| Gebremichael, Elsa |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
To write and co-produce songs that incorporate traditional Ethiopian elements combined pop / rock elements with producer XSDTRK for my debut Wild Black album. |
| Dawson, Michael |
Estevan |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$3,000 |
To write and arrange songs for a new album and conceptualize accompanying videos, design, visuals, and photos related to the release and live performance. |
| Dawson, Michael |
Estevan |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$7,500 |
To write and arrange songs for a full length album and conceptualize accompanying videos, design, visuals, and photos related to the release and subsequent live performance. |
| Kirchmeier, Kurt |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$12,500 |
To write a young adult novel about a teen who gets caught in a time loop deep in the back-country of the Canadian Rockies. |
| Kirchmeier, Kurt |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$9,000 |
To write a short speculative fiction novel about a man returning to his childhood home to face unresolved trauma and unanswered questions about his past. |
| Hambrock, Meredith |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$8,000 |
To write a second draft of my literary horror novel about climate change. |
| Burke, Kelley Jo |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,000 |
To write a production-ready draft of a musical "The Curst" in collaboration with Library Voices in preparation for a 2020 premiere with Dancing Sky Theatre. |
| Slow Down Molasses |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$5,500 |
To write a new suite of songs for Slow Down Molasses, as well as creating supporting video and visual art for the project. |
| Murawsky, Graham |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$4,000 |
To write a new Factor Chandelier solo record in Saskatchewan focused sonically on expanding my prairie sound and taking it to the next level. |
| Slade, Arthur |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$9,000 |
To write a graphic novel based on my award-winning novel DUST. |
| Stevens, Tracy |
Regina |
Literary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
To write a film treatment titled: THE RIVERS FLOW: A NATIONAL TRAGEDY, the untold love story of Marguerite Monet dit Bellehumeur and Louis Riel. |
| Stevens, Tracy |
Regina |
Literary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2021-2022 |
$5,000 |
To write a film script titled: THE RIVERS FLOW: A NATIONAL TRAGEDY, the untold love story of Marguerite Monet dit Bellehumeur and Louis Riel. |
| Willett, Edward |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$5,809 |
To write a creative nonfiction book ruminating on the writing of science fiction and fantasy, drawn from experience and interviews with more than 100 authors. |
| Goobie, Beth |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$12,000 |
To write a collection, titled lookin' for joy, that combines lyrical, narrative poetry with my experiences with spoken word/poetry slams. |
| Lenko, Timothy |
Moose Jaw |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$2,000 |
To write a collection of musical theatre songs adapting the George MacDonald novel 'The Princess and the Goblin' and contract a composing consultant for coaching. |
| 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. |
| Tushabe, Irene |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$6,500 |
To write a book of creative nonfiction reflecting on my departure from the Christian God in whom I was raised to have absolute faith. |
| Olsen, Farideh |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$4,500 |
To write a 60-90min show about motherhood that integrates music and comedy. |
| Bellegarde, Bradley |
Regina |
Music |
Indigenous/Metis Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$4,487 |
To write 6 songs, all stories with Indigenous relevance for an EP with the working title, "Rediculous Stories". |
| Olsen, Farideh |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$8,000 |
To write 40 songs about motherhood for the musical component of a one woman show that integrates music, comedy and storytelling. |
| Johner, Lucas |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$7,500 |
To write 11 country-pop songs which will be released by The Johner Boys as singles, and then as an album. |
| Boucher, Adreanna |
Prince Albert |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
To workshop a new play that will premier in Prince Albert in the summer of 2021. |
| Reimer, Joel Dash |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$8,500 |
To workshop a 1 hour spoken word poetry/folk music set that integrates a loop pedal in order to tour it in Eastern Canada. |
| Dieter, Mark |
Fort Qu'Appelle |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
To workshop "A Path Of Ghosts And Warriors" at Native Earth Performing Arts 30th Annual Weesageechuk Begins To Dance festival in Toronto. |
The Saskatchewan Council for International Cooperation (SCIC)
Kris Alvarez |
Regina |
Theatre |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$9,900 |
To work with Saskatchewan artists to provide young leaders with creative and supportive spaces to engage with ideas related to social justice and global citizenship. |
