| Tootoosis, Lyndon |
Battleford |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2023-2024 |
$9,000 |
Create a series of sculptures that will speak about nehewuk way of dealing with loss and grieving, geared to those who never learned these techniques |
| Morgan, Zac |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
Create a virtual musical production of A Killer Party: A Murder Mystery Musical and present the live production on our streaming platform on April 3rd. |
| Campbell, Jesse |
Prince Albert |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$568 |
Create a website to share content from the "Looking Through Time" exhibition (March 1st-April 23rd, 2025), contributing to discourse on art practices in north-central SK. |
| GGFN Elders |
@level1.client.city@ |
— |
Share and Connect |
2023-2024 |
$19,752 |
Create an after-school program aimed at First Nation Arts in collaboration with Students, Elders, and community members, showcasing students' work in a final celebration. |
| Bauche, Dean |
Eastend |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$18,000 |
Create an exhibition of contemporary portraiture exploring stories related to grief, loss, trauma and mental health, providing insight and hope for both contributors and audience |
| Andrew Stuckel, Cristine |
Grandora |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
Create an immersive experience in the gallery with floor to ceiling drawings highlighting the importance of urban forestation and preservation of essential ecosystems within cities. |
| Mwela, Nyasha |
Regina |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
Create and compose 4 songs. |
| Flamenco Borealis |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$11,114 |
Create and develop a flamenco dance theatre work fusing electronic and acoustic/live music with operatic and flamenco vocals, using story telling elements and dramaturgy. |
| Harpham, Lindsay |
Tisdale |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$7,600 |
Create and develop Contemporary dance choreography intended for use in a full-length show set in Saskatoon and film final material for future development. |
| Dorion, Leah |
Prince Albert |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2022-2023 |
$18,000 |
Create and Install a Metis healing garden and create interdisciplinary artworks while Mentoring a local Metis Artist in the process. |
| Matyushenko, Valentyna |
Grandora |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
Create choreography project about Easter in Pysanka and showcase it. Awake Tradition through the dance vision. |
| Lowry, Nancy |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$16,918 |
Create large scale paintings which push my perceived physical limits while highlighting the important intergenerational role of non-male artists from the Emma Lake Artists’ Workshops. |
| Berglund, Melanie |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$8,000 |
Create music and lyrics for the Belle Plaine project that explores the theme of home. |
| Neilsen, Ross |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Create new material. Record a live performance of said material. Use this fresh audio video for bookings for the 2024 festival season. |
| Thorburn, Crystal |
Assiniboia |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$548 |
Create packaging and ship 20 artworks to Winnipeg via Canada Post for solo touring exhibition with Manitoba Arts Network 2025. |
| Conquergood, Lorna |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Create plaster sculptures that focus on human and wildlife interactions and provide an opportunity to practice a healthy and safe coexistence. |
| Iris, Loretta |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
Create portraits and sculptures for an online international exhibit titled "Variant ~ Ways of Seeing Through" |
| Lee, Yuji |
Regina |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
Create six artworks (paintings and drawings) and a zine exploring and highlighting trans/queer experience and ways of being, primarily by challenging current anti-trans rhetoric. |
| Friday, Tekeyla |
Webb |
— |
Share and Connect |
2022-2023 |
$20,000 |
Create the Stop-Motion Animation short film Escape from Residential School by mentoring youth to help with the production, pass on my skills and build community. |
| Matyushenko, Valentyna |
Grandora |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$10,405 |
Create, choreograph and present the first act of the play by famous Ukrainian writer, Lesya Ukrainka "Forest Song." |
| Reynolds, Jamie |
Regina |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2022-2023 |
$7,000 |
Creating a series of paintings that reflect on the use of crownland in Saskatchewan, and how it relates to
themes of reconciliation and the environment. |
| Stinn, Cassandra |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$2,071 |
Creating an immersive performance experience for the release of my newest work, “Returnings,” my first work for small ensemble. |
| Billingsley, Alyssa |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
Creating and live-streaming 'Angry At The Internet: A COVID-versary Birthday Cabaret' while working with David Connolly of Drayton Entertainment and producing high-quality support material. |
| Yokozawa Farquharson, Hanna |
Saltcoats |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$14,000 |
Creating immersive artworks across diverse mediums for three solo exhibitions starting Autumn 2026 |
| Burzminski, Dalton |
Regina |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
