| Rose, Karen |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$10,307 |
Collaborating with three composers to create the music/soundtrack for three of my choreographic solos. |
| Gobeil, Beth |
Prince Albert |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$4,800 |
Requesting funds to work on my poetry manuscript tentatively titled Of Rooms and Memory. I will revise 30 poems and write 25 new poems. |
| Wagner, Bernadette |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$5,000 |
To revise and polish a children's literature manuscript, Crybaby. |
| Harder, Kristel |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$3,000 |
Through private lessons, self-study, journaling and regimented practice, I will retrain my voice to better serve my work as an actor, singer and voice teacher. |
| Gronsdahl, Todd |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$10,500 |
A new chapter for my "Saskatchewan Maritime Museum" project. Here I humorously re-examine The Emma Lake Workshop Series considering legacy, hubris, the SK historical project. |
| Peart, Greta |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$3,415 |
I will create a story-based, hand drawn web game that explores the inevitably of change, the elusiveness of time, and material existence. |
| Coppens, Nathan |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$15,120 |
To write and workshop a two-person play about adult ADHD that will be produced in the 2022-23 season with On Cue Performance Hub. |
| YXE Drag Collective |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$7,378 |
Drag Me Across the Prairies will present LGBTQ+ drag artistry across the three Prairie provinces expanding on last years successful Saskatchewan Drive-in tour. |
| Wahl, Nathen |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$15,300 |
I plan to compete an 88 page graphic novel featuring Joe Zombie and the “Danse Macabre or Dance of Death in the current pandemic environment. |
| MacDonald, Ruaridh |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$7,500 |
A 3-month creation process to develop a libretto and record tracks for “The Picture of Dorian Gray - A New Musical” |
| Harris, Carla |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$4,290 |
Conduct a workshop for a multimedia script, consulting with a dramaturg, disabled artists, musicians, and actors hired to experience the script aloud. |
| Kovach, Jaye |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$7,500 |
Responding to Ross and Mackay’s Gendertroublemakers, we will produce an experimental short film exploring our trans-for-trans and butch-femme relationship through kink and the everyday. |
| Weber, Joanne |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$13,319 |
To develop the script through exploration of physical movement, sign language, projected visuals, and surtitles to present to an invited audience (workshopped presentation). |
| Seesequasis, Paul |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$17,600 |
Enclosing Some Snapshots: The photography of Métis activist James Brady. A photobook coinciding with Saskatchewan exhibitions. |
| Yan Miller, Mindy |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$13,000 |
A series of six wall mounted smocked and woven cane cowhide works. |
| Hosaluk, Michael |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$10,650 |
Take time to create new work that is completely unfamiliar to previous processes in my artistic career in remote unfamiliar locations and studio. |
| Erwin, Keisha |
Spiritwood |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$16,300 |
This project is to produce a short 10-minute film about a disconnected Sixties Scooped father and his reconnecting half-Black daughter returning home to La Ronge. |
| Blom, Monique |
Waldheim |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$9,350 |
To construct a sod house for my performance "Ethics of the Dust" for Remai Modern Sustained Artist Project. |
| Straker, Jeffery |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$5,400 |
This project is to compose 8 new songs covering a range of themes. Works will be used in performance & recording. |
| Johanna & Jayden |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$12,865 |
A 4-month work term to research and develop a new performance work, as an evolution of 'Live Duet'. |
| Lebel, Emilie |
Moose Jaw |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$3,175 |
This project is to produce a live performance for touring and shows |
| Pettigrew, Laura |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$7,000 |
Write new work for Orchestra and Choir; Hymn for Peace, my gift to orchestras and choirs globally, performance September 21, 2023 International Day of Peace |
| Berglund, Melanie |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$8,000 |
Create music and lyrics for the Belle Plaine project that explores the theme of home. |
| McDougall, Bradley |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$5,336 |
Presentation of my one man show Night Sweats, a personal story of coming out during the AIDS crisis and parallels with Covid. |
| Horowitz, Risa |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$9,872 |
