| 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. |
| Greenway, Madeleine |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To participate in OSAC’s Arts on the Move program, I will need to assemble and frame an exhibition of 15 works. |
| Lawrence, Katherine |
saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
To expand my readership beyond Saskatchewan by presenting my new poetic memoir, Black Umbrella, at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival and Art Bar reading series. |
| 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. |
| Whitecalf, Azby |
Gallivan |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
This grant will go sustenance and living fees while I develop paintings and drawings for a collective exhibition. |
| Baerwaldt, Wayne |
Assiniboia |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
To attend the exhibition installation, opening events and media promotion of my guest-curated Toronto exhibition of works by Taras Polataiko |
| Dinsmore Composite School |
Dinsmore |
Dance |
Artists in Schools |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
Rural students in Grades K-12 will expand their understanding of Indigenous culture and worldview as experienced through Indigenous story-telling and dance. |
| Coombs, Chad |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I have a solo art show that presents my autistic struggles in photographic form. I have 25 pieces I intend to show. |
| Girls Rock Camp Saskatoon |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Funding for Girls Rock Camp Saskatoon 2024 in order to offer an honorarium to the 10 instrument instructors who support the campers. |
| Cottin, Lindsay |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Attend Dance Immersion/Dance for Fall North as a soloist and Artist-In-Residence under New Dance Horizons
in order to curate, program and present contemporary dance Saskatchewan. |
| Bagatim, Tabata |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Attending the NCECA 2025 conference, to connect and learn from renowned ceramic artists to help improve my surface design techniques aligning with my forms. |
| Parker, Kara |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
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| Mikhaylova, Evgenia |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
Recipe Recital is a live performance production on the affects of olfactory and sonic vocabulary on environmental perception. |
| Regina Early Years Family Resource Centre - Airport |
Regina |
Dance |
Artists in Communities |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
This project explores a potential partnership with artist Ashley Johnson through pilot classes and planning sessions to develop inclusive, creative dance programming at the EYFRC. |
| Körner, Miriam |
Air Ronge |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
This project is to attend a colloquium with Heather Benning and Tim Lilburn, receive manuscript consultation and create new work. |
| Wesaquate, Kevin |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
To accept the Writer in Residency which has been offered to me. My ask is for the flight to attend October 15th return October 31st. |
| Brightwater Science, Environmental, and Indigenous Learning Center |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
We will create outdoor sculptures using found material to support cultural learning about sustainability. The participants will be from Confederation Park School's Cree Immersion class. |
| Tsougrianis, George |
Swift Current |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
A two-day artistic exploration using movement and landscape to research a transformational scene for a narrative short film. |
| Ba, Flany |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Intensive African dance teacher and performer training in which renown International African dance
professionals train attendees on technique, musicality, history, and pedagogy. |
| Westview Public School |
Prince Albert |
Music |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
To have local Aboriginal artists in our community come to school and teach our kids Aboriginal art and have them learn from these people. |
| Dinsmore Composite School |
Dinsmore |
Dance |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Rural K-6 students will develop an understanding of reconciliation and the importance of relationship-building by working with an Indigenous/Métis artist. |
| Dieter, Mark |
Fort Qu'Appelle |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
To write and complete a full story treatment for an independent feature screenplay in-development titled "As Far As The Eye Can See." |
| Sinclair, Johnny |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
With our grant proposal we are planning to present a "one-night only" live streaming concert event by local music group Tucker Lane. |
| 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. |
| Anderson, Darryl |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
I want to continue my artist development and increase my knowledge in my craft. |
| Humboldt Public School |
Humboldt |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
We propose that Monika Kinner, fiber artist, guide Humboldt Public School students to create a colourful fabric mural on the fence surrounding the school. |
| Rees, Alasdair |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
Travel to Montréal to take part in two events for the Journée du Poème à Porter organized by La Poésie Partout |
| Martell, Rueben |
Waterhen Lake |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
