| Pottle, Adam |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
I will perform my children's story BUTTERFLY ON THE WIND at the Telling Tales Festival in Burlington. |
| 5 Guys Named Dave |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$2,000 |
Five Guys Named Dave would like to record and release our first ever professionally-recorded live-off-the-floor old-time album. |
| Bennett, Andrew |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$8,000 |
To develop live versions of my vocal music and present a live show at The Refinery in Saskatoon on December 11th. |
| Kyuubi Culture |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$2,000 |
To continue our pilot program: Kyuubi Micro Residency, which provides free studio and gallery space for underrepresented artists in Saskatoon art community. |
| 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. |
| Fulcher Gagnon, Jesse |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$7,650 |
A multi-month collection of performance-for-video pieces that will be digitally assembled to create my first Métis sash in a video piece for exhibiting. |
| Akintade-Oluwagbeye, Oluwaseun Peace |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$18,000 |
The development and production of 'The Concubines.The Wives.The Ritual', a maximalist queer play by Peace Akintade, premiering as part of Live Five Theatre’s 2025/26 season. |
| 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. |
| Sandbeck, Derek |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$6,850 |
A collaborative sculpture project exploring the intersection of neon and porcelain, blending technical learning, material experimentation, and community-driven practice rooted in play. |
| 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' |
| Scott, Tallus |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
Expand my artistic practice beyond drumming by learning recording and mixing with Randy Farkas, developing skills for professional recordings and long-term creative independence. |
| Rayner, Steven |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
Learn programs and file types that allow me to send files to 3D printers and CNC routers to make prototypes and molds to make sculptures. |
| Mathieu, Véronique |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$10,000 |
Research, record, and prepare performance editions of violin works by Canadian composer Violet Archer. |
| Kinner, Monika |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$7,109 |
Time and materials to create a body of textile artwork inspired by the botanical collection of the late Thelma Pepper. |
| Savage, Candace |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$6,000 |
'Buffalo Is Our Relative' is a nonfiction book that honours the return of buffalo to Indigenous lands by amplifying the voices of young Indigenous adults. |
| Bogan, Jillian |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
Support for studio fees to create new sculptural paintings exploring woman's work, mental illness, and heritage with plans to exhibit. |
| Burns, Brody |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$14,000 |
Wanuskewin residency, workshop, and exhibition Septemeber 2026, Exhibition title: GIANTS |
| Lund, Shelby |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$2,090 |
This grant is to support the creation of three large-scale semi-abstract, soak-stain inspired paintings on canvas, communicating my lived experience with hearing loss. |
| Weber, Hailey |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
Funding to support the creation of a body of work exploring forest fires. |
| Robitaille, Derek |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
Attend film festivals to represent Penguins of the Point, build industry connections, and advance my career in environmental storytelling. |
| Larsen, Mitchell |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
I will train with IDC for my role as intimacy coordinator in an upcoming production of The Wives. The Concubines. The Ritual. |
| Mom's on the Run Comedy Collective |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$2,000 |
Build Community and arts accessibility through the creation of 'traditional' visual art paired with interactive engagement in Art interpretation via the vessel of Improv |
| Francoeur, Paige |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
This microgrant will help cover the costs of living in another city while I receive directing mentorship at The Globe Theatre. |
Mookerjee, Abhiroop
Silverspring Elementary School |
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan |
Dance |
Artists in Schools |
2024-2025 |
$7,300 |
Introduce street dance in Arts Ed, fostering creativity and physical expression, promoting teamwork, enhancing students' confidence, cultural awareness and creating an inclusive environment |
| Hutchinson, Jonathan |
Saskatooon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
The Uplift Duo will be recording a Christmas album, and putting on a Christmas concert in December showcasing music from the album, and special guests. |
| O'Gorman, Kate |
Sasktatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$2,095 |
The artist will attend Sage Hill’s 2024 Fiction Course with a focus on revising part one of a three-part novel-in-progress currently titled The Light Chasers. |
| Andronyk, Jeanie |
Shaunavon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,500 |
To fund the creation of a large scale bronze sculpture. |
| Muirhead, Laurie |
Shellbrook |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$500 |
Work with professionals in the area of children's literature to assist me with editing and finding a suitable publisher for my manuscript (Loonies for Lazaro). |
| Moore, Tim |
Shellbrook |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2024-2025 |
$18,000 |
Develop ideas around theme of erasure - reimagining scrip in a conceptual art form and exhibiting“Remainder,” survey of my work over the last 20 years. |
| Larson, Melanie |
Simmie |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$500 |
Fund two virtual exhibitor booths for children’s books that I was invited to. North Central Teachers Convention & Might Peace Teachers Convention, based in Alberta. |
| Thunderchild, Richard |
Spiritwood |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$6,800 |
Classes for adults and youth to learn the powwow craft of headroach-making. |
| Erwin, Keisha |
