Common Weal Community Arts Inc.
Michèle Mackasey |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2024-2025 |
$46,500 |
A community engaged art project focused on rejuvenation of Indigenous languages with artist Michèle Mackasey, Patuanak community, Saskatoon partners, and regional Elders. |
| Dinsmore, Rowen |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$3,500 |
A collection of self-portrait paintings titled "The Only Friend I Need" with the intent to be shown as a solo exhibition within art gallery spaces. |
| Bradley, Bevin |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
A collaborative mentorship with master printer Jillian Ross at Jillian Ross Print studio printing to learn Intaglio etching print methods. |
| Sylvia Fedoruk Elementary School |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2020-2021 |
$500 |
A class field trip to SCYAP art gallery and art centre to learn about their activism in the Saskatoon community based on Saskatchewan curriculum. |
| Regina Pride Inc. |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2022-2023 |
$6,000 |
A celebration of Regina’s gender and sexually diverse communities with a series of artistic, cultural, and social events intended to educate and entertain our audience. |
| Regina Pride Inc. |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2019-2020 |
$8,000 |
A celebration of Regina’s gender and sexually diverse communities through a presentation of artistic, cultural, and social events meant to educate, entertain, and enlighten audiences. |
| Regina Pride Inc. |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2021-2022 |
$7,000 |
A celebration of Regina’s gender and sexually diverse communities through a presentation of artistic, cultural, and social events meant to educate, entertain, and enlighten audiences. |
| Benson, Scott |
Moose Jaw |
Music |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$5,000 |
A Carbon Fibre Violin would allow me to take my instrument into extreme conditions (hot and cold climates) without worrying about damaging the instrument. |
| Pelletier, Sharon |
Regina |
Theatre |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$3,319 |
A camcorder for video recording of the performance and for editing of the footage in addition to using the equipment for future performances. |
| Anderson, Darryl |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$3,330 |
A Bose F1 speaker & sub system allows me to travel easier with a more compact speaker but It also helps me sound more professional. |
| Bandur, Breanne |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$7,500 |
A body of work that investigates adapting my drawing practice to a smaller scale, carrying forward formal attributes and conceptual considerations of my large-scale works. |
| Stratton, Tara |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$700 |
A 7-day poi retreat with mentor Nick Woolsey to advance in flow arts, dance, and performance, aiming for mastery and artistic growth. |
| Johanna & Jayden |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$12,865 |
A 4-month work term to research and develop a new performance work, as an evolution of 'Live Duet'. |
| Zuck, Emma |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
A 30 Minute documentary film about the creation of the Ballroom Community in Saskatoon with Aldeneil's research, creating workshops for the queer BIPOC Community. |
| MacDonald, Ruaridh |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$7,500 |
A 3-month creation process to develop a libretto and record tracks for “The Picture of Dorian Gray - A New Musical” |
| Kuz, Tessa |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$900 |
A 3-day micro-choreographic lab between Saskatchewan dance artist Tessa Kuz and collaborator Tia Kushniruk to research and develop a collaborative contemporary dance duet. |
| Albert Park Community Association |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2021-2022 |
$7,500 |
A 3 day, multidisciplinary festival including works by local artistic, musical and cultural talents. |
| Brimacombe, Rachel |
Lumsden |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
A 12 month Metis women’s program to help me understand my role in our nation with art classes, teachings |
| Baird, Gavin |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$4,500 |
8th Street Menace is an online series about protagonist Mitchell “Menace” Dubois, a failed welder and aspiring Métis musician who moonlights as an auto-parts thief. |
| Central Urban Metis Federation Inc |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$8,000 |
7th annual CUMFI Metis Cultural Days are days of celebrating Metis Music, Dance, Theatre, Art, Culture, and Language. |
| Bent, Alexander |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
6M is a hip-hop duo consisting of Enjay and Alex Bent. This proposal acts to fund the mixing and mastering costs for their debut album. |
| W3APONS |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$10,000 |
4 month creative period to write new songs and choreograph a new stage show. |
| Anderson, Mikhaila |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
3 live performance videos of The Radiant to be used for showcase applications. Filmed @ PR Productions by Little Jack Films |
| Gabriel Dumont Local #11 |
Saskatoon |
— |
Share and Connect |
2024-2025 |
$20,000 |
3 different cultural arts workshops including a Capote making workshop, a series of 3 different forms of beading workshops and a finger woven sash workshop |
| Federation des Francophones de Saskatoon |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
SaskFestivals |
2024-2025 |
$7,000 |
20th Edition International Francophone Film Festival of Saskatoon CINERGIE |
| Parenteau, Donny |
Prince Albert |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$5,989 |
1st month to write and create songs
