| The Vertigo Series |
Regina |
Literary |
SaskFestivals |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
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. |
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. |
| Afenfia, Michael |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$10,000 |
The "Head of the Baptist" is a collection of short stories and poetry exploring Nigerian-Canadian identity and relationships within the context of Canadian multiculturalism. |
| Dog Patch Music Festival Inc. |
Loon Lake |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2025-2026 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and program support. |
Badger, Joanne
Sturgeon Lake Central School |
Sturgeon Lake |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2025-2026 |
$10,000 |
Continue the art of porcupine quill placement on birchbark and quill stitching, to youth in school, on the Sturgeon Lake First Nation - intermediate. |
| Cuthand, Shawn |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2025-2026 |
$10,000 |
I would like to take a script I have developed and edit/format it to make into a PSA comic book about addictions. |
| Blom, Monique |
Waldheim |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
To produce and perform "(In)terfertilization: Of Word and Flesh" at (UNAM) Encuentro 2019:The World Inside Out in Mexico City in June 2019. |
| Short Cuts Festival Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
SaskFestivals |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Smith, James |
Muskoday |
— |
Share and Connect |
2022-2023 |
$10,000 |
Ask younger indigenous people what they think about Art. Show them how to develop these ideas ranging from educational, spiritual experiences, hardships, beauty nature, aspirations. |
Holy Family School
Kevin Pee-ace |
North Battleford |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2023-2024 |
$10,000 |
Our students will work with Kevin Peeace to create a legacy piece (painting) in the hall of our school to represent our students and community. |
Common Weal Community Arts Inc.
Michèle Mackasey |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$10,000 |
A community engaged art project focused on rejuvenation of Indigenous languages with artist Michèle Mackasey, Patuanak community, Saskatoon partners, and regional Elders. |
| Clinton Ackerman Music |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Host a week long summer camp of creativity and interdisciplinary art creation. |
Doyle, Eliza Mary
Girls Rock Camp Saskatoon |
Asquith |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
Providing continued opportunity for female empowerment by building local capacity through strengthening, mentoring and expanding the Girls Rock Saskatoon program to under-served/remote communities in Saskatchewan. |
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. |
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. |
| Martin-Arcand, Logan |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$10,000 |
We, a team of a 2SLGBTQ+ artists, will be presenting Logan Martin-Arcand's play The Gay Card, as a part of the 2022/23 Live Five Season. |
| Prairie New Music Festivals Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| 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 |
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. |
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. |
| Federation des Francophones de Saskatoon |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
SaskFestivals |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| The Vertigo Series |
Regina |
Literary |
SaskFestivals |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Wensel, Misty |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
To refine existing segments of dance creation, “Trails” into a full length, open-air production featuring Saskatchewan artists from multiple disciplines. To be presented Summer 2021. |
| W3APONS |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$10,000 |
4 month creative period to write new songs and choreograph a new stage show. |
Sâkêwêwak First Nations Artists' Collective Inc.
Skyler Anderson |
Regina |
Theatre |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$10,000 |
To develop traditional stories into stage performances with puppets. |
St. Frances Cree Bilingual School - Bateman
Mary Bishop |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Artists in Schools |
2023-2024 |
$10,000 |
The artist will work with classroom teachers to produce small books in Cree and English, modeling from familiar stories, helping students learn their Cree language. |
| Darke Hall Society Inc. |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2025-2026 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| 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. |
North Park Wilson School
Josh Jacobson |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2025-2026 |
$10,000 |
A 2,600 sqft mural exploring the connection between land and Metis identity through student-led artmaking guided by Knowledge Keeper, artist, and the Creative Action team. |
| Cameron, Steph |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$10,000 |
Creation, development and demonstration recordings of songs for album, Blood Moon. Expansion of live performance repertoire. |
| Saskatchewan Book Awards Inc. |
Regina |
Literary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2022-2023 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Bundon Pfeifer Henderson |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$10,000 |
Funds for bundonpfeiferhenderson to develop audio, projection, and installation concepts for the new play 'Tommy & Pere', by Arthur Milner. |
| Bigeagle-Kequahtooway, Joely |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2025-2026 |
$10,000 |
To interview 13+ matriarchs to ask questions about the important matriarchs in their life. Lessons learned and future visions/hope for future and their legacies. |
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. |
| W3APONS |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
This project is to fund a writing period for Saskatoon-based band and writing collaborators, W3APONS. |
