| Harder, Kristel |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$4,466 |
To gain the professional skills necessary to develop "EmotionLoss", a comedic cabaret exploring mental health, through two workshops and a mentorship program. |
| Wagner, Bernadette |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,914 |
To further develop, inform, and strengthen the hybrid manuscript, Unclear Future, with land-based information and experience. |
| 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. |
| Andronyk, Jeanie |
Shaunavon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,500 |
To fund the creation of a large scale bronze sculpture. |
| Parent, Anna |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
To finish the writing and create paintings for a story about a raven raised by geese learning to fly, a sixties scoop survivors story. |
| Skjeie, Cooper |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2021-2022 |
$7,500 |
To finalize my first full-length poetry manuscript, titled, "post-immunity theory." |
| Shine Reggae Network Saskatchewan |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,348 |
To facilitate much needed market research and conduct promotional workshops for the 2022 Shine Reggae Network Saskatchewan reggae festival. |
| City of Humboldt Cultural Services |
Humboldt |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To facilitate four community dialogues with Indigenous artist Kevin Peeace and the Humboldt community, especially youth, to collaborate on a Reconciliation art project. |
| 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. |
| Living Sky School Division No. 202 |
North Battleford |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
To explore ideas about ecological art with traditional Indigenous knowledge to deepen our relationship with the land and planning for an Artist in Schools project. |
| Goretzky, Barbara |
Lumsden |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
To experiment with wood and metal in creating a time-sensitive, small-scaled, permanent wall piece in collaboration with young adults, who experience intellectual disabilities. |
| Wensel, Misty |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$10,534 |
To evolve the contemporary dance solo, Trails, with an ensemble of dancers. Taking a personal narrative and allowing it to grow into its next translation |
| Santa Maria Senior Citizens Home |
Regina |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$990 |
To establish a relationship and work collaboratively with 2 artists to develop concrete plans for an artistic project in a special care home |
| La Ronge Arts Council Corp. |
La Ronge |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$2,000 |
To engage local indigenous artist DLanghorne to give artist talks and painting sessions to school groups and others while OSAC exhibit 'Common Truths' is here. |
| First Nations University of Canada |
Regina |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To engage knowledge keepers that hold the history of natural color pigments (plant, animal, mineral). building capacity to hold public workshops on pigment use. |
| Baerwaldt, Wayne |
Assiniboia |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To enable me to install artwork by Richard Boulet and participate in the public program for the exhibition "La ragione c’entra poco (reason has little to do with it)" at Thetis Foundation, Venice, Italy, Sept. 12-22. |
| Camp fYrefly Saskatchewan |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$9,000 |
To empower LGBTQ2S youth by highlighting art as a formative part of expressing identity and as a vehicle for social change. |
| Silverthorne, Judith |
Regina |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To do presentations at the Frankfurt Book Fair and cities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland at universities, schools, literary events and for community art groups. |
| Francis, Jaron |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
To do a comprehensive rewrite of my award-winning script Like Parting Water, in preparation for its second production, which will tour from November/21 through January/22. |
| Centre Francophone BDS |
Bellevue |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
To discover through community consultations, research, and project planning how to bring music back to our communities. |
| 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. |
| Zong, Megan |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To develop Production Dramaturgy resources (including web articles, videos and Afterplay facilitators) that engage audiences beyond the stage during Yin Yang Theatre's production of Unmasked. |
| Loreburn Central School |
Loreburn |
Music |
Artists in Schools |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
To develop drumming as part of the music in class, and potentially have a group for students to take part in outside of class time. |
| Megan Zong |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$15,000 |
To develop and produce the world premiere of Unmasked at Live Five in 2020. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
Free Flow Dance Theatre Company
Integrated Dance Artist Collective |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
To develop a regional community of professional contemporary dancers through creative practice with choreographer Shannon Litzenberger, toward creating a performance installation at the Remai Modern. |
| Johnson, Ashley |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$4,700 |
To develop a peer led somatic learning space to support the transition back to in person dancing with Ashley Johnson and Johanna Bundon. |
| 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. |
| Benjamin, Paul |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To debut my new Cultural Intelligence photo exhibition "Exploring CQ" at the Warman public library during the month of January. |
| Favel, Floyd |
Paynton |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$5,751 |
To create/present, a multi-disciplinary performance 'Following the Medicine', (Live accompanied with AV technology), of the story of Peyote's arrival into Saskatchewan in the 1930's. |
| Martin, Monique |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
To create/install/exhibit "Context is Everything" decals with The Works Art and Design Festival in Edmonton at the Edmonton Tower. |
