| Cupid's Heart |
Prince Albert |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$5,007 |
Create 5 new original songs during a creative retreat at Anglin Lake. |
| Brophey, Erin |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$15,800 |
Two concerts of selected works by under-performed composers. Titled "Finding Our Place", each concert will explore the inspiration behind each composition. |
| Littlechief, Teagan |
Carylyle |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$4,500 |
We need grant funding to attend the OSAC Showcase, aiming to secure bookings for the 2025-2026 season and expand our performance opportunities. |
| Eskowich, Graydon |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$17,000 |
Proposal for the production of the independant short film 'Headstones,' a 15-20 minute dark comedy/drama to be filmed in Saskatchewan in the Summer of 2025. |
| 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. |
| Harris, Carla |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$7,500 |
To hold an active reading workshop with disabled actors and a disabled dramaturg as a basis for refining a play about discovering a hidden disability. |
| Hueser, Nicole |
Dalmeny |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$14,000 |
Abyss within is a short film based on my life about an individual trapped by chronic pain and how it affects them physically and psychologically. |
| Kirk, Tommy |
Swift Current |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$500 |
Production of an original dragon puppet made of paper mache to be used in film and theatre |
| Ternier-Daniels, Betty |
Cochin |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$3,052 |
I propose to complete the first draft of A Clear-Cut Case and to finish a second draft. |
| Bates, Colton |
RM of Sherwood |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
Screenplay development and writing. |
| Blackett, Tim |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$7,500 |
Revising and rewriting a novel, LOOK MA, IT'S ME, a novel in essays. |
| Hambrock, Meredith |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$8,000 |
To write a second draft of my literary horror novel about climate change. |
| Soulodre, Lévi |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$5,500 |
A complete songwriting session for a full-length, English / French-language 'Ageless Forest 2' organic / electronic music album, in mentorship collaboration with Producer Factor Chandelier. |
| Willems, Alexander |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$4,249 |
Creation grant to write, storyboard, and develop a short film exploring how sobriety impacts social dynamics. |
| Redding, Katlyn |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$2,500 |
Attending the Texas Music Educators' Conference in San Antonio, a premier event showcasing innovative music pedagogy and professional development, advancing excellence in teaching and learning. |
| Rose, Melanie |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$11,000 |
Research, develop and create new work for future production for upcoming exhibitions & workshops in 2025 |
| Feuring, Jared |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$10,000 |
We are creating a short film 5-7 minutes in length for festival entry and distribution. |
| Semko, Jacob |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$4,555 |
Expanding traditional fine-art wood block printmaking by developing methods with novel tools and techniques |
| Gronsdahl, Todd |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$8,500 |
To build the installation for exhibit at AKA ARC, which will then function as a workshop for me and the community to to create in. |
| All-Terrain Theatre |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$3,769 |
For All-Terrain Theatre I will produce and direct my play, Lyudmila Times Three: A Play for Peace, for Tic Toc Ten Festival . |
| Chan, Marvin |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$3,500 |
This grant will be used to support singer-songwriter Merv xx Gotti in his recently accepted artist residency in Woodstock, NY. |
| Margoshes, Dave |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$15,000 |
To write, revise and polish new short stories with an eye to a new collection during an 18-month period starting in January 205. |
| Wallace-Lewis, Teiji |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$7,000 |
To collaboratively re/search the colonial entanglements between an Indigenous + settler family photographic album and reconstruct their contents into a body of work. |
| KSAMB Dance Company |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$3,054 |
A cross-discipline collaboration in scored improvisation using integrated dance to express themes of radical empowerment in the face of environmental disaster, performed at Persephone Theatre. |
| Smith, James |
Muskoday |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$6,000 |
I want to compose, sketch, paint with the use of storyboarding the history of the Cree in our area. This will involve exploring and research. |
| Stonhouse, David |
Tuscan Ridge |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$7,000 |
an independent curator grant for me to work with 3 artists: mentoring, exploring new work, creating an exhibition, and a writing feature on each artist. |
| Petit, Marcel |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$15,000 |
To complete footage for a documentary film on local Queer Seniors by interviewing queer non-Indigenous senior citizens & Two-Spirit Indigenous Elders on the Prairies |
| Larsen, Mitchell |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$10,000 |
I am applying to fund an extended creation/development phase of a queer, research-inspired production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie. |
| Dufour Bowes, Arnolda |
Dalmeny |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$18,000 |
Apples & Traintracks is a multi-sensory art and short film exhibit based on the history & resiliency of the Road Allowance Metis. |
| Rousseau, Marc |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$12,164 |
Continued creation of my graphic novel 'Death by Hot Dog', to be brought from it's current initial draft to full book completion. |
| Abbott, Mika |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
Seeking professional development through a residency, 1:1 instruction, workshops that will support my artistic growth while developing a photography-based project exploring space and class. |
| Scott, Tallus |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
