| Deaf Crows Collective |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$9,000 |
The project will develop the ASL/English script, puppetry, and ASL poetry, and present a workshop reading of "1000 Ladders Down" with a small ensemble. |
| George Heese, Tracey |
Regina |
— |
Share and Connect |
2022-2023 |
$10,000 |
The project will have three components; an artist residency, a 3 session workshop circles and exhibition of final pieces. For the personal residency, I will focus on on the creation of a Treaty 4 Dress that reflects on my ancestors who were signatories of the Treaty 4 document. |
Wildeman, Tatum
Father Megret High School |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Artists in Schools |
2023-2024 |
$20,000 |
The project will provide youth access to dance for promotion of mental health through connection, celebration of culture, and foster expression of grief and trauma. |
| Lloydminster Museum + Archives |
Lloydminster |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2022-2023 |
$800 |
The project would bring in an artist featured in the upcoming Dimensions exhibit to speak about/demonstrate their artistic process and their exhibition application process. |
| Minahik Waskahigan Elementary School |
Pinehouse Lake |
— |
Artists in Schools |
2023-2024 |
$32,000 |
The proposal for the residency would be the instruction of the program they will be presenting to the students as a whole class or groups. |
| Scott, Tallus |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$5,000 |
The proposed grant is to study with renowned drum educator Dave Elitch in his studio in Los Angeles. |
| Maxwell, Aralia |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
The proposed grant will help to fund fees and expenses for my participation in the Alchemy Artist Residency in Hillier, ON in August 2019. |
| Carrier, Sarah |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
The purchase of a film camera to take photographs that will be used in my short-form documentary. |
| Free Flow Dance Theatre Company |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
The purpose of this project is to perform technological upgrades to improve our ability to deliver programming and content online via video and live streaming. |
| QuarterTones Flute Ensemble |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$8,600 |
The QuarterTones Flute ensemble will work in collaboration with emerging composer, Makenzie Hay to create a work for flute trio. |
| Okemaysim, Aren |
Regina |
Music |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2021-2022 |
$10,000 |
The recording and engineering of 14 original songs for my debut solo music project, “Okimaw”. |
Moffatt, Kris
Mistawasis Nehiyawak High School |
Hepburn |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2022-2023 |
$40,000 |
The Residency is to provide the students and teachers of Mistawasis Nêhiyawak with access and support to professional art resources. |
Riversdale Community Association
Jasmyn Albert |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$17,000 |
The Riversdale Community Association seeks to hire three Ribbon-Skirt Designers to teach our residents how to sew their own, and showcase those skirts around Riversdale. |
City of Prince Albert
Jesse Campbell |
Prince Albert |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2022-2023 |
$15,000 |
The second phase of the Prince Albert AiC project that develops the model of supporting artists to build long-term arts programming, relational projects, and residencies. |
| The Sketchy Bandits |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$5,205 |
The Sketchy Bandits will spend five days creating a series of sketch comedy skits intended for theatrical production using devised theatre and traditional writing techniques. |
| Prairie New Music Festivals Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2022-2023 |
$8,000 |
The Strata Festival of New Music is a 3 day festival featuring newly composed music by beginner, emerging and established Canadian and Saskatchewan composers. |
| Prairie New Music Festivals Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$8,000 |
The Strata Festival of New Music is a 3 day festival featuring newly composed music by beginner, emerging and established Canadian and Saskatchewan composers. |
Martin, Monique
St. Anne School |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2022-2023 |
$13,309 |
The students will create an installation artwork for Nuit Blanche that uses lighting and plastic containers, and organize a community participation project at the event. |
| Knutson, Cole |
North Battleford |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$5,000 |
The study and performance of lieder and opera in Europe and the prairies ie. lessons with professional coach, and concerts in the prairies. |
| Prairie Spirit Connection |
Regina |
— |
Share and Connect |
2024-2025 |
$10,000 |
The teepees will be centralized for teaching, ceremony, song, providing connection to heritage, for families, children, youth, and foster parents to experience culture connections. |
| Fight or Flight Theatre |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$8,000 |
The Unforgettables has been selected for Live Five Independent Theatre’s upcoming season. This grant will help us pay our artists a living wage. |
| Hutchinson, Jonathan |
Saskatooon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
The Uplift Duo will be recording a Christmas album, and putting on a Christmas concert in December showcasing music from the album, and special guests. |
| Wolseley Public Library |
Wolseley |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
The Wolseley Public Library would lead a cultural inventory research project and offer trial programs to assess current community needs and services. |
| Dancing Sky Theatre Inc. |
Meacham |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,650 |
The world premiere of THE CURST by Kelley Jo Burke, music by Library Voices, including projections and complex sound design. Developing new personal artistic skills. |
| Lavoy, Landon |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$3,473 |
The Year Long Ukrainian Dance Immersion Program allows dancers to spend a year in Ukraine training and performing with five unique, professional Ukrainian Dance ensembles. |
Chokecherry Studios
Zoe Slusar |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2021-2022 |
$20,000 |
This 11-month project will offer youth facing multiple barriers with weekly programming to explore mental health through creative writing, music production and spoken word poetry. |
Reimer, Joel Dash
Chokecherry Studios |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2022-2023 |
$10,000 |
This 12 week project will provide young male participants with hip hop skills as a form of expression for a tandem project on healthy masculinity. |
Art Gallery of Regina Inc.
