| Holy Guacamole Dance Festival |
Martensville |
Dance |
SaskFestivals |
2019-2020 |
$8,000 |
Holy Guacamole is a 350-person, 3-day Saskatoon community dance festival including workshops, performances, social dances. Predominantly Latin dance while featuring other cultural dance guest performances. |
| Brant, Chelsea |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$500 |
Host a collaborative pop-up arts market/event with local artists and organizations such as Nuit Blanche YXE to increase awareness of our contributions to the community. |
| Clinton Ackerman Music |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Host a week long summer camp of creativity and interdisciplinary art creation. |
| King, Karlie |
Regina |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$987 |
Host a “Paint Night” (during the day) where students invite a parent, guardian, or family member/friend to join them in painting self-portraits that explore identity. |
| City of Humboldt Cultural Services |
Humboldt |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Host community conversations about Treaty 6 and Reconciliation with a professional artist to build relationships to develop plans for public art at Original Humboldt. |
| The Vertigo Series |
Regina |
Literary |
SaskFestivals |
2022-2023 |
$6,000 |
Hosting a series of diverse emerging and established writers and musicians from across Canada. Paying artists to extend their tour to include Saskatchewan's small audiences. |
| The Vertigo Series |
Regina |
Literary |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$7,000 |
Hosting a series of diverse emerging and established writers and musicians from across Canada. Paying artists to extend their tour to include Saskatchewan's small audiences. |
St. Frances Cree Bilingual School - Bateman
Zoe Kostuchuk |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2022-2023 |
$6,623 |
How to entice students/families back into school outside a school setting. Extra-curricular arts programming to engage students back into the school outside of school hours. |
| Zafaremili, Elham |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$4,383 |
I aim to combine Persian calliography and painting. |
| Edmunds, Alexander |
Saskatoon |
Other |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
I am a 2-Spirit Indigenous youth who wants to create a collection of beadwork each month. I want to celebrate my Indigeneity and queer identity. |
| Brenna, Beverley |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I am a Saskatoon-based artist and this Solo Exhibition will take place at Regina Beach/Last Mountain Lake at the Elsie Scherle Gallery |
| 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. |
| Coppens, Nathan |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
I am acting in a Fringe production that is touring Canada. This grant would help cover per diems for the 77 days on the road. |
| Daniels, Carol |
Regina Beach |
Literary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2022-2023 |
$11,360 |
I am an established and award-winning author and poet in Canada. The project I wish to produce is a new collection of short stories. |
| Wilcox, Zane |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$5,000 |
I am applying for funding for dedicated studio time to develop a new watercolour painting process. |
| Gobeil, Beth |
Prince Albert |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$565 |
I am applying for funding to cover the cost of poet Ronna Bloom’s online course, “Community Engagement through Poetry, a Primer and Practicum” |
| Budgell-Eaglespeaker, Forrest Scott |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$7,500 |
I am applying for funding to financially support the recording of a full length album written about inter-generational trauma and healing. |
| Tiggelers, Larissa |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$14,000 |
I am applying for funding to support the costs associated with the production of a new body of work including painting, sculpture and fibre. |
| Wilcox, Zane |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
I am applying for funding to support the creation of new sculptural work for a confirmed exhibition at Remai Modern, November 2022 |
| Harpham, Lindsay |
Tisdale |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$2,700 |
I am applying for support to attend the Ate9 Intensive in Los Angeles this December. The study period provides new skills and valued mentorship. |
| Nourse, Sheila |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$3,450 |
I am applying for support to bring this project to a conclusion. It will be installed in the Elsie Scherie Art Gallery in February, 2023. |
| Dill, Khodi |
Vanscoy |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$12,000 |
I am applying for this grant in order to revise and complete a novel, for which I have completed a first draft. |
| Baraniecki, Jordan |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$2,000 |
I am applying to create a series of paintings that explore the intersections between contemporary Surrealist painting and three-dimensional collage. |