To prepare for and attend an artist retreat in Longyearbyen, and a residency circumnavigating the Svalbard Archipelago, undertaking a series of documented performance art actions. |
| Finegan, Kate |
North Battleford |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,920 |
Three-week stay at Artscape Gibraltar Point during spring migration season to research and develop novel-in-progress set in Toronto during bird migration. |
| Dinsmore, Rowen |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$3,500 |
A collection of self-portrait paintings titled "The Only Friend I Need" with the intent to be shown as a solo exhibition within art gallery spaces. |
| 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. |
| Sparrow, Don |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$15,008 |
I intend to write, illustrate and publish an original 64-page comic book memoir, titled “Does Your Mother Know?” |
| Lazurko, Anne |
Weyburn |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$18,000 |
This project is for 5.5 months writing time, with one month of travel to Italy and Germany embedded, to complete my novel, One Woman. |
| Popoff, Alexandra |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$6,398 |
To produce a first draft of a biography of a prominent investigative journalist and daughter of a Ukrainian UN diplomat, Anna Politkovskaya. |
| Nourse, Sheila |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$3,450 |
I am applying for support to bring this project to a conclusion. It will be installed in the Elsie Scherie Art Gallery in February, 2023. |
| Moker Wernikowski, Connie |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$5,714 |
To rehearse and present Full Tilt Two, a performance of my recent choreography, at Regina's Artesian on Treaty 4 Land, April 27-29, 2023. |
| Moneo, Cameron |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$12,000 |
To create the core systems, 3D models, and animation rigs for a Saskatoon-based video game called "Video Store: The Video Game." |
| Ppl r Ppl Productions |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$5,935 |
Ppl r Ppl Productions is creating professional work for theatre artists and will present 'Hand to God' by Robert Askins in Live Five's 2022/2023 season. |
| Martin-Arcand, Logan |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$10,000 |
We, a team of a 2SLGBTQ+ artists, will be presenting Logan Martin-Arcand's play The Gay Card, as a part of the 2022/23 Live Five Season. |
| Burke, Kelley Jo |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$5,000 |
To spend three months completing a working draft of a play, "Rigby" to be workshopped with Listen To 'Dis Community Arts Organization in spring/summer 2023. |
| Legris, Sylvia |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$12,000 |
I will expand the concluding long poem, then complete the final revisions/edits prior to publication of my poetry collection The Principle of Rapid Peering. |
| Hendrickson, Raye |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$7,500 |
To conduct research for, receive consultation about, and complete a poetry manuscript chronicling my great-grandmother's life story in her voice. |
| Slade, Arthur |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$9,000 |
To write a graphic novel based on my award-winning novel DUST. |
| Harder, Kendra |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$2,000 |
Collating and expanding my research on composers from underrepresented demographics in order to create an online hub amplifying the voices of historical and living composers |
| Elixir Ensemble |
Riverside Estates |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$7,400 |
Rehearsal and Production of a series of 3 concerts of chamber music for piano and strings for the Elixir 2022-23 season |
| Hagel, Mandie |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$3,750 |
Writing and creating a poetry collection about all we've lost during the pandemic and the lasting effects of it. |
| Fayant, Stacey |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$6,000 |
I plan to travel to Halifax with my partner and my daughter, to receive and document my own chin tattoo from Métis artist Amy Malbeuf. |
| Atkins, Amalie |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$2,500 |
To film the November chapter for Agatha's Almanac, a 12 chapter experimental documentary and to begin time-lapse experiments with plants for intervals between chapters |
| Rosenwald/Rose |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$18,000 |
To create new work for Journal of the Plague Year(s) exhibition and on-site residency at Remai Modern, Saskatoon. |
| Froese, Ellen |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$17,077 |
Ellen Froese will be presenting her brand new album via residency and touring from November 2022 - March 2023. |
| W3APONS |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$4,000 |
Songwriting period, collaborating remotely with Award Winning Songwriters. |
| Scott, Tallus |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$5,000 |
The proposed grant is to study with renowned drum educator Dave Elitch in his studio in Los Angeles. |
| Diakuw, Mike |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$2,000 |
