Prairie Sky School
Melanie Rose |
Regina |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2025-2026 |
$15,000 |
Students will work with lead artist Melanie Rose and other guest artists to create a collaborative felted blanket, and individual patches responding to social issues. |
Michael A. Riffel High School
Shaunna Dunn |
Regina |
Theatre |
Artists in Schools |
2025-2026 |
$15,000 |
Exploring theatre techniques to empower neurodiverse and neurotypical students, this project uses design, puppetry, and visual storytelling to reflect emotions, relationships, and foster empathetic collaboration. |
South Corman Park School
Chris Chipak |
Casa Rio |
Media Arts |
Artists in Schools |
2025-2026 |
$10,000 |
Digital Art collaboration project between students and arts to redesign school logo with Metis symbolism. |
Bellefleur, Stephanie
Muscowpetung Education Centre |
Balcarres |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2025-2026 |
$14,036 |
Intercultural Mural Grade 6 to 12, Venezuelan Artist, Stephanie Bellefleur and Land Based Educator; Cree, Saulteaux Knowledge Carrier and Artist Philip Brass for Muscowpetung School. |
Turtleford Community School
Bonny Macnab |
Turtleford |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2025-2026 |
$9,500 |
Students partner with a visual artist to create a calming, art-infused wellness room linking visual expression to emotional regulation, belonging, and mental wellness. |
| Ecole Alvin Buckwold School |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2025-2026 |
$14,000 |
The artist will support Grades 5–8 in set design, collaborate in cross-curricular learning with students, and continue developing their own artistic practice during the residency. |
North Park Wilson School
Josh Jacobson |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2025-2026 |
$10,000 |
A 2,600 sqft mural exploring the connection between land and Metis identity through student-led artmaking guided by Knowledge Keeper, artist, and the Creative Action team. |
Mackasey, Michèle
William Mason School |
Snowden |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2025-2026 |
$10,000 |
William Mason School students will engage with artist Michèle Mackasey, Elders, Cultural Advisors and other knowledgeable community members in a land-based art-making project. |
King, Karlie
Balfour Collegiate |
Regina |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2025-2026 |
$6,016 |
Ceramicist Karlie King will work with Balfour Collegiate's (BAC) AP 20/30 for five weeks (May/June) and focus on the curriculum dedicated to clay. |
Cameron, Ian
St. Augustine Community School |
Regina |
Music |
Artists in Schools |
2025-2026 |
$13,784 |
An integrated music education program comprised of in-class sessions with creative components, Indigenous/cultural perspectives, and cross-curricular outcomes. |
Wynyard Composite High School
Brianna LaPlante |
Wynyard |
Visual |
Artists in Schools |
2025-2026 |
$10,000 |
Our students will work in consultation with Indigenous artist Brianna LaPlante to create a mural that represents the 94 calls to action. |
| Mushtaq, Warsha |
SASKATOON |
Literary |
Artists in Schools |
2025-2026 |
$1,500 |
Poetry of Resistance delivers 1–2 hour workshops to 5–8 Saskatoon high school classes, exploring how poetry and art can empower and inspire us amidst existential threats to marginalized communities and our shared, natural world. |
| Garlimah, James |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
This project/Album is a result of over ten years of writing and recording my own music. This Project will server is my debut album professionally. |
| 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. |
| Kamyabi, Marzia |
Pilot Butte |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$3,000 |
The Horrors of Nine to Five: workplace violence impacts over 70% of Canadians. Dedicated to the victims of workplace violence who took their own lives. |
| Mabrouk, Rawda |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
Explore the paradoxes of an Egyptian woman, bridging trauma of oppression in Egypt to the challenges of life in Canada through tracing movement onto canvas. |
| Kharsa, Ali |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
Write, rehearse, and record 3 new songs and host a community event in Saskatoon with music with an open mike. |
| Jegede-Ikpen, Oghenerukevwe |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
To explore a new musical frontier by blending traditional African rhythms with modern synths and diverse languages, and fusing Afrobeats with the Canadian sound. |
| Shahabadi, Mahboubeh |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$4,000 |
Art gallery portraying traditional Persian mosaic patterns and design. Providing a unique opportunity to explore the ancient history of Iran through an artistic lens. |
| Brown, Sharon-Ann |