| McKay, Cameron |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
I am asking for a materials budget for a group exhibition that will transform a gallery space into an immersive installation. |
| 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. |
| Pacholik, Devin |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
I am creating a short animated film about Viking meeting a ghost and learning to confront fear and accept differences. |
| Tucker, Peter |
Moose Jaw |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$14,000 |
I AM DISAPPEARING is a large installation-based sculpture using reclaimed wood beams from the historic Souris Valley Mental Health Hospital in Weyburn, Saskatchewan. |
| Winterhalt, Anastasia |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
I am doing a 3 month coaching/study intensive with Kathleen Lohrenz Gable as I prepare a role and symphony debut with the SSO. |
| Hansen, Naomi |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
I am doing necessary research to start writing my first book, which will highlight restaurants all across Saskatchewan through stories, photography, history, and food. |
| Martin, Monique |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$3,661 |
I am installing and exhibiting a large installation based printmaking piece and attending the International Printmaking Biennial in Duoro, Portugal, which is an invitational event |
| James, Patrick |
Regina |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
I am investigating current technologies (3d printing, live virtual renderings and projections) from outside the theatre industry to research the impact on the audience. |
| La Marre, Rebecca |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I am invited by Peripheral Review, a national Canadian contemporary art journal, to interview Vancouver artist and co-founder of Western Front artist-run centre, Glen Lewis. |
| Duvall, Linda |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$13,000 |
I am inviting 4 musicians to each sing to the land in gratitude. Working with material produced during these events, I will create relevant documentation. |
| Burns, Harriet |
Nipawin |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
I am making 5 vests for Shoal Lake Cree Nation - 2 with white leather and 3 with tan color with a beaded logo |
| Larsen, Mitchell |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$752 |
I am partnering with local drag performer, Dillon Chernowsky, to create a dance performance to be shared at Haus of Night's drag show featuring Detox. |
| Friesen Reed, Tricia |
Yorkton |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$6,750 |
I am planning to revise and add to a collection of creative nonfiction essays titled, "A Field Guide to Travelling Home". |
| Ledoux, Maureen |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2021-2022 |
$7,500 |
I am requesting funding to produce a Woman's Traditional Beaded Outfit to participate in cultural activities. |
| Parovsky, Karley |
Regina |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$880 |
I am requesting money to attend a Trauma and Cultural Sensitivity training for artists. |
| Hansen, Naomi |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$6,750 |
I am researching and writing the manuscript for my first book "Only in Saskatchewan," which highlights restaurants all across Saskatchewan through food, stories, and history. |
| Mierau, Levi |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
I am seeking $1,000 in grant support to assist in the execution of the production phase of Crowsworld: Episode 3. |
| Nelson, Marilyn |
Griffin |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
I am seeking assistance to attend a workshop to further my goal of creating meaningful art that explores social equity and justice. |
| Bradshaw, Kathy |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
I am seeking financial support to participate in a US encaustic retreat and exhibition which I was recently awarded through the International Encaustic Association. |
| 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. |
| Richter, Jessica |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
I am seeking funding to cover the fee for the Caetani Air Residency in British Columbia. |
| Gares, Jessica |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$4,474 |
I am seeking funds to complete post production work on my short film "Fuck" I shot this past summer, which I wrote, directed, and produced. |
| Mrazek, Jerome |
Prince Albert |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
I am seeking support to help cover costs of framing artworks in preparation for my solo exhibition at the John V. Hicks Gallery. |
| 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. |
| Wolfe, Aurora |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
I am taking my band to perform at two festivals in Alberta - BIG Winter Classic (Calgary) and Winterruption (Edmonton) |
| Knight, Daniel |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
I am wishing to purchase high quality two channel audio interface to increase my capacity as an independent artist. |
