Currie, Dillon |
Swift Current |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$750 |
Funds are requested to assist in paying for audio production, mixing/mastering, and lyric video fees allotted for production of Christmas single, 'Staying Home This Christmas.' |
Pantel, Rowan |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
Funds to enrol in online puppetry course. Continue my training in the art form with a Master Puppeteer. |
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. |
Bluemke, Cat |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
GAN of Living Skies is a project that spans machine learning, video, and installation work. |
The Saskatchewan Council for International Cooperation (SCIC) |
Regina |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
Generating Momentum is an activist leadership training camp for youth between the ages of 18-35 that is largely facilitated by Artists. |
Girls Rock Camp Saskatoon |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
Girls Rock Saskatoon (GRS) is a volunteer-based organization dedicated to empowering self-identified female, trans, two-spirit, and gender non-conforming youth through collaborative music creation and performance. |
Chief Gabriel Cote Education Complex Treaty 4 Education Alliance |
Kamsack |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Grade 4 – 8 students will complete traditional art projects surrounding the theme of identity and sense of self with Dakota artist Holly Yuzicapi. |
O'Shea, Myek |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
Grant will go towards purchase of a green screen kit and to finish a micro documentary illustrating the life and work of the artist. |
Carroll, Jonathan |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$9,000 |
Gridlocked is an augmented reality project about the history technology and how it changes our relationship to land. |
Gordon Tootoosis Nikaniwin Theatre |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$2,000 |
GTNT will hire fluently Cree Indigenous artists to partially translate Shakespeare's King Lear into Cree in November 2021 |
Gwepa |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$2,000 |
Gwepa dance team hosts professional salseros Yasbek Cervantes and Rocio Reyes (Mexico) for 2 days and 1 half day of intensive professional development workshops |
McKenzie, Tyrone |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Artists in Schools |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
High school bands in two communities: Engage students in conversations to develop a new composition. Provide workshops, partnering with students to develop a virtual concert. |
Common Weal Community Arts Inc. |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
Hire a consultant to provide training on the ethics of online programming and support artists with strategies on how to engage community through virtual platforms. |
Noel-Maw, Martine |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$14,760 |
Hitch and Agatha: A play in which the Master of Suspense and the Queen of Crime meet, clash and then join forces for the better. |
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. |
Clinton Ackerman Music |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Host a week long summer camp of creativity and interdisciplinary art creation. |
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. |
Edmunds, Alexander |
Saskatoon |
Other |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
I am a 2-Spirit Indigenous youth who wants to create a collection of beadwork each month. I want to celebrate my Indigeneity and queer identity. |
Coppens, Nathan |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
I am acting in a Fringe production that is touring Canada. This grant would help cover per diems for the 77 days on the road. |
Wilcox, Zane |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$5,000 |
I am applying for funding for dedicated studio time to develop a new watercolour painting process. |
Budgell-Eaglespeaker, Forrest Scott |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$7,500 |
I am applying for funding to financially support the recording of a full length album written about inter-generational trauma and healing. |
Tiggelers, Larissa |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$14,000 |
I am applying for funding to support the costs associated with the production of a new body of work including painting, sculpture and fibre. |
Harpham, Lindsay |
Tisdale |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$2,700 |
I am applying for support to attend the Ate9 Intensive in Los Angeles this December. The study period provides new skills and valued mentorship. |
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. |
Pacholik, Devin |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
I am creating a short animated film about Viking meeting a ghost and learning to confront fear and accept differences. |
Hansen, Naomi |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
I am doing necessary research to start writing my first book, which will highlight restaurants all across Saskatchewan through stories, photography, history, and food. |
Rasmussen, Patrick 'Jamie' |
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. |
Duvall, Linda |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$13,000 |
I am inviting 4 musicians to each sing to the land in gratitude. Working with material produced during these events, I will create relevant documentation. |
Burns, Harriet |
Nipawin |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
I am making 5 vests for Shoal Lake Cree Nation - 2 with white leather and 3 with tan color with a beaded logo |
Larsen, Mitchell |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$752 |
I am partnering with local drag performer, Dillon Chernowsky, to create a dance performance to be shared at Haus of Night's drag show featuring Detox. |
Friesen Reed, Tricia |
Yorkton |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$6,750 |
I am planning to revise and add to a collection of creative nonfiction essays titled, "A Field Guide to Travelling Home". |
Ledoux, Maureen |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2021-2022 |
$7,500 |
I am requesting funding to produce a Woman's Traditional Beaded Outfit to participate in cultural activities. |
Parovsky, Karley |
Regina |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$880 |
I am requesting money to attend a Trauma and Cultural Sensitivity training for artists. |
Hansen, Naomi |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$6,750 |