The Saskatchewan Council for International Cooperation (SCIC)
Melanie Rose |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2022-2023 |
$9,900 |
To work with Saskatchewan artists to provide young leaders with creative and supportive spaces to engage with ideas related to social justice and global citizenship. |
| Kuzbik, Paul |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$9,000 |
To work with my band to adapt my debut solo album into a world class live show, and simultaneously write our follow up record. |
| Ellert, RaeAnne |
Regina |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
To work with author Pam Bustin to edit and refine my memoir, RaeAmblings—A Memoir About Disability & Other Stuff, for release in spring 2025. |
| 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. |
| Harris, Carla |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$7,500 |
To work with a dramaturg to refine a play about the experience of having a hidden disability. |
| Kehler, Danielle |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2025-2026 |
$2,000 |
To visually articulate the importance of "for as long as the sun shines, the grass grows and the rivers flow" in context of the Treaties |
| Dureault, Mitchell |
Wolseley |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
To visit, access, and develop, a long term, sustainable music programming that is focused on youth, based on the needs and wants of the community. |
| Bates, Steve |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$2,000 |
To use a custom weather station to gather data from the Sun (solar radiation) to make a small body of sound and visual art works. |
| Boechler, Jared |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$5,000 |
To undertake production on project influenced by local study in arctic region of Lapland, Finland. |
| Gilmour, Bonnie |
Meacham |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
To travel to the CAVA gallery in Edmonton for my exhibition setup, public reception, and then the takedown of my exhibition one month later. |
| Aubichon, Holly |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To travel to Edmonton for installation and the opening of a group show I am participating in at Latitude 53, with a BIPOC collective. |
| Bernbaum, Joel |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$5,000 |
To travel to Australia and do an artistic apprenticeship with BIGhART - Australia's leading social arts and social change organization. |
| Rose, Melanie |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To travel to and participate in the Artist Parent Residency - Mothra at Artscape Gibraltar Point. |
| Cameron, Ian |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$4,000 |
To travel from Regina, Saskatchewan, to St. Paul, Minnesota to learn about mechanical operation and maintenance of the pedal steel guitar. |
| Nepjuk, Elizabeth |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
To transcribe and compile research data gathered during the production/duration of the game EVERY BODY DOES IT at the Saskatoon Fringe in August 2023. |
| Reid, Sonia |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
To train for certification as a NeuroVocal Method® Licensee. |
| 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. |
| Scantily Glad Theatre |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,921 |
To tour our award-winning queer theatre/comedy show "Creepy Boys" to Regina (presented by Curtain Razors), Winterruption festival (Saskatoon) and OUTStages festival (Victoria) in early 2024. |
Santa Maria Senior Citizens Home
Barbara Goretzky |
Regina |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
To test the feasibility of an arts-based program in the home with the hope of turning it into an artist in community residency |
| 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. |
| Syrnick, Daniel |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$6,673 |
To take time to develop and create a new series of 10-15 artworks, to show as a solo exibit in the coming fall. |
| Joa, Catherine |
Denare Beach |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$7,500 |
To take time to create six paintings for "View from the Edge of the World", a confirmed group exhibition at the AGR in August 2023. |
| Han, Xiao |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$3,280 |
To support Xiao Han's multidisciplinary creation on a sound-based performance which reflects the relationship between human, migration, and the environment with the Saskachewan landscape. |
| Anderson, Skyler |
Regina |
Theatre |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2024-2025 |
$8,000 |
To support the writing and presentation of a performance based on a difficult time of my life where I was saved by ceremony. |
| Neufeld, Travis |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$8,000 |
To support the writing and completion of a Saskatchewan-set feature film screenplay called Wildfire. |
| Cupid's Heart |
Prince Albert |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$2,000 |
To support the release and planned 15-show Eastern Canada tour around the latest single "Pick Me Up" from Cupid's Heart. |
| Maxwell, Aralia |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
To support the production of work and its documentation for confirmed exhibition at Neutral Ground in November 2020. |
