| Prairie Roots Ensemble |
Lloydminster |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$3,103 |
We plan to produce three collaborative-focused concerts this year that include different members of the various unique art and music scenes in Saskatoon. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| McNeill, Dean |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$2,500 |
This is a 2 part application:
1) Develop new web site for Dean McNeill
2) Support 'Edmonton Winds' (ensemble) European tour featuring McNeill as soloist. |
| Kuzbik, Paul |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$9,000 |
To work with my band to adapt my debut solo album into a world class live show, and simultaneously write our follow up record. |
| Slow Down Molasses |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$6,000 |
To write, arrange and collaborate on a new album's worth of songs for the band Slow Down Molasses. |
| Nolan, Yvette |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$16,000 |
To produce The Art of War, an original play by Yvette Nolan at the Refinery in September 2020. |
| Ripplinger, Matthew |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,500 |
The Corrupted Spectrum is a creation project exploring possibilities in Technicolor processes combined with homemade photographic emulsion techniques. |
| Paoli, Loretta |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$9,060 |
Continuation and completion of a series of interactive installations, Take Hold. Combining painting, video projection and viewer participation, each installation provides an experience of connection. |
| Theatre Naught |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,378 |
We will enrich Saskatchewan's theatre ecology through the rehearsal and performance of Eugene O'Neill's magnum opus, the Pulitzer-winning classic drama, Long Day's Journey Into Night. |
| Stonhouse, David |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$5,000 |
Participate in the Wassaic Project Summer Artist Residency, New York. |
| Pettigrew, Laura |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$4,000 |
This project is to write two new works for: Low Brass, premiere Portugal August 2020; Flute duet with piano, premiere Canada USA 2020/21 |
| Carriere, Kenneth |
Air Ronge |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,500 |
Conduct and record Swampy Cree language interviews, record historical photos from family albums, attain permissions to use recorded photos and interviews for a book. |
| Gronsdahl, Todd |
Clavet |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$18,000 |
Funding for materials and some living expenses to create new sculptures, prints and a video for three upcoming solo exhibitions. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Anderson, Charles |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
I would like to complete a collection of quirky, humorous literary essays entitled The Boy in the Window. |
| Herriot, Trevor |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
to prepare a final draft of the novel I am writing to submit to my editor at HarperCollins. |
| 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. |
| Lepage, Mario |
St. Denis |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$5,500 |
Elevating the production value and visual impact of Ponteix’s live performances via tour-ready custom projections and coordinating stage lighting. |
| Bradford, Michael |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$16,000 |
This project is to complete a middle-grade novel called Bonewalkers, the third book in the Nightside series, published by Orca Books Publishers. |
| Logan, Adam |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$3,311 |
Dedicate significant time to working on the completion of my first independently developed release while solidifying my artistic identity through the exploration of sound. |
| Bird, Keith |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$18,000 |
I will continue to create and finish a visual collection of art pieces using traditional and spiritual values to be disseminated for our youth. |
| 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. |
| Yokozawa Farquharson, Hanna |
Saltcoats |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
Creating Textile Art for my first solo exhibition at the Godfrey Dean Art Gallery in Yorkton from September 13th to October 31st , 2020. |
| Norlen, Alison |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$6,752 |
“curio” will explore elements of spectacle through miniature welded sculptures in bell cloches, for exhibitions at Art Gallery of Guelph and Moose Jaw Art Gallery. |
| Philips, Elizabeth |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$18,000 |
I intend to complete a new poetry manuscript centred around the long poem as a conduit for the transcendent power of personal and environment grief. |
| Belarmino, Jimuel |
Weyburn |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
I will explore themes (acculturation, social class, identity) that will inform my work to create body of work for my first solo exhibition in 2023. |
| Kennedy, Marsha |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$9,514 |
My proposal requests funding to produce and frame 15 works for a traveling retrospective exhibition and to support experimentation and further production of new works. |
| Sharpe, Wendy |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$3,283 |
This proposal is to support the production of new work based on travel through Saskatchewan along a stretch of highway called Ghost Town Trail |
| Campos, Yulissa |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$7,483 |
Script development of the new play "The Newcomer" by Yulissa Campos |
| Gan, Jelly |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$14,500 |
Collaborative experimental video combining performance art, visual design, ambient music composition, and projections. |
| Svennes-Smith, Diana |
Eastend |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
Complete a polished draft of my novel Sob Lake for submission to my editor Martha Kanya-Forstner at Doubleday Canada. |
| Johnson, Ashley |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
A continuation of a collaborative project The Moving Heart between Karlie King and Ashley Johnson. We combine dance, sculpture with an interactive exhibit exploring anatomy. |
| W3APONS |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