| Prairie New Music Festivals Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Matyushenko, Valentyna |
Grandora |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
Create choreography project about Easter in Pysanka and showcase it. Awake Tradition through the dance vision. |
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. |
| Metcalfe, Shayne |
Waldheim |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$10,000 |
Creation of monologues through an experimental writing and performance process. Scripts will be created from documentary style interviews of actors then used for video monologues. |
Reimer, Joel Dash
Pleasant Hill Community Association |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2024-2025 |
$10,000 |
Dash Reimer will partner with different communities in Pleasant Hill to create an artistic response to the question of what safety looks like in community. |
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. |
Bishop James Mahoney High School
Cate Francis |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
Project grant to work with Health Science Academy students to create collaborative murals at BJM as well as a scientifically focused public art campaign. |
| Prairie New Music Festivals Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2021-2022 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Rosie & the Riveters |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
This project is to write 60 new songs, the best 12 of which will be recorded on Rosie & the Riveters’ next album. |
| Library Services for Saskatchewan Aboriginal Peoples Inc. |
La Ronge |
Literary |
SaskFestivals |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
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. |
| Favel, Floyd |
Paynton |
Literary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
This project is to write down and publish, accompanied by visual images, the story of Broken Knife Lookout on Poundmaker Cree Nation. |
| Anderson, Charles |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
I would like to complete a collection of quirky, humorous literary essays entitled The Boy in the Window. |
| Cathedral Area Community Association |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Okemaysim, Aren |
Regina |
Music |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2021-2022 |
$10,000 |
The recording and engineering of 14 original songs for my debut solo music project, “Okimaw”. |
| Short Cuts Festival Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
SaskFestivals |
2021-2022 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Saskatoon Experimental Music Ensemble |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$10,000 |
To present a series of concerts, premiering newly composed and improvised works. |
| Knight, Lindsay |
Saskatoon |
— |
Share and Connect |
2025-2026 |
$10,000 |
Two streaming online musical performances similar to NPR Music Tiny Desk Concerts with Indigenous artists from Saskatchewan. |
| Ecole Dundonald School |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Our Grade 4 students will engage in a series of land based explorations with Leah Dorion to explore and represent understandings of our inquiry question. |
Balfour Collegiate - Balfour Arts Collective
Tessa Kuz |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
“Who Am I?” is designed to impact young people as they investigate, represent, express and embrace empowered self-identity through the arts. |
Campus Regina Public
Joely Bigeagle-Kequahtooway |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2024-2025 |
$10,000 |
The collaborative art piece created from a buffalo hide will be displayed in the cultural classroom and will reflect students learning and connection with land. |
| Körner, Miriam |
Air Ronge |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
This project is to complete a first draft of the novel ‘Burnt’ , including travelling to the places the protagonist encounters in her journey. |
Mackasey, Michèle
William Mason School |
Snowden |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2025-2026 |
$10,000 |
William Mason School students will engage with artist Michèle Mackasey, Elders, Cultural Advisors and other knowledgeable community members in a land-based art-making project. |
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 . |
| The Vertigo Series |
Regina |
Literary |
SaskFestivals |
2021-2022 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
Conservatory of Performing Arts
Karley Parovsky |
Regina |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2022-2023 |
$10,000 |
The Intercultural String Exchange provides professional development for violinists/fiddlers and performance/workshop opportunities for the general public showcasing the violin's multicultural usage. |
| On Cue Performance Hub |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2024-2025 |
$10,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Negraeff, Laura |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$10,000 |
I will produce & direct Sarah Ruhl’s play about relationships, women’s health, & sexuality, titled “In the Next Room” at Persephone’s Backstage in Saskatoon |
| Cuthand, Shawn |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2023-2024 |
$10,031 |
To produce a comedy web series "That Deadly Cousin," which uses super 8/digital film which focuses on urban Indigenous kinship bonds. |
| 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. |
| Meneley, Barbara |
Val Marie |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$10,131 |
To create series of large drawings based on my research on Treaty 4 soil. |
33 Central School
Brianna LaPlante |
Fillmore |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2024-2025 |
$10,225 |
Instruction in visual art for K-12 students from an Indigenous Artist with Elder support culminating in installation of Indigenous art (mural) at 33 Central School |
| Gronsdahl, Todd |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$10,246 |
I am building and photographing "historical" scenes to exhibit with my Saskatchewan Maritime Museum installations at upcoming solo exhibitions in Swift Current and Edmonton. |