I've been asked to speak at the Blood in the snow film festival, I'm using the funds to supplement travel and 20% of the accommodations. |
| Anderson, Emma Jean |
Prince Albert |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
We are seeking support for a NW Canadian tour which will spread awareness of our band folowing the release of our debut single. |
| Kuz, Tessa |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
A rehearsal director apprenticeship in dance with Faye Thomson, one of the Artistic Directors of The School of Contemporary Dancers professional program. |
| Walliser, Rachel |
Regina |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
My proposal is to cover travel, food, and accommodation expenses to attend a callback audition for the National Theatre School's Acting program in Montreal, Quebec. |
| Dunbar, Geanna |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Culturally immersive myself, honor and celebrate Indigenous art while fostering cultural appreciation. To showcase skills and contribute to the economic empowerment of Indigenous artistic talent. |
| Körner, Miriam |
Air Ronge |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
This project is to attend the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild winter retreat to work on my current writing project. |
| Zhao, JingLu |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Reproduction of the body of work for the exhibition at The Bunkhouse Gallery |
| Lenko, Timothy |
Moose Jaw |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
To work with author Michael Leali to edit and refine my novel, Houses Don't Have Ears, a middle-grade novel about mental health and imagination. |
| Young, Lyndsay |
Muskoday |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
I would like to paint and draw a few illustrations and or works for the community to showcase my art. |
| Goodpipe, Erin |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Participate in a theatre workshop; supporting the creation and development of Children of the Bear, created by Todd Houseman, which I am a co-director. |
| Atherton, Carla |
Alvena |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
More deeply immerse myself in the study of Dreamwork through Robert Moss' training to continue the expansive development of my work. |
| Harris, Carla |
Regina |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Editing my first collection of disabled narrative poetry I will attend an immersive, facilitated writing program focused to revise my manuscript for submission to publishers. |
| Butler, Ciel |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
Entertaining and diversifying Saskatoon's Fringe Festival 2025 by funding the inclusion of Saskatoon-based drag performers on their all ages, free outdoor stage. |
| Sheibani, Sima |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
We will redevelop a show about homeland, language, and conflict, performed this summer, and bring it to the festival of Art and Discourse in Regina. |
| Mistawasis Nehiyawak High School |
Leask |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
The grant would provide an opportunity for the students to learn from a local artist to enhance cultural identity and awareness in an artistic form. |
| Janzen, Ava |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
Write and record songs with Juno award-winning songwriter and producer Zach Zanardo to complete and release my debut six-song EP 'Call Me Vikki' |
| Ecole St. Pius X |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Provide funding to two interdisciplinary artists to design and develop cross-cultural and cross-curricular programming for Pre-K – Grade 3 students in the Regina Catholic School Division. |
| Minahik Waskahigan Elementary School |
Pinehouse Lake |
Music |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
We would like this grant to support the start-up of an arts program in our school teaching students music. |
| Virgo, Sean |
Eastend |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
To read, assess and select unpublished stories by the late Patrick Lane, and to assemble and propose a collection for publication, with editorial suggestions. |
| Morgun, Jessica |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
Produce a short video artist talk to communicate the project "Thoughts and Prayers" |
| 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. |
| Slow Down Molasses |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
To put together video content for streaming/promotional purposes in advance of the upcoming Slow Down Molasses album release. |
| 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. |
| Bluemke, Cat |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
Attending Professional Writing for Visual Artists Summer Bootcamp (online course), taught by Faith Holland and Liz Sales, to improve writing components of my practice |
| Umeh, Charles |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
Applying for the grant to assist me carry out post production of my short film Black Vision. |
| Thomson Community School |
Regina |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
We are applying for an Artist in Schools Development Grant to create an outline for our proposed Storytelling through Symbolism project. |
| 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. |
| Lester B. Pearson Elementary School |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Artists in Schools |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
We are asking for support to create a 2022 Drum Group at Lester B. Pearson School.