Regina |
Literary |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
I would like to publish the second book in the Adventure of Baby Alfie series. The book is called 'Gameday for Baby Alfie'. |
| 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 |
| Umeh, Charles |
Regina |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$4,000 |
I want to develop a screenplay of my cultural feature film title Dirty Hands. |
| Carter, Nathan |
Loon Lake |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$3,000 |
A free music concert showcasing music, fashion and visual art created by myself and other artists identifying as BPOC. |
| Bellefleur, Stephanie |
Willow Bunch |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$4,885 |
Power Haus is a literary art book which explores; passion for community engagement and the introspective effects of colour therapy through the public art lens. |
| Sun, Qiming |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
This funding is meant to support my year-long production of new artworks and the cultivation of many solo/group exhibitions during my 2024-25 Saskatoon Bunkhouse residency. |
| Cabildo Esquivel, Priscila |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$2,062 |
'KIN Movement" is art exchanged for kindness. "Ojos de Dios" - weavings traditional to the Indigenous Huichol of Mexico - are traded for good deeds. |
| Reid, Sonia |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
A community weekend to learn more about Black gospel choir music workshop culminating in a live music performance. |
| Nafisa, Fatima |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
Phase 1 of an ASL Poetry multimedia project aimed at expressing the Deaf BIPOC experience. |
| Gascon, Girlynne |
Regina |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
Mentorship with artist Patrick Fernandez with focus on finding cultural identity and production of individual work and collaboration for exhibition. |
| Al-Katib, Muveddet |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
Finding my truth to reassess my traditional art to create a unique contemporary identity through a Western perspective and exploring the dynamic nature of truth! |
| 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 |
| Wu, I-Ying |
Regina |
Dance |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
This project invites artists to train in my Daoism-inspired improvisation practice, exploring how this approach can be a training method for diverse cultural backgrounds. |
| Nwabuko, Daniel |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
Highlight, showcase and bring awareness to the beauty in diversity of black hair - the different types, forms and styles that it appears to come. |
| Zafaremili, Elham |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$4,383 |
I aim to combine Persian calliography and painting. |
| Eve, Sophia |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
To complete a literary fiction manuscript, ALL THIS TO SAY. Themes include socioeconomic and racial identities in motherhood, art vs artist, and ethics vs desire. |
| Mwela, Nyasha |
Regina |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
Create and compose 4 songs. |
| Reid, Sonia |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
A community weekend Black gospel choir workshop culminating in a live music performance. |
| Robinson, Kemesha |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
Vocal coaching under the mentorship of Sonia Reid in Jazz & Blue |
| Magalong, Wren |
Regina |
Theatre |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$1,200 |
A series of courses with the Canadian Institute of Theater Technologies on using the ETC lightning console. |
| Ba, Flany |
Regina |
Dance |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
The Creative Lab: a collaborative space uniting Canadian dancers to develop, challenge, and showcase hard-to-learn skills through guided creative exploration and shared understanding. |
| Hutchinson, Jonathan |
Saskatooon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
The Uplift Duo will be recording a Christmas album, and putting on a Christmas concert in December showcasing music from the album, and special guests. |
| Kathrotia, Yash |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
Compose a multi-movement orchestral work that features Bansuri as a solo instrument and supplement it with professional looking scores and MIDI audio files. |
| Española, Aldeneil |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
A monthly drag show that runs for three months of winter (Dec-February or Jan-March) to give opportunities for the BIPOC Drag Artists of Saskatoon, |
| Ouedraogo, Helene |
Regina |
Literary |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
une retraite pour corriger POEMES ET ROMAN
