| Johner, Lucas |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$7,500 |
To write 11 country-pop songs which will be released by The Johner Boys as singles, and then as an album. |
| John Diefenbaker Public School |
Prince Albert |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
We would like to hold a mini winter festival in February that would showcase Indigenous Arts through activities like building snow sculptures and Metis jigging. |
John Diefenbaker Public School
Leah Dorion |
Prince Albert |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2024-2025 |
$17,000 |
Create a mural for John Diefenbaker School honouring Victor Thunderchild & legacy artwork on vinyl prints for school windows to showcase artwork throughout the schhol. |
| John Arcand Fiddle Fest Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2019-2020 |
$21,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| John Arcand Fiddle Fest Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2020-2021 |
$21,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| John Arcand Fiddle Fest Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2021-2022 |
$21,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| 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'. |
| Jodoin, Berkley |
Leader |
Music |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$7,500 |
Album of original music shedding light on problems facing aboriginal people today. Addiction, Mental Health, Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women |
| Jodoin, Berkley |
Leader |
Music |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2020-2021 |
$18,000 |
Create a full length album of original songs, while bringing light to the suicide crisis our communities have been experiencing. |
| Jodoin, Berkley |
Leader |
Music |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2022-2023 |
$5,250 |
Create a full length album of original songs rooted in truth and reconciliation, while touching on PTSD and showcase internationally at Folk Alliance International. |
| Jodoin, Berkley |
Leader |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
attend and showcase at the Canadian Folk music awards in Vancouver, British Columbia |
| Jodoin, Berkley |
Leader |
Music |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2024-2025 |
$15,000 |
Create a full production music video for the song "White Man's World" The song describes the 1885 Fort Battleford Hangings of eight cree warriors |
| 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. |
| Jegede-Ikpen, Oghenerukevwe |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
To explore a new musical frontier by blending traditional African rhythms with modern synths and diverse languages, and fusing Afrobeats with the Canadian sound. |
| Jasper Cultural & Historical Centre |
Maple Creek |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$2,000 |
"Field Portraits" by 4 artists presents photographic portraits of rural models from the region to celebrate the SW Art Fest during September in Maple Creek. |
| Jarrett, Alexandra |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2023-2024 |
$7,500 |
I will be conceptualizing 50 poems dedicated to the land and nehiyaw language. I will be incorporating political, matriarchal and MMIW elements. |
| Janzen, Ava |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
To produce a new, experimental alternative pop single with Juno-award winning producer Ryan Stewart. A musical bridge between my recent and upcoming EPs. |
| Janvier-Dugan, Diane |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2022-2023 |
$5,715 |
Make 30 wall quilts representing calls 1 to 17 (Child Welfare, Education & Language and Culture) of the 94 Calls to Action. |
| Janvier-Dugan, Diane |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2023-2024 |
$2,000 |
Quilted a portrait of my newly wed Dene parents in the early 50s. 56" x 82" wall hanging textile art. |
| Janvier, Sylvia |
LaLoche |
Other |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
To support cultural art in ribbon skirt making and beading practices. To keep traditional art and culture alive in the Dene/Metis community. |
| Janvier, Bobby |
La Loche |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$6,370 |
i would like to build a skiff, sled and a canoe. I would like to build more if i could get the tools. |
| Janvier, Bobby |
La Loche |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2021-2022 |
$2,000 |
Would like to construct paddles with traditional artwork designs using carving and hand painting designs. |
| Janvier, Bobby |
La Loche |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2021-2022 |
$7,500 |
To build an separate studio/workshop so I can safely continue my art projects like woodworking outside. |
| James, Patrick |
Regina |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
I am investigating current technologies (3d printing, live virtual renderings and projections) from outside the theatre industry to research the impact on the audience. |
| Jackson-Reynolds, Chloe |
Regina |
Music |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2023-2024 |
$2,000 |
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| JackPine Press Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2019-2020 |
$23,630 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| JackPine Press Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2020-2021 |
$23,630 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| JackPine Press Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2021-2022 |
$23,630 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| JackPine Press Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2022-2023 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| JackPine Press Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$2,000 |
Funds to attend the Fisher Library (Toronto) small and fine press fair on September 10. |
| JackPine Press Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2023-2024 |
$20,500 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| JackPine Press Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2024-2025 |
$20,500 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Jack Millikin Centre, Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