Creating music about navigating as an urban indigenous male through life, the music scenes, high academia, and reflecting on insecurities caused by colonialism. Real deadly. |
| Yokozawa Farquharson, Hanna |
Saltcoats |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
Creating Textile Art for my first solo exhibition at the Godfrey Dean Art Gallery in Yorkton from September 13th to October 31st , 2020. |
| Yokozawa Farquharson, Hanna |
Saltcoats |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$7,500 |
Creating Textile Art for my solo show at the Community Hall in Saltcoats in October 2021. |
| Quewezance, Wendy |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2022-2023 |
$7,000 |
Creating traditional and modern styles of ribbon skirts and jewellry using custom-designed fabric and mixed textiles. |
| Yokozawa Farquharson, Hanna |
Saltcoats |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$18,000 |
Creation for a solo textile show of 2022 Autumn using antique kimono from Japan |
| Willems, Alexander |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$4,249 |
Creation grant to write, storyboard, and develop a short film exploring how sobriety impacts social dynamics. |
| Cabildo Esquivel, Priscila |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
Creation of 2 pieces of Arte Huichol in animal skulls for a Day of the Death altar display. |
| Payne, Laura |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$16,859 |
Creation of a body of electronic light-based work, consisting of light box compositions and projection installation, for public exhibition across Canada |
| Moker Wernikowski, Connie |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$3,050 |
Creation of a contemporary dance duet to be accompanied by original poetry and music. |
| Campbell, Maria |
Saskatoon |
Other |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Creation of a dedicated website for my past work and as a portal for upcoming podcast project and other community interaction opportunities. |
Fidelak, Terri
Christ the King School |
Regina |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Creation of a large, temporary sculptural installation using locally-sourced clay to engage students in learning about connection to land and sustainability through the creative process. |
| Frigon, Raphaele |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
Creation of a life-sized salt sculpture of my body in the Cypress Hills, dissolving through weather and animal interaction, exploring embodiment, erasure, and land memory. |
| Billingsley, Alyssa |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$16,000 |
Creation of a one-person show directed by John Turner with music by Sheldon Corbett that coalesces music and neo-bouffon from October 2021-March 2022. |
| Ells, Chrystene |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Creation of concept art/previsualization for planned 'mytho-feminist' film 'Tor Woman' including a photoshoot with a costumed model, and sketches and paintings based on these photos. |
| Balion, Audra |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$3,410 |
Creation of final two chapters of "Flight Nineteen," a silent (wordless) sci-if/fantasy graphic novel exploring biological and technological transformation. |
| Metcalfe, Shayne |
Waldheim |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$10,000 |
Creation of monologues through an experimental writing and performance process. Scripts will be created from documentary style interviews of actors then used for video monologues. |
| Murray, Audie |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$10,800 |
Creation of new work that continues my studio exploration into generative refusal through process and material. |
| Fidelak, Terri |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$17,000 |
Creation of new, large scale, sculptural installation, with exploration of performative elements, occurring from November 2020 to October 2021. |
| St. Pierre, Laura |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$4,053 |
Creation of newwork towards an expanded exhibition of All that You Change Changes You at the Kamloops Art Gallery in September 2026. |
| 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 |
| Epp, Carole |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
Creation of work for the exhibition borderLINE: 2020 Biennial of Contemporary Art, plus travel to install the work in Edmonton in September. |
| McGuinty, Mooky |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$9,747 |
Creation time to script write and production plan 13 episodes of a preschooler and neurodivergent student, screen based educational program |
| Cameron, Steph |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$10,000 |
Creation, development and demonstration recordings of songs for album, Blood Moon. Expansion of live performance repertoire. |
| Schultz, Chantel |
Estevan |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
Creation/installation/exhibition of work in sculpture and drawing for an upcoming solo exhibition at the Estevan Art Gallery & Museum. |
North Park Wilson School
Joel Bernbaum |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$10,000 |
Creative Action is a new Grade 8 Arts Program. Partnering with Joel will enhance the program from the very first year of its existence! |
| Creative Options Regina, Inc. |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Creative Options Regina wishes to facilitate a Painting workshop, where participants would have the opportunity to partake in the art form while gaining artistic skills. |