Spiritwood |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$16,300 |
This project is to produce a short 10-minute film about a disconnected Sixties Scooped father and his reconnecting half-Black daughter returning home to La Ronge. |
| Erwin, Keisha |
Spiritwood |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$14,000 |
This project is to produce a 10-minute film documenting an Indigenous woman’s experiences while evacuating her traditional territory as a wildfire rages on in Saskatchewan. |
| Batycki, Kai |
St Denis |
Theatre |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2024-2025 |
$2,500 |
— |
| Batycki, Kai |
St Denis |
Multidisciplinary |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2025-2026 |
$2,500 |
— |
| Lepage, Mario |
St. Denis |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$5,500 |
Elevating the production value and visual impact of Ponteix’s live performances via tour-ready custom projections and coordinating stage lighting. |
| Lepage, Mario |
St. Denis |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Request of funds to go towards the purchase of 2 flight cases capable of protecting musical equipment while travelling internationally to play at professional performances. |
| Lepage, Mario |
St. Denis |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$9,000 |
Write and compose music and lyrics for Ponteix’s next record |
| Lepage, Mario |
St. Denis |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$5,000 |
A two month musical "boot camp" aiming to improve my technical and creative music abilities. |
| 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 |
| Tienkamp, Christine |
St. Louis |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$7,500 |
Produce Metis beadwork pieces |
| 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. |
| Tienkamp, Christine |
St. Louis |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2023-2024 |
$4,500 |
To support a Metis Womens Artists evening with an exhibit following, completing and adding new 'li rooz di no piyii' pieces to the exhibit. |
| 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. |
| Firmly Rooted Homeschool Support & Resource Centre Inc. |
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. |
| 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. |
| Banga, Kaydence |
Stockholm |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
A music, soundscape and dance based theatrical production exploring youth and artist mental health. |
| Stoughton Central School |
Stoughton |
Music |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Song Writers Circle with Saskatchewan Recording Artists Glen Strong and Forrest Eaglespeaker. |
| Stoughton Central School |
Stoughton |
Music |
Artists in Schools |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
We would love to have Teagan Littlechief and Morgan Turk perform for the students in grades 7-12 and K-6 |
| Stoughton Community Players |
Stoughton |
Media Arts |
Artists in Communities |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
A non profit organization looking to offer an inclusive affordable summer program to youth in our community. |
| Badger, Joanne |
Sturgeon Lake |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2022-2023 |
$7,500 |
To introduce the practice of porcupine quilled birchbark basket making to women and men at the Lloyd Johnson Healing Lodge in Sturgeon Lake, Saskatchewan. |
Badger, Joanne
Sturgeon Lake Central School |
Sturgeon Lake |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2022-2023 |
$4,048 |
To introduce the skill of porcupine quill zig zag stitching on felt, to youth in school, on the Sturgeon Lake First Nation, Saskatchewan. |
Badger, Joanne
Sturgeon Lake Health Centre |
Sturgeon Lake |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2022-2023 |
$6,080 |
To introduce the skill of porcupine quilled birchbark basket making to women and men at the Lloyd Johnson Healing Lodge in Sturgeon Lake, Saskatchewan. |
Badger, Joanne
Sturgeon Lake Central School |
Sturgeon Lake |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2023-2024 |
$9,769 |
To introduce the practice of porcupine quill placement on birchbark to Grade 7 to 12 at the Sturgeon Lake Central School, Sturgeon Lake Reserve, Saskatchewan. |
| Badger, Joanne |
Sturgeon Lake |
Please Select |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2023-2024 |
$6,719 |
To introduce the practice of porcupine quill zig zag stitching to women and men at the Lloyd Johnson Healing Lodge in Sturgeon Lake, Saskatchewan. |
| Badger, Joanne |
Sturgeon Lake |
— |
Share and Connect |
2023-2024 |
$11,780 |
To introduce the practice of porcupine quill placement on birchbark to Nehiyawak(Cree Peoples), on Treaty Six Territory. |
Badger, Joanne
Mistawasis Nehiyawak |
Sturgeon Lake |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$9,916 |
To provide workshops as a series of porcupine quillwork artistry and preservation of a centuries old Indigenous decor. |
Badger, Joanne
Sturgeon Lake Central School |
Sturgeon Lake |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2023-2024 |
$5,672 |
To introduce the skill of porcupine quill zig zag stitching on felt, to youth in school, on the Sturgeon Lake First Nation, Saskatchewan. |
Badger, Joanne
Sturgeon Lake Central School |
Sturgeon Lake |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2024-2025 |
$8,896 |
To introduce the art of porcupine quill placement on birchbark, to youth in school, on the Sturgeon Lake First Nation, Saskatchewan. This is intermediate level. |
| Badger, Joanne |
Sturgeon Lake |
— |
Share and Connect |
2024-2025 |
$16,834 |
To continue teaching the art of porcupine quillwork at an intermediate level on the Sturgeon Lake First Nation, Saskatchewan. |
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. |
| Art Gallery of Swift Current |
Swift Current |
Visual |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2019-2020 |
$40,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Southwest Cultural Development Group Inc. |
Swift Current |
Multidisciplinary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2019-2020 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Henry, Hugh |
Swift Current |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
The funds will be used to print and frame 30 photographs and
deliver / install prints for exhibition in Maple Creek. |
| Worrell, Peggy |
Swift Current |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,500 |
