| Berglund, Melanie |
Regina |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
A three-day song writing workshop and song coaching session offered on Zoom by Grammy nominated songwriter, Mary Gauthier. |
| Lepage, Mario |
St. Denis |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$5,000 |
A two month musical "boot camp" aiming to improve my technical and creative music abilities. |
| Kinner, Monika |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$328 |
A wafer lightbox to transfer photos and line drawings to fabric for textile artwork, repeating patterns, layering designs and for composition placement & prep work. |
| Vogel, Kristian |
Regina |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
A week of dedicated Saxophone study at the Orford Music Academy; with lessons and masterclasses from one of the world's foremost authorities on classical saxophone. |
| Tushabe, Irene |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,500 |
A work of literary fiction that explores the moment when a young woman asserts herself outside the religious and cultural limits of her family. |
| Berenbaum, Jenna |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
A workshop and staged reading of my play 18 Jews Order Chinese food with 6 actors, a director, dramaturge and videographer. |
| Daniels, Kelly |
Cando |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2021-2022 |
$5,000 |
A workshop of deer hide preperation and hand drum making following protocol and the participants will learn ceremonial and social Cree songs and sacred stories. |
| Dufour Bowes, Arnolda |
Dalmeny |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2023-2024 |
$7,500 |
A written and/or audiovisual preservation of traditional northern Metis stories and songs. |
| Abrupt Dystopia |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$4,000 |
Abrupt Dystopia, a band formed during the Girls Rock Regina’s inaugural Adult Camp in March 2019, will be writing and recording their first album. |
| Tagseth, Martin |
Lake Lenore |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$905 |
Accept invitation to create new work with master ceramists
Robert Shay, Brad Schwiegger, Matt Long & Jeremy Kane at Red Lodge Center for the Ceramic Arts |
| Alvarez, Kris |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$14,410 |
Acknowledgement is a creative response to the impact that my current work of opening up about race has had on me. |
| Alvarez, Kris |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$15,500 |
Acknowledgement is a creative response to the impact that my current work of opening up about race has had on me. |
| Dynamic Video Imaging Corporation |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$4,000 |
Across the Hill is a short narrative film surrounding the life of an elderly woman as she struggles to live alone in a barren landscape. |
| Ahmed, Iftu |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$624 |
Adapt, rehearse and perform “Holloway”, originally an outdoor site specific contemporary dance performance, for Darke Hall, an indoor accessible venue in April 2023. |
| Daniels, Carol |
Regina Beach |
Multidisciplinary |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$2,500 |
Adding a cello to my performance would enhance my work. |
| Neutral Ground Inc. |
Regina |
Visual |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
Address the barriers to equity at Neutral Ground Artist-Run Centre through an in-depth anti-racism training program lead by Future Ancestors Inc. |
| Aden Bowman Collegiate |
Saskatoon |
— |
Artists in Schools |
2024-2025 |
$12,000 |
Aden Bowman Collegiate invites artist Rebecca La Marre for a mental health and ceramics residency, offering coaching, new firing techniques, and land knowledge integration. |
Moffatt, Kris
Mistawasis Nehiyawak High School |
Hepburn |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2021-2022 |
$40,000 |
Advance student school engagement using art as a means to strengthen language culture and expand student's spectrum of expression. |
F.W. Johnson Collegiate
Holly Yuzicapi |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$9,547 |
After multiple land-based explorations, students will prepare materials to use for traditional art forms to create four panels which examine connections between land and reconciliation. |
| Jodoin, Berkley |
Leader |
Music |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$7,500 |
Album of original music shedding light on problems facing aboriginal people today. Addiction, Mental Health, Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women |
| Hainsworth, Alexa |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$572 |
Alexa Hainsworth, " Tissue" fibre installation transforming BAM Gallery, into a space reminiscent of cells in the human body. |
| Gravelbourg Artisan Co-operative |
Gravelbourg |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$675 |
All local youth aged 5-18 are invited to participate in a public youth art exhibition. All art mediums will be accepted. |
Regina Folk Festival Inc.