Practice would be once a week during lunch. |
| Cameron, Ian |
Regina |
Music |
Artists in Schools |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
This project uses the physical medium of vinyl records to communicate different curriculum components with an emphasis on creation & creativity. |
| Hoggarth, Opal |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
Starting a new drag/rock show to allow queer performers to make money in Regina for alternative communities. |
| McCreary, Sara Michelle |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
To develop recipes for natural fabric dye paste that I can use to design and hand dye Métis floral patterns. |
| Hawkes, Nena |
Regina |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
This funding would support me in attending the Summer Intensive Program at Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre with a focus on Mask. |
| Parovsky, Karley |
Regina |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
To talk to organizations, associations, elected officials, artists and Elders in Central Regina to better understand the need for arts programming. |
| Larsen, Mitchell |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
I will receive my basic actor combattant training at the 2024 National Stage Combat Certification Conference in August. |
| Dittmann, Bethany |
Estevan |
Theatre |
Artists in Schools |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
The artist will develop a relationship with an elementary school, partnering, to enhance arts-related practice through drama that is linked to curricular educational outcomes. |
| Fortugno, Abriana |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
This will be an immersive project, with the walls and floor painted entirely, as well as a pop up shop for the reception. |
| Ministik Community School |
Cumberland House |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Fur hat workshop for Grade 12 students. Teaching our graduating class how to create a fur hat from raw materials and used as graduation caps. |
| Croissant, Helen |
Candle Lake |
Visual |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$1,002 |
Purchase proper lighting for my painting studio. |
| Saskatoon Experimental Music Ensemble |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,070 |
Present a concert to premiere a collection of new compositions by Graeme Dyck. |
| Johnson, Landon |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$1,100 |
Purchase of DJI RS2 Gimbal to allow for more creative movement and shots for videography adding auto-movement to stationary shots when shooting with multiple cameras. |
| James, Zoe |
Regina |
Dance |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$1,125 |
Support for exploration and creation period to work towards creating a dance piece with four other collaborators inspired by mixes of techno and house music. |
| Yu, Skylar |
Regina |
Dance |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$1,125 |
Collaborating with four other emerging dancers to shape, choreograph, and rehearse a twenty minute long dance performance to be presented in April 2025. |
| Oxbow Prairie Horizons School |
Oxbow |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2020-2021 |
$1,166 |
Artist Terri Fidelak will work alongside Oxbow Prairie Horizons School to design a longer-term project involving a large interactive 2D/3D-relief artwork for Oxbow’s Main Street. |
| Kitchen Party Music, Inc. |
Forget |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,186 |
This project which will include 25- 40 children/youth from South East Sask communities in an inclusive musical performance selection |
| Morton, Jeff |
Kennedy |
Media Arts |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$1,191 |
Izotope RX 9 Advanced to enable a professional standard of audio production, mastering, editing, and repair in my practice as a sound artist and composer. |
| Gonie, Jalisa |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,200 |
To train at the Manitoulin Conservatory and receive direction and dramaturgy from John Turner for a festival-length clown piece. |
| Macdonald, Daniel |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$1,200 |
I am a writer currently not owning a functioning laptop. My desktop and the MacBook (circa 2009) is no longer able to update nor function. |
| Magalong, Wren |
Regina |
Theatre |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$1,200 |
A series of courses with the Canadian Institute of Theater Technologies on using the ETC lightning console. |
| Watson, Lyndon |
Regina |
Visual |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$1,200 |
To purchase a 14-inch bandsaw which will allow me to create my woodwork pieces without limits. |
| Young, Tom |
Regina |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2022-2023 |
$1,216 |
Explore watercolour as a professional art form, seek ways to strengthen watercolour community, heighten 2023 symposium awareness as a foundation to the future. |
| Bear's Song Collective |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,225 |
