| Leier, Tessa |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$12,247 |
Filming of a 10-to-15-minute screendance, entitled “ROVER,” which explores what the concept of home is and what it can mean to individuals and society collectively. |
| Rewuski, Lindsey |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$4,440 |
Support in presentation and transportation of works for first solo exhibition in March 2025 in Yorkton, SK. |
| Northern Saskatchewan International Children's Festival Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,260 |
We would like to attend the Festival and Event Management Masterclass for professional development of our staff. |
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. |
| Black Professionals and Entrepreneurs of Saskatchewan |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2024-2025 |
$5,725 |
Our festival is a multidisciplinary festival celebrating Black culture in Saskatchewan through music, fashion, and educational initiatives, fostering intercultural understanding and community engagement. |
| 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. |
| Wiebe Works Creative Productions Inc. |
Langham |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2024-2025 |
$5,725 |
Art in The Garden Festival: An annual celebration of Saskatchewan art and music, featuring local performers, artisans, and interactive experiences, fostering community and creative expression. |
City of Prince Albert
Jesse Campbell |
Prince Albert |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2024-2025 |
$15,300 |
Through peer support, curatorial guidance, and professional development, we continually develop artists' capacities to
build long-term community arts programming & projects for marginalized or underserved groups. |
| Afro Tribes Festival Incorporated |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2024-2025 |
$7,000 |
The 2025 Afro Tribes Festival grant proposal seeks support to celebrate African heritage, promote cultural exchange, and empower youth through arts, performances, and community engagement. |
Campus Regina Public
Joely Bigeagle-Kequahtooway |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2024-2025 |
$10,000 |
The collaborative art piece created from a buffalo hide will be displayed in the cultural classroom and will reflect students learning and connection with land. |
Ricketts, Kathryn
Sky Story Studio |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2024-2025 |
$2,500 |
Home and Away is a community building project integrating story, paint and movement towards a deeper understanding of our connections to place, relations and land |
Michael A. Riffel High School
Shaunna Dunn |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2024-2025 |
$15,000 |
Exploring theatre techniques to empower neurodiverse and neurotypical students, this project uses design and visual storytelling to reflect emotions, relationships, and foster empathetic collaboration. |
| Española, Aldeneil |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
A monthly drag show that runs for three months of winter (Dec-February or Jan-March) to give opportunities for the BIPOC Drag Artists of Saskatoon, |
St. Luke Alternative School
Lin Liu |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2024-2025 |
$7,000 |
Follow our development grant, using a variety of materials to discover student's artistic abilities, creativities and developing their all sense observation skills through art. |
| Porsandekhial, Narges |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
As part of an ongoing research, this project focuses on the multifaceted premise of bilingualism in artistic research and creation. |
| Ricketts, Kathryn |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
A residency at the Creative Barn on Salt Spring Island, B.C. exploring and completing the framing of a trilogy of scenes by my character Hal |
| 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. |
| Aurich, Romina |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$4,557 |
The project is to make professionally led circus training more accessible to people and to share our passion and discipline with the people around us. |
| 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 |
| Jack Millikin Centre, Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
We want to gather our community of artists and supporters to a visioning session for Art Alley, the next step for the Jack Millikin Centre. |
| Carlton Trail College - Four Winds Learning Centre |
Punnichy |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Carlton Trail College wants to work with an Indigenous Cultural Artist to learn about the buffalo and it's significant role in the First Nation worldview. |
| Bessai-Saul, William |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Experimental dance film based on my comic strip "Bird People,” from storyboarding, costumes, sets, rehearsals, filming, music, editing; to a finished live performance and movie. |
| Ewert Twa, Allison |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
I have been invited to Karachi, Pakistan to particiapate in the filming of Season 3 Pakkay Dost. I will be connecting with the other artists, |
| Dotson, Allan |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$18,000 |
This grant is to publish a graphic novel, and will include professional editorial, design, production and printing costs, as well as promotion of the book. |
| Sparrow, Don |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$9,200 |
I intend to create three interconnected comic book memoir stories, each with a unique visual or narrative style, to be published together in an anthology. |
Kozak, Kathryn
Town of Creighton |
Creighton |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2025-2026 |
$15,000 |
A mentorship and exhibition opportunity for emerging and established artists of the Northern Saskatchewan. |
| The Salt Shaker Festival |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2025-2026 |
$12,000 |
For general operating and program support. |
Core Neighbourhood Youth Coop
Muskwa Lerat |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2025-2026 |
$15,000 |
Future Artistic Minds is an Indigenous-run youth art collective providing accessible, anti-oppressive spaces. Amplifying youth voices, celebrating diversity, and challenging the status quo through art. |
Dittmann, Bethany
Spruce Ridge School |