| Beau Nectar Collective |
Moose Jaw |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
Creative residency with renowned mentor Christian Bordarier |
| Slusar, Zoe |
@level1.client.city@ |
Music |
Artists in Schools |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
Creative sessions with the Grade 6s, 7s and 8s to build on existing relationships and explore the students’ needs/interests in developing future artistic musical projects. |
| 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. |
| Central Urban Metis Federation Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Artists in Communities |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
CUMFI would like to provide jigging lessons as a cultural and entertaining event for children ages 5 to 15 to revitalize the dance Metis. |
| Lehner, Katelyn |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2022-2023 |
$1,649 |
Custom inner ear monitors to provide consistency between shows to refine live vocal skills |
| Hosaluk, Laura |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
Dances with Props is the development of a dance piece inspired by contact improvisation investigations, as they relate to my craft practice. |
| Dancing Sky Theatre Inc. |
Meacham |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$2,000 |
Dancing Sky Theatre is implementing environmentally sustainable practices at all levels of our organization. We is hoping to purchase refurbished Ipads from TechSoup Canada. |
| Garneau, David |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$7,000 |
Dark Chapters is a collection of still life paintings that metaphorically depict issues familiar to contemporary Indigenous people. |
Reimer, Joel Dash
Pleasant Hill Community Association |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Communities |
2024-2025 |
$10,000 |
Dash Reimer will partner with different communities in Pleasant Hill to create an artistic response to the question of what safety looks like in community. |
Winston Knoll Collegiate
Chrystene Ells |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$39,432 |
Deaf youth engage with personal artistic practices, guided by curated artists reflecting areas of classroom cultural demographics and intersectionality, including Deafness, LGBTQ, Indigenous and Newcomer. |
| Logan, Adam |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$3,311 |
Dedicate significant time to working on the completion of my first independently developed release while solidifying my artistic identity through the exploration of sound. |
| Akintade-Oluwagbeye, Oluwaseun Peace |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
Dedicating time for the upcoming production of The Newcomer while receiving mentorship to develop technical, leadership, and storytelling skills as an emerging director in Saskatchewan. |
| Perry, Chancz |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
Deliver a movement-based workshop at Connectively Moving Our Dance and screen two short-videos at the IABD International Conference and Festival of Blacks in Dance. |
| LaRiviere, David |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$3,400 |
Deliver paper at 12th annual Deleuze & Guattari Studies academic camp and conference, Royal Holloway, University of London, and apply research to collaborative project. |
| Dene High School |
La Loche |
Music |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Dene High School in La Loche will establish a relationship with local and internationally recognized guitar and vocalist Damien Cheecham. |
| Naytowhow, Joseph |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
designing and manufacturing 500 CD singles of my original song "Born From Dirt" about my fragmented memories of being stolen away to attend residential school. |
| Fisher, Craig |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
Despite CP, I use computers and digital devices. During COVID, I watch birds at my window. With web camera, I will stream my small world. |
| Rosenwald/Rose |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$18,000 |
Develop "exhibition-in-a-box" package to tour our installation, Journal of the Plague Year, plus create new work that chronicles the temperature of the times. |
| Haines, Cat |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$4,147 |
Develop a collection of 10 large watercolor self portraits featuring moments of my activist history. |
| Aubichon, Holly |
Regina |
— |
Share and Connect |
2022-2023 |
$2,000 |
Develop a website, creating a map to share where traditional tattoo-artists work and build community-backed resources for future inclusion of tattooing during ceremonies and events. |
| Melberg Schwier, Karin |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$7,500 |
Develop an in-progress literary prairie fiction manuscript, Inheriting Violet, a sequel to my award-winning debut novel, and produce a finished draft ready for substantive editing. |
| Haines, Cat |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
Develop and perform "After Abigail Shrier" a live cinema performance at Nuit Blanche YXE combining Super 8 film loops and live soundscapes. |
| Fernandez, Cezar Patrick I |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$8,587 |
Develop and produce new works for three exhibitions in the Philippines. |
| wherewe.collective |
Tisdale |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Develop dance progressive dance workshops geared towards students age 12-18 as well as teachers. All workshops developed for the collective's upcoming sleep-away dance camp. |
