
To develop and produce the world premiere of Unmasked at Live Five in 2020. |
| Ells, Chrystene |
Regina |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
To develop and pilot strategies towards a year-long AiC to provide arts programming for residents, memory care patients, and palliative care patients and their families. |
| Cowan, Hilarey |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,500 |
To develop and expand my work around labour, connection and care through sculpture and performance, including a residency at the Banff Centre with Bridget Moser. |
| Vas, Eva |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$4,000 |
To develop a short drama film script about a young dressmaker who explores traditional craft through the lens of filmmaking and wardrobe design. |
| Phelps Bondaroff, Amber |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$9,000 |
To develop a series of essays and illustrations, exploring my experiences of new motherhood, as a white settler, living on the Prairies. |