Estevan |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2025-2026 |
$9,240 |
Provide an artist and school-collaborated theatre process creating space for students to self-express through inquiry, creativity and imagination while creating their own dramatic piece. |
| Read, Leanne |
SASKATOON |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$500 |
I will experiment with a player piano mechanism outside its traditional context, exploring motion through paint, light, and animation to visually represent its hidden sound. |
Association communautaire fransaskoise de Regina
Giselle Lemire |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2025-2026 |
$15,000 |
To offer writing workshops, performance training, to participants to present their work in a stage performance during the Mois de la Francophonie in March 2026. |
| 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. |
| Bradshaw, Ryan |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
Travel to New Zealand for two opportunities: performing and leading a workshop at the BurlesKiwi International Festival, and headlining at a monthly poetry night. |
| Westview Public School |
Prince Albert |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2025-2026 |
$30,130 |
Our resident would instruct a music, drama, and dance program in our school, since we that don't have a current music program in place. |
| Muskoday First Nation Community School |
Muskoday |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2025-2026 |
$26,630 |
The Artist in Residency will go classroom to classroom teaching music and poetry to the students every day for 5 months. |
| PAVED Art + New Media |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,301 |
Artistic Director to attend the Biennial national artist-run centre gathering "Against the Current", hosted by the Ottawa Art Gallery’s Alma Duncan Salon, AXENÉO7 and SAW. |
| Española, Aldeneil |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
I will study the "Bakla" culture of the Philippines through fabric paintings, fabric manipulation, styling and fashion design. |
| Nuit Blanche Regina Arts Festival Inc. |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2025-2026 |
$15,000 |
For general operating and program support. |
| Common Weal Community Arts Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2025-2026 |
$145,760 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Deaf Crows Collective |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2025-2026 |
$46,130 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Friends of the Broadway Theatre Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2025-2026 |
$46,130 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Sâkêwêwak First Nations Artists' Collective Inc. |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2025-2026 |
$69,810 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Station Arts Centre Cooperative |
Rosthern |
Multidisciplinary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2025-2026 |
$20,500 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Batycki, Kai |
St Denis |
Multidisciplinary |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2025-2026 |
$2,500 |
— |
| Campbell, Maria |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2025-2026 |
$18,000 |
Mahmaskatch Project, Phase One: kiyokiwin – visiting various people and communities in Saskatchewan and Alberta to share and record achimowina (stories) for future podcast series |
| Cuthand, Shawn |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2025-2026 |
$10,000 |
I would like to take a script I have developed and edit/format it to make into a PSA comic book about addictions. |
| Stratton, Tara |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$700 |
A 7-day poi retreat with mentor Nick Woolsey to advance in flow arts, dance, and performance, aiming for mastery and artistic growth. |
| Association of Manitou Arts & Cultures Inc. |
Manitou Beach |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2025-2026 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and program support. |
| Artesian Performing Arts Inc. |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2025-2026 |
$18,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Community Arts Mentorship Program Incorporated |
Asquith |
Multidisciplinary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2025-2026 |
$18,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Creative City Centre Inc. |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2025-2026 |
$12,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Darke Hall Society Inc. |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2025-2026 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Moose Jaw Cultural Centre Inc. |
Moose Jaw |
Multidisciplinary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2025-2026 |
$14,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| On Cue Performance Hub |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2025-2026 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| The Dekker Centre for the Performing Arts |
North Battleford |
Multidisciplinary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2025-2026 |
$7,500 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Bigeagle-Kequahtooway, Joely |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2025-2026 |
$10,000 |
To interview 13+ matriarchs to ask questions about the important matriarchs in their life. Lessons learned and future visions/hope for future and their legacies. |
| Cultural Festivals |
Swift Current |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2025-2026 |
$30,000 |
For general operating and program support. |
| Northern Saskatchewan International Children's Festival Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2025-2026 |
$42,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Queer City Cinema Inc. |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2025-2026 |
$32,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Mikhaylova, Evgenia |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
Recipe Recital is a live performance production on the affects of olfactory and sonic vocabulary on environmental perception. |
| Sieminska-Hauck, Gabriela |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
— |
| Caudillo, Kiela |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
A multidisciplinary Spanglish show: Visuals and Sounds of a Latino American settler in Canada.