Ashley Johnson |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2024-2025 |
$9,000 |
This 2-part project (Experiences of difference and health through art & Forum co-creation) offers marginalized communities transdisciplinary experiences of the body, health, & self. |
| Bogan, Jillian |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$400 |
This application is for shipping costs of my painting to the Chianciano Biennale in Chianciano in Italy. I have already been accepted. |
| The Salt Shaker Festival |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2019-2020 |
$7,000 |
This application is seeking funding for the Manitou Boogaloo, a 2-day multi-media arts festival set in the community of Manitou Beach on July 10-11th, 2020. |
| The Salt Shaker Festival |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2024-2025 |
$8,000 |
This application is seeking funding for the Salt Shaker Festival, a 3-day multi-media arts festival set in Manitou Beach on July 11th-13th, 2025. |
| The Salt Shaker Festival |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$8,000 |
This application is seeking funding for the Salt Shaker Festival, a 3-day multi-media arts festival set in Manitou Beach on July 12th-14th, 2024. |
| The Salt Shaker Festival |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2022-2023 |
$5,000 |
This application is seeking funding for the Salt Shaker Festival, a 3-day multi-media arts festival set in Manitou Beach on July 7-9. 2022. |
| Keating, Bridget |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$5,000 |
This application requests financial assistance from the Saskatchewan Arts Board for the development of Culling Season, my second book of poetry. |
| Solheim, Krista |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$11,077 |
This application seeks funding to support the commission of a new 20 minute Contemporary dance solo by Robin Poitras and Edward Poitras. |
| Cameron, Steph |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2021-2022 |
$15,300 |
This application supports 6 months of song-writing, engaging my artistic process, demoing songs for my 4th studio album and expanding my live original repertoire. |
Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery
Brianna LaPlante |
Moose Jaw |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2024-2025 |
$40,691 |
This Artist & Curator-in-Residence at the MJM&AG will engage in Indigenous cultural programming with the community through our Indigenous collections, creative learning and partnerships. |
| Okihcihtaw, Marc |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2022-2023 |
$7,500 |
This collaboration will bring together various traditional music artists and create an album/collection of traditional and social hand drum songs. |
| Seidel, Louise |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$1,899 |
This computer is powerful enough to design, run sound and projections along with dedicated graphics with or without a tech booth for theatre productions. |
| Hainsworth, Alexa |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$7,500 |
This Creation Grant supports 3 months of materials and production of textile sculptures, which will be on display at Saskatchewan Craft Council in 2026. |
| My Humanitas Family Services |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Artists in Communities |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
This development project (MyHumanitas Dance Summer Camp) aims to help children develop creative dance skills and improve social interactions through dance training and movement activities. |
| Saskatchewan History and Folklore Society |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2021-2022 |
$998 |
This Development Project aims to design an innovative youth storytelling program that explores identity through painting, video, and sound. |
| City of Prince Albert |
Prince Albert |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
This development project would determine the interest and readiness for Artist in Residence projects in Prince Albert for the next 1-3 years. |
| My Humanitas Family Services |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Artists in Communities |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
This Fall Program 2022 aims to help children develop creative dance skills, character development and improve social interactions through dance training and movement activities. |
| Sun, Qiming |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
This funding is meant to support my year-long production of new artworks and the cultivation of many solo/group exhibitions during my 2024-25 Saskatoon Bunkhouse residency. |
| Hawkes, Nena |
Regina |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
This funding would support me in attending the Summer Intensive Program at Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre with a focus on Mask. |
| Berenbaum, Jenna |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$3,500 |
This grant is for the creation of four ten minute plays. I plan to take these pieces and pitch them to companies for further development. |
| Anderson, Charles |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$8,265 |
This grant is to complete an essay collection entitled POSTCARDS FROM THE PANDEMIC. |
| Roher, Amy |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,200 |
This grant is to continue editing and polishing my collection of short stories and developing new material, with the aim of eventually publishing a collection. |
| Peet, John |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$4,412 |
This grant is to cover materials, firings and studio costs, enabling me to development a new body of work for a solo exhibition. |
| Okemaysim, Aren |
Regina |