Research, write, build, and workshop an artist/audience collaborative shadow puppetry show about social behaviour with with groups of children and parents. |
| Zhao, JingLu |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$6,197 |
To create a new series of paintings in my home studio and two residencies in Saskatoon, SK. |
| 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. |
| Ziwa, Thandiwe |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$2,000 |
Income for living expenses while working full time on music |
| 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. |
| Olsen, Farideh |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$8,000 |
To write 40 songs about motherhood for the musical component of a one woman show that integrates music, comedy and storytelling. |
| Peart, Greta |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$7,500 |
I will complete the first stage of a story-based videogame featuring original art/music that explores finding personal groundedness amongst unfamiliar psychological and social spaces. |
| Actor Director |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$5,800 |
In preparation for a debut album, we will workshop and develop existing demos and lyrics, and collaborate and rehearse with local musicians to provide orchestration. |
| Meneley, Barbara |
Val Marie |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$10,131 |
To create series of large drawings based on my research on Treaty 4 soil. |
| The Coterie |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$15,000 |
Funds to produce Measure For Measure with Live Five in March, 2023. |
| 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 |
| Krips, Spencer |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$4,989 |
Immersive 360-degree music performance, pairing improvised music with recorded natural sounds. Custom visualizers will be created to respond to the music and projected during performance. |
| Wicks, Bob |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$18,000 |
A staged production of the "Multi-Cultural, Multi-Lingual King Lear: Cree, French, English" script adapted in 2021-2022. |
| QuarterTones Flute Ensemble |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$8,600 |
The QuarterTones Flute ensemble will work in collaboration with emerging composer, Makenzie Hay to create a work for flute trio. |
| Conlon, Emily |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$3,500 |
Forming relationships to the body through visual language by creating large-scale drawing installations that mimic experiences navigating through natural spaces and the act of walking. |
| 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. |
| St. Pierre, Laura |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$14,000 |
Framing new work for solo exhibitions Art Placement (Jan-Feb. 2023) and VivianeArt/Exposure Photography Festival, Calgary (Feb. 2023). |
| Scantily Glad Theatre |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$10,000 |
To devise, rehearse and perform "Homebuddies" an absurdist interactive outdoor performance exploring housing insecurity and biopolitics, in Saskatoon, in preparation for the Prague Quadrennial. |
| Ripplinger, Matthew |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$8,500 |
Cosmic Tundra will be a short 16mm experimental film, aiming to represent surreal landscapes paralleling the rugged realism of the Yukon environment. |
| Balion, Audra |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$3,410 |
Creation of final two chapters of "Flight Nineteen," a silent (wordless) sci-if/fantasy graphic novel exploring biological and technological transformation. |
| Shaw, Carey |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$8,000 |
To create a narrative short film about a 2SLGBTQ+ character who who has an unexpected encounter during an isolated period in her life. |
| Lorer, Danica |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$9,000 |
Continue work on Ghosts and Other Grandfathers, a poetry and storytelling project that was supported by a Canada Council grant in its first phase. |
| Baudemont, David |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$9,000 |
Writing of "Fenêtre sur cour", a collection of poems and poetic aphorisms inspired by ink drawings |
| COMPANY |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$2,500 |
A dance journey to New York City to learn, grow, and inspire our artistic practices as individuals and as a group. |
| Lobb, Greg |
La Ronge |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$4,500 |
A mosaic visual piece utilizing scraps and off cuts from sign production focusing on reclamation, conservation and salvage. |
| Fight or Flight Theatre |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$8,000 |
The Unforgettables has been selected for Live Five Independent Theatre’s upcoming season. This grant will help us pay our artists a living wage. |
| Beltran, Marlene |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$9,000 |
The production of an original play for young audiences featuring D/deaf performers. Telling the story of forbidden love between a cat and a swallow. |
| Bennett, Andrew |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$7,500 |
To create 8 new ambient tracks using only my voice. |
