| Nelson, Josiah |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$7,500 |
To continue to draft and revise poems for a manuscript exploring the interconnectedness of the self and the natural world. |
| 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. |
| Reid, Sonia |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
To train for certification as a NeuroVocal Method® Licensee. |
| Wecker, Sabine |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$2,000 |
Re-Orientation Space after Grad School |
| Matyushenko, Valentyna |
Grandora |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$11,000 |
Choreograph and perform the folk ballet of the play by Lesia Ukrainka "The Forest Song". |
| Kovach, Jaye |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$4,500 |
Complete post-production for The Lovers 2, a short film exploring my trans-for-trans and butch-femme relationship with Cat C. Haines through kink and the everyday. |
| Lebel, Emilie |
Moose Jaw |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$3,500 |
Write research-based lyrics via workshops and mentorships and compose melodies inspired by nature via the Ableton music software. |
| 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. |
| Fernandez, Cezar Patrick I |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$8,587 |
Develop and produce new works for three exhibitions in the Philippines. |
| Mendez, Edward |
Warman |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$4,716 |
I will write a verbatim play based on interviews with first generation and Indigenous Canadians exploring loss of culture and the concept of "Being Canadian" |
| Straker, Jeffery |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$4,000 |
Relocate to the Saskatchewan family farm where I grew up to compose 8-10 songs inspired by place. Songs will be used in performance & recording. |
| Garcia-Luna, Gabriela |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$2,000 |
Research of analogue methods and techniques of print making, mark making and paper treatment to incorporate into my works Rivers. |
| St. Pierre, Laura |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$11,922 |
Continuation of the Sower photographic project from a first-person perspective, using sustainable analog photography as a medium. |
| Welbourne, Jordan |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$5,800 |
The composition and recording of Ukrainian choral arrangements, musical theatre pieces, country songs, as well as Ukrainian-influenced contemporary songs. |
| McLeod, Kenn |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$7,500 |
Funds to assist in the writing and workshopping of a new script, "Infinite Jest", by Kenn McLeod. A show incorporating Clown, Shakespeare, and Family. |
| Baird, Gavin |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$6,000 |
This grant is to help fund the post-production of the horror short film, KLEE. |
| Dotson, Allan |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$18,000 |
This grant is to publish a graphic novel, and will include professional editorial, design, production and printing costs, as well as promotion of the book. |
| Benjamin, Paul |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$4,179 |
Collaborate with Toronto composer Sodhivine and Saskatoon Cree songwriter Falynn Baptiste. Create new music that will be adapted for my upcoming CQ Concert performances. |
| Ly, Jenny |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$7,125 |
developing a cone shaped roller to make prints for exhibition |
| L'Hirondelle, Cheryl |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$10,800 |
restoring/reversioning and creating emulators of my net.art projects for upcoming survey exhibition |
| Hobsbawn-Smith, Denise |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$9,124 |
Complete and revise collection of form poetry about essayist M.F.K. Fisher – including sonnets, villanelles, pantoums, ghazals, palindromes, abecedarians– ready for submission to publishers. |
| Tenold, Darla |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
Research Joan Phipps' Assiniboia Downs, Marquis Downs and Exhibition Track thoroughbred racing career for a book length biography. |
| Sparrow, Don |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$9,200 |
I intend to create three interconnected comic book memoir stories, each with a unique visual or narrative style, to be published together in an anthology. |
| 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. |
| Fenrich, Miguel |
Battleford |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$6,000 |
To continue work on a contemperary coming-of-age novel '273 Days' with the intention of finishing a first draft to be committed to further development. |
| Schiller, Lisa-Marie |
Carrot River |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,500 |
I am an emerging artist requesting funding to create a body of work from June to December 2025. |
| Phelps Bondaroff, Amber |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$9,000 |
To develop a series of essays and illustrations, exploring my experiences of new motherhood, as a white settler, living on the Prairies. |
| Gan, Jelly |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$8,000 |
A music video using Chinese pop culture aesthetic references from C-dramas, 80s Mando pop, and karaoke. |
| Maggrah, Julianna |
Prince Albert |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$4,000 |
Writing a script for feature documentary on the Indigenous view of autism. Grant money would be to pay me for my time writing. |
| Dahlem, Madeleine |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$6,791 |
A ten-day workshop to transform a written word cantata into a hybrid musical/spoken word form, including three days of musical improvisational work. |
| Janzen, Ava |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
A six-week professional development opportunity to attend Canada’s Music Incubator’s Artist Entrepreneur program in Toronto, receiving in-person mentorship and industry training in Spring 2025. |
| Mathieu, Véronique |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$4,250 |
Research manuscripts, archival materials, and new violin works written by women composers in Frankfurt and Munich (Germany) in August 2025. |
| 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. |
| Romero, Alejandro |
Battleford |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$12,941 |
To create a new body of work: Virgen Barbuda de los Queers, examining queer identity from historic and cultural rituals. |
