Grant Recipients

See below for a searchable listing of grants that SK Arts has awarded since 2019-20. Use the general search box for multiple search terms and use the other boxes to locate grants by specific organization name, discipline, year and community.

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Recipient	Community	Discipline	Program	Year	Amount	Description
Ferguson, Louisa	Meacham	Visual	Artists in Communities	2020-2021	$1,000	Ecological Restorative Art project is a site specific art installation designed and executed in collaboration with community members and The Meewasin Valley Authority.
Learning Disabilities Association of Saskatchewan - Prince Albert Branch	Prince Albert	Multidisciplinary	Artists in Communities	2021-2022	$1,000	Local Artist Cheryl Ring and Elder Liz Settee will conduct 2 workshops exploring a variety of art mediums such as clay and zen doodling.
Wasteste, Angelo	Fort Qu'appelle	Music	Artists in Communities	2021-2022	$1,000	Purchase pro audio recording equipment to record traditional Dakota songs (wars songs, pow-wow, kahomanie, spiritual) and Dakota oral stories for preservation of language.
Santa Maria Senior Citizens Home Barbara Goretzky	Regina	Visual	Artists in Communities	2019-2020	$10,000	To test the feasibility of an arts-based program in the home with the hope of turning it into an artist in community residency
Reimer, Joel Dash Chokecherry Studios	Saskatoon	Multidisciplinary	Artists in Communities	2022-2023	$10,000	This 12 week project will provide young male participants with hip hop skills as a form of expression for a tandem project on healthy masculinity.
Nuit Blanche Saskatoon Contemporary Arts Festival Inc. Jason Surkan	Saskatoon	Multidisciplinary	Artists in Communities	2020-2021	$10,000	This project engages youth to create an installation that explores how the rhythms and patterns of Métis tectonics can be translated through contemporary architectural design.
Canadian Light Source Inc.	Saskatoon	Theatre	Artists in Communities	2020-2021	$500	CLSI's Bison Project engages Indigenous students through Traditional Cultural Expressions (play scripts), that incorporate Indigenous women’s role in Bison ecology, synchrotron science, and Traditional Knowledge.
Lumsden Beach Camp inc. Shaunna Dunn	Regina	Multidisciplinary	Artists in Communities	2021-2022	$15,000	This project will provide the Camp community exposure to, and education through, diverse artistic practices, while offering professional artists meaningful engagement on the land.
City of Prince Albert Lynda Monahan	Prince Albert	Multidisciplinary	Artists in Communities	2021-2022	$20,000	This project will provide individuals with mentorship from a professional artist to build capacity for artists and organizations in Prince Albert to develop residency programs.
Nuit Blanche Saskatoon Contemporary Arts Festival Inc.	Saskatoon	Multidisciplinary	Artists in Communities	2020-2021	$1,000	This project consists of a partnership with artist/architect Jason Surkan, Oxbow Architecture, Nuit Blanche Saskatoon to facilitate youth workshops in digital design and fabrication.
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.
Goretzky, Barbara Santa Maria Senior Citizens Home	Lumsden	Visual	Artists in Communities	2022-2023	$14,739	Create a collaborative, legacy mural for Santa Maria Senior Citizens Home. Design door decals to make exit doors unique and less confusing for dementia residents.
Common Weal Community Arts Inc. Michèle Mackasey	Regina	Visual	Artists in Communities	2019-2020	$46,500	A residency led by visual artist Michèle Mackasey with fransaskois youth from Saskatoon and Indigenous/Métis youth, from three northern Saskatchewan communities.
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.
Saskatchewan History and Folklore Society	Saskatoon	Multidisciplinary	Artists in Communities	2021-2022	$998	This Development Project aims to design an innovative youth storytelling program that explores identity through painting, video, and sound.
Saskatoon Business College	Saskatoon	Visual	Artists in Communities	2021-2022	$750	This project is meant to assist students entering a very demanding health care field to reduce stress and promote self care through holistic art expression.
Phillips, Geoff Southwestern Saskatchewan Oldtimers' Museum Inc.	Maple Creek	Visual	Artists in Communities	2020-2021	$10,000	The next generation of Agribusiness will benefit from learning how technology is impacting their trade through targeted art workshops inspired by local ranching history.
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.
Clinton Ackerman Music	Regina	Multidisciplinary	Artists in Communities	2019-2020	$10,000	Host a week long summer camp of creativity and interdisciplinary art creation.
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
Firmly Rooted Homeschool Support & Resource Centre Inc.	Stenen	Visual	Artists in Communities	2021-2022	$1,000	To provide an opportunity for rural homeschool children, of various economic backgrounds, to connect with, and build, community through the art of photography.