| Harpham, Lindsay |
Tisdale |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
To create, present and promote my contemporary dance choreography and provide an artistic opportunity for a Saskatchewan based emerging artist by producing a dance film. |
| Mackasey, Michèle |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$18,000 |
To create two Memory-bottle-portraits commemorating lost family members, using tiny glass bottles filled with coloured transparent liquid; a pixelated process resulting in two-dimensional sculptural works. |
| Latendresse, Jacqueline |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$8,000 |
To create new contemporary choreographic work set to music from the operas Cosi Fan Tute and Marriage of Figaro inspired by Mozart's marriage. |
| Garcia-Luna, Gabriela |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$17,000 |
To create multimedia studies and works for a confirmed solo exhibition at the MJM&AG, exploring concepts of human and natural environment resilience and adaptation. |
| 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. |
| Daigneault, Nap |
Beauval |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
To Create four Birch Bark Baskets and mentor other indigenous and metis individuals in this traditional art practice by offering a workshop in Ile-à-la Crosse. |
| Garneau, David |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$5,000 |
To create forty metaphoric still life paintings in which mundane objects are arranged and titled so they evoke complex themes and ideas. |
| 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. |
| Schneider, Zoë |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,500 |
To create and heavily expand upon two bodies of work for two confirmed solo exhibitions that will take place in 2020. |
| Rose, Melanie |
regina |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
To create and develop new work with the intent of exhibition. Research of new techniques and materials. |
| Frison, Lucas |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$13,802 |
To create an inclusive short film about a young man with Down syndrome pursuing love. |
| 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. |
| Emma Artists Group |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$2,000 |
To create an artistic installation on the south side of Ness Creek, as a 10th Anniversary reprisal of a project started in 2010. |
| Atkins, Amalie |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$15,500 |
To create a triple screen film installation for a confirmed solo exhibition at the Remai Modern opening April 5, 2019 |
| Furstenberg, Tia |
Prince Albert |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
To create a series of paintings for an upcoming collaborative exhibition at the John V. Hicks Gallery in March of 2022. |
| Red Smarteez Marionettes |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$14,000 |
To create a script and pre-production for a personal film about disability with a fiction about a former resident of our home. |
| Grummett, S.E. |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$16,000 |
To create a new Theatre for Young Audiences show exploring gender diversity for presentation in Calgary and Saskatoon planned for May 2023. |
| 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. |
| Kazan, Lina |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$16,585 |
To create a Flamenco screen dance film with original music and choreographies to be presented at the Victoria Flamenco festival and other digital platforms. |
| 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. |
| The Dim Coast |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$16,000 |
To create a custom digital instrument that ‘performs’ a group sound installation, online audio stream and audiobook inspired by Moose Jaw writer, Vivian Darroch-Lozowski. |
| Poitras-Jarrett, Phyllis |
Regina |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$7,500 |
To create 6 mixed-media paintings honouring 6 Sk. animals necessary for the survival of the Indigenous people throughout history to be included in future exibitions. |
| Thistledown Press Ltd. |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
To cover expenses of Thistledown Press’ transition in ownership. |
| City of Prince Albert |
Prince Albert |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
To contract Jesse Campbell as a Curator for Artists in Community project coordination in Prince Albert. |
| Bridge Theatre Collective |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$2,000 |
To contract 15 theatre artists to be a part of a readthrough workshop of a new edit of Coriolanus by William Shakespeare. |
| Martin, Monique |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$9,000 |
To continue the touring of my installation based work "Continuous" and "Context is Everything" to 7 different exhibitions, solo and group. |
| Shurniak Gallery Inc. |
Assiniboia |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To consult and imagine with our diverse public to develop new plans for creative programming by the Shurniak Art Gallery and its partners |
| River Road Festival |
St. Louis |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To conduct surveys to research next River Road Festival events and direction. |
| 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 |
| Macdonald, Daniel |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$11,000 |
To conduct an in-person workshop, hold public staged readings, and engage in subsequent rewrites of my play MERCY between January and March , 2022. |
| Murza, Michael |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$8,500 |
To compose "Cold and Lonely Kingdom," an album telling stories of a fantasy world that contains parallels to the history and geography of Saskatchewan. |
| Hebert, Dakota |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
To completely gut and redo my three-act play about Jack the Ripper into a way better two-act. |
| 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. |
| Baerwaldt, Wayne |
Assiniboia |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$4,884 |
To complete my research and writing to realize a collaborative artist book project with Richard Boulet |
| Noel-Maw, Martine |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$9,000 |