1. Bring together emerging artistic blacksmiths to explore the transmission of sound through metal.
2. Explore concept of permanent, four-season blacksmith facility at Ness Creek. |
| J.M. Curtain Razors Inc. |
Regina |
Theatre |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2019-2020 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| J.M. Curtain Razors Inc. |
Regina |
Theatre |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2020-2021 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| J.M. Curtain Razors Inc. |
Regina |
Theatre |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2021-2022 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| J.M. Curtain Razors Inc. |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$2,000 |
Support for 4 Saskatchewan artists (including 2 yet-to-be-funded by SKArts Independent Artists) to create short films arising from Trespassers Waltz, for consideration at S.P.A.N.E. (Screenings of Performance Art in the Natural Environment). |
| J.M. Curtain Razors Inc. |
Regina |
Theatre |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2022-2023 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| J.M. Curtain Razors Inc. |
Regina |
Theatre |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2023-2024 |
$20,500 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| J.M. Curtain Razors Inc. |
Regina |
Theatre |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2024-2025 |
$20,500 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| It's Not a Box Theatre |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$2,000 |
To write, record, and release a trilogy of interactive thriller podplays designed to be played entirely in the comforts of your own home |
| It's Not a Box Theatre |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$2,000 |
To co-produce, co-direct, and co-design a production of Overhear as a performance and an installation in Taiwan with producing partner Performosa Theatre. |
| Ironstar, Katelyn |
Regina |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
seeking support to provide one month of beading classes to the Grade 8 classroom at Kitchener Community School with assistance from a knowledge keeper. |
| Ironstar, Katelyn |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
Seeking support to purchase equipment to create a highly requested series of online beading tutorials for beginners. |
| Iris, Loretta |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
Create portraits and sculptures for an online international exhibit titled "Variant ~ Ways of Seeing Through" |
| Inglis-McQuay, Darren |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
To exhibit a photo-based installation of fieldwork collected from the WeTu artist residency over a two week period at the Maritime Museum of Saskatchewan. |
| Indigo Joseph |
Regina |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,225 |
The micro grant will help cover travel costs for our upcoming tour supporting The Dead South in early January 2023
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| Indigenous Student Achievement Pathways | College of Arts and Science, University of Saskatchewan |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
We would like to contract a birch bark knowledge keeper to share traditional practices related to birch art and resonant topics of symmetry and translation. |
| Indigenous Poets Society |
Paynton |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$2,000 |
Sending the Indigenous Poets Society team to participate/compete in the CFSW 2019 for flights and accommodation and food support at event. |
| Indigenous Poets Society |
Saskatoon |
— |
Share and Connect |
2023-2024 |
$10,000 |
Publish a Zine of indigenous writing, artwork in early 2024 of 50 pages. Create digitally and send to printers at SK and ON branches distribution. |
| Indigenous Peoples Artist Collective of Prince Albert Inc. |
Prince Albert |
Multidisciplinary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2019-2020 |
$34,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Indigenous Peoples Artist Collective of Prince Albert Inc. |
Prince Albert |
Multidisciplinary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2020-2021 |
$34,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Ifeanyiukachu, Uzochi Lolia |
Regina |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$750 |
This grant will be used to mix and master 4 songs which will be released on a 7 song EP |
| Hykaway, Natasha |
Prince Albert |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2021-2022 |
$500 |
Looking for funding to continue working on my series and to continue expanding my skills. |
| Hyggen, Vanessa |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2021-2022 |
$7,500 |
I want to highlight the diversity, beauty, importance and plight of northern Saskatchewan muskegs, land that is being threatened with strip mining. |
| Hutchinson, Jonathan |
Saskatooon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
The Uplift Duo will be recording a Christmas album, and putting on a Christmas concert in December showcasing music from the album, and special guests. |
| 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. |
| Hunter, Della |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
To assist in making an important professional developmental transformation I will be consulting two feminist artists to provide mentorship on a new body of work. |
| Hume, Diana |
Creelman |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Research and develop artistic programming for the village of Creelman by recruiting artists to share their skills locally with the community and with neighbouring communities. |
| Humboldt Public School |
Humboldt |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
We propose that Monika Kinner, fiber artist, guide Humboldt Public School students to create a colourful fabric mural on the fence surrounding the school. |
Humboldt Public School
Monika Kinner |
Humboldt |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2022-2023 |
$7,820 |
We propose that Monika Kinner, Fibre Artist, guide Humboldt Public School students to create a colourful fabric mural on 15 fence panels surrounding the school. |
| Hui, Catherine |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$4,340 |
Purchase the software that professional set designers use Vectorworks software to create 3D rendering of set designs. |
| 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. |
| Houghtaling, Theo |
Swift Current |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
