| 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. |
| Regina Chamber Music Festival |
Regina |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2019-2020 |
$8,000 |
The project is the presentation of three nights of chamber music concerts and related community events, by local and international artists. |
| McArthur, Robert |
Carlyle |
Music |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$7,500 |
Robert Mcarthur is bringing back the Nakoda language through song, specifically children's lullabies. Writing lullabies helps preserve the language by putting it in children's ears. |
| Thunderchild, Richard |
Spiritwood |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$6,800 |
Classes for adults and youth to learn the powwow craft of headroach-making. |
| Lavallee, Terri |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$4,500 |
I would like to create a stylized bridal gown embellished with Nehiyaw bead work, along with beaded accessories and matching mens cufflinks and tie clip. |
Prairie Sculptors' Association
Manitou Beach Recreation Board |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Prairie Sculptors' Assoc. (PSA) and Manitou Beach Recreation Board will host a sculpture symposium including public art workshops and a community art project. |
| 25th Street Theatre Centre Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$2,000 |
Anita Smith, the Executive Director of 25th Street Theatre, will travel to Victoria, BC to attend the Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals conference. |
Saskatoon Industry Education Council
Muveddet Al-Katib |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Through art, newcomer youth will to express and share their culture while learning about the similarities and differences in other cultures in their new community. |
Living Sky School Division No. 202
Bonny Macnab |
North Battleford |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Conversations with Nature brings together artists, storytellers and healers to lead students through a process of thinking like artists, scientists and stewards of the land. |
25th Street Theatre Centre Inc.
Laura Hale |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Artist Laura Hale will engage the attendees of the 2020 Fringe Festival to create a large-scale, outdoor art installation over the course of ten days. |
Fidelak, Terri
Christ the King School |
Regina |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Creation of a large, temporary sculptural installation using locally-sourced clay to engage students in learning about connection to land and sustainability through the creative process. |
Northern Saskatchewan International Children's Festival Inc.
Laura Hosaluk |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$6,000 |
Sock Puppet workshop |
| McKay, Cameron |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
I am asking for a materials budget for a group exhibition that will transform a gallery space into an immersive installation. |
Girls Rock Camp Saskatoon
Eliza Mary Doyle |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Providing opportunities for female empowerment through Cultural Arts Mentorship Programming by building capacity and expanding the Girls Rock Saskatoon program to under-served/remote communities in Saskatchewan. |
Mistawasis Nehiyawak High School
Kris Moffatt |
Leask |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Engage students in art therapy sessions, complete a friendship canvas and develop a video of these process. Friendship and culture. |
Hale, Laura
Wild about Saskatoon NatureCity Festival |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Free, drop-in, community-engaged, environmental art project using locally found plants to explore material potential and create sculptural artworks and to create space for community dialogue. |
The Saskatchewan Council for International Cooperation (SCIC)
Kris Alvarez |
Regina |
Theatre |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$9,900 |
To work with Saskatchewan artists to provide young leaders with creative and supportive spaces to engage with ideas related to social justice and global citizenship. |
| Skjeie, Cooper |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
"Poetry, Politics, and Embodiment" is a unique, thematic program that aligns well with and promises to enhance my poetry project, "post-immunity theory." |
| McFarlane, Melanie |
Moose Jaw |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
I will work with Robert Currie, former poet laureate of Saskatchewan, in a poetry mentorship focused on writing poetry about growing up in Saskatchewan. |
| Lepage, Mario |
St. Denis |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Request of funds to go towards the purchase of 2 flight cases capable of protecting musical equipment while travelling internationally to play at professional performances. |
| Evans, George |
Regina |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
to bring jazz pianist Nancy Walker to Saskatoon for a coaching and joint performance opportunity. |
asokan Project Camps
Alexandra Nordstrom |
Battleford |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
This project provides youth of Poundmaker and Little Pine First Nation with five days of creative programming that use land as pedagogy for art practice. |
| Sheikh, Sheheryar |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Co-Lead a 4-Day Creative Writing Workshop for candidates from across the country, followed by launching my two novels at the literary festival to follow. |
| Dussion, Mary |
Nipawin |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
To provide financial support to purchase materials to start my own business making moccasins and ribbon skirts. |
| Wilson, Nic |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
I will be traveling to Venice, Italy to participate in a workshop with Marilyn Arsem and present a performance at Venice International Performance Art Week. |
| Bourque, Marie-Véronique |
Regina |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$757 |
Recording of two bilingual original songs as a first time producer and singer. Recording with involve 5 musicians including me as flutist-songwriter- singer- producer. |
| Gomez, Felipe |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$757 |
To build a Tubulum a pipe instrument famously used in the “Blue Man Group” a fun and inventive percussion instrument. |
| Suchan, Paul |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