Megan Nash |
Regina |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
All Our Relations choir, led by local musicians, will rewrite songs that shaped the labour movement and the RFF, culminating in a 50th anniversary performance. |
| Thorn, Elly |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$4,000 |
Allan Gilliland will arrange 4 of Elly Thorns original Christmas songs so that she can perform them with the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra Christmas 2019. |
| Harder, Kendra |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$5,500 |
Along with my librettist collaborator, orchestrating and editing my two chamber operas for future performances in Saskatchewan. |
| Kumar, Madhu |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$5,800 |
An adaptation of both new and existing paintings with the use of Augmented Reality and Audio content to create immersive storytelling and deepen audience experience. |
| Lesiuk, Dana |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,832 |
An animated 'fairy tale' symbolizing Ukrainian history, with vivid live-action rhythmic 'dream' sequences expressing the art of its diaspora juxtaposed with that of its homeland. |
| SK Theatre Design Festival |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
SaskFestivals |
2020-2021 |
$8,000 |
An annual theatre festival providing opportunities for professional designers to create, connect, and learn that features light and sound shows for the public. |
| SK Theatre Design Festival |
Vonda |
Theatre |
SaskFestivals |
2021-2022 |
$5,038 |
An annual theatre festival to provide opportunities for theatre designers to create, connect, and learn, featuring performances for the public in Saskatoon and Regina. |
| Marsolais, Tal |
Dalmeny |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2020-2021 |
$890 |
An artist-school collaboration to assess the potential for professional artists to support learning outcomes and youth activism by inspiring, teaching, and engaging students through art. |
Sum Theatre Corp.
Pleasant Hill Community Association |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Artists in Communities |
2020-2021 |
$20,000 |
An artistic inquiry process developed in the Pleasant Hill community, culminating in a documentary play. |
| Profit, Shavaun |
Eastend |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$18,000 |
An artistic response of personal reflections to the previous 3 years spent developing programming and facilitating art with individuals residing in Long Term Care. |
| Dale, Danielle |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$5,500 |
An exploration of food in the post-Anthropocene through sculpture and photography. |
| Bonneau, Devon |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$14,948 |
An Independent theatrical presentation of Billy Bishop Goes to War by John MacLachlan Gray |
Cameron, Ian
St. Augustine Community School |
Regina |
Music |
Artists in Schools |
2023-2024 |
$10,585 |
An integrated music education program comprised of in-class, regular school-hour sessions featuring creative components, cultural perspectives, and cross-curricular outcomes. |
| Feheregyhazi, Andrei |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,828 |
An interactive augmented reality experience that changes depending on how viewers engage with it. |
| Lenko, Timothy |
Caronport |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
An invitation has been extended to perform a concert at the Mae Wilson Theatre, but I have no advance funds to pay musicians for rehearsals. |
| Evan Hardy Collegiate |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Artists in Schools |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
An original theatre production about relevant issues in the lives of teens utilizing innovative theatrical performance and technology techniques with the guidance of Sam Kruger. |
| 25th Street Theatre Centre Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$2,000 |
Anita Smith, the Executive Director of 25th Street Theatre, will travel to Victoria, BC to attend the Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals conference. |
| Walliser, Carson |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$10,000 |
Application for funds to support myself and my devising partners as we develop "Annette is a Bimbo!" for RISER Regina 2023 |
| Umeh, Charles |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
Applying for the grant to assist me carry out post production of my short film Black Vision. |
| Fletcher, Étienne |
Regina |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
Applying for the Microgrant program to help fund a portion of the travel expenses for our 3 concerts in Eastern Canada in March 2022. |
| Warrington, Lauren |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
April 2021 Artist in Residence at Bridges Art Movement |
| St pierre, Peter |
Fond du lac |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2024-2025 |
$750 |
Art and craft projects related |
| Eastend Historical Museum & Cultural Centre |
Eastend |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Art as Healing workshops with people dealing with isolation facilitated by Artists in the Eastend SK area will be held September 1'18 to Feb.28'20 |
| Shahabadi, Mahboubeh |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$4,000 |
Art gallery portraying traditional Persian mosaic patterns and design. Providing a unique opportunity to explore the ancient history of Iran through an artistic lens. |
The Gallery/Art Placement Inc.
Biofeedback Art Collective |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2021-2022 |
$20,000 |
Art Placement and Biofeedback will execute a series of relational projects, workshops, and networking events that will connect, support, and strengthen the Saskatoon artistic community. |
Stonhouse, David
Bridges Art Movement |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2020-2021 |
$6,408 |
Artist David Stonhouse is working with newcomer youth from Open Door Society to learn and create artwork that will lead to an exhibition at BAM |
| Bellefleur, Stephanie |
Willow Bunch |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
Artist has been invited to travel to London - England, United Kingdom to create a piece of Contemporary Public Art. |
| Caudillo, Kiela |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$690 |
Artist is a performing vocalist requiring a wireless microphone to improve stage performances and vocal sound. |
| Wirtz, Kayanna Rae |
Prince Albert |
Visual |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$1,500 |
Artist is needing to update aging computer for design work, iPad will be able to speed up work flow to allow for more projects. |
25th Street Theatre Centre Inc.