Travel to Toronto to attend Canzine- Canada's national zine and printed matter convention. Meet other printed matter artists and professionals. Attend workshops and lectures. |
| Houghtaling, Theo |
Swift Current |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Stay in and travel between cities in Ontario and Quebec for artistic research and development opportunities |
| 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. |
| Hosaluk, Laura |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
Dances with Props is the development of a dance piece inspired by contact improvisation investigations, as they relate to my craft practice. |
| 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. |
| Hosaluk, Laura |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$4,000 |
New work develops my ceramic practice and brings innovation to sculptural work scheduled for exhibition July 4th, 2024 at the Mann Gallery, in Saskatchewan. |
| 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. |
| Horner, Valerie Joy |
Prince Albert |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
I've been invited to produce a solo exhibition of nature photographs. "5 Minutes From Home" will run June 1-30 @ the John V. Hicks Gallery |
| Hope, Lauren |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2024-2025 |
$6,000 |
This project seeks to research and record traditional Metis songs as a means to preserve them for future generations. |
| Holy Rosary Community School |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Our school is permanently closing in June of 2023. We are implementing a school-wide art project to assist with the transition, through art and self-expression. |
| Holy Guacamole Dance Festival |
Martensville |
Dance |
SaskFestivals |
2019-2020 |
$8,000 |
Holy Guacamole is a 350-person, 3-day Saskatoon community dance festival including workshops, performances, social dances. Predominantly Latin dance while featuring other cultural dance guest performances. |
Holy Family School
Kevin Pee-ace |
North Battleford |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2023-2024 |
$10,000 |
Our students will work with Kevin Peeace to create a legacy piece (painting) in the hall of our school to represent our students and community. |
| Holt, Savannah |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
'Analemma' is a collection of 13 ceramic moon jars, each with a unique glaze application symbolically related to ancient names for each month's full moon. |
| Holowachuk, Dorianna |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$5,500 |
Developing an artistic vision and repertoire list, and supplementing skills in preparation to direct a newly-formed independent choir. |
| Holophon Audio Arts |
Regina |
Media Arts |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$8,000 |
To launch Regina’s inaugural sound art festival running from October 26th, 2024 to October 27th, 2024. |
| Holophon Audio Arts |
Regina |
Media Arts |
SaskFestivals |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
To host the second annual Wavefield sound art festival running from September 26th to September 27th, 2025. |
| Holmes, Shannon |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I will share my new work-in-progess devised peice "Brux" at the Freedom & Focus Conference and will receive critical freedback and support from voice-centred artists. |
| Holland, Matthew |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$4,000 |
To create a film using archival photographs of the Regina tornado of 1912. |
| Hoggarth, Opal |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
Starting a new drag/rock show to allow queer performers to make money in Regina for alternative communities. |
| 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. |
| Hobsbawn-Smith, Denise |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$12,600 |
To research and write a first draft of book-length nonfiction about M.F.K. Fisher, Madeleine Kamman, and Anthony Bourdain, pivotal authors in food writing. |
| Hobsbawn-Smith, Denise |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
Attend Awards Ceremony for Taste Canada Book Awards in Toronto. My book, Bread & Water, is a finalist in Culinary Narratives category. |
| Hnatuk, Byron |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$2,500 |
Lighting software to assist and enhance a designer's ability to create designs quickly and efficiently and share that information with theatres. |
| Hlady, Dustan |
Moose Jaw |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$18,000 |
Looking for funding to assist in the production and distribution of a highly engaging web-series. |
| Hip Hop Hoop Dance Productions |
Regina |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$2,000 |
To support Hip Hop Hoop Dance during a process of shifting their theatrical production from live performance to the digital realm of animated video. |
| Himsl, Jaynie |
Weyburn |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$330 |
Tuition costs for a 6 week internet based course called "Art on the iPad". |
| Himsl, Jaynie |
Weyburn |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$500 |
Funding for a residency at Wallace Stegner House for November 2022. |
| Hill, Milo |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$4,000 |
Uplift LGBTQIA+ voices and showcase the wealth of local talent in 12 all-ages drag shows at the Saskatoon Fringe Festival |
| Hill, Gerald |
Regina |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$632 |
A one-day work-through and talk-about of Charlotte and Wilbur, the brand new first draft of my adaptation of Charlotte's Web. |
| Hill, Gerald |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$16,500 |
I’ll complete the first draft of a book of poems called The Table. |
| Hicks, Ryan |
Regina |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
Travel to BC to write material for my new album. I have eight finished and would like to write three more songs. |
| Hewitt, Declan |
Regina |
Theatre |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2020-2021 |
$2,000 |
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| 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. |
| Hernani Merino, Bruno |
Regina |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
To support the completion of 20 paintings for a solo gallery exhibition, showcasing the painting style I have been developing for the last 10 years |
| Hepting, Finnian |
Regina |
Dance |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2019-2020 |
$2,500 |
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