Music |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2023-2024 |
$4,470 |
This grant is to cover subsistence & living expenses while writing new music for my OKIMAW ᐅᑭᒪᐤ music project. |
| Bogan, Jillian |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$5,716 |
This grant is to finish a collection for exhibiting as well as do research travel with Alison Norlen, my mentor in the CARFAC mentorship program. |
| Akakpo, Senyo |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$10,400 |
This grant is to fund creating and exploration of urban dance technique and movement to be developed for a later stage show. |
| Baird, Gavin |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$6,000 |
This grant is to help fund the post-production of the horror short film, KLEE. |
| Francoeur, Paige |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$4,000 |
This grant money would be used to pay myself and a dramaturge to complete a new draft of my play. |
| Akintade-Oluwagbeye, Oluwaseun Peace |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
This grant supports the development and presentation of Ori Ara Emi, an Afro-centric exhibition and workshop blending Poet Laureate, Peace Akintade’s, visual and auditory poetry. |
| Campos, Yulissa |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
This grant will allow me to compensate the cast and crew for their work during the creative process of "I,Frida" featuring at the Fringe Festival. |
| Rowley, Mari-Lou |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$16,200 |
This grant will allow me to complete, revise and polish my manuscript Palingenesis, a poetic memoir of trauma, survival, revival and ultimately, redemption. |
| Bernbaum, Joel |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
This grant will allow me to purchase a new laptop , an essential tool to both my playwriting and artistic community building practice. |
| Mantyka, Drew |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
This grant will be to support the adapting and written of a new version of the play Arden of Faversham. |
| McKnight, Spencer |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$5,010 |
This grant will be to take significant time to develop and create the song recital "In Dreams". |
| Ifeanyiukachu, Uzochi Lolia |
Regina |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$750 |
This grant will be used to mix and master 4 songs which will be released on a 7 song EP |
| Chan, Marvin |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$3,500 |
This grant will be used to support singer-songwriter Merv xx Gotti in his recently accepted artist residency in Woodstock, NY. |
| Farnan, Colin |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
This grant will fund the development of an Artist in Residence project that partners professional artist Colin Farnan with the physical disability community of Saskatchewan |
| Whitecalf, Azby |
Gallivan |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
This grant will go sustenance and living fees while I develop paintings and drawings for a collective exhibition. |
| Fortier, Zoe |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$6,000 |
This grant will help fund the creative production of Latente, a Mexican-Canadian sound art intervention project produced through two artist-residencies. |
| Bradshaw, Ryan |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$750 |
This grant will partially fund the research and creation of a poetry collection focused on Saskatchewan birds and climate change. |
| Lehner, Katelyn |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$6,607 |
This grant would allow me to go on two seperate writing retreats, working alongside co-writers, to create music for my upcoming project. |
| Scott, Tallus |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$4,000 |
This grant would be to facilitate the development of Tallus Scott's proficiency at drumming, drum tuning, and electronically capturing the sound of the drums. |
| Coughlan, Conor |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$6,000 |
This grant would enable me to take a temporary leave from work and turn my primary focus towards songwriting and recording. |
| Sutherland, Dallas |
Rosthern |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2023-2024 |
$7,500 |
This grant would fund my short film project titled Noize, acquiring equipment, actors, and most importantly, crew members to make the film great. |
| Keighley, Ray |
Warman |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2020-2021 |
$12,000 |
This grant would produce 6 paintings and a wood carving. Dealing with the mystic animal and reconcilliation styles I work on with my art. |
| McNeill, Dean |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$2,500 |
This is a 2 part application:
1) Develop new web site for Dean McNeill
2) Support 'Edmonton Winds' (ensemble) European tour featuring McNeill as soloist. |
| Klassen, Vanessa |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
This is a 2-part project for which I will create new typeset editions of three selected clarinet works by Canadian composers, then record each one. |
| Cram, Kathie |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$2,142 |
This is a research project to better integrate the lived experiences of survivors of the military regimes in Bolivia 1964-1982 into my novel "Shedding Skin". |
| Test, System |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2024-2025 |
$10 |
This is a test. |
| Artesian Performing Arts Inc. |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$2,000 |
This is an application to secure partial matching funds for a City of Regina Grant to help upgrade our aging lighting equipment. |
| Antymniuk, Amber |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