| Saskatchewan Book Awards Inc. |
Regina |
Literary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2023-2024 |
$10,250 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Anderson, Darryl |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2024-2025 |
$10,262 |
I will be working with award winning Bart Mckay Studio to write 2 new songs and with Skull Creek Studios to write 3 new songs. |
| 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. |
| Rose, Karen |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$10,307 |
Collaborating with three composers to create the music/soundtrack for three of my choreographic solos. |
| Akakpo, Senyo |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$10,400 |
This grant is to fund creating and exploration of urban dance technique and movement to be developed for a later stage show. |
| Matyushenko, Valentyna |
Grandora |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$10,405 |
Create, choreograph and present the first act of the play by famous Ukrainian writer, Lesya Ukrainka "Forest Song." |
| Silverthorne, Judith |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$10,423 |
To complete the Walking the Prairies manuscript, an innovative AR fusion of nature photographs, videos, and thought-provoking notes to share as a hand-held visual experience. |
| Lepage, Mario |
St. Denis |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$10,450 |
Creation of Ponteix’s new live performance incorporating new written material to support the new album "le canadien errant" to be released autumn of 2024 |
| Gronsdahl, Todd |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$10,500 |
A new chapter for my "Saskatchewan Maritime Museum" project. Here I humorously re-examine The Emma Lake Workshop Series considering legacy, hubris, the SK historical project. |
| Murray, Audie |
Regina |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2023-2024 |
$10,500 |
The continuation of a project using beadwork to depict the sky in rural and urban spaces. |
| 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 |
Cameron, Ian
St. Augustine Community School |
Regina |
Music |
Artists in Schools |
2023-2024 |
$10,585 |
An integrated music education program comprised of in-class, regular school-hour sessions featuring creative components, cultural perspectives, and cross-curricular outcomes. |
| Hosaluk, Michael |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$10,650 |
Take time to create new work that is completely unfamiliar to previous processes in my artistic career in remote unfamiliar locations and studio. |
| Atkins, Amalie |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$10,800 |
Prepare final elements (music licenses), Travel to present new feature film in for World Premiere (Copenhagen) and NorthAmerican Premiere (Toronto), followed by local confirmed events. |
| Coppens, Nathan |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$10,800 |
To help cover costs associated with producing I Have No Idea with Live Five in March, 2024. |
| Murray, Audie |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$10,800 |
Creation of new work that continues my studio exploration into generative refusal through process and material. |
| Larsen, Mitchell |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$10,800 |
Through 2026, Broken Glass Theatre will rehearse and present 2 weeks of performances of an exceptionally queer production of The Glass Menagerie. |
| L'Hirondelle, Cheryl |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$10,800 |
restoring/reversioning and creating emulators of my net.art projects for upcoming survey exhibition |
| Bundon Pfeifer Henderson |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$10,816 |
Support for a 3-month work term, to cover artist fees for the premiere production of 'Untitled Peter Tripp Project'. |
| Ricketts, Kathryn |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$10,925 |
This support is for the first design stage of the interdisciplinary production of The Chairs. This entails the set, sound and media design team. |
| City of Humboldt Cultural Services |
Humboldt |
Visual |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2024-2025 |
$11,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Matyushenko, Valentyna |
Grandora |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$11,000 |
Choreograph and perform the folk ballet of the play by Lesia Ukrainka "The Forest Song". |
| Battie, Kyath |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$11,000 |
"Sight Unseen" is the first cinematic research project of a newly formed collaboration, small victories, exploring Regina's urban spaces from an "outsider" perspective. |
| Brenna, Beverley |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$11,000 |
To complete a middle-grade novel 'Belvin Bowmaster and the Summer of the Goats' (working title) and submit it for publication to a traditional publisher. |
| Rose, Melanie |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$11,000 |
Research, develop and create new work for future production for upcoming exhibitions & workshops in 2025 |
| City of Humboldt Cultural Services |
Humboldt |
Visual |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2025-2026 |
$11,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Les Éditions de la nouvelle plume |
Regina |
Literary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2024-2025 |
$11,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Nuit Blanche Saskatoon Contemporary Arts Festival Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
SaskFestivals |
2020-2021 |
$11,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Nuit Blanche Saskatoon Contemporary Arts Festival Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
SaskFestivals |
2021-2022 |
$11,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Nuit Blanche Saskatoon Contemporary Arts Festival Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
SaskFestivals |
2019-2020 |
$11,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Les Éditions de la nouvelle plume |
Regina |
Literary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2025-2026 |
$11,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