An colourful exhibit of art, Paper-Mache sculptures and a musical performance. |
| Bigeagle-Kequahtooway, Joely |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$750 |
To attend ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival June 4 - 6, 2025 in Toronto as part of a contingency for Buffalo Futurism app |
| Janze, Rachel |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
Travel to - and within - the Gitxsan nation to share in learning to sustainably harvest planting tannins for barktanning animal and salmon skins. |
| Wu, I-Ying |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
This project develops and presents Subtlety, a multidisciplinary improvisational performance featuring artists trained in my Daoist-inspired approach, aiming to share the practice with the community. |
| Jeyadharshan, Ajantha |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
"Reviving Roots: Tamil Folk Dance Initiative”
This project aims to preserve and promote traditional Tamil folk dances, fostering cultural appreciation and community engagement. |
| Lagria, Jun Yves |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
Create a fall programming, September to November of Bahay Kubo, a Filipinx drag collective, a monthly drag showcases the BIPOC drag artists of Saskatoon. |
| Kakakaway, Torrie |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
Travel to Poundmaker Cree Nation for a PISL workshop that will directly inform a new theatrical work told entirely through Indigenous and Deaf visual languages. |
| Butler, Ciel |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
Entertaining and diversifying Saskatoon's Fringe Festival 2025 by funding the inclusion of Saskatoon-based drag performers on their all ages, free outdoor stage. |
| Mathieu, Véronique |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
Present a concert featuring works by women composers with commentary prepared by a musicologist, and offer music workshops for students. |
| Saskatoon Jazz Society Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2019-2020 |
$29,950 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Regina Symphony Orchestra Inc. |
Regina |
Music |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2019-2020 |
$197,440 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Saskatoon Opera Association |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2019-2020 |
$30,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Saskatoon Symphony Society |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2019-2020 |
$150,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| W3APONS |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$12,000 |
Our project is a 5 month writing period that will include collaborations with notable songwriters John-Angus MacDonald (The Trews) and Clayton Bellamy (The Road Hammers). |
| Lynch, Rory |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$6,000 |
Compose pieces designed to strengthen and diversify my band's repertoire, including a series of blues compositions and several stand-alone pieces. |
| 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. |
| Per Sonatori |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$11,504 |
Per Sonatori will be presenting two concerts as part of their 11th season, as well as workshops for both professional and emerging musicians. |
| 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. |
| Pooyak, Roberto |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Indigenous/Metis Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$7,500 |
15-17 Track Reggae & Hip Hop album following two previously released albums. |
| Rosie & the Riveters |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
This project is to write 60 new songs, the best 12 of which will be recorded on Rosie & the Riveters’ next album. |
| Straker, Jeffery |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$4,000 |
This project will see me compose music and lyrics for 10 new songs, between May 1 and June 30 2019 |
| Cafferata, Skyler |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
To record 4 new studio-quality songs with my band (The Faps) which will be released as digital singles throughout 2019. |
| Fletcher, Étienne |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,500 |
This project is to fund the creation of a new full-length album for Étienne Fletcher which will be released in 2020. |
| 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. |
| Elixir Ensemble |
Riverside Estates |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,814 |
To present a series of three concerts in Saskatoon, featuring the Elixir Ensemble and guests. |
| Gebremichael, Elsa |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
To write and co-produce songs that incorporate traditional Ethiopian elements combined pop / rock elements with producer XSDTRK for my debut Wild Black album. |
| Johnson, Omar |
Regina |
Music |
Indigenous/Metis Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$7,500 |
This project will produce an album. Utilizing a 4 part method. I.e Locale sampling, sound sculpting, sound generation, sound pallet programming, plus composition. |
| Rathgeber, Carolyn |
Regina |
Music |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2019-2020 |
$1,500 |
— |
| Saskatchewan Jazz Festival Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2019-2020 |
$70,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Saskatoon Jazz Orchestra |
Saskatoon |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Regina Folk Festival Inc. |
Regina |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2019-2020 |
$85,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Northern Lights Bluegrass and Old-Tyme Music Society, Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2019-2020 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Prairie New Music Festivals Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Bengough Municipal Arts Council Inc. |
Bengough |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2019-2020 |
$25,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Ness Creek Cultural and Recreational Society, Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2019-2020 |
$50,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Bellegarde, Bradley |
Regina |
Music |
Indigenous/Metis Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$4,487 |
To write 6 songs, all stories with Indigenous relevance for an EP with the working title, "Rediculous Stories". |
| Froc, Benton |
Regina |
Music |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
— |
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. |
| Clinton Ackerman Music |
Regina |
Music |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$5,103 |
Students will practice mindfulness and independence in creative music practices, creating wind chimes while exploring different acoustic environments in Regina. |