Canadian Light Source Inc.	Saskatoon	Theatre	Artists in Communities	2020-2021	$500	Bison Herstory begins initial collaborating, transcribing the untold story about First Nation and Metis relationships between Bison and the women who saved them from extinction.
Friends of the Saskatoon Afforestation Areas Inc.	Saskatoon	Multidisciplinary	Artists in Communities	2021-2022	$1,000	To develop a cultural/artistic team including Indigenous language groups in Treaty 6 that can contribute to GPS interpretive app stories for the Saskatoon afforestation area
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.
UR Pride Centre for Sexuality & Gender Diversity Inc.	Regina	Theatre	Artists in Communities	2020-2021	$1,000	Exploring the need and interest of drag performance development in Regina
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.
Doyle, Eliza Mary	Asquith	Music	Artists in Communities	2019-2020	$46,500	Stage 2 of Pilot Project that engages community in music for self-expression/healing/reconciliation with intent on identifying, training and mentoring community members for future workshop facilitation.
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.
Han, Xiao Riversdale Business Improvement District	Saskatoon	Visual	Artists in Communities	2021-2022	$9,508	Xiao Han works with Asian and non-Asian artists to create and install artwork in Riversdale's Asian restaurants to address racism toward Saskatoon Asian community.
Live Out Loud Theatre	Regina	Theatre	Artists in Communities	2021-2022	$1,000	To run a Ranch Camp: Arts Edition in collaboration with Journey To Hope and Ponderosa Connection
Lloydminster Public School Division	Lloydminster	Multidisciplinary	Artists in Communities	2021-2022	$1,000	Provide students from grades 6-8 across the division the opportunity to participate in an enhanced art education program focusing on a variety of art types/mediums.
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.
Eastend Historical Museum & Cultural Centre	Eastend	Multidisciplinary	Artists in Communities	2019-2020	$10,000	Art as Healing workshops with people dealing with isolation facilitated by Artists in the Eastend SK area will be held September 1'18 to Feb.28'20
Art Gallery of Swift Current Shon Profit	Swift Current	Visual	Artists in Communities	2020-2021	$10,000	Provide and document for research a professional artist-led weekly art class for Wolf Willow Health Centre LTC to implement into a sustainable program during lockdowns.
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.
Saskatchewan History and Folklore Society Curtis Peeteetuce	Saskatoon	Multidisciplinary	Artists in Communities	2021-2022	$5,751	“Stories About Us” is a storytelling program that invites young people to build friendships, explore identity, and develop their artistic voice.
The Gallery/Art Placement Inc.	Saskatoon	Visual	Artists in Communities	2021-2022	$1,000	Develop plans with Biofeedback Collective for artist in communities project proposal to support development of artist community through intergenerational dialogue, mentorship, and exchange.
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.
UR Pride Centre for Sexuality & Gender Diversity Inc.	Regina	Media Arts	Artists in Communities	2019-2020	$10,000	Stories That Move You: A portrait and digital storytelling project by and for trans and non-binary people in Saskatchewan
City of Prince Albert	Prince Albert	Multidisciplinary	Artists in Communities	2020-2021	$1,000	This development project would determine the interest and readiness for Artist in Residence projects in Prince Albert for the next 1-3 years.
Stonhouse, David Bridges Art Movement	Saskatoon	Visual	Artists in Communities	2020-2021	$6,408	Artist David Stonhouse is working with newcomer youth from Open Door Society to learn and create artwork that will lead to an exhibition at BAM
Saskatchewan Seniors Association Inc.	Vanscoy	Multidisciplinary	Artists in Communities	2021-2022	$1,000	Consult SSAI membership and individuals to assess interest and develop planning for artistic programming to help address issues of isolation for rural seniors in Saskatchewan.
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.
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.
Shurniak Gallery Inc. Crystal Thorburn	Assiniboia	Visual	Artists in Communities	2021-2022	$20,000	The project "Metamorphosis" will engage the community through participatory art workshops, conversational gatherings and a collaborative public sculpture, stimulating Assiniboia's interest in the arts.
Listen to Dis' Community Arts Organization Inc. Dianne Ouellette	Regina	Theatre	Artists in Communities	2021-2022	$20,000	LTD’ will work with a filmmaker and a digital theatre-artist to digitize an original theatre production. This digitalized production will be witnessed nationally & internationally.
Conservatory of Performing Arts Paul Dechene	Regina	Multidisciplinary	Artists in Communities	2021-2022	$10,000	"Out of the Darke" seeks to respond to untold oral stories and unwritten histories of performing arts venue, Darke Hall, through literary and multimedia works.
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.
Goretzky, Barbara Town of Lumsden	Lumsden	Visual	Artists in Communities	2020-2021	$10,000	To start the first stage of a large mural at the museum, depicting the settlement of the area, beginning with Indigenous people to the present.