This project is to fund a writing period for Saskatoon-based band and writing collaborators, W3APONS. |
| Reyes, Lautaro |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$2,720 |
We are applying to pay artists for the third phase of creation of a new LGBTQ+, cross-cultural, theatrical collaboration: Antorcha. |
| Klassen, Hilary |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$6,783 |
Request for subsistence to work full-time for nine months on a non-fiction book tentatively titled: Stolen Land: Young Chippewayans & Settlers Seek Justice |
| St.Germaine, Yvonne |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$15,000 |
New project ready to present to public, summer of 2020 Cd release tour, Expenses, Production, technician fees, promotion, rehearsal space, venue and equipment, travel accommodation |
| Doyle, Eliza Mary |
Asquith |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$11,500 |
Music-collaboration with professional-musician Kiera Dall'Osto to inspire/complete/infuse fresh music ideas; proceed to workshop album material in Nashville before recording new full-length album. |
| Rollo, Michael |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$13,000 |
"B I R D" is a 10-minute experimental film that explores a fragile landscape stressed from the effects of human intervention in our world. |
| Ruecker, Gerry |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
The funding requested in this grant application is to support the further development and creation of my current body of work in mixed media sculpture. |
| LaRiviere, David |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$16,448 |
Production of new large-scale artwork for the 2020 Biennale of Contemporary art, opening September 26th at the Alberta Gallery of Art (confirmed). |
| Lazurko, Anne |
Weyburn |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
To provide writing and research time for completion of a draft of my novel "One Woman". |
| Harder, Kendra |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
I will be working with Saskatoon ensemble, Mistral 5, to create a new piece of concert music for wind quintet. |
| Kuz, Tessa |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
A professional development project for Saskatchewan based dance artist Tessa Rae Kuz to research the creative process of Margie Gillis via The Legacy Project. |
| Fornwald & Wilson |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$4,900 |
We are working as a duo to produce an installation of 50 flags and wallpaper for the Alberta Biennial at the Remai Modern in Saskatoon. |
| 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 |
| Phelps Bondaroff, Amber |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$4,015 |
To further develop my performance art practice through attendance at a ten day workshop in Merida Mexico, with Guillermo Gomez Pena and LaPocha Nostra. |
| Maxwell, Aralia |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
To support the production of work and its documentation for confirmed exhibition at Neutral Ground in November 2020. |
| Berglund, Melanie |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$6,000 |
To write songs for a new album and conceptualize the videos, photos, on-stage patter, images, etc that relate to the music. |
| Wiwchar, Michelle |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
Development of the libretto for “Orpheus and Eurydice: Nox”, a modern, queer response to my existing work with Kendra Harder, “Orpheus and Eurydice... ish”. |
| 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. |
| McKnight, Spencer |
SASKATOON |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$3,500 |
To provide two months of living expenses to be able to develop a recital for touring in Saskatchewan for summer of 2020. |
| Garez, Simon |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$4,780 |
Direct and finish a narrative short film about beekeeping and the ecological issues effecting bees. |
| Billingsley, Alyssa |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
Integrating musical and physical theatre practices while developing a one-person show at the Manitoulin Conservatory of Creation and Performance. |
| Torwalt, Greg |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$2,717 |
Too Soon Monsoon is writing and recording demos live off the floor at The Sound Castle to determine songs and recording method for 2021 album. |
| Rinas, Aarin |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
A series of portrait paintings depicting the emotional states of people affected by economic inequality. |
| 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. |
| It's Not a Box Theatre |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$6,000 |
To write and design a series of vignettes for an outdoor digital immersive installation about climate grief and justice, to be played live by audiences. |
| 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. |
| Lyons, Joanne |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$8,850 |
This project is to create new mixed media work exploring the weight of accumulation. |
| Kuse, Stephanie |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$4,393 |
Learning 3D rendering software and exploring unconventional projection surfaces to enhance technical quality and conceptual aspects of abstract video art practice. |
| Lepage, Mario |
St. Denis |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$9,000 |
Write and compose music and lyrics for Ponteix’s next record |
| Solheim, Krista |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$11,077 |
This application seeks funding to support the commission of a new 20 minute Contemporary dance solo by Robin Poitras and Edward Poitras. |
| Feheregyhazi, Andrei |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$14,100 |
I'm looking for time to create an animated film that will be presented in the form of an augmented reality picture book. |
| Dumont Walker, Dawn |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$15,000 |
To outline and write a novel in supernatural genre about a woman who is possessed by the spirit of a deceased cop and a cow. |
| 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. |
| St. Pierre, Laura |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$15,975 |
Production of new work towards the AGA/Remai 2020 Biennial and La Presence des Femmes at CAVA Edmonton. |
| Bundon Pfeifer Henderson |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$12,963 |