I am researching and writing the manuscript for my first book "Only in Saskatchewan," which highlights restaurants all across Saskatchewan through food, stories, and history. |
Nelson, Marilyn |
Griffin |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
I am seeking assistance to attend a workshop to further my goal of creating meaningful art that explores social equity and justice. |
Bradshaw, Kathy |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
I am seeking financial support to participate in a US encaustic retreat and exhibition which I was recently awarded through the International Encaustic Association. |
Cameron, Heather |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
I am seeking funding to attend the "Creative Practice for Contemporary Dance" program as offered by the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. |
Knight, Daniel |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
I am wishing to purchase high quality two channel audio interface to increase my capacity as an independent artist. |
Aitken, Neil |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$10,270 |
I am working on a full-length poetry collection that merges astrophysics, immigration, family history, and geography in its exploration of grief and memory. |
Beaucage, Marjorie |
Duck Lake |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2020-2021 |
$14,000 |
I AM YOUR HOLY FREAKNESS is a multidisciplinary creation of collages, installation, poetry performance, and video based on the Movements of my Life. |
Hardy, Greg |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$4,000 |
I have a solo exhibition of drawings on paper and canvas. I would like funding assistance to produce a catalogue from Lac la Ronge |
Dale, Danielle |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
I have been accepted to the Biophilia Research Residency at Ayatana Artists' Research Program, where I will learn about biology and wildlife. |
Ens, Sarah |
Winnipeg |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$630 |
I have been invited to attend the Community of Writers Poetry Workshop in the Virtual Valley from June 20-27, 2020. |
Johnston, Tamsin Lorraine |
Regina |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
I have been invited to audition for the position of Principal Oboe with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra on January 17 & 18, 2022. |
La Marre, Rebecca |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
I have been invited to complete a BAM artist residency in Saskatoon for the month of October, culminating in an exhibition. |
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. |
Trapp, Amanda |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$969 |
I have drafts of songs saved from several years that I’d like to refine to a set for a concert and/or recording an EP. |
Ledingham, Sandra Meryl |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
I have just been accepted into the Korean International Ceramic Biennale 2021. I'm requesting assistance for shipping. Freight estimate $1100.00 (plus crating costs) |
Blanchette, Cynthia |
North Battleford |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
I have received an invitation to participate in a study tour through Beijing and Wuhan, China from the Confucius Institute of China and Alison Norlen. |
Sefton, Benjamin John |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$3,707 |
I have recorded 4 songs that need to be mixed and mastered and 2 more songs that are ready to be recorded, mixed and mastered. |
Ulrich, Maureen |
Lampman |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
I have written a series of poems about COVID-19 which I would like to have professionally critiqued/edited. Paula-Jane Remlinger has agreed to do this. |
Ramsay, Jessica |
Regina |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
I hope to go to Germany for a Mentorship and specialized training on the violin from September 9 to December 16, 2019. |
Philips, Elizabeth |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$18,000 |
I intend to complete a new poetry manuscript centred around the long poem as a conduit for the transcendent power of personal and environment grief. |
Fourstar, Gabrielle |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2020-2021 |
$4,536 |
I intend to paint an art series of 100 abstract acrylic blob paintings on 18"X 24" canvases. Remaining paintings with vegan paint. |
Daniels, Carol |
Regina Beach |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
I need a website. It is a tool which allows for others to know how to contact the artist and what the artist creates. |
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. |
Ferguson, Louisa |
Meacham |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
I need to buy an exposure unit to continue to upgrade my skills in glass by exploring techniques of printing on glass with glass powders. |
Knight, Lindsay |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
I plan research twenty years of my songs to compile lyrics and descriptions in nehiyaw (Cree) and english and then produce a resource. |
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. |
Billings, Terry |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$6,000 |
I plan to develop several years of video documentation of ponds into a form that can be exhibited. |
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. |
Piper, Lynette |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
I plan to shoot a short film in September about an elderly man with dementia who escapes the nursing home and returns to his field. |
Ramsay, Jessica |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$5,000 |
I plan to study with a teacher in Berlin who is both an incredible mentor and networker, but also specializes in teaching physiology of violin. |
Dishaw, Jessie |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$250 |
I received feedback on my Independent Artist grant that my portfolio needed stronger visuals. I'm requesting funding to hire a photographer to document my work. |
Marshall, Edie |
Riverhurst |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
I request funding to frame new gouache paintings and make-ready my garage/studio for a weekend art exhibition at my home in Riverhurst. |
McArthur, Robert |
Carlyle |
Music |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2020-2021 |
$16,000 |
I want to build on my existing work; the creation of Nakoda lullabies, and the creation of a recording, a book, and a presentation series. |
Cuthand, Shawn |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2021-2022 |
$7,500 |