To write a collection of linked short stories with the theme of contemporary rural and urban culture in prairie Canada. |
| Cultural Festivals |
Swift Current |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2019-2020 |
$30,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
Art Gallery of Swift Current
Shon Profit |
Swift Current |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$45,000 |
To provide a professional artist-led weekly creative art class for the Long-Term Care facilities in Maple Creek, Shaunavon and Eastend Saskatchewan. |
| 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. |
| Benning, Heather |
Swift Current |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$14,116 |
To create large scale installation sculpture "Winter Sleep" to exhibit at the 2020 Biennial of Contemporary Art at the Remai Modern. |
| 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. |
| Art Gallery of Swift Current |
Swift Current |
Visual |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2020-2021 |
$40,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Southwest Cultural Development Group Inc. |
Swift Current |
Multidisciplinary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2020-2021 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Cultural Festivals |
Swift Current |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2020-2021 |
$30,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
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 |
| Art Gallery of Swift Current |
Swift Current |
Visual |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
We will hire a professional videographer to create virtual tours of our next two upcoming exhibitions to help us regain, retain and broaden our audience. |
| Dunlop, Bonnie |
Swift Current |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
Travel to present micro-readings in private homes to showcase 'Raft Baby', a novel set in the Peace River country and of particular interest there. |
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. |
| 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.' |
| Tsougrianis, George |
Swift Current |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$12,000 |
I would like to create a nature documentary that examines the landscape and the wildlife of Grasslands National Park. |
| Worrell, Peggy |
Swift Current |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$5,000 |
I will revise and polish the manuscript for a novel about three generations of a Saskatchewan farm family. |
| Art Gallery of Swift Current |
Swift Current |
Visual |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2021-2022 |
$40,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Southwest Cultural Development Group Inc. |
Swift Current |
Multidisciplinary |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2021-2022 |
$20,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Cultural Festivals |
Swift Current |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2021-2022 |
$30,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Wiebe, Nicole |
Swift Current |
Theatre |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2021-2022 |
$1,250 |
— |
| Currie, Dillon |
Swift Current |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$250 |
To record 2 studio-quality demos to include in application for Sound Recording grants, which is intended to partially fund 2022 debut full-length solo LP. |
| Worrell, Peggy |
Swift Current |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
Four contributors to "apart", SWG's pandemic anthology, will do readings in Swift Current and Eastend to promote the book and contribute to their professional development. |
| Dunlop, Bonnie |
Swift Current |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$9,000 |
Create 10 new pieces and polish existing 22. On retreat, write 5 pieces utilizing archived material. Meld the material into a completed manuscript. Query publishers. |
| Art Gallery of Swift Current |
Swift Current |
Visual |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2022-2023 |
$40,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Southwest Cultural Development Group Inc. |
Swift Current |
Theatre |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2022-2023 |
$17,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| 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. |
| Cultural Festivals |
Swift Current |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2022-2023 |
$30,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Maverick School |
Swift Current |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
Provides an overview of the persons involved and processes undertaken to investigate and construct an effective art program for the Artist in Schools Project. |
| Houghtaling, Theo |
Swift Current |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
Travel to Toronto to attend Canzine- Canada's national zine and printed matter convention. Meet other printed matter artists and professionals. Attend workshops and lectures. |
Maverick School
Theo Houghtaling |
Swift Current |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2022-2023 |
$13,217 |
Artist Theo Houghtaling will work with students on a zine project in three parts: individual perzines, a collaborative group zine, and group community dispatch. |
| Moore, Tim |
Swift Current |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2022-2023 |
$16,000 |
To complete the body of work "Erasure is Futile" for a scheduled group exhibition and future solo exhibition potential. |
| Art Gallery of Swift Current |
Swift Current |
Visual |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2023-2024 |
$41,000 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Cultural Festivals |
Swift Current |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$30,000 |
For general operating and program support. |
| Southwest Cultural Development Group Inc. |
Swift Current |
Theatre |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2023-2024 |
$17,430 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Giesbrecht, Jessica |
Swift Current |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Attend the CANSCAIP Packaging Your Imagination 2023 Conference in person by traveling to Toronto. |
| Worrell, Peggy |
Swift Current |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$13,000 |
I will work on the final three stories for a collection of short fiction titled Shame, doing some of the research and writing in Newfoundland. |