Bear's Song Collective is invited for an multi-media art installation at Apophony Press in Saskatoon SK from September 8 to 16, 2022. |
| Indigo Joseph |
Regina |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,225 |
The micro grant will help cover travel costs for our upcoming tour supporting The Dead South in early January 2023
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| Ulan-Hohol, Mykola |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2021-2022 |
$1,225 |
Upgrade to a Dell G 15 laptop to adequately support my professional music career |
St Angela Merici Residence
Tara Stratton |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$1,230 |
12 months, weekly SpinPoi classes for seniors, promoting fitness, cognitive stimulation, social interaction, and creativity. Seek support to enhance wellbeing through art and movement. |
| Wolverine Wood Fire Collective |
Meacham |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,250 |
Members Paula Cooley, Tabata Bagatim, Anastasia Kinzel, Rebecca La Marre, will learn to fire salt and soda kilns during the CARFAC SK Mentorship program. |
| Renkas, Brayden |
Estevan |
Theatre |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2021-2022 |
$1,250 |
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| Wiebe, Nicole |
Swift Current |
Theatre |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2021-2022 |
$1,250 |
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| Northern Saskatchewan International Children's Festival Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,260 |
We would like to attend the Festival and Event Management Masterclass for professional development of our staff. |
| Bulyea Elementary School |
Bulyea |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2023-2024 |
$1,293 |
Shaunna Dunn and I would like to explore the idea of "changes in personal and topographical landscapes" with the K-6 students at Bulyea School. |
| PAVED Art + New Media |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,301 |
Artistic Director to attend the Biennial national artist-run centre gathering "Against the Current", hosted by the Ottawa Art Gallery’s Alma Duncan Salon, AXENÉO7 and SAW. |
| Billingsley, Alyssa |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,309 |
Professional development at Manitoulin Conservatory for Creation and Performance of a solo bouffon show with Karen Hines and directorial mentorship under John Turner. |
| 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. |
| Hunks, Jacqueline |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,363 |
Phase 1: Travel to Saskatchewan ferries to photograph; research their histories, and gather community memories as groundwork for future paintings, leather collages, and text. |
| Robson, Frances |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$1,385 |
I am switching to a new laptop for my photography/book work and the old software will not work on it efficiently. Adobe Creative will help. |
| Prairie New Music Festivals Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,400 |
To kickstart the formation of The Saskatoon Experimental Music Ensemble: a community music ensemble in association with Prairie New Music Festivals. |
| Rhoda Hardlotte Memorial Keethanow High School |
Stanley Mission |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,415 |
Josh Goff will work with students from the Visual Arts 10/20 class to design a concept for a mural. |
| All My Relations Creative Connections |
Prince Albert |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,436 |
Purchase supplies to expand our community-engaged artistic practice which will promote development for a young artist collective in our community through the Coming In Project. |
| Berglund, Blake |
Regina |
Music |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$1,450 |
In-ear monitors are needed as stage volume has caused inner ear damage. Their precision will assist in strengthening my vocals and tightening harmonies. |
| Virgo, Sean |
Eastend |
Literary |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$1,456 |
My laptop has worn out, so I’ve fallen back on an old desktop, itself pretty geriatric: portability is important to the way I write |
| Elder, Daniel |
Regina |
Music |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2021-2022 |
$1,485 |
Purchase of digital hand percussion instrument to expand live show performance ability and further artistic practice. |
| Wightman, Nevada |
Toronto |
Media Arts |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2019-2020 |
$1,500 |
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| Mushtaq, Warsha |
SASKATOON |
Literary |
Artists in Schools |
2025-2026 |
$1,500 |
Poetry of Resistance delivers 1–2 hour workshops to 5–8 Saskatoon high school classes, exploring how poetry and art can empower and inspire us amidst existential threats to marginalized communities and our shared, natural world. |
| Sonntag, Mayson |
Regina |
Theatre |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2019-2020 |
$1,500 |
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