, puis une relecture par un ecrivain de la Saskachewan
enfin l'édition des deux oeuvres. |
| Porsandekhial, Narges |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
As part of an ongoing research, this project focuses on the multifaceted premise of bilingualism in artistic research and creation. |
| Buenavente, Joviel |
Regina |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$4,000 |
I'm asking for funding to cover costs related to my upcoming window gallery exhibition at Neutral Ground in Dececember 2024 to January 2025. |
| Kyuubi Culture |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
Kyuubi Culture Artist Collective facilitates visual art workshops to share culture experience and foster relations between YXE-based Asian artists and the non-BPOC communities in Saskatoon. |
| Kyler, Gabrielle |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
to record and release my first EP. All songs will be original compositions by myself and my team. to record a live studio presentation |
| Hutchinson, Jonathan |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
A course demonstrating how to make the most out of playing keyboard instruments. |
| 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. |
| Das, Mohana |
Regina |
Dance |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$3,200 |
The Nirvana Dance Creations team is selected to perform at the biggest festival of Toronto "North American Bengali Conference" (NABC). |
| Latinos en Regina Mariachi Band |
Regina |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
We are a musical group that is asking for support to purchase traditional mariachi outfits to perform all over Canada representing Saskatchewan and Latino America. |
| Farshad, Don |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
A traditional Iranian art combines wood with intricately cut mirrors. This craft decorates creates stunning patterns that enhance light and add elegance to architectural spaces |
| Yu, Skylar |
Regina |
Dance |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$1,125 |
Collaborating with four other emerging dancers to shape, choreograph, and rehearse a twenty minute long dance performance to be presented in April 2025. |
| Kathrotia, Yash |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
Compose a one of its kind full-length orchestral concert solely showcasing Gujarati folk subject matter, music, spoken poetry, and dance. |
| James, Zoe |
Regina |
Dance |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$1,125 |
Support for exploration and creation period to work towards creating a dance piece with four other collaborators inspired by mixes of techno and house music. |
| Idowu, Moses |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
Addressing a need: Reconnecting African youth to their roots through musical, artistic, and cultural performances during Black History Month to foster pride in identity |
| Akintade-Oluwagbeye, Oluwaseun Peace |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
This grant supports the development and presentation of Ori Ara Emi, an Afro-centric exhibition and workshop blending Poet Laureate, Peace Akintade’s, visual and auditory poetry. |
| Aurich, Romina |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$4,557 |
The project is to make professionally led circus training more accessible to people and to share our passion and discipline with the people around us. |
| Escanlar, Pepito |
Regina |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
To cover framing and related expenses for art exhibition of paintings capturing the evolving urban landscape of Regina since the 1980s from an immigrant's perspective. |
| Española, Aldeneil |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
I will study the "Bakla" culture of the Philippines through fabric paintings, fabric manipulation, styling and fashion design. |
| Oyatogun, Oluwafunmilayo |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
Enchanted Concerts fuses orchestral music and storytelling, celebrating 65 years of the rich legacy and global impact of Nigerian music through the Black Orchestra. |
| 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. |
| Muyu Sisakuna |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$4,848 |
To acquire traditional dresses made by Indigenous artisans from Ecuador, and take a Kichwa dance workshop and produce a small documentary of this learning opportunity. |
| Yoageeswaran, Luxmi |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
Lux Productions empowers South Asian youth through dance, fostering cultural pride and creative expression. Funding supports inclusive programs, performances, and mentorship in underserved communities. |
| Caudillo, Kiela |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
A multidisciplinary Spanglish show: Visuals and Sounds of a Latino American settler in Canada.