Study advanced drum techniques & mentorship career paths for a 6 day period, Jan.15-20, 2025, with renowned drum educator Dave Elitch in Los Angeles, California. |
| 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. |
| Buttered Ghost Theatre |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$18,000 |
an artist collective co-production of Anne Washburn's Mr. Burns: A Post Electric Play as part of Live Five 21st season. |
| Anderson, Charles |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$6,000 |
I'm seeking funding to complete a short story collection entitled Naked in a Graveyard. |
| Pridmore, Helen |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$5,238 |
Presenting a performance of our multimedia musical work "Out Loud" in Regina, to coordinate with performances in Saskatoon and Edmonton |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Slow Down Molasses |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$5,500 |
To write a new suite of songs for Slow Down Molasses, as well as creating supporting video and visual art for the project. |
| Reid, Sonia |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
To train for certification as a NeuroVocal Method® Licensee. |
| Wecker, Sabine |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$2,000 |
Re-Orientation Space after Grad School |
| Matyushenko, Valentyna |
Grandora |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$11,000 |
Choreograph and perform the folk ballet of the play by Lesia Ukrainka "The Forest Song". |
| Kovach, Jaye |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$4,500 |
Complete post-production for The Lovers 2, a short film exploring my trans-for-trans and butch-femme relationship with Cat C. Haines through kink and the everyday. |
| Lebel, Emilie |
Moose Jaw |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$3,500 |
Write research-based lyrics via workshops and mentorships and compose melodies inspired by nature via the Ableton music software. |
| Lenko, Timothy |
Moose Jaw |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$2,000 |
To write a collection of musical theatre songs adapting the George MacDonald novel 'The Princess and the Goblin' and contract a composing consultant for coaching. |
| Fernandez, Cezar Patrick I |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$8,587 |
Develop and produce new works for three exhibitions in the Philippines. |
| Mendez, Edward |
Warman |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$4,716 |
I will write a verbatim play based on interviews with first generation and Indigenous Canadians exploring loss of culture and the concept of "Being Canadian" |
| Straker, Jeffery |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$4,000 |
Relocate to the Saskatchewan family farm where I grew up to compose 8-10 songs inspired by place. Songs will be used in performance & recording. |
| Garcia-Luna, Gabriela |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$2,000 |
Research of analogue methods and techniques of print making, mark making and paper treatment to incorporate into my works Rivers. |
| St. Pierre, Laura |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$11,922 |
Continuation of the Sower photographic project from a first-person perspective, using sustainable analog photography as a medium. |
| Welbourne, Jordan |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$5,800 |
The composition and recording of Ukrainian choral arrangements, musical theatre pieces, country songs, as well as Ukrainian-influenced contemporary songs. |
| McLeod, Kenn |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$7,500 |
Funds to assist in the writing and workshopping of a new script, "Infinite Jest", by Kenn McLeod. A show incorporating Clown, Shakespeare, and Family. |
| Baird, Gavin |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$6,000 |
This grant is to help fund the post-production of the horror short film, KLEE. |
| 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. |
| Benjamin, Paul |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$4,179 |
Collaborate with Toronto composer Sodhivine and Saskatoon Cree songwriter Falynn Baptiste. Create new music that will be adapted for my upcoming CQ Concert performances. |
| Ly, Jenny |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$7,125 |
developing a cone shaped roller to make prints for exhibition |
| L'Hirondelle, Cheryl |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$10,800 |
restoring/reversioning and creating emulators of my net.art projects for upcoming survey exhibition |
| Hobsbawn-Smith, Denise |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$9,124 |
Complete and revise collection of form poetry about essayist M.F.K. Fisher – including sonnets, villanelles, pantoums, ghazals, palindromes, abecedarians– ready for submission to publishers. |
| Tenold, Darla |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
Research Joan Phipps' Assiniboia Downs, Marquis Downs and Exhibition Track thoroughbred racing career for a book length biography. |
| 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. |
| Tushabe, Irene |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$7,500 |
To research and write a novella, Voice of the Cycad, and to complete my short story collection. |
| 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. |
| Schiller, Lisa-Marie |
Carrot River |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,500 |
I am an emerging artist requesting funding to create a body of work from June to December 2025. |
| 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. |
| Gan, Jelly |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$8,000 |
A music video using Chinese pop culture aesthetic references from C-dramas, 80s Mando pop, and karaoke. |
| Maggrah, Julianna |
Prince Albert |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$4,000 |
Writing a script for feature documentary on the Indigenous view of autism. Grant money would be to pay me for my time writing. |
| Dahlem, Madeleine |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$6,791 |
A ten-day workshop to transform a written word cantata into a hybrid musical/spoken word form, including three days of musical improvisational work. |
| Janzen, Ava |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
A six-week professional development opportunity to attend Canada’s Music Incubator’s Artist Entrepreneur program in Toronto, receiving in-person mentorship and industry training in Spring 2025. |
| Mathieu, Veronique |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$4,250 |
Research manuscripts, archival materials, and new violin works written by women composers in Frankfurt and Munich (Germany) in August 2025. |
| Kirchmeier, Kurt |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$12,500 |
To write a young adult novel about a teen who gets caught in a time loop deep in the back-country of the Canadian Rockies. |
| 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. |
| Hambrock, Meredith |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$8,000 |
To continue working on my short story collection. |
| Bagatim, Tabata |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
Complete a two-month residency at Medalta to develop large-scale ceramic sculptures and refine surfaces to deepen emotional impact and advance my artistic practice. |
| Wicks, Bob |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
I have been accepted to participate in a unique residency with the Prague Shakespeare Company, June 15th to August 10th, 2025 |
| Kim, Hyon Suk |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$4,500 |
My project explores clarinet repertoire in my home country, Japan, through research, deepening my artistic practice and sharing unique musical insights with Saskatchewan’s arts community. |
| Schulz, Judith |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$13,000 |
Produce an eight-show performance of ‘Yaga’ by Kat Sandler in Saskatoon, SK, as an artist collective in collaboration with Live Five’s 2025/26 season. |
| 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. |
| Regnier, Daniel |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$17,000 |
I propose to write and workshop an opera on the subject of the novel "La vie devant soi" by Romain Gary |
| Cline, Heather |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$8,000 |
I am creating a multi-media exhibition, viewing the landscape through a conservation lens, walking the land with people affiliated with the Nature Conservancy of Canada. |
| Klassen, Vanessa |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
This is a 2-part project for which I will create new typeset editions of four selected clarinet works by Canadian composers, then record each one. |
| Porter, Jacob |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,500 |
I'm developing a graphic novel which I plan to present to publishers at Toronto Comic Arts Festival (this June). The grant would be for travel. |
| Stock, Shayna |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$2,500 |
Research and writing retreat toward development of my first manuscript of poetry |
| Grummett, S.E. |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$16,500 |
To finish the development of my next solo-show, “Nude Parade” unpacking trans trauma porn and the commodification of identity through a month-long workshop with collaborators. |
| Doyle, Eliza Mary |
Asquith |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$8,000 |
Music collaboration with musician/producer Nich Davies to inspire/complete/infuse fresh musical genres/ideas, proceed to workshop/collaborate album material with my band before recording follow-up full-length album |
| Ferraton, Dominique |
Gravelbourg |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$10,000 |
To complete and release a 5-part audio piece exploring our relationship with water in Southwestern Saskatchewan. |
| Farrow, Kody |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
To attend the FDC National Stage Combat Certification Conference in Saskatoon in August 2025, receiving my Basic Actor Combatant Certification. |
| Reyes, Lautaro |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$16,500 |
I am developing a script and workshop for my play, Welcome to My Country, which is created from interviews with immigrants and refugees to Saskatoon. |
| Bulas, Patrick |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$2,800 |
As part of our ongoing collaboration, Jordan Schwab and I are planning to do a short, one week residency at SNAP Gallery in Edmonton, AB. |
| Alharthi, Rania |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$7,500 |
The play "Checkpoint" vividly explores resilience, displacement anguish, and family strength, deeply probing the essence of homeland and the profound connections that define it. |
| Saskatoon Experimental Music Ensemble |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$10,000 |
To present a series of concerts, premiering newly composed and improvised works. |
| Truszkowski, Robert |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$4,000 |
The Large Letter Project: To produce large-format, digitally-generated, CNC-cut, wooden "movable type" letters in order to hand-print text on long rolls of Kozuke paper. |
| Wecker, Sabine |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$7,500 |
Growing Roots: Working towards becoming an established ceramic artist, step one. |
| Battie, Kyath |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$11,000 |
"Sight Unseen" is the first cinematic research project of a newly formed collaboration, small victories, exploring Regina's urban spaces from an "outsider" perspective. |
| Dubnick, Caron |
Air Ronge |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$6,500 |
I will spend time at Athabasca Sand Dunes creating sketches, then spend the winter creating larger works in studio and looking for exhibition opportunities. |
| Atkins, Amalie |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$10,800 |
Prepare final elements (music licenses), Travel to present new feature film in for World Premiere (Copenhagen) and NorthAmerican Premiere (Toronto), followed by local confirmed events. |
| Murray, Audie |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$10,000 |
Creation of new work that continues my studio exploration into generative refusal through process and material. |
| Ells, Chrystene |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$12,000 |
Complete six of 24 mythical oil portraits of prairie artists, build sundial prototype and sculptural elements, all toward 'Amor Fati' solo installation, 2028. |
| Ay, Caramba! Theatre |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$7,960 |
World premiere of The Newcomer by Yulissa Campos as part of the Live Five 2024-2025 season. |
| Van Opstal-Tamez, Ingrid |
Kipling |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$6,000 |
This proposal is to support research, drafting, and creation of new work combining both traditional paper mâché and paintings for future exhibitions and professional development. |
| Gares, Jessica |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$2,249 |
I'll interview experts, outline story, write multiple drafts, gather feedback, and storyboard my first feature film, exploring familial relationships amid climate change's affects in Saskatchewan. |