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.
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.
Muskoday First Nation Community School Kevin Joseph	Muskoday	Music	Artists in Communities	2021-2022	$20,000	We plan on holding musical sessions with our main artist and with a few local artists to teach our community members about different musical genres.
Big River Metis Local #59	Big River	Visual	Artists in Communities	2019-2020	$10,000	Big River Metis Local would like to have a cultural mural painted on the west wall of our 50 year old heritage theater.
YWCA Regina Lloyd Dubois	Regina	Multidisciplinary	Artists in Communities	2022-2023	$10,000	To provide art-making workshops and co-create a kinship mural that explore Indigenous experiences under colonialism for YWCA residents, staff and public.
La Marre, Rebecca North Saskatchewan Independent Living Centre Inc.	Saskatoon	Multidisciplinary	Artists in Communities	2021-2022	$10,000	Artist Rebecca La Marre proposes to both collaborate with and provide targeted services to clients at the North Saskatchewan Independent Living Centre.
Eastend Branch Library	Eastend	Multidisciplinary	Artists in Communities	2021-2022	$995	To host two cultural events; a live musical performance and a visual art exhibition to reignite our community interest and supports in the arts.
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.
Estevan Art Gallery & Museum Ruth Langwieser	Estevan	Visual	Artists in Communities	2021-2022	$45,000	Contemporary Art Meets Parks (CAMP) is a COVID-19 friendly satellite artist residency featuring art and artist led projects in our regional and city parks.
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.
Regina Folk Festival Inc. Megan Nash	Regina	Music	Artists in Communities	2019-2020	$10,000	All Our Relations choir, led by local musicians, will rewrite songs that shaped the labour movement and the RFF, culminating in a 50th anniversary performance.
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.
passion2action Youth Empowerment	Regina	Multidisciplinary	Artists in Communities	2021-2022	$1,000	passion2action hopes to engage young artists to produce multidisciplinary content for INSPIRE, our flagship youth empowerment celebration that introduces students to new, local role models.
Centre Francophone BDS Alexis Normand	Bellevue	Music	Artists in Communities	2020-2021	$10,000	To start a youth choir who will perform three songs in French for “Les rendez-vous de la francophonie” and host Café Culture gatherings in Bellevue/St.Louis/Domrémy.
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.
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.
Wildeman, Tatum Father Megret High School	Saskatoon	Dance	Artists in Communities	2020-2021	$10,000	Utilizing dance to strengthen Indigenous youths' knowledge and connection to their language and culture while improving their sense of mental wellness.
Northern Saskatchewan International Children's Festival Inc. Laura Hosaluk	Saskatoon	Multidisciplinary	Artists in Communities	2019-2020	$6,000	Sock Puppet workshop
Tri-Community Dance Club Hip Hop Hoop Dance Productions	La Ronge	Dance	Artists in Communities	2022-2023	$12,658	Tri-Community Dance Club (TCDC) hosts innovative Hip Hop Hoop Dance creators Terrance Littletent and Chancz Perry for a 4-day, youth-oriented, engaging, and enlightening dance workshop.
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.
Eden Care Communities Foundation Inc. Misty Wensel	Regina	Dance	Artists in Communities	2019-2020	$9,781	Collaborating with FadaDance Troupe our project will integrate the use of dance and movement to improve the overall well-being of our staff, artists and communities.
Community Arts Mentorship Program Incorporated Zoe Slusar	Asquith	Multidisciplinary	Artists in Communities	2022-2023	$20,000	Initiating Phase 2 of the Canoe Lake-Beauval Arts Mentorship Program that continues to build local capability to sustain future programming through the CAMP Mentorship Model
2022 Saskatchewan Winter Games Regina Inc.	Regina	Multidisciplinary	Artists in Communities	2021-2022	$1,000	We are looking for an artist to lead activities at the Culture Festival of the 2022 Saskatchewan Winter Games.
Creative City Centre Inc. Karlie King	Regina	Visual	Artists in Communities	2019-2020	$10,000	Karlie King will work with retirement communities downtown to facilitate knitting groups focused on the yarn-bombing of pre-determined locations downtown leading up to Nuit Blanche.
Saskatoon Youth Jazz Orchestra	Saskatoon	Music	Artists in Communities	2020-2021	$1,000	SYJO will collaborate and record with guest artist Joel Grundahl as a mentoring opportunity for current SYJO members and to generate future engagement.
Muskoday First Nation Community School	Muskoday	Music	Artists in Communities	2020-2021	$1,000	We want to meet and become familiar with processes of artists that will carry out future activities for our upcoming Artists in Communities- Residencies grant.