I want to complete a first draft of a screenplay and script for stage about interracial dating in Saskatchewan in the post Gerald Stanley era. |
Anderson, Darryl |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
I want to continue my artist development and increase my knowledge in my craft. |
Reimer, Joel Dash |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$5,571 |
I want to create a poetry manuscript of about 80 pages based around a variety of approaches to the idea of 'nothing'. |
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. |
Lerat, Muskwa |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2021-2022 |
$6,000 |
I want to write 6-8 songs about my Indigenous experience in Canada, as well as growing up with learning and mental disabilities being ignored. |
Goobie, Beth |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$18,000 |
I want to write a novel, titled Dark Rainbow, that explores Phillipa Upchurch's expansion of consciousness in her senior year at a bible college. |
Bogan, Jillian |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
I will attend my first ever residency at Chateau d"Orquevaux in France and develop my creative practice through a series of original paintings. |
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. |
Wilson, Nic |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
I will be attending the winter 2022 Banff Centre Artist in Residence program to work on two new Artist's books. |
Martin-Arcand, Logan |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2021-2022 |
$7,500 |
I will be doing a writing workshop to further develop my play The Gay Card to be tour ready when safe to do so. |
Stonhouse, David |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
I will be participating in BAM's artist residency, November 2020. I will create an installation to wrap up and document my POWER BOX series. |
Wilson, James (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. |
Martin, Monique |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$13,025 |
I will be travelling to Gothenburg, Sweden to work with Alexandra Hedberg on a printmaking project that will be exhibited in Sweden and Canada. |
Coflin, Caitlin |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$4,997 |
I will be travelling to Toronto to study Laban Movement Analysis and Bartenieff Fundamentals with Janet Kaylo and other certified instructors. |
Vanderhaeghe, Guy |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$18,000 |
I will be working on a collection of creative nonfiction tentatively entitled Because Somebody Asked Me To. |
Harder, Kendra |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
I will be working with Saskatoon ensemble, Mistral 5, to create a new piece of concert music for wind quintet. |
Tupper, Katharine |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$7,500 |
I will be writing a new EP collaborating with my producer, remotely and online over the next several months. |
Matyushenko, Valentyna |
Grandora |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
I will choreograph a piece of a larger project about the importance of tradition and culture. The project's centerpiece is Ukrainian Easter Egg, Pysanka. |
Keighley, Ray |
Warman |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2021-2022 |
$12,000 |
I will continue in the producing of artwork that explores Truth and Reconciliation and my first nation sensibility , paintings and carvings primarily. |
Moore, Tim |
Swift Current |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$8,000 |
I will continue to create a body of work "Erasure is Futile" to be exhibited at the 2020 Biennial of Contemporary Art at the Remai Modern. |
Bird, Keith |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$18,000 |
I will continue to create and finish a visual collection of art pieces using traditional and spiritual values to be disseminated for our youth. |
Daniels, Carol |
Regina Beach |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
I will create a one-woman production of spoken word, song and dance for the Regina Fringe Festival 2021. |
Peart, Greta |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
I will create a short, story-based videogame called Margo that explores the inevitably of change, and the elusivity of time and material existence. |
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. |
Robson, Frances |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
I will create joyful spring portraits of my neighbours amid blossoming trees. I will use my large format 8"x10" film camera for superb quality. |
Rewuski, Lindsey |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
I will develop an immersive installation and photo series for a confirmed online exhibition, as well as future exhibitions. |
Belarmino, Jimuel |
Weyburn |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
I will explore themes (acculturation, social class, identity) that will inform my work to create body of work for my first solo exhibition in 2023. |
Ouellette, Dianne |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$8,500 |
I will honour the memory of the extinct "buffalo wolves" and the strength of these beings, who at one time thrived in the prairie grasslands. |
Friesen, Marcy |
Carrot River |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2021-2022 |
$966 |
I will lead a beading class focusing on our mental health. Class will be held once a month at The Nest located downtown Prince Albert. |
Matyushenko, Valentyna |
Grandora |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
I will learn in-depth characteristics of steps, music, and cultural details of the Volyn region of Ukraine, before choreographing a famous Ukrainian play. |
Worrell, Peggy |
Swift Current |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$7,000 |
I will learn more about the craft of writing short fiction, polish five stories, research and write two new stories, working toward a story collection. |
Wilson, James (Nic) |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,200 |
I will make an 8 hour video and several large photographic works that consider the emotional outcome and material culture of death and mourning. |
Earle, Shawn |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$4,350 |
I will perform the Don Byron Clarinet Concerto with the SUNY Geneseo Wind Ensemble, then study clarinet repair with master clarinet repair technician Wojtek Komsta |
Bérubé, Annie |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
I will present a new series of work about abandoned buildings and their inner stories at CAVA in Edmonton in February 2021. |