| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| BTWN Magazine |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,706 |
To complete an end-of-year print run and subsequent virtual launch of Issue 2, Volumes 1-3 of BTWN Magazine. Printed at Saskatoon’s Globe Printers. |
| 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. |
| Ferraton, Dominique |
Gravelbourg |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$10,000 |
To complete and release a 5-part audio piece exploring our relationship with water in Southwestern Saskatchewan. |
| Ferraton, Dominique |
Gravelbourg |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$9,827 |
To complete first drafts of a 5-part audio piece exploring our relationship with water in Southwestern Saskatchewan. |
| Petit, Marcel |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$15,000 |
To complete footage for a documentary film on local Queer Seniors by interviewing queer non-Indigenous senior citizens & Two-Spirit Indigenous Elders on the Prairies |
| 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". |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| Silverthorne, Judith |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$10,423 |
To complete the Walking the Prairies manuscript, an innovative AR fusion of nature photographs, videos, and thought-provoking notes to share as a hand-held visual experience. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| McFadzean, Credence |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$5,769 |
To continue drafting a manuscript of connected stories inspired by American slasher films from the seventies, eighties, and onward. |
| 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. |
| Badger, Joanne |
Sturgeon Lake |
— |
Share and Connect |
2024-2025 |
$16,834 |
To continue teaching the art of porcupine quillwork at an intermediate level on the Sturgeon Lake First Nation, Saskatchewan. |
| 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 |
2024-2025 |
$7,500 |
To continue to draft and revise poems for a manuscript exploring the interconnectedness of the self and the natural world. |
| Fenrich, Miguel |
Battleford |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$6,000 |
To continue work on a contemperary coming-of-age novel '273 Days' with the intention of finishing a first draft to be committed to further development. |
| Lorer, Danica |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$7,500 |
To continue work on a short story collection "Out Loud, Softly" with the intention of finishing and finding a publisher. |
| Hambrock, Meredith |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$8,000 |
To continue working on my short story collection. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Thistledown Press Ltd. |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
To cover expenses of Thistledown Press’ transition in ownership. |
| Okemaysim, Aren |
Regina |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
To cover partial costs of rehearsal time and travel for okimawᐅᑭᒪᐤ to participate in BreakOutWest 2024 (hosted by WCMA) in Saskatoon, SK. |
| 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. |
| Bennett, Andrew |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$7,500 |
To create 8 new ambient tracks using only my voice. |
| Ouellette, Dianne |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2024-2025 |
$15,000 |
To create a 10-12 minute short film that explores similar Métis and Oneida family histories through
storytelling, as I learn to bead. |
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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Romero, Alejandro |
Battleford |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$12,941 |
To create a new body of work: Virgen Barbuda de los Queers, examining queer identity from historic and cultural rituals. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Jasper Cultural & Historical Centre |
Maple Creek |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$2,000 |
To create an exhibition of art by those who have endured a major trauma and have used art to process pain, grief, abuse and neglect |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Willick, Tayah |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
To create and perform choreography in “Rhythm Dust”, a Saskatchewan based contemporary dance show fusing dance works with electronic music, DJ mixes, and video projections. |
| 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. |
| Bernbaum, Joel |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$12,000 |
To create and share a new verbatim theatre play with music about the Gaza / Israel conflict and impact on people here in Saskatchewan. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Bennett, Andrew |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$7,000 |
To create at instrumental works catered toward use in film trailers. |
| 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). |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Angus, Meagan |
Turtleford |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
To create multiple cosplay costumes inspired by my Indigenous background for Tik Tok content and for future cosplay conventions. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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." |
| Atkins, Amalie |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$15,000 |
To create the March chapter for Agatha's Almanac, an ongoing 16 mm documentary film and experiment with eco-processing and rayograms. |
| Mackasey, Michèle |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$18,000 |
To create two Memory-bottle-portraits commemorating lost family members, using tiny glass bottles filled with coloured transparent liquid; a pixelated process resulting in two-dimensional sculptural works. |
| Silverthorne, Judith |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$14,400 |
To create Walking the Prairies, an augmented reality photographic book combining still nature photographs, videos, and thought-provoking notes to share as a hand-held visual experience |
| Cameron, Heather |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$18,000 |
To create “helix” - a 10 minute contemporary dance duet in collaboration with acclaimed contemporary music composer Nicole Lizée. |
| Harpham, Lindsay |
Tisdale |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
To create, present and promote my contemporary dance choreography and provide an artistic opportunity for a Saskatchewan based emerging artist by producing a dance film. |
| Martin, Monique |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
To create/install/exhibit "Context is Everything" decals with The Works Art and Design Festival in Edmonton at the Edmonton Tower. |
| Favel, Floyd |
Paynton |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$5,751 |
To create/present, a multi-disciplinary performance 'Following the Medicine', (Live accompanied with AV technology), of the story of Peyote's arrival into Saskatchewan in the 1930's. |
| Benjamin, Paul |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To debut my new Cultural Intelligence photo exhibition "Exploring CQ" at the Warman public library during the month of January. |
| Merasty, Marcus |
Regina |
Dance |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2023-2024 |
$7,500 |
To deepen my creative process and performance skills through realizing a dance-based performance work informed by traditional Indigenous art practices, choreographed by Robin Poitras. |
| Baerwaldt, Wayne |
Assiniboia |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
To deliver a public lecture on Zachari Logan's work and visit Verona's renowned Palazzo Giusti to begin to co-curate Logan's solo exhibition for April, 2021. |
Eden Care Communities Foundation Inc.
Misty Wensel |
Regina |
Dance |
Artists in Communities |
2022-2023 |
$20,000 |
To deliver innovative intergenerational dance programming to residents of Eden Care Communities involving creative dance workshops, adaptive movement, exploration, youth participation and intergenerational performance. |
Eden Care Communities Foundation Inc.
Heather Cameron |
Regina |
Dance |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$18,000 |
To deliver innovative multigenerational programming to Eden Care Communities involving creative dance, musical exploration and capturing the process through the creation of a music video. |
| Friends of the Saskatoon Afforestation Areas Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To develop a cultural/artistic team including Indigenous language groups in Treaty 6 that can contribute to GPS interpretive app stories for the Saskatoon afforestation area |
| Johnson, Ashley |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$4,700 |
To develop a peer led somatic learning space to support the transition back to in person dancing with Ashley Johnson and Johanna Bundon. |
Free Flow Dance Theatre Company
Integrated Dance Artist Collective |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
To develop a regional community of professional contemporary dancers through creative practice with choreographer Shannon Litzenberger, toward creating a performance installation at the Remai Modern. |
| Phelps Bondaroff, Amber |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$7,000 |
To develop a series of essays and illustrations, exploring my experiences of new motherhood, as a white settler, living on the Prairies. |
| 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. |