An colourful exhibit of art, Paper-Mache sculptures and a musical performance. |
| Brown, Sharon-Ann |
Regina |
Literary |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
I would like to publish the third book in the Adventures of Alfie series. The book is called 'Alfie Goes to London'. |
| 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. |
| Wu, I-Ying |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
This project develops and presents Subtlety, a multidisciplinary improvisational performance featuring artists trained in my Daoist-inspired approach, aiming to share the practice with the community. |
| Jeyadharshan, Ajantha |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
"Reviving Roots: Tamil Folk Dance Initiative”
This project aims to preserve and promote traditional Tamil folk dances, fostering cultural appreciation and community engagement. |
| Zuck, Emma |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
A 30 Minute documentary film about the creation of the Ballroom Community in Saskatoon with Aldeneil's research, creating workshops for the queer BIPOC Community. |
| Latinos en Regina Mariachi Band |
Regina |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
The Mariachi Latino Band would like to record their first album consisting of 6 six songs and be able to perform all over Canada! |
| Saskatoon Igbo Cultural Association (SICA) Women Dance Group |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$4,992 |
SICA Women Dance Group seeks funding to perform at the AfroTribes Festival's "Rhythms of the Diaspora" in Regina, to showcase our vibrant Igbo culture. |
| Lagria, Jun Yves |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
Create a fall programming, September to November of Bahay Kubo, a Filipinx drag collective, a monthly drag showcases the BIPOC drag artists of Saskatoon. |
| ELEV8 Music |
Regina |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
A live summer showcase featuring BPOC dancers and guest musicians, culminating in a headlining performance by ELEV8 Music to spotlight diverse local talent. |
| Devine-Tajgardan, Negar |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
to develop and create weaving pieces with patterns inspired by Persian textile to show at At Gallery of St. Albert |
| Yovel Worship |
Regina |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
A live-recorded worship presentation featuring eight original songs by Yovel Worship Collective, showcasing emerging BPOC artists and musicians in Saskatchewan’s faith-based arts community. |
| Mwela, Nyasha |
Regina |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$3,160 |
Create a 5 song project |
| Malana, Mark Daryl |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$4,000 |
Two Camp inspired Drag Shows for March and April that will showcase BIPOC Drag Artists of Saskatoon. |
| Joel, Priscilla |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
Teach and Practice dance with 2 children groups (Total# 20) to perform at South Asian Festivals. Parents will be present always as volunteers (Total# 16) |
| Mahtabi, Iman |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$3,000 |
Create new multidisciplinary artworks merging Middle Eastern carpet patterns and traditional instruments, exploring shared cultural roots, sound, and the dialogue between heritage and contemporary art. |
| Gonzalez, Martin |
Regina |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
Compose and refine the arrangement of six new songs for the Mariachi Latino Band. |
| Powell, Deidre |
Regina |
Literary |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
Complete a poetry anthology documenting global atrocities through courtroom testimony form, amplifying silenced voices and bearing witness to human rights violations worldwide. |
| Sheibani, Sima |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
The development of an original theatre production detailing the challenges of emigration and created with input from immigrants in Saskatoon. |
| An, Andrea |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
To write and compose eight original English songs, each with Vietnamese and Japanese versions, creating a full multilingual collection for my upcoming LP. |
| Cabilao, Shania |
Prince Albert |
Theatre |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$4,000 |
A mentorship with Kris Alvarez in Spring 2026, fostering my development and support my goal of starting a Filipino arts collective in Prince Albert. |
| Khan, Tanisha |
Regina |
Literary |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
To develop, research, and write a book length fiction manuscript about a person’s place in community, culture, and history, and how identity affects advocacy. |
| Liamzon, Samantha |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
Out is a projection mapping installation of interactive audiovisual stories about my journey as a queer Filipina woman. |
| David, John Mikael |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$4,000 |
I want to produce a narrative video that centres my life as a queer person of colour in Saskatchewan and represents my community. |
| Barreno, Cristian |
Regina |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
Create 2 new paintings for an OSAC touring exhibition called 'Nisto'. |
| Ginindza, Vuyo |
REGINA |
Media Arts |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$2,000 |
(Mentorship) I want to engage a screenwriting mentor while I write a script for a short film |
| Gabriel, Eric |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
Launch of 'Dunes From The Sahara', a chapbook of poems by Gabriel 'ArchAngel' Ehijie, celebrating Pan-human storytelling at MacKenzie Art Gallery, March 2026. |
| Mahdian, Mahdi |
Regina |
Visual |
Building Arts Equity