| Young, Lyndsay |
Muskoday |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
I would like to paint and draw a few illustrations and or works for the community to showcase my art. |
| Francis, Jaron |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$2,750 |
To rehearse and stage the full-length drama 'Manuscript' by Paul Grellong, performing at the Refinery Arts & Spirit Centre Aug29-Sep1 and Sep5-8, 2019. |
| 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. |
| Checkley, Shauna |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$3,000 |
My project is a collection of short stories. These are adult level, literary fiction. My collection is an examination of personal decline and redemption. |
| Romero, Alejandro |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$2,696 |
#Sole_Purpose_a_glogal_interpretation_on_Islam is a ten day participatory art installation with components of Islamic culture including dance-performance art, fabric-fiber art, photography, audio-sound-light-projections, and re-purposed objects. |
| Richter, Jessica |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,326 |
"Einwanderer" is an installation project in an abandoned farmhouse that explores inter-generational, post-war German-Canadian identity and immigration. |
| Tucker, Peter |
Moose Jaw |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,000 |
“Defined by Otherness” is the creation of a body of work exploring the structure of identity for an upcoming exhibition of sculptural installations. |
| Bonneau, Devon |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$2,000 |
A Devised Theatre Creation project, engaging six Saskatchewan artists, exploring creative/innovative uses of movement, sound, and theatrical technology; and integrating them with traditional performance methods. |
| 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). |
| 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. |
| Fake Festival |
Bienfait |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$1 |
To put on a fake festival yada yada. |
| 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. |
| Worrell, Peggy |
Swift Current |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,500 |
To write a collection of linked short stories with the theme of contemporary rural and urban culture in prairie Canada. |
| Allard, Mark |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,000 |
A Graphic Art (graphic novel format) adaptation of the Icelandic saga known as The Saga of the Völsungs. |
| LaRiviere, David |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$3,400 |
Deliver paper at 12th annual Deleuze & Guattari Studies academic camp and conference, Royal Holloway, University of London, and apply research to collaborative project. |
| Bernbaum, Joel |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$5,000 |
To apprentice with Forklift Danceworks' Artistic Director Alison Orr on her new community engaged production of Givens Swims - the culmination of a 3-year residency. |
| Thurmeier, Tim |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$17,000 |
To produce a 45-60 minute documentary called The Great Train Reverie, which follows four Saskatchewan musicians who toured Eastern Canada by train. |
| Bates-Hardy, Courtney |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,740 |
To attend the Sage Hill Summer Poetry Workshop, where I will work on my second poetry manuscript, tentatively titled "The Anatomy of a Monster". |
| Scarrow, Kristine |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$6,000 |
Create a fiction young adult manuscript exploring organ donation and its potential impacts. |
| Wagner, Bernadette |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$3,169 |
To substantially revise and rewrite the mixed-genre manuscript, Unclear Future: Situating Uranium. |
| Hamel, Madonna |
Val Marie |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$6,500 |
Write 6 months, complete 2nd draft of novel "The Hem of the World' using monologue 'Mother's Apron' as template. All scenes outlined if not finished. |
| 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". |
| Neufeld, Travis |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$8,000 |
To support the writing and completion of a Saskatchewan-set feature film screenplay called Wildfire. |
| 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. |
| Harder, Kristel |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$4,466 |
To gain the professional skills necessary to develop "EmotionLoss", a comedic cabaret exploring mental health, through two workshops and a mentorship program. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Normand, Alexis |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,500 |
This project is to complete the research, development, and treatment plan for "Sing Me Home" – a 30-minute POV documentary. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Anderson, Bruce |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$9,000 |
Complete several large format and medium sized oil paintings as the beginning of two new series expanding on the concerns examined in my previous work |
| Goobie, Beth |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$12,000 |
To write a collection, titled lookin' for joy, that combines lyrical, narrative poetry with my experiences with spoken word/poetry slams. |
| 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. |
| Kuse, Stephanie |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$5,000 |
Developing technical quality and scope of abstract digital video art utilizing natural textures. |
| Bundon Pfeifer Henderson |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$12,000 |
A research-based creation term to develop a theatrical installation, influenced by the real life of Peter Tripp. |
| Ba, Flany |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$2,000 |
Intensive Afro-latin dance training program for teachers and performers focusing on styles and techniques difficult to encounter in North America (but widely available in Europe). |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| Penner, John J |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,000 |
The project entails the exploration and applicaiton of digital technology to the historic process of carbon printing. |
| Goodwyn, Amber |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$17,110 |
We are seeking funding for the collaborative production of an episodic experimental feminist science fiction musical called Porous (working title). |
| Froese, Robert |
Moose Jaw |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$15,000 |
Production of ceramic and wood installation work based on material and musical composition/improvisation for exhibition at the Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, February 2020. |
| 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. |
| Burnt Thicket Theatre |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$5,000 |
Script development & world premiere production of My Own Personal Jesus? by Tim Bratton |
| Epp, Carole |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,771 |
This grant covers the creation of a new body of politically themed functional ceramics and includes a one month residency at the Archie Bray Foundation. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| Hagan-Egyir, Rebecca |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$6,573 |
Development of second draft of novella, Kingdom of Waking Dreams. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Coflin, Caitlin |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$4,997 |
I will be travelling to Toronto to study Laban Movement Analysis and Bartenieff Fundamentals with Janet Kaylo and other certified instructors. |
| Hale, Laura |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$10,040 |
Time for creative exploration, investigation, experimentation, risk taking, discovery, dialogue and critique, development and creation of new artworks and works in progress. |
| 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. |
| Chabros, Diana |
Val Marie |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$5,000 |