| Uzelman, Kara |
Nokomis |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$13,000 |
To support the production and exhibition of new work from October 2, 2019 to October 1, 2020. |
| Wensel, Judy |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$17,000 |
To support the pre-production, rehearsal and presentation of a new performance work called The Last Children. |
| Radiant Press |
Regina |
Literary |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
To support the enrolment of our Managing Editor in the online Certificate in Publishing program from the Chang School of Continuing Education at Ryerson University. |
| Kuz, Tessa |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$3,367 |
To support the creation of a new contemporary dance solo choreographed by Adam Barruch and danced by Tessa Rae Kuz. |
| Hernani Merino, Bruno |
Regina |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
To support the completion of 20 paintings for a solo gallery exhibition, showcasing the painting style I have been developing for the last 10 years |
| Kuz, Tessa |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To support Tessa in the micro-development of a series of short self-choreographed solos via New Dance Horizon's Winter Blueprint Series. |
| Torwalt, Greg |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$571 |
To support my opportunity to attend the SK Writers' Guild facilitated retreat as I work on writing/editing poems, plus support the purchase of video-editing software. |
| Hip Hop Hoop Dance Productions |
Regina |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$2,000 |
To support Hip Hop Hoop Dance during a process of shifting their theatrical production from live performance to the digital realm of animated video. |
| Kozak, Kathryn |
Creighton |
Visual |
Indigenous/Metis Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$7,300 |
To support experimental sculptures, photographs and recorded soundworks to be made during and following a July 2019 land-based residency at the Sointula Art Shed. |
| Janvier, Sylvia |
LaLoche |
Other |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
To support cultural art in ribbon skirt making and beading practices. To keep traditional art and culture alive in the Dene/Metis community. |
| Uzelman, Kara |
Nokomis |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$18,000 |
To support a solo exhibition at the MacKenzie Art Gallery, including production of new work and remounting of older work, scheduled for March 2022. |
| Wensel, Judy |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$14,000 |
To support a research and creation term to develop a new performance work called "The Last Children." |
| 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. |
| Wagner, Bernadette |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$3,169 |
To substantially revise and rewrite the mixed-genre manuscript, Unclear Future: Situating Uranium. |
| Weber, Angel |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$4,670 |
To study tsumami-zaiku, the Japanese craft of folding silk squares into complex flora and fauna arrangements, and become a certified tsumami-zaiku teacher. |
| Benjamin, Paul |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
To study traditional Māori music and instruments in Marae (Māori community) with Cultural Expert Tohunga (Elder) Dr. Pouroto Ngaropo and Grammy winning instrumentalist Jerome Kavanagh. |
Bernbaum, Joel
Oskayak High School |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Artists in Schools |
2024-2025 |
$10,000 |
To study the play Reasonable Doubt with Oskāyak High School students, work with them to create an artistic response, and share this response with public |
| Cameron, Ian |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
To study C6th Pedal Steel Guitar with professional musician Michael Eckert by taking weekly lessons over internet video call. |
| Cameron, Ian |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$5,000 |
To study C6th Pedal Steel Guitar with professional musician Burke Carroll by taking weekly lessons over Zoom video call. |
Goretzky, Barbara
Town of Lumsden |
Lumsden |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
To start the first stage of a large mural at the museum, depicting the settlement of the area, beginning with Indigenous people to the present. |
Centre Francophone BDS
Alexis Normand |
Bellevue |
Music |
Artists in Communities |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
To start a youth choir who will perform three songs in French for “Les rendez-vous de la francophonie” and host Café Culture gatherings in Bellevue/St.Louis/Domrémy. |
| Harpham, Lindsay |
Tisdale |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$2,500 |
To spend time developing a contemporary dance curriculum focusing on floor work, partnering, and injury prevention/cross-training. Used for company, master classes and tour. |
| Burke, Kelley Jo |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$5,000 |
To spend three months completing a working draft of a play, "Rigby" to be workshopped with Listen To 'Dis Community Arts Organization in spring/summer 2023. |
| Scantily Glad Theatre |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$2,000 |
To spend a week experimenting and playing in development of our queer, physical comedy collaboration: "Creepy Boys" for Melbourne Fringe Festival and future touring. |