2nd month demo songs for my next album I plan to release in 2022. |
| Federation des Francophones de Saskatoon |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$8,000 |
19th Edition International Francophone Film Festival of Saskatoon CINERGIE |
| Federation des Francophones de Saskatoon |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
SaskFestivals |
2022-2023 |
$8,000 |
18th Cinergie Festival, International Francophone Film Festival of Saskatoon |
| Pooyak, Roberto |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Indigenous/Metis Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$7,500 |
15-17 Track Reggae & Hip Hop album following two previously released albums. |
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. |
| 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. |
| Wilson, Katie |
Regina |
Music |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2024-2025 |
$1,993 |
1-month of preceding or support phase (Monday, January 6 - February 14, 2025) in composition, arrangement, and rehearsal of demo single “Didn't Ask”. |
| Saskatoon Symphony Society |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$2,000 |
1 Registration for the IMZ Academy for Digital Capture of Orchestral Music |
| Brenna, Beverley |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$4,500 |
--A YA novel following eighteen-year-old Kay as she navigates FASD and grade twelve in a new school, discovering her bio mom, and a twin brother. |
| Gares, Jessica |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$4,000 |
'The Rehearsal' is a devised play to be independently produced and presented as part of the RISER Project's inaugural season in their Regina expansion. |
| Hosaluk, Laura |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$7,500 |
'The Circle and the Dot' is a mixed-media Installation influenced by folklore and Saskatchewan architecture. New work is scheduled for exhibition for 2024. |
| Schneider, Zoë |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
'Subaqualus' is a video work depicting the elusive Unidentified Submerged Object (U.S.O.) shot in various
locations throughout the Land of the Living Skies. |
| Cabildo Esquivel, Priscila |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$2,062 |
'KIN Movement" is art exchanged for kindness. "Ojos de Dios" - weavings traditional to the Indigenous Huichol of Mexico - are traded for good deeds. |
| Piper, Lynette |
Lebret |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$18,000 |
'Driver's Licence' is the story of an elderly man who loses his licence after a series of accidents and run-ins with police. |
| Holt, Savannah |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
'Analemma' is a collection of 13 ceramic moon jars, each with a unique glaze application symbolically related to ancient names for each month's full moon. |
| Romero, Alejandro |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$2,696 |
#Sole_Purpose_a_glogal_interpretation_on_Islam is a ten day participatory art installation with components of Islamic culture including dance-performance art, fabric-fiber art, photography, audio-sound-light-projections, and re-purposed objects. |
| 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. |
| Okihcihtaw, Marc |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2024-2025 |
$5,500 |
"Scout & The Red Empire: Voices Unite" digitally preserves traditional hand drum songs of Indigenous communities, celebrating Turtle Island's rich cultural heritage. |
| Jeyadharshan, Ajantha |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
"Reviving Roots: Tamil Folk Dance Initiative”
This project aims to preserve and promote traditional Tamil folk dances, fostering cultural appreciation and community engagement. |
| Kyuubi Culture |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$2,000 |
"Rebellious Space" uses colourful luminous adhesive tape to connect the corners and details of downtown buildings. |
| Richter, Jessica |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
"Preparing for the Day" is a documented performance and printmaking project exploring loss and ritual. |
| Skjeie, Cooper |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
"Poetry, Politics, and Embodiment" is a unique, thematic program that aligns well with and promises to enhance my poetry project, "post-immunity theory." |
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. |
| Lee, Erica Violet |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2020-2021 |
$13,000 |
"On the Prairies We Will Live Forever": a collection of poems exploring urban prairie Indigenous feminist freedoms. |
| Campbell, Tenille |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
"natural desire, embodied" is a series of ten portraits featuring Indigenous men who embody desire through an Indigenous woman’s gaze, exploring land, identity and lust. |
| Ruep, Jill |
Torquay |
Media Arts |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2024-2025 |
$6,440 |
"Ma Fii Lii Rasaad" is a software application promoting Indigenous beading education, preserving Indigenous culture, and celebrating artistry through accessible tutorials and resources. |
| Allard, Mark |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$15,000 |
"Into Oblivion" (working title) is a graphic novel about the heroic deeds of a handful of Chinese-Canadians in the face of war and pejudice |
| Jasper Cultural & Historical Centre |
Maple Creek |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$2,000 |
"Field Portraits" by 4 artists presents photographic portraits of rural models from the region to celebrate the SW Art Fest during September in Maple Creek. |
| Richter, Jessica |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,326 |
"Einwanderer" is an installation project in an abandoned farmhouse that explores inter-generational, post-war German-Canadian identity and immigration. |