School tour of the Proteus Saxophone Quartet, Saxophonist Gerard Weber and Pianist Naomi Suchan, and Fiddler Kim de Laforest, featuring the music of Paul Suchan. |
| Liu, Lin |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$757 |
This proposal is for support to develop a proposal for a Saskatchewan Arts Board Artists in Communities Project grant for the May 1, 2020 deadline. |
| Dancing Sky Theatre Inc. |
Meacham |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$2,000 |
Dancing Sky Theatre is implementing environmentally sustainable practices at all levels of our organization. We is hoping to purchase refurbished Ipads from TechSoup Canada. |
| Yokozawa Farquharson, Hanna |
Saltcoats |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
I have been invited to have a private exhibition at Godfrey Dean Art Gallery in the fall of 2020. I need 20 works of art. |
| Ells, Chrystene |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Creation of concept art/previsualization for planned 'mytho-feminist' film 'Tor Woman' including a photoshoot with a costumed model, and sketches and paintings based on these photos. |
| Syverson, Kyle |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Travel for professional development to Earthdance Contact Improvisation event and to Contact Improvisation/performance workshop in New York. Perform with Earthdance participants in Dia:Beacon art museum. |
| Erickson, Craig |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
I need funding to be able to purchase paint to finish a body of work for an art show I have been invited to. |
| Town of Lumsden |
Lumsden |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$990 |
Local artist to create an outdoor public mural in collaboration with a wide range of community members, wide range in age, displayed at the Museum. |
| Ecole Lumsden Elementary School |
Lumsden |
Literary |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$962 |
Nakoda Knowledge Sharing Day with Bronte BigEagle and Keegan MacArthur
A few Nakoda writers and speakers will come and present their oral and written stories. |
| Ecole St. Pius X |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Provide funding to two interdisciplinary artists to design and develop cross-cultural and cross-curricular programming for Pre-K – Grade 3 students in the Regina Catholic School Division. |
| Paquet, Daniel |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Participation as photographer in the creation of the work "What belongs to us" at the International Center for Contemporary Culture Tabakalera, with choreographer, Suzanne Miller. |
| Stooshinoff, Alexander |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
To help fund a twelve-date Japanese tour in support of the reissue of "Stoic" on Japanese record label, Moorworks. |
| Cando Community School |
Cando |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Indigenous culture through the arts - drumming |
| Bridges Art Movement |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$2,000 |
To provide financial support for BAM as we develop our Artist Residency program |
| École Monseigneur de Laval - Pavillon secondaire des Quatre Vents |
Regina |
Theatre |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
A group of students (grade 7 to 12) aiming to produce an entire play in French, from acting to sound and light effects. |
| Mappin, Miki |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Travel to Barcelona for advanced dance training, regular practice of Contact Improvisation and meetings with dance professionals to explore performance, collaboration and residency opportunities. |
| Friesen, Marcy |
Carrot River |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
This oversized depression moccasin is fully beaded outside and inside in blue shades representing tears will spread awareness on various factors associated with depression. |
| Staples-Jetko, Sandra |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$550 |
Tto bring Sask Women Filmmaker to Regina as part of the panel with the Screening of Saskatchewan Borne Women Filmmakers, March 12, 2020. |
| Baerwaldt, Wayne |
Assiniboia |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
To deliver a public lecture on Zachari Logan's work and visit Verona's renowned Palazzo Giusti to begin to co-curate Logan's solo exhibition for April, 2021. |
| FadaDance Troupe Inc. |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$2,000 |
This project is to engage in a week long residency at Good Woman Dance in Edmonton, Alberta where we will begin to develop Slow Burn. |
| Feheregyhazi, Andrei |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
This project will be a test page/scene for an animated short film presented as an augmented reality picture book. |
| Mendez, Edward |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
I will attend the inaugural Coyuntura conference presented by Canadian Latinx Theatre Artist Coalition to further my professional development as a latinx theatre artist. |
| Dishaw, Jessie |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Further my development of the business side of the art while working towards an Emerging Artist grant for a solo exhibit advocating woman's mental health. |
| Dunn, Shaunna |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Professional development by participating in an international study group on the Reggio Emilia Approach at the Loris Malaguzzi International Centre in Reggio Emilia, Italy. |
| Sedgwick, Edward |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Collaborating with a fellow artist to explore digital animation, lighting and compositing techniques in preparation for an Independent Artists Grant application. |
| Bergbusch, Sarah |
Regina |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
I would like funding to support the cost of flights to New Zealand in order to perform at the NZ Fringe Festival. |
| Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery |
Moose Jaw |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$2,000 |
MJM&AG is proposing a pilot project for a short-term artist residency to increase community engagement and provide public access to an artist's creative process. |
| Ba, Flany |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Intensive African dance teacher and performer training in which renown International African dance
professionals train attendees on technique, musicality, history, and pedagogy. |
| École canadienne française - Pavillon Gustave Dubois |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
We plan to give students the opportunity to learn about Latin American dances and music within the context of Spanish and music classes. |