Laura Hale |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Artist Laura Hale will engage the attendees of the 2020 Fringe Festival to create a large-scale, outdoor art installation over the course of ten days. |
The Ability Hub YXE
Rebecca La Marre |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2022-2023 |
$39,000 |
Artist led workshops at The Ability Hub and OUT Saskatoon Pride home. Rebecca will bring the workshop to 3 diversity focused organizations outside of Saskatoon. |
| Ecole Vickers Public School |
Prince Albert |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
Artist Monique Martin and my grade fours will visually represent butterfly pollinators to educate other students as we build possibilities toward a future grant. |
La Marre, Rebecca
North Saskatchewan Independent Living Centre Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
Artist Rebecca La Marre proposes to both collaborate with and provide artistic programming to clients at the North Saskatchewan Independent Living Centre. |
La Marre, Rebecca
North Saskatchewan Independent Living Centre Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2021-2022 |
$10,000 |
Artist Rebecca La Marre proposes to both collaborate with and provide targeted services to clients at the North Saskatchewan Independent Living Centre. |
The Ability Hub YXE
Rebecca La Marre |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2021-2022 |
$45,000 |
Artist Rebecca La Marre proposes to collaborate with and provide workshops for clients at the North Saskatchewan Independent Living Centre and Out Saskatoon Pride Home. |
| Bellefleur, Stephanie |
Willow Bunch |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Artist Stephanie Bellefleur will conduct community research as part of development for a mural project, Spring 2024. |
| Oxbow Prairie Horizons School |
Oxbow |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2020-2021 |
$1,166 |
Artist Terri Fidelak will work alongside Oxbow Prairie Horizons School to design a longer-term project involving a large interactive 2D/3D-relief artwork for Oxbow’s Main Street. |
Maverick School
Theo Houghtaling |
Swift Current |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2022-2023 |
$13,217 |
Artist Theo Houghtaling will work with students on a zine project in three parts: individual perzines, a collaborative group zine, and group community dispatch. |
| Lebel, Emilie |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$929 |
Artistic development at the Banff Center for Arts and Creativity through Entr'Arts, a francophone multidisciplinary art program. |
Ecole St. Pius X
Chancz Perry |
Regina |
Dance |
Artists in Schools |
2020-2021 |
$20,000 |
Artists Chancz Perry and Ashley Johnson will develop innovative programming in kindergarten classrooms focusing on cross-curriculum, self-regulation, and cross-cultural learning experiences, through dance and music. |
Art Gallery of Regina Inc.
Linda Duvall |
Regina |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2020-2021 |
$20,000 |
Artists Linda Duvall (SK) and Jillian McDonald (MB/NY) will lead a community-engaged artwork and residency that responds to historical, cultural and discipline-specific approaches to excavation. |
| Fulcher Gagnon, Jesse |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,885 |
As a recent graduate of the MFA Studio Art program at the UofS, I hope to continue exploration of my practice and strengthen my portfolio. |
| Smith, James |
Muskoday |
— |
Share and Connect |
2022-2023 |
$10,000 |
Ask younger indigenous people what they think about Art. Show them how to develop these ideas ranging from educational, spiritual experiences, hardships, beauty nature, aspirations. |
| Gauthier, Jean-Sébastien |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
Assistance to attend Emma Collaboration 2022, July 27th - August 4th, 2022, Big River, Saskatchewan. |
| Morrow, Nicole |
Fort Qu'appelle |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$800 |
Attend a Caribou Hair Tufting class and learn this medium to incorporate in my own work. |
| Epp, Carole |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$5,000 |
Attend a ceramic residency at The Skopelos Foundation for the Arts to research ancient Greek vase painting and make contemporary narrative political pottery. |
| Toppings, Tyler |
Regina |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
Attend a mask and baby clown intensive hosted by John Turner. |
| Marchand, Laureen |
Val Marie |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Attend a residency October 25 to November 8 where I will focus on my current project, reset my practice, and connect with other artists. |
| Stebner, Jacob |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$380 |
Attend and participate in four unique virtual events, 1 festival and 3 conventions, for my professional development as Editor in chief of Hexagon SF Magazine. |
| Jodoin, Berkley |
Leader |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
attend and showcase at the Canadian Folk music awards in Vancouver, British Columbia |
| Hobsbawn-Smith, Denise |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
Attend Awards Ceremony for Taste Canada Book Awards in Toronto. My book, Bread & Water, is a finalist in Culinary Narratives category. |
| Kovach, Jaye |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Attend Buddies in Bad Times’ Rhubarb Festival to showcase my performance 'I don’t want to see or be seen by cis people' |