This opportunity would allow me to work with students in a community school where they would write and illustrate their own children's book. |
| Friesen, Marcy |
Carrot River |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
This oversized depression moccasin is fully beaded outside and inside in blue shades representing tears will spread awareness on various factors associated with depression. |
| Boucher, Adreanna |
Prince Albert |
Theatre |
Artists in Communities |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
This pilot explores the viability of a long-term partnership with the P.A. Public Library to provide access to theatre programs and resources for local youth. |
| Oehlerking, Darrin |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
This project aims to rehearse and perform large chamber music for winds that requires a conductor. The performance will be video recorded. |
| Kyuubi Culture |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$2,000 |
This project aims to uplift and reinvigorates the stagnant Saskatchewan artist community under COVID lockdown through a virtual exhibition about creativity and enthusiasm. |
| Miyawata Culture Association Inc. |
Paynton |
Theatre |
SaskFestivals |
2022-2023 |
$8,000 |
This project an Indigenous Performance Festival which is multi cultural in practice and presentation. This festival includes local and international presenters. |
| Maier, Lenore |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$2,400 |
This project application will support my continued educational endeavors to learn new percussive styles through formal drum lessons and mentorship from Graham Templeman. |
| Maier, Lenore |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,920 |
This project application will support my endeavors to learn the education of new percussive styles through formal drum lessons and mentorship from Graham Templeman. |
| Nuit Blanche Saskatoon Contemporary Arts Festival Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
This project consists of a partnership with artist/architect Jason Surkan, Oxbow Architecture, Nuit Blanche Saskatoon to facilitate youth workshops in digital design and fabrication. |
Nuit Blanche Saskatoon Contemporary Arts Festival Inc.
Jason Surkan |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
This project engages youth to create an installation that explores how the rhythms and patterns of Métis tectonics can be translated through contemporary architectural design. |
| Skeard, Edith |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
This project explores passive and active audience collaboration and playfulness through through technology, installation, and a durational, responsive, sound performance. |
| Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery |
Moose Jaw |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$2,000 |
This project features contemporary dance in response to Leesa Streifler's exhibition to bridge dance and visual arts while promoting community building and engagement. |
| Wu, I-Ying |
Regina |
Dance |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
This project invites artists to train in my Daoism-inspired improvisation practice, exploring how this approach can be a training method for diverse cultural backgrounds. |
| Brayshaw, Cody |
Prince Albert |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$650 |
This project is a small literature review regarding sustainability in theatre to enhance my career, my academic research profile, and promote arts sustainability. |
| Sun, Qiming |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
This project is a two-month-long, nature-based, interdisciplinary artist residency at the Drinkle mall in Saskatoon. The residency includes open studio visits and a final exhibition. |
| Duffy, Tarralik Adina |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2024-2025 |
$15,000 |
This project is an extension of my soft sculpture series about Inuit food that will be presented at a solo exhibition at Remai Modern. |
| Lazurko, Anne |
Weyburn |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$18,000 |
This project is for 5.5 months writing time, with one month of travel to Italy and Germany embedded, to complete my novel, One Woman. |
| Prairie Sky School |
Regina |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$756 |
This project is for a grade 6-8 class to learn basic wood shop skills by building shelves with woodworker Brian Gladwell. |
| Welbourne, Jordan |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
This project is for Jordan to participate the Ukrainian Art Song Project "Summer Institute", a week-long classical singing performance and artistic development intensive in Toronto. |
Prairie Sky School
Miriam Körner |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2024-2025 |
$5,872 |
This project is for students to collaboratively write, illustrate, and photograph two multi-media stories, inspired by the works of author/illustrator Miriam Korner. |
| Team Auroraman |
Humboldt |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$8,000 |
This project is for Team Auroraman to collaboratively create the 48 page graphic novel “The Adventures of Auroraman: Good Times in the Badlands” |
| Saskatoon Business College |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2021-2022 |
$750 |
This project is meant to assist students entering a very demanding health care field to reduce stress and promote self care through holistic art expression. |
| Dynamic Video Imaging Corporation |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$2,000 |
This project is meant to facilitate the travel and professional development of Dynamic Video Imaging Corporation for the "Eastern Oregon Film Festival". |
