| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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). |
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. |
| Meneley, Barbara |
Val Marie |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$13,724 |
To develop, document and disseminate my project "Soil." |
| Garez, Simon |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$5,500 |
To develop, write, and storyboard my debut feature-length bilingual screenplay. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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). |