Support for a 3-month work term, for the continued creation of 'Untitled Peter Tripp Project'. |
| Mathieu, Veronique |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$2,500 |
Work in collaboration with composers to develop a set of 12 etudes for solo violin that will address unusual contemporary techniques. |
| Malinsky, Charles |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$6,000 |
Preliminary development of a new narrative series of paintings entitled, "Alisa and the Seven Deadly Sins." |
| Moore, Tim |
Swift Current |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$8,000 |
I will continue to create a body of work "Erasure is Futile" to be exhibited at the 2020 Biennial of Contemporary Art at the Remai Modern. |
| Gomez, Felipe |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$14,000 |
To produce and present “Soundtrack for Adventurous Kids” a 45-minute interactive musical experience. |
| Bundon, Johanna |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$3,316 |
Three-week solo research period to consider the Feldenkrais Method ® in relationship to solo contemporary dance practice and ongoing movement training and teaching. |
| Graham, John |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$6,000 |
To produce a short experimental film during a 3-month artist residency at GlogauAIR in Berlin, Germany. |
| Ouellette, Dianne |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$8,500 |
I will honour the memory of the extinct "buffalo wolves" and the strength of these beings, who at one time thrived in the prairie grasslands. |
| Noel-Maw, Martine |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$14,760 |
Hitch and Agatha: A play in which the Master of Suspense and the Queen of Crime meet, clash and then join forces for the better. |
| Palmer, Josh |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$7,000 |
Take the time necessary to create and write new songs and produce new sounds for my music group, The Sunset Kids. |
| Normand, Alexis |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$14,000 |
This project is to write new songs in French and English that explore bilingual identity on the prairies. |
| Reimer, Joel Dash |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$5,571 |
I want to create a poetry manuscript of about 80 pages based around a variety of approaches to the idea of 'nothing'. |
| Hansen, Naomi |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$6,750 |
I am researching and writing the manuscript for my first book "Only in Saskatchewan," which highlights restaurants all across Saskatchewan through food, stories, and history. |
| Will, Elaine |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$15,000 |
The Last Band On Earth is a graphic novel about a noise rock band who are trapped in a ramshackle unearthly city run by demons. |
| 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. |
| Goodwyn, Amber |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
Support for the creation of a new cycle of songs for my experimental pop music project, Natural Sympathies. |
| Scantily Glad Theatre |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$14,000 |
This project is to remount our queer physical comedy, "Something in the Water", for presentation by the Adelaide Fringe Festival through co-production with Gluttony Theatre. |
| Legris, Sylvia |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$18,000 |
During my project period I will complete the first draft of a new poetry collection, The Principle of Rapid Peering. |
| Friesen Reed, Tricia |
Yorkton |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$6,750 |
I am planning to revise and add to a collection of creative nonfiction essays titled, "A Field Guide to Travelling Home". |
| Claxton, Mark |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$14,000 |
A Regina remount of xTasis Screen/Stage's production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, by Edward Albee, which was presented in Saskatoon in autumn of 2019. |
| Dale, Danielle |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$5,500 |
An exploration of food in the post-Anthropocene through sculpture and photography. |
| Simon-Worobec, Hillary |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$6,000 |
To purchase equipment/materials to for my home pottery studio to enable me more freedom within my craft and become a full-time potter. |
| Rowley, Mari-Lou |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$16,200 |
This grant will allow me to complete, revise and polish my manuscript Palingenesis, a poetic memoir of trauma, survival, revival and ultimately, redemption. |
| Sefton, Ben |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$3,707 |
I have recorded 4 songs that need to be mixed and mastered and 2 more songs that are ready to be recorded, mixed and mastered. |
| Laird, Tonia |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$6,750 |
Planning and writing of high fantasy novel with themes of decolonization, kinship, and intergenerational trauma and healing. |
| Solheim, Tara Dawn |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$7,044 |
This project is to dedicate time to the creation of new material for a spoken word collection, approximately eight to ten performance poetry pieces. |
| Team Auroraman |
Humboldt |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$8,000 |
This project is for Team Auroraman to collaboratively create the 48 page graphic novel “The Adventures of Auroraman: Good Times in the Badlands” |
| Battie, Kyath |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
To research the creation of multiple fictional landscapes by unifying 16mm colour film imagery and digital editing techniques. |
| Spark Theatre |
Prince Albert |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$11,667 |
Spark Theatre will rehearse and present the female-driven "The Drowning Girls" (Graham, Tomlinson, Vlaskalic) March 25-27 in Prince Albert, SK at the EA Rawlinson Centre. |
| Oblong and Oboe |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
Exploration, creation and development to expand a 20-minute clown piece to a full 60-minute tourable production at the Manitoulin Centre for Creation and Performance. |
| 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. |
| Olsen, Farideh |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$9,500 |
This project is to write 60 songs, the best 10 will be recorded and performed by Farideh. |