| Hebert, Dakota |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2023-2024 |
$14,780 |
To showcase the hard work and talent of Saskatchewan's Indigenous Comedians in Regina, Saskatoon, Toronto, and Ottawa. |
| Staples-Jetko, Sandra |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$450 |
To shoot a participatory Documentary with three older women living independently in rural Saskatchewan in the time of COVID 19. |
| L'Hirondelle, Cheryl |
Saskatoon |
— |
Share and Connect |
2024-2025 |
$17,752 |
To share, with Metis songwriter Berk Jodoin, my method of co-writing songs with incarcerated relatives in 2 SK correctionals & arrange/record/produce/master a song from each. |
| Beaucage, Marjorie |
Duck Lake |
Literary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2020-2021 |
$7,200 |
To shape Movements- a collection of 7 decades of journal entries, poems and reflections- into a publication, with the help of an editor. |
| Neumier, Jane |
Langenburg |
Theatre |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$495 |
To set up my home studio with this microphone interface kit replacing my current set-up, leading to greater quality of recording of my voice work. |
| Live Out Loud Performing Arts |
Regina |
Theatre |
Artists in Communities |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To run a Ranch Camp: Arts Edition in collaboration with Journey To Hope and Ponderosa Connection |
| Kruger, Samuel |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$13,570 |
To rewrite, remount and produce solo physical theatre show, "Bat Brains or lets explore mental illness with vampires" as part of Live Five's 2023/2024 season. |
| Wagner, Bernadette |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$5,000 |
To revise and polish a children's literature manuscript, Crybaby. |
| Campbell, Jesse |
Prince Albert |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$7,000 |
To research, conduct studio visits, and write texts for an exhibition in March 2025 that commemorates the 50th anniversary of George Glenn's residency in P.A. |
| Schindelka, Dara |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$6,000 |
To research, arrange, and create a modern interpretation of traditional folksongs that highlight the historic plight of women with connections to the present. |
| Battie, Kyath |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
To research the creation of multiple fictional landscapes by unifying 16mm colour film imagery and digital editing techniques. |
| Age Friendly Outreach & Resource Network |
Bushell Park |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To research Northern and rural Saskatchewan and build relationships to develop art programs that are meaningful to a more diverse public. |
| Gereaux, Tara |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$7,369 |
To research and write the first draft of a novel about a Métis woman who reconnects with her cultural identity through beading. |
| Tushabe, Irene |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$7,500 |
To research and write a novella, Voice of the Cycad, and to complete my short story collection. |
| Hobsbawn-Smith, Denise |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$12,600 |
To research and write a first draft of book-length nonfiction about M.F.K. Fisher, Madeleine Kamman, and Anthony Bourdain, pivotal authors in food writing. |
| Luhning, Holly |
Lumsden |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
To research and write a collection of poetry centred on and informed by the end/renewal of a Saskatchewan prairie farm. |
| Wilson, Nic |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$6,800 |
To research and produce a new performance about queer embodiment and history. |
| Standing, Lorraine |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous/Metis Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$7,500 |
To research and develop my stories of my father’s stories of song and drumming when I was a child. |
| Standing, Lois |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
To research and develop Dakota women's geometric beaded designed dresses and produce a dress with the influence of past designs. |
| Moker Wernikowski, Connie |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$8,104 |
To research and create a dance piece/study for five local dancers, informed by the work of Saskatchewan dance pioneer, Amelia Itcush. |
| Bundon, Johanna |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$3,000 |
To research and create a dance piece, within a body of solo work, through Fall 2023. |
| Kybalion Movement |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$2,000 |
To request a micro-grant for alleviating expenses for a unique opportunity to present a Canadian Breaking artist at the international street dance festival “Hip-Fest 2019”. |
| Langhorne, Donna |
Air Ronge |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
To reimagine the Seven Sacred Teachings by creating portraiture of the associated animal figures in a hybrid rendition of Woodlands and Realist styles. |
| Wishlow, Isabella |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
To rehearse, adapt and perform “Holloway”. Originally an outdoor site specific contemporary dance performance, to be presented at Darke Hall in April 2023. |