Expand current body of work, (samskāra: Stories of Discernment), with ten large oil paintings for potential solo exhibition at mid-sized gallery venues in western Canada. |
| Burke, Kelley Jo |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,000 |
To write a production-ready draft of a musical "The Curst" in collaboration with Library Voices in preparation for a 2020 premiere with Dancing Sky Theatre. |
| Gonie, Jalisa |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,200 |
To train at the Manitoulin Conservatory and receive direction and dramaturgy from John Turner for a festival-length clown piece. |
| 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. |
| Blom, Monique |
Waldheim |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
To produce and perform "(In)terfertilization: Of Word and Flesh" at (UNAM) Encuentro 2019:The World Inside Out in Mexico City in June 2019. |
| Billingsley, Alyssa |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,309 |
Professional development at Manitoulin Conservatory for Creation and Performance of a solo bouffon show with Karen Hines and directorial mentorship under John Turner. |
| Exclamation Productions |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,750 |
Provide affordable and engaging professional musical theatre productions to rural Saskatchewan communities while expanding theatre viewing and performance opportunities in Regina and area. |
| 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. |
| Rice, Bruce |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,500 |
Poetry project travel and research; participation in solstice ceremonies and events, engagement with Indigenous people and other stewards of Ohio's Hopewell Earthworks. |
| Craig Penner, Josephine |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$5,000 |
Working under the mentorship of Rachela Abate (a senior artist in my field), I will spend time on research and professional development. |
| 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. |
| Payne, Laura |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$8,491 |
For the creation of work, including paintings and electronic media, for a solo exhibition at Galerie Roberston Arès, Montréal QC |
| Oh, Julie |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$12,000 |
To produce and present a new installation of objects for a confirmed solo exhibition at the Dunlop Art Gallery opening Fall 2019. |
| 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. |
| Wong, Wing Tak Nova |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$3,640 |
Presenting Historically Informed Performance of early and late Italian, French and German violin-harpsichord music, and Baroque dance step workshop, to the Saskatoon community. |
| Gereaux, Tara |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,369 |
To research and write the first draft of a novel about a Métis woman who reconnects with her cultural identity through beading. |
| 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. |
| Körner, Miriam |
Air Ronge |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
This project is to complete a first draft of the novel ‘Burnt’ , including travelling to the places the protagonist encounters in her journey. |
| Ramsay, Jessica |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$5,000 |
I plan to study with a teacher in Berlin who is both an incredible mentor and networker, but also specializes in teaching physiology of violin. |
| 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. |
| Wagner, Bernadette |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,914 |
To further develop, inform, and strengthen the hybrid manuscript, Unclear Future, with land-based information and experience. |
| Campbell, John |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,500 |
Funding to build and exhibit a body of kinetic sculptures responding to facial recognition. Confirmed exhibits in SK, ON; plus international residency and touring options. |
| Power, Kevin |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$3,000 |
A professional development project to work with Mr. Aaron Low (Toronto), Canada's renowned vocal coach for professional singers. Registration confirmed. |
| 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. |
| Lebel, Emilie |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$2,262 |
This project is to produce a short film for my song "Métamorphose" with Stephanie Kuse |
| Metcalfe, Shayne |
Waldheim |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,832 |
Complete post-production on my feature film. |
| Cummings Truszkowski, Sarah |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,500 |
Present a framed series of silkscreen and painted text-based works on paper to be shown at an Art Gallery of Regina group show in 2021. |
| Per Sonatori |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$14,496 |
Per Sonatori will be presenting three concerts as part of their 12th season, as well as workshops for both professional and emerging musicians. |
| Wilson, Nic |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,200 |
I will make an 8 hour video and several large photographic works that consider the emotional outcome and material culture of death and mourning. |
| Harpham, Lindsay |
Tisdale |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$2,700 |
I am applying for support to attend the Ate9 Intensive in Los Angeles this December. The study period provides new skills and valued mentorship. |
| Bonetto, Estelle |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$5,060 |
Faire « parler » les corps et les âmes à travers le prisme d'un miroir photographique et tenter de capturer leur essence, leurs mots et leurs images. |
| Megan Kent and Sara Kreuger |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$4,905 |
Megan Kent and Sara Kreuger want to further their study of Egyptian dance with master instructors at the Ya Salam Canada workshop in May 2020. |
| 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. |
| Wensel, Judy |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$14,000 |
To support a research and creation term to develop a new performance work called "The Last Children." |
| 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. |
| Kirchmeier, Kurt |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,000 |
To put together a short story collection of 18-20 pieces of speculative fiction for young readers. To be titled “Souls on Display & Other Stories.” |
| Billings, Terry |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$6,000 |
I plan to develop several years of video documentation of ponds into a form that can be exhibited. |
| Kazan, Lina |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$5,000 |
We will develop techniques of Flamenco duet performance (Dance & Guitar) by inviting two top artists specialists in the area to coach us. |
| 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. |
| Raine, Nathan |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$8,000 |
Principle photography for a short crime film about the dehumanizing effects of capitalism, set in cold and snowy Saskatoon. |
| Uzelman, Kara |
Nokomis |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$13,000 |
To support the production and exhibition of new work from October 2, 2019 to October 1, 2020. |
| Kuse, Stephanie |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$4,821 |
Three day artist residency in Quebec to workshop, develop and rehearse live visual set before departing on German tour in November and December. |
| Bernbaum, Joel |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$5,000 |
To travel to Australia and do an artistic apprenticeship with BIGhART - Australia's leading social arts and social change organization. |
| KSAMB Dance Company |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$9,955 |
Perfecting the technique of live amplification of dancers’ heartbeats and integrating the technique into a work in progress performance. |
| Wensel, Misty |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$10,534 |
To evolve the contemporary dance solo, Trails, with an ensemble of dancers. Taking a personal narrative and allowing it to grow into its next translation |