| Cottin, Lindsay |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Attend Dance Immersion/Dance for Fall North as a soloist and Artist-In-Residence under New Dance Horizons
in order to curate, program and present contemporary dance Saskatchewan. |
| Wolfe, Aurora |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Attend Emma Lake Artist Collaboration residency in summer 2024. |
| Redding, Katlyn |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,500 |
Attend Midwest Band Clinic for world-class professional development, networking, community building and rejuvenation of self and teaching / creating practice. |
| Kinner, Monika |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$908 |
Attend my first artist residency, enrich my artistic language of Prairie by deep-diving into botany, ecological research, ecoprinting, dying, regeneration, plant medicine, communication, pollination. |
| Hagel, Mandie |
Regina |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Attend Sage Hill Spring Poetry Colloquium. |
| McCullam-Arnal, Caitlin |
Eastend |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$595 |
Attend Sage Hill Writing, Fiction Summer Course, to work on a draft of a novel in progress. |
| Friesen, Rilla |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$745 |
Attend Sage Hill Writing, Summer Nonfiction Course, online with Michelle Good. |
| Redding, Katlyn |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,500 |
Attend the British Columbia Music Educators Association Conference in Richmond, BC from October 18th - 22nd 2023. |
| Giesbrecht, Jessica |
Swift Current |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Attend the CANSCAIP Packaging Your Imagination 2023 Conference in person by traveling to Toronto. |
| Schwab, Jordan |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$3,486 |
Attend the late winter residency to research the relationship of scale, isolation and space in a geographically contrasting location to the prairies. |
| Tenold, Darla |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
Attend the Sage Hill spring fiction colloquium facilitated by Marina Endicott. |
| Tenold, Darla |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$858 |
Attend the St. Peter's College Colloquium with Tim Lillburn and Sheri Benning, followed by a five-day SWG individual retreat. |
| Glenn, Allyson |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Attend three-month NARS Foundation International Residency, in New York City, NY, USA |
| Dufresne, Gabrielle |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$350 |
Attending a two-week Masterclass on puppetry, offered in French by the Association des Théâtres Francophones du Canada and the École Nationale |
| Benjamin, Paul |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$4,400 |
Attending Colombian and South American private music master classes by drum instructor Juan David Castano at the Berklee Satellite campus EMMAT in Bogota, Colombia. |
| Garcia-Luna, Gabriela |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Attending EMMA International Collaboration 2024 residency to work among 100 invited national and international artists in the setting of the Saskatchewan boreal forest. |
| Bluemke, Cat |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
Attending Professional Writing for Visual Artists Summer Bootcamp (online course), taught by Faith Holland and Liz Sales, to improve writing components of my practice |
| Burnt Thicket Theatre |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$2,000 |
Audio Drama Podcast Research, Development & Market Test: to sustainably produce audio drama as an ongoing storytelling platform for SK artists with digital distribution. |
| Aurora Voce |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$2,000 |
Aurora Voce choral commission for their "North" performance in collaboration with composer Carmen Braden from the Northwest Territories. |
| Lumsden High School |
Lumsden |
Literary |
Artists in Schools |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
Author visits to explore the power of reading and writing fiction to help us to better understand our world outside and within. |
| Former Lovers the Band |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Band recording retreat, one week of recording with the intent on creating an album for fall release and promotional photo and video. |
| Bear's Song Collective |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,225 |
Bear's Song Collective is invited for an multi-media art installation at Apophony Press in Saskatoon SK from September 8 to 16, 2022. |
| Scott, Tallus |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
Become more proficient in singing and guitar by participating in lessons with Scott Patrick before summer when I have an increase in playing gigs. |
| Kardash, S.J. |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$8,000 |
Between November - April we will be writing new songs for future release under Reignwolf. |
Bradley, Bevin
Bethlehem School |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2021-2022 |
$8,700 |
Bevin Bradley will work with the Alt. Education class at Bethlehem high school through a series of art workshops to create an student handbook resource. |
| Big River Metis Local #59 |
Big River |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Big River Metis Local would like to have a cultural mural painted on the west wall of our 50 year old heritage theater. |