| Hambrock, Meredith |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$8,000 |
To continue working on my short story collection. |
| Bagatim, Tabata |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
Complete a two-month residency at Medalta to develop large-scale ceramic sculptures and refine surfaces to deepen emotional impact and advance my artistic practice. |
| Wicks, Bob |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
I have been accepted to participate in a unique residency with the Prague Shakespeare Company, June 15th to August 10th, 2025 |
| Kim, Hyon Suk |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$4,500 |
My project explores clarinet repertoire in my home country, Japan, through research, deepening my artistic practice and sharing unique musical insights with Saskatchewan’s arts community. |
| Schulz, Judith |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$13,000 |
Produce an eight-show performance of ‘Yaga’ by Kat Sandler in Saskatoon, SK, as an artist collective in collaboration with Live Five’s 2025/26 season. |
| Vas, Eva |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$4,000 |
To develop a short drama film script about a young dressmaker who explores traditional craft through the lens of filmmaking and wardrobe design. |
| Regnier, Daniel |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$17,000 |
I propose to write and workshop an opera on the subject of the novel "La vie devant soi" by Romain Gary |
| Cline, Heather |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$8,000 |
I am creating a multi-media exhibition, viewing the landscape through a conservation lens, walking the land with people affiliated with the Nature Conservancy of Canada. |
| Klassen, Vanessa |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
This is a 2-part project for which I will create new typeset editions of four selected clarinet works by Canadian composers, then record each one. |
| Porter, Jacob |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,500 |
I'm developing a graphic novel which I plan to present to publishers at Toronto Comic Arts Festival (this June). The grant would be for travel. |
| Stock, Shayna |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$2,500 |
Research and writing retreat toward development of my first manuscript of poetry |
| Grummett, S.E. |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$16,500 |
To finish the development of my next solo-show, “Nude Parade” unpacking trans trauma porn and the commodification of identity through a month-long workshop with collaborators. |
| Doyle, Eliza Mary |
Asquith |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$8,000 |
Music collaboration with musician/producer Nich Davies to inspire/complete/infuse fresh musical genres/ideas, proceed to workshop/collaborate album material with my band before recording follow-up full-length album |
| Ferraton, Dominique |
Gravelbourg |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$10,000 |
To complete and release a 5-part audio piece exploring our relationship with water in Southwestern Saskatchewan. |
| Farrow, Kody |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
To attend the FDC National Stage Combat Certification Conference in Saskatoon in August 2025, receiving my Basic Actor Combatant Certification. |
| Reyes, Lautaro |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$16,500 |
I am developing a script and workshop for my play, Welcome to My Country, which is created from interviews with immigrants and refugees to Saskatoon. |
| Bulas, Patrick |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$4,936 |
As part of our ongoing collaboration, Jordan Schwab and I are planning to do a short, one week residency at SNAP Gallery in Edmonton, AB. |
| Alharthi, Rania |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$7,500 |
The play "Checkpoint" vividly explores resilience, displacement anguish, and family strength, deeply probing the essence of homeland and the profound connections that define it. |
| Saskatoon Experimental Music Ensemble |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$10,000 |
To present a series of concerts, premiering newly composed and improvised works. |
| Truszkowski, Robert |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$4,660 |
The Large Letter Project: To produce large-format, digitally-generated, CNC-cut, wooden "movable type" letters in order to hand-print text on long rolls of Kozuke paper. |
| Wecker, Sabine |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$7,500 |
Growing Roots: Working towards becoming an established ceramic artist, step one. |
| 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. |
| Dubnick, Caron |
Air Ronge |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$6,500 |
I will spend time at Athabasca Sand Dunes creating sketches, then spend the winter creating larger works in studio and looking for exhibition opportunities. |
| Atkins, Amalie |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$10,800 |
Prepare final elements (music licenses), Travel to present new feature film in for World Premiere (Copenhagen) and NorthAmerican Premiere (Toronto), followed by local confirmed events. |
| Garcia-Luna, Gabriela |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$14,210 |
Create a new body of work incorporating analogue methods and materials to explore and expand ideas of hybrid identities and cultural fluidity. |
| 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. |
| Ells, Chrystene |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$14,030 |
Complete six of 24 mythical oil portraits of prairie artists, build sundial prototype and sculptural elements, all toward 'Amor Fati' solo installation, 2028. |
| Ay, Caramba! Theatre |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$7,960 |
World premiere of The Newcomer by Yulissa Campos as part of the Live Five 2024-2025 season. |
| Van Opstal-Tamez, Ingrid |
Kipling |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$6,000 |
This proposal is to support research, drafting, and creation of new work combining both traditional paper mâché and paintings for future exhibitions and professional development. |
| Gares, Jessica |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$2,249 |
I'll interview experts, outline story, write multiple drafts, gather feedback, and storyboard my first feature film, exploring familial relationships amid climate change's affects in Saskatchewan. |
| 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. |