| 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. |
| The Gallery/Art Placement Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Communities |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
Develop plans with Biofeedback Collective for artist in communities project proposal to support development of artist community through intergenerational dialogue, mentorship, and exchange. |
| Burnt Thicket Theatre |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$17,000 |
Develop the script and music of the musical Breathe by Sienna Holden and produce the world premiere in Saskatoon |
| Ly, Jenny |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$7,125 |
developing a cone shaped roller to make prints for exhibition |
| Mistik Studios |
Leoville |
Media Arts |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2025-2026 |
$10,000 |
Developing a mystical, Indigenous-inspired cooking/sim game that integrates cultural practices, storytelling, and Indigenous art, providing a platform for Indigenous perspectives in interactive media. |
| 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. |
| Holowachuk, Dorianna |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$5,500 |
Developing an artistic vision and repertoire list, and supplementing skills in preparation to direct a newly-formed independent choir. |
| E.D. Feehan Catholic High School |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Artists in Schools |
2019-2020 |
$1,000 |
Developing an indigenous drumming and singing group of indigenous youth leading to a community event and performance. |
| Willey, Leon |
Regina |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
Developing and creating a door to door interactive theatre show. In consultation with artists in Stratford Ontario this May, to be performed outside, this summer. |
| Macnab, Bonny |
Mervin |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
Developing knowledge for a sustainable, bio-diverse art practice through mapping color extraction from Canadian plants. Rebuilding connection to sense of place through experience with plants. |
| Standing, Cyrus |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous/Metis Art and Artists |
2019-2020 |
$4,488 |
Developing my art form of story telling and tell the stories of Dakota history, Kinship, language and my community in Saskatchewan |
| Kuse, Stephanie |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$5,000 |
Developing technical quality and scope of abstract digital video art utilizing natural textures. |
| Eve, Sophia |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
Developing, researching, and drafting a literary fiction manuscript on the politics of diaspora and cultural identity. |
| Kuse, Stephanie |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2021-2022 |
$14,000 |
Development of a 3D rendered 3-channel audio/visual work called All My Dreams Are Made of Water |
| Hagan-Egyir, Rebecca |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2019-2020 |
$6,573 |
Development of second draft of novella, Kingdom of Waking Dreams. |
| Wiwchar, Michelle |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$7,500 |
Development of the libretto for “Orpheus and Eurydice: Nox”, a modern, queer response to my existing work with Kendra Harder, “Orpheus and Eurydice... ish”. |
| Kazan, Lina |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$14,577 |
Development, preparation and multiple presentations of Flamenco Borealis' reimagined stage work "Qadar: a Date with Fate" |
| Garez, Simon |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2020-2021 |
$4,780 |
Direct and finish a narrative short film about beekeeping and the ecological issues effecting bees. |
| Garez, Simon |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2020-2021 |
$1,000 |
Direct and finish a narrative short film that deals with alcohol abuse and reverses racial stereotypes. |
| On the Boards Staging Company, Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Special Initiatives Fund |
2020-2021 |
$5,000 |
Diversifying our program delivery by incorporating live streaming into the production model of independent performing artists. |
| Kozak, Kathryn |
Creighton |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
Do you hear what I hear, is a participant activated installation. It's focused on the inner sounds of trees and the non-human world. |
| Fidelak, Terri |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
Documentation of a collaborative sound and performance piece created by Rania Al Harthi, Kris Alvarez, Terri Fidelak, and Jess Richter. |
| The Garrys |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2019-2020 |
$2,000 |
Documentation/recording/mixing costs of The Garrys' Live score of "Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages", to be performed on Oct. 25th at the Roxy Theatre. |
| Otayemi, Demilade |
saskatoon |
Theatre |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
Documenting the collaboration process between SUM Theatre and EDM Lab through, interactive documentation methods. Inspiring future collaborations and youth engagement in artistic and engineering careers |
| Dog Patch Music Festival Inc. |
Loon Lake |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2024-2025 |
$8,000 |
Dog Patch Music Festival is requesting funds to assist in paying our musicians. |
| Dog Patch Music Festival Inc. |
Loon Lake |
Music |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$8,000 |
Dog Patch Music Festival is requiring funds to assist in paying musicians. |