Listen to Dis' Community Arts Organization Inc. Judy Wensel	Regina	Theatre	Artists in Communities	2020-2021	$20,000	LTD' Artists and Judy Wensel will support creative community members with disabilities in an online-focused exploration of Caryl Churchill's play, Love and Information.
Dunlop Art Gallery Logan MacDonald	Regina	Visual	Artists in Communities	2019-2020	$10,000	Logan MacDonald will explore the Deaf experience with Deaf and Hard of Hearing students. The collaborative artwork will be exhibited at Dunlop Art Gallery.
Doyle, Eliza Mary	Asquith	Multidisciplinary	Artists in Communities	2020-2021	$1,000	Consult with First Nations Artists and Trauma Counsellors to develop an Artist-In-Residency/Workshop Training Course to educate artists in program delivery from a trauma-informed culturally-sensitive perspective.
Sum Theatre Corp. Pleasant Hill Community Association	Saskatoon	Theatre	Artists in Communities	2020-2021	$20,000	An artistic inquiry process developed in the Pleasant Hill community, culminating in a documentary play.
Eden Care Communities Foundation Inc. Misty Wensel	Regina	Dance	Artists in Communities	2022-2023	$20,000	To deliver innovative intergenerational dance programming to residents of Eden Care Communities involving creative dance workshops, adaptive movement, exploration, youth participation and intergenerational performance.
Chokecherry Studios Zoe Slusar	Saskatoon	Multidisciplinary	Artists in Communities	2021-2022	$20,000	This 11-month project will offer youth facing multiple barriers with weekly programming to explore mental health through creative writing, music production and spoken word poetry.
Core Neighbourhood Youth Coop Muskwa Lerat	Saskatoon	Multidisciplinary	Artists in Communities	2022-2023	$20,000	The Future Artistic Minds (FAM) is a program at CNYC for youth to explore their creative practice in a safe, identity affirming space.
The Saskatchewan Council for International Cooperation (SCIC) Melanie Rose	Regina	Multidisciplinary	Artists in Communities	2022-2023	$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.
Saskatoon Open Door Society	Saskatoon	Visual	Artists in Communities	2020-2021	$1,000	Establish a body to research and coordinate artistic programming in partnership with Saskatoon Open Door Society.
Art Gallery of Regina Inc. Linda Duvall	Regina	Visual	Artists in Communities	2020-2021	$20,000	Artists Linda Duvall (SK) and Jillian McDonald (MB/NY) will lead a community-engaged artwork and residency that responds to historical, cultural and discipline-specific approaches to excavation.
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
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.
Wild Sky Adventure Learning Laura Hosaluk	Saskatoon	Visual	Artists in Communities	2021-2022	$13,900	MĪYO ACIMOWINA ASKIY: (Good Stories Earth) is a workshop exploring old European practices of reinforced earth construction, informed by Indigenous storytelling for children and community.
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.
YWCA Regina Joely Bigeagle-Kequahtooway	Regina	Multidisciplinary	Artists in Communities	2020-2021	$10,000	Brain tanned buffalo hide will used to create art work that will commemorate MMIWG2S+ families loved ones.
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.
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.
Mathieu, Veronique Saskatoon Public Library	Saskatoon	Music	Artists in Communities	2020-2021	$10,000	Present six free interactive and educational concerts involving different musical traditions at Frances Morrison Public Library (Saskatoon) and in North Battleford .
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.
Creighton Community School Karen Clark	Creighton	Visual	Artists in Communities	2020-2021	$7,356	This school led program will provide opportunities for youth and parents to experience visual arts and gain knowledge of traditional Cree teachings, values,
Tri-Community Dance Club	La Ronge	Dance	Artists in Communities	2021-2022	$1,000	Upstage Dance Co. brings Summer Dance Workshops to La Ronge! Introductions to a variety of dance genres and the process of collaborative creation.
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.
Common Weal Community Arts Inc. Eliza Mary Doyle	Regina	Music	Artists in Communities	2020-2021	$46,500	Community Arts Mentorship Programming that engages community in music for self-expression/healing/reconciliation with intent on identifying, training and mentoring community members for future community program facilitation.
Gauvin, Vanessa Camp Shagabec Committee	Swift Current	Music	Artists in Communities	2020-2021	$5,144	In partnership with Camp Shagabec, this project creates a dedicated youth music program, serving the Cypress Hills and area
Sask Hwy 49 & 9 Home Educators Coop	Stenen	Multidisciplinary	Artists in Communities	2021-2022	$1,000	To introduce, homeschooled kids, to the benefits and joys of art; and to help build community within a broad spectrum of economically divers families.

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Photo Credit: Artist Evie Ruddy partnered with UR Pride Centre for Sexuality & Gender Diversity on a photography project featuring trans and non-binary people. Photo by Charity Marsh.