| lift/break collective |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$5,240 |
We'll revisit and expand our short theatre piece lift/break towards a full-length performance, exploring dance and interpretive movement to deepen the story. |
| Bryans, Amber |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$3,516 |
Time and materials to produce works that explore pattern & repetition in linocut printmaking. |
| Mendez, Edward |
Warman |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$3,950 |
I will obtain my Advanced Actor Combatant Certification through Fight Director's Canada at The 2025 National Stage Combat Certification Conference in Saskatoon, SK |
| 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 |
| Brenna, Beverley |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$11,000 |
To complete a middle-grade novel 'Belvin Bowmaster and the Summer of the Goats' (working title) and submit it for publication to a traditional publisher. |
| Bernbaum, Joel |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$13,628 |
To finish development & produce a new verbatim theatre play with music about the Palestine / Israel conflict and its impact on people in Saskatchewan. |
| Nicholson, John |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$7,673 |
My goal is to write, demo and arrange orchestral charts for a holiday X-mas album that I will eventually record with the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra. |
| Heinek, Emily |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$13,000 |
To produce “Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)” by Ann-Marie MacDonald with an all-queer team for production in the 2025/2026 Live Five season. |
| Devine-Tajgardan, Negar |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$3,157 |
My project develops new and in-progress works that expand my artistic practice, preparing them for exhibition at the Art Gallery of Regina in early 2026 |
| Boechler, Jared |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$4,976 |
The continued pursuit of the painting series Mirrors during consecutive Artist Residency periods in 2026. |
| Dubois, Emily |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$4,700 |
I would like funding to workshop my compositions into arrangements with talented peers on guitar, fiddle, and
cello in preparation for recording my first EP! |
| 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. |
| Balion, Audra |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$8,000 |
Publish and print the completed omnibus of silent graphic novel of Flight Nineteen, a sci-fi/fantasy exploring transformation, technological progress, and humanity. |
| Macza, Jason |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$5,653 |
I have designs for 'Flown' sculptural concepts I would like to do research on the concepts of my 'Nesting Doll' dogs, rabbits Cerberus concept |
| Glenn, Allyson |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
To participate in a residency to inform one year of research on architecture as conceptual tool and as allegory for human consciousness and the psyche. |
| Baudemont, David |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
From Jan 1 to Aug.31, 2026, write and revise the second half of Surtout ne pas bouger, a 140 page-long work of poetry-fiction |
| Oneschuk, Sarah |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$6,500 |
Printmaking residency at Banff Centre, magnifying crochet linework as it shifts from static object to abject subject, evoking the uncanny through failure, tension, distorted familiarity. |
| Nemoto, Kana |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$6,670 |
Create a dance duet with Ashley Johnson with choreographic guidance from Connie Moker Wernikowski, exploring authentic movement inspired by prairie landscapes and subtle somatic awareness |
| Karpinka, Shawn |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$692 |
I've been selected by L.A. composer Amanda Jones for an online 2 Day Masterclass and mentorship, and I'm applying for financial assistance with the fee. |
| Frison, Lucas |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$6,500 |
Research and develop a treatment and pitch deck for a film about dementia and inclusivity in the disability landscape. |
| Bryans, Amber |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$3,050 |
Community Engagement at Gather Local Market
Public studio space, outreach, and exhibition opportunity through Kyuubi Culture |
| 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. |
| Bessai-Saul, William |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$7,500 |
Satirical soap opera based on 'Bird People' comic strip. 19th Century all-girls orphanage. Puppets. |
| 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 |
| Petersen, Myrna |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$16,705 |
Airborne, a mini-documentary, features Saskatchewan's air ambulance and the 1948 story behind the first baby born over North America, recalled by 105-year old Marie Dubreuil. |
| Nelson, Josiah |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$5,353 |
To edit my collection of fabulist short stories, which explores relationships, solitude, and the artist's life. |
| Richter, Elke |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
I am seeking funding to attend the BAI Master Class THE MIRROR OF MAGIC: Animating Artforms through Ritual and Visionary Practice with Emily Hunt. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Milner, Arthur |
Regina |
Theatre |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$13,628 |
The premiere production of WEYBURN 1959, a new play exploring psychedelic research for mental health at the Weyburn Hospital in the 1950s. |
| Lenko, Timothy |
Moose Jaw |
Media Arts |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$14,286 |
To produce my short film 'Soil' a Black Mirror inspired exploration of technology, isolation, and connection. |
| Bellefleur, Stephanie |
Peepeekisis |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$11,840 |
El Color De Me Sangri solo exhibition at Bridges Art Movement. Artist Stephanie Bellefleur, exploring her pre-colombian roots and identity as a Saskatchewan based artist. |
| 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. |
Farrell Racette, Sherry
Dagan Harding |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$650 |
Development of 28–30 original illustrations adapted into animation for In the Now, a collaborative music video project with Saskatchewan musician Chris Notenboom |