| 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. |
| Beaucage, Marjorie |
Duck Lake |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2020-2021 |
$14,000 |
I AM YOUR HOLY FREAKNESS is a multidisciplinary creation of collages, installation, poetry performance, and video based on the Movements of my Life. |
| 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. |
| Hardy, Greg |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$4,000 |
I have a solo exhibition of drawings on paper and canvas. I would like funding assistance to produce a catalogue from Lac la Ronge |
| Dale, Danielle |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
I have been accepted to the Biophilia Research Residency at Ayatana Artists' Research Program, where I will learn about biology and wildlife. |
| Tyler, Tim |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I have been contracted by the Eye Gallery for a 20 piece Exhibition entitled Light Floats on Black Water that runs March and April. |
| Johnson, Adam |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
I have been given the oppertunity to perform at two showcases during CCMA week in Calgary, AB. |
| Ens, Sarah |
Winnipeg |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$630 |
I have been invited to attend the Community of Writers Poetry Workshop in the Virtual Valley from June 20-27, 2020. |
| 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. |
| La Marre, Rebecca |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
I have been invited to complete a BAM artist residency in Saskatoon for the month of October, culminating in an exhibition. |
| Yokozawa Farquharson, Hanna |
Saltcoats |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
I have been invited to have a private exhibition at Godfrey Dean Art Gallery in the fall of 2020. I need 20 works of art. |
| Klassen, Vanessa |
Kindersley |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
I have been invited to present a masterclass and perform a 20-minute multi-media piece by Canadian composer Elizabeth Raum at the Brandon University Clarinet Festival. |
| Teetaert, Kristin |
Regina Beach |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
I have been offered a Solo Exhibition through OSAC's 2023 Arts on the Move Program and am requesting funding to assist with preparing for this. |
| Poitras, Jarrid Curtis Lee |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$585 |
I have been successfully nominated for Country Album of The Year for the Summer Solstice Indigenous Music Awards and need to attend in person. |
| Trapp, Amanda |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$969 |
I have drafts of songs saved from several years that I’d like to refine to a set for a concert and/or recording an EP. |
| Ledingham, Sandra Meryl |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
I have just been accepted into the Korean International Ceramic Biennale 2021. I'm requesting assistance for shipping. Freight estimate $1100.00 (plus crating costs) |
| Blanchette, Cynthia |
North Battleford |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
I have received an invitation to participate in a study tour through Beijing and Wuhan, China from the Confucius Institute of China and Alison Norlen. |
| Sefton, Ben |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$3,707 |
I have recorded 4 songs that need to be mixed and mastered and 2 more songs that are ready to be recorded, mixed and mastered. |
| Blacklock, Leslie |
Christopher Lake |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
I have registered for "Abstracting the Landscape" workshop, October 29 to 30 in Regina, thru AGR and require funding for travel and accommodation |
| Ulrich, Maureen |
Lampman |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
I have written a series of poems about COVID-19 which I would like to have professionally critiqued/edited. Paula-Jane Remlinger has agreed to do this. |
| Ramsay, Jessica |
Regina |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
I hope to go to Germany for a Mentorship and specialized training on the violin from September 9 to December 16, 2019. |
| Utman (Koops), Victoria |
Macoun |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I hope to successfully launch my debut novel, WHO WE ARE IN REAL LIFE published by Groundwood Books, which releases February 6, 2024. |
| Bzdell, Rebecca |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I intend to attend the professional semester at Broadway Dance Center. |
| Philips, Elizabeth |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$18,000 |
I intend to complete a new poetry manuscript centred around the long poem as a conduit for the transcendent power of personal and environment grief. |
| Fourstar, Gabrielle |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2020-2021 |
$4,536 |
I intend to paint an art series of 100 abstract acrylic blob paintings on 18"X 24" canvases. Remaining paintings with vegan paint. |
| Martineau, Andrea |
Regina |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$562 |
I intend to take Karen Solie's "I Can't Tell You What I Mean: Writing Poetry Through Uncertainty" Workshop Class at Flying Books. |