| Thorburn, Crystal |
Assiniboia |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$948 |
To facilitate 2 half day visual art sessions to research and assess community needs in partnership with the Shurniak Art Gallery. |
| Rymestone |
Prince Albert |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$977 |
Western Canadian Tour in support of Album 'Neighborhood', which Rymestone released October 31st, 2019. 7 venues confirmed, 3 Collage radio station interviews confirmed. |
| King, Karlie |
Regina |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$987 |
Host a “Paint Night” (during the day) where students invite a parent, guardian, or family member/friend to join them in painting self-portraits that explore identity. |
| Rhoda Hardlotte Memorial Keethanow High School |
Stanley Mission |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,415 |
Josh Goff will work with students from the Visual Arts 10/20 class to design a concept for a mural. |
| Pshebylo, Mila |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
“Twisted” will be a fantastical wire sculptural landscape inspired by The Crooked Bush, installed at the Gallery at Frances Morrison Library August 4th- September 4th. |
| Langwieser, Ruth |
Estevan |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$973 |
I plan to purchase the material to build a specific Gas - Kiln for the process of Raku - firing. |
| Free Flow Dance Theatre Company |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,500 |
To bring guest choreographers Danny Grossman, Graham McKelvie and Newton Moraes to Saskatoon to participate in our 25th anniversary season special events/Gala. |
| 17 Wing Detachment Dundurn |
Dundurn |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Bringing an Art based summer camp to the rural community of Dundurn and surrounding areas. |
| Churchill Community High |
La Ronge |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,934 |
Traditional Hand Drum Making allows artist, pipe carrier and lodge keeper to come into the classroom. After drum completion, youth participate in a Blessing Ceremony. |
| Grummett, S.E. |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
For theatre artist, S.E. Grummett to attend the Mask and Clown Intensive, under the direction of John Turner at the Manitoulin Conservatory in summer 2020. |
| Gauvin, Vanessa |
Swift Current |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Developing a relationship between Artist and Camp, create music curriculum targeted for youth & engage community working towards an Artist-project grant for June to August. |
| Westview Public School |
Prince Albert |
Music |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
To have local Aboriginal artists in our community come to school and teach our kids Aboriginal art and have them learn from these people. |
| 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. |
| Void Gallery |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$2,000 |
Producing zines with Indigenous peoples and newcomers for distribution in Princeton, USA and Dublin,
Ireland |
| Glenn, Allyson |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Attend three-month NARS Foundation International Residency, in New York City, NY, USA |
| Ells, Chrystene |
Regina |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
To develop and pilot strategies towards a year-long AiC to provide arts programming for residents, memory care patients, and palliative care patients and their families. |
| Minahik Waskahigan Elementary School |
Pinehouse Lake |
Music |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
We would like this grant to support the start-up of an arts program in our school teaching students music. |
| Yorkton Regional High School |
Yorkton |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
To initiate a pilot ceramic program at the YRHS with SK Artist- Marea Olafson collaborating with art teacher Jana Martinuk supporting the Art Curriculum. |
| Bishop James Mahoney High School |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Request for School Residency Grant development time between lead teachers Janelle Franko, Roberta Ross and Cate Francis. |
| L'Association fransaskoise de Zenon Park Inc. |
Zenon Park |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$903 |
Explore the possibility of doing a music project with artist Alexis Normand and determine how to best serve the community of Zenon Park. |
| Vibank Regional School |
Vibank |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Invited artist, Holly Yuzicapi, will teach students about Indigenous art practices ending with a culminating collaborative project - the creation of a star blanket. |
| Gordon Denny Community School |
La Ronge |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
The Cree Culture teacher is looking to invite a local artist to come and show all students grade 1-6 the painting process. |
| Dureault, Mitchell |
Wolseley |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
To visit, access, and develop, a long term, sustainable music programming that is focused on youth, based on the needs and wants of the community. |
| E.D. Feehan Catholic High School |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Developing an indigenous drumming and singing group of indigenous youth leading to a community event and performance. |
| Bishop Lloyd Middle School |
Lloydminster |
Dance |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
We would like to bring in Indigenous dancers to share their culture and work with our students to teach dance. |
| E.S. Laird Middle School |
Lloydminster |
Music |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Work with local elders and drummers to create a sustainable pow wow and round dance drum group for young men in Lloydminster. |
| Dinsmore Composite School |
Dinsmore |
Dance |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Rural K-6 students will develop an understanding of reconciliation and the importance of relationship-building by working with an Indigenous/Métis artist. |
| Eston Composite School |
Eston |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Interested in working with artist, Susan Clark, in 2 half days workshops for grade 7-8 on making a Coat of Arms reflecting sense of place. |
| Wolseley Public Library |
Wolseley |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
The Wolseley Public Library would lead a cultural inventory research project and offer trial programs to assess current community needs and services. |
