Updates on SK Arts programs and activities.
SK Arts is seeking expressions of interest (EOI) and nominations for professional artists or arts professionals to join our Board of Directors. Interested applicants can read more about board member roles, review relevant governance policies and submit their EOIs using the fillable PDF form on our website. Submit completed PDF forms to
SK Arts is a Crown Agency that provides grants, programs, and services to individuals and groups whose activities impact the arts in Saskatchewan and ensures that opportunities exist for Saskatchewan residents to experience all art forms.
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Ron Ewenin Wapemoose is a Saulteaux-Cree artist who had a rough start to life. He was raised in Alberta by his grandmother. When he was eight years old, she passed away, and he moved to Saskatchewan where he lived in a residential school until he was 16. Haunted by his troubled upbringing, it wasn’t long before Ron was in trouble with the law. For years, he struggled with addiction and continued to run into trouble.
Following a 2.5% increase to SK Arts' appropriation in the 2023/24 provincial budget, SK Arts announced how it plans to distribute the funds. This increase represents the first to the agency's general funds since 2011, not including occasional designated funds for specific purposes. The agency also received a funding increase towards specific programs from Sask Lotteries as a result of its ongoing partnership with SaskCulture.
SK Arts celebrates International Women's Day 2023 by introducing the strong, passionate women on staff. As a whole, SK Arts team members are also typically members of the arts community themselves in one way or another. With 12 of the 20 members of staff being women, they represent the majority of the small agency.
SK Arts is hosting a free, three-part virtual speakers series on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in the arts in 2023. Videos of talks are available on our YouTube channel which can be accessed from the website. Click here to learn more!
Despite having a background in Law, Michael Afenfia has had a passion for writing since childhood. An immigrant, he published his first novel, When the Moon Caught Fire, a fictional account of slavery, in 2010. When he emigrated from Nigeria in 2019, he wondered (and worried) whether he would have to give up his career.
LIVE (Live Interactive Video Education) Arts Saskatchewan is a distance learning program which allows a variety of professional artists to connect simultaneously with teachers and students in multiple schools across Saskatchewan for a live experience in arts education.
As defined by Oxford Languages, poetry is “literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm….” As the expressive art form that spoke to the 20-year-old poet Peace Akintade over a decade ago - her Nigerian roots perceive language and therefore, poetry as a part of her culture rather than a profession.
In October 2022, SK Arts’ Permanent Collection received a boost, acquiring a donation of 14 pieces from Frank Sudol, an internationally renowned woodturner. A third of the 46-piece donation, the pieces were split between SK Arts, The Mann Art Gallery in Prince Albert and the Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery.
SK Arts joins with Indigenous and non-Indigenous people from across Canada in marking September 30 as the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. This beaded artwork is by Swampy Cree/Welsch artist Marcy Friesen.