| Brochu Lambert, Anne |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$8,300 |
To conceive and create an interactive slide projection-based art installation, complementing two-dimensional works for a curated duo show at the AGR in 2023. |
| Normand, Alexis |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$10,000 |
Create a concert that recounts my francophone identity-building journey via my new musical repertoire, scored field recordings and storytelling. |
| Vryenhoek, Leslie |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$12,000 |
I require support to draft a novel, tentatively called Separate and Apart, that follows the journey of a woman whose husband is being held overseas. |
| La Marre, Rebecca |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$5,000 |
I plan to attend the Flex Residency Program at the Medalta International Artists in Residence Program in Medicine Hat, Alberta in 2023. |
| Reimer, Joel Dash |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$8,500 |
To workshop a 1 hour spoken word poetry/folk music set that integrates a loop pedal in order to tour it in Eastern Canada. |
| Melberg Schwier, Karin |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$7,500 |
Develop an in-progress literary prairie fiction manuscript, Inheriting Violet, a sequel to my award-winning debut novel, and produce a finished draft ready for substantive editing. |
| Macnab, Bonny |
Mervin |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
Developing knowledge for a sustainable, bio-diverse art practice through mapping color extraction from Canadian plants. Rebuilding connection to sense of place through experience with plants. |
| Hoggarth, Opal |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$3,163 |
Peyote Ugly is a show that combines live music with alternative drag in Regina and Saskatoon. |
| Brenna, Beverley |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$4,500 |
--A YA novel following eighteen-year-old Kay as she navigates FASD and grade twelve in a new school, discovering her bio mom, and a twin brother. |
| Powell, Marie |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$5,070 |
I will spend five months focused on my writing to complete a clean submission draft of my newest medieval fantasy novel, Chronicles of Meirionnydd: Excalibur. |
| Garcia-Luna, Gabriela |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$17,000 |
New body of work and research in relation to my feminine Mexican ancestry, based on photographic documentation of Mexican and Saskatchewan flora. |
| Weber, Angel |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$4,996 |
I've been invited to the first special event workshop and exhibition held by the international association for my art form - the International Tsumami-Zaiku Association. |
| Pottle, Adam |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$8,000 |
Complete the first draft, then revise and rewrite into a second draft my young adult horror novel FULL MOON CHRISTMAS. |
| McFadzean, Credence |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$6,153 |
To write the first draft of a fiction manuscript exploring the intricate mythology of an invented slasher movie villain or 'supernatural killer.' |
| Hosaluk, Laura |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$7,500 |
'The Circle and the Dot' is a mixed-media Installation influenced by folklore and Saskatchewan architecture. New work is scheduled for exhibition for 2024. |
| Joa, Catherine |
Denare Beach |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$7,500 |
To take time to create six paintings for "View from the Edge of the World", a confirmed group exhibition at the AGR in August 2023. |
| Haines, Cat |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$4,147 |
Develop a collection of 10 large watercolor self portraits featuring moments of my activist history. |
| Kirchmeier, Kurt |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$9,000 |
To write a short speculative fiction novel about a man returning to his childhood home to face unresolved trauma and unanswered questions about his past. |
| Nepjuk, Elizabeth |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$9,275 |
I will be researching and developing, and then presenting my death-centred production TEA. CAKE. DEATH. at the 2023 Saskatoon Fringe. |
| Martin, Monique |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$3,661 |
I am installing and exhibiting a large installation based printmaking piece and attending the International Printmaking Biennial in Duoro, Portugal, which is an invitational event |
| Gronsdahl, Troy |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$18,000 |
to create a video and sound installation comprised of a woodwind quartet playing in the northern Saskatchewan wilderness. |
| The Women's Company |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$10,000 |
Funds for the production of "Annette is a Bimbo" as part of RISER Regina 2023 presented by On Cue and Why Not Theatre. |
| Peart, Greta |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$9,000 |
I will create an empathy-focused videogame called “Mitch” that explores finding personal growth and groundedness amidst new and unfamiliar experiences. |