To complete my "Will James Triad" by writing a novel based on my play "Dans l’ombre de Will James". |
| Sheikh, Sheheryar |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$18,000 |
To complete and refine a literary fiction novel (titled After) about the Covid-19 pandemic, and about a father-son relationship within it, from 05/2022 to 01/2023. |
| Sheri & Heather Benning |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$15,000 |
To complete a short film cycle, "Let Them Rest," which will give affective voice to the seismic shift in rural Saskatchewan to intensive farming practices |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| Larouche Ellard, Diane |
Biggar |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
To complete a mixed media encaustic mentorship with Bobbi Clackson-Walker consisting of 8 one-on-one sessions. |
| Bandur, Breanne |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To collaborate with Alison Norlen on her project, "Moulin de la Nouvelle Orleans," as part of the New Orleans Luna Fete. |
| Live Five Independent Theatre |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$2,000 |
To co-produce and co-facilitate an unconference to foster new relationships among Saskatchewan theatre artists and audiences in the service of growing an equitable, diverse, inclusive, and anti-oppressive theatre culture. |
| Rose, Melanie |
Regina |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2021-2022 |
$15,500 |
To build upon the theme of ‘The Flower People’ and create 13 new 2D and wearable art pieces for an exhibition at Godfrey Dean Gallery. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Friday, Kristi |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Artists in Schools |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To bring artists and educators together to create arts resources, such as an interactive play and workshops, that educate students and staff on systemic racism. |
| Rosenwald, Betsy |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
To be one of four participants in a unique online Encaustic Workshop on October 3, 2020 presented by the A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas. |
| Pantel, Rowan |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
To attend training with Russian puppeteer Polina Borisova, at the National Puppetry Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center in June 2019. |
| Bates-Hardy, Courtney |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,740 |
To attend the Sage Hill Summer Poetry Workshop, where I will work on my second poetry manuscript, tentatively titled "The Anatomy of a Monster". |
| Silverthorne, Judith |
Regina |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
To attend the launch of the German translation of Honouring the Buffalo at the Frankfurt Book Fair and do presentations at a related Conference. |
| Baggett, Brian |
Fort Qu'Appelle |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$750 |
To attend the 2019 Chapman Stick 4-day Workshop featuring Stick inventor Emmett Chapman and master instructors Greg Howard and Steve Adelson. |
| Haldoupis, Nicole |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
To attend Sage Hill Writing’s 2019 Summer Program (Fiction Course) and work with writer Jacqueline Baker, July 2-12. |
| Zhao, JingLu |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$4,480 |
To assist with the costs of childcare for my three children while I create a new body of paintings for exhibition. |
| Meldrum, Jeff |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$3,800 |
To assist in production of a touring exhibition exploring my project Art For Animals which introduces sculpture to the forest and wildlife of Northern Saskatchewan. |
| Atcheynum, Kasey |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Artists in Communities |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
To assess the creative literary community needs of Black diaspora by conducting research analysis to develop a plan for a longer term project and residency. |
| Bernbaum, Joel |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$5,000 |
To apprentice with Forklift Danceworks' Artistic Director Alison Orr on her new community engaged production of Givens Swims - the culmination of a 3-year residency. |
| Dr. Martin LeBoldus Band Program |
Regina |
Music |
Artists in Schools |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To allow students to engage with professionals on their respective instruments in order to foster growth, enable mentorship, and expand their horizons. |
| Hale, Laura |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
To accept an invitation to travel to and participate in a unique career development opportunity, an environmental art focused residency in Nova Scotia, Canada. |
The Word on the Street Saskatoon Inc.
The Word on the Street Saskatoon Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
SaskFestivals |
2019-2020 |
$8,000 |
To gain financial support for Saskatoon's free literary arts festival, The Word On The Street. |
| Hale, Laura |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$10,040 |
Time for creative exploration, investigation, experimentation, risk taking, discovery, dialogue and critique, development and creation of new artworks and works in progress. |
| Tic Toc TEN |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
Tic Toc TEN is a short performance arts festival featuring ten, brand new, multidisciplinary performance pieces by both emerging and established Saskatchewan artists. |
| Bradley, Bevin |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
Through three workshops students will learn to communicate, and to develop abstract thought through their art, and be invited to talk about their art one-on-one. |
| Gowan, Darren |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2020-2021 |
$5,092 |
Through interviews and research I plan to garner stories and legends from elders in the area and be interpreted in sculptural expressions in bronze& ceramics. |
| Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery |
Moose Jaw |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
Through consultation and research, MJM&AG will source an Indigenous Curator-in-Residence for a residency project and determine a new vision for our Indigenous exhibits and collections. |
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. |
| 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. |