| Sparrow, Don |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$15,008 |
I intend to write, illustrate and publish an original 64-page comic book memoir, titled “Does Your Mother Know?” |
| Han, Xiao |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$2,400 |
I need a good quality camera to enhance my art practice in all my major visual practices: media-based public art, socially engaged arts, and performance. |
| Daniels, Carol |
Regina Beach |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
I need a website. It is a tool which allows for others to know how to contact the artist and what the artist creates. |
| Erickson, Craig |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
I need funding to be able to purchase paint to finish a body of work for an art show I have been invited to. |
| Fink, Heike |
Prud'homme |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
I need to buy a carpet as a "frame" for an installation of 3000 felted rocks for my first major solo exhibition in Canada. |
| Ferguson, Louisa |
Meacham |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
I need to buy an exposure unit to continue to upgrade my skills in glass by exploring techniques of printing on glass with glass powders. |
| Knight, Lindsay |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
I plan research twenty years of my songs to compile lyrics and descriptions in nehiyaw (Cree) and english and then produce a resource. |
| La Marre, Rebecca |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$5,000 |
I plan to attend the Flex Residency Program at the Medalta International Artists in Residence Program in Medicine Hat, Alberta in 2023. |
| Wahl, Nathen |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$15,300 |
I plan to compete an 88 page graphic novel featuring Joe Zombie and the “Danse Macabre or Dance of Death in the current pandemic environment. |
| Sun, Qiming |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I plan to create an ephemeral sculptural installation accompanied by a ritualistic performance piece during my stay at Monica Bodirsky's "Awakening" Artist Residency. |
| Friesen, Marcy |
Carrot River |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2022-2023 |
$5,050 |
I plan to create new beaded face and body work. I will preserve the work through photography, printing, framing and epoxying the original bead work. |
| Billings, Terry |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$6,000 |
I plan to develop several years of video documentation of ponds into a form that can be exhibited. |
| Anderson, Charles |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$8,000 |
I plan to finish writing a novel-in-stories entitled Penny Fictions which is presently one-sixth complete. |
| Woytiuk, Jamie |
Buena Vista |
Media Arts |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I plan to offer an introduction to photographic storytelling. |
| Langwieser, Ruth |
Estevan |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$973 |
I plan to purchase the material to build a specific Gas - Kiln for the process of Raku - firing. |
| Piper, Lynette |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
I plan to shoot a short film in September about an elderly man with dementia who escapes the nursing home and returns to his field. |
| Ramsay, Jessica |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$5,000 |
I plan to study with a teacher in Berlin who is both an incredible mentor and networker, but also specializes in teaching physiology of violin. |
| Fayant, Stacey |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$6,000 |
I plan to travel to Halifax with my partner and my daughter, to receive and document my own chin tattoo from Métis artist Amy Malbeuf. |
| Knight, Daniel |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2023-2024 |
$7,500 |
I plan to write a rock musical exploring the theme of the integration of indigenous men in a colonial society |
| Dishaw, Jessie |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$250 |
I received feedback on my Independent Artist grant that my portfolio needed stronger visuals. I'm requesting funding to hire a photographer to document my work. |
| 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. |
| Vryenhoek, Leslie |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$12,000 |
I require support to draft a novel, tentatively called Separate and Apart, that follows the journey of a woman whose husband is being held overseas. |
| Kroczynski, Jackie |
North Battleford |
Music |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$2,449 |
I sing, play keyboards, guitar and more with my interface and computer as I create demo tracks of my music using Logic Pro. |
| Benjamin, Paul |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$2,200 |
I use my 12-year-old computer with outdated IOS for music production and editing photos for my Photo Exhibitions: a new MacBook Pro would remediate. |
| Philips, Elizabeth |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I want to attend the Sage Hill Spring poetry colloquium led by poet Jane Munro to work on finishing revisions to a poetry manuscript. |