| Rollo, Michael |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$13,000 |
"B I R D" is a 10-minute experimental film that explores a fragile landscape stressed from the effects of human intervention in our world. |
| Mohsin, Ayesha |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
"Ayesha's ASMR" is an original 45min theatrical production, it will be performed at Shu-box and also made available online on lexemetheatre.com and various other channels. |
| Pedersen, Courtney |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$2,428 |
"A Poet's Blouse" will be a series of short videos and accompanying photography, portraying poets and their words through these visual mediums. |
| Phelps Bondaroff, Amber |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
To develop performance and video work through participation in a five-week, thematic residency program at the Banff Centre entitled “Behavioural Swarm.” |
| Epp, Carole |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,771 |
This grant covers the creation of a new body of politically themed functional ceramics and includes a one month residency at the Archie Bray Foundation. |
| Rathgeber, Carolyn |
Regina |
Music |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2019-2020 |
$1,500 |
— |
| Palaschuk, Brett |
Regina |
Dance |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2019-2020 |
$2,500 |
— |
| Ritter-Magot, Nathaniel |
Regina |
Dance |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
— |
| Merasty, Marcus |
Prince Albert |
Dance |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2019-2020 |
$2,500 |
— |
| Duval-Tyler, Madeline |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
— |
| Federation des Francophones de Saskatoon |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
SaskFestivals |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
— |
| North Battleford International Street Performer Festival Association Inc. |
North Battleford |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2019-2020 |
$7,700 |
— |
| Nuit Blanche Saskatoon Contemporary Arts Festival Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
SaskFestivals |
2019-2020 |
$9,000 |
— |
| Jungwirth, Jessica |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2019-2020 |
$1,800 |
— |
| Froc, Benton |
Regina |
Music |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
— |
| Sonntag, Mayson |
Regina |
Theatre |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2019-2020 |
$1,500 |
— |
| Tupper, Annika |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
— |
| Hepting, Finnian |
Regina |
Dance |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2019-2020 |
$2,500 |
— |
| Hector, Eleanor |
Regina |
Music |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2019-2020 |
$2,500 |
— |
| Albert, Isabella |
Regina |
Dance |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2019-2020 |
$800 |
— |
| Weger, Rebecca |
Regina |
Music |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2019-2020 |
$2,400 |
— |
| Mantyka, Drew |
SASKATOON |
Theatre |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2019-2020 |
$1,500 |
— |
| Wightman, Nevada |
Toronto |
Media Arts |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2019-2020 |
$1,500 |
— |
| Stockdale Winder, Deanna |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2020-2021 |
$2,500 |
— |
| Rathgeber, Carolyn |
Regina |
Music |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2020-2021 |
$2,500 |
— |
| Haynes, Sierra |
Regina |
Theatre |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2020-2021 |
$2,500 |
— |
| Hewitt, Declan |
Regina |
Theatre |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2020-2021 |
$2,000 |
— |
| Froc, Benton |
Regina |
Music |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2020-2021 |
$2,500 |
— |
| Sonntag, Meika |
Regina |
Music |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2020-2021 |
$2,500 |
— |
| Sonntag, Mayson |
Regina |
Theatre |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2020-2021 |
$500 |
— |
| Newton, Sean |
North Battleford |
Music |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2020-2021 |
$2,500 |
— |
| Ritter-Magot, Nathaniel |
Regina |
Dance |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2020-2021 |
$2,500 |
— |
| Maneso, Ha'Keena |
Moose Jaw |
Theatre |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2020-2021 |
$2,500 |
— |
| Thompson Ramsay, Sydney |
Dalmeny |
Visual |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2020-2021 |
$2,500 |
— |
| Ritter-Magot, Nathaniel |
Regina |
Dance |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2021-2022 |
$2,500 |
— |
| Rae, Faith |
Melville |
Visual |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2021-2022 |
$2,500 |
— |
| Zarubin, Brooke |
Moose Jaw |
Music |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2021-2022 |
$2,500 |
— |
| Rathgeber, Carolyn |
Regina |
Music |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2021-2022 |
$2,500 |
— |
| Webster, Rickee-Lee |
Weyburn |
Visual |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2021-2022 |
$2,500 |
— |
| Maneso, Ha'Keena |
Moose Jaw |
Multidisciplinary |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2021-2022 |
$2,500 |
— |
| Renkas, Brayden |
Estevan |
Theatre |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2021-2022 |
$1,250 |
— |
| Read, Leanne |
Davidson |
Multidisciplinary |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2021-2022 |
$2,500 |
— |
| Wiebe, Nicole |
Swift Current |
Theatre |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2021-2022 |
$1,250 |
— |
| Sonntag, Mayson |
Regina |
Theatre |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2021-2022 |
$2,500 |
— |
| Sonntag, Meika |
Regina |
Music |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2021-2022 |
$2,500 |
— |
| Regina Folk Festival Inc. |
Regina |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2022-2023 |
$80,000 |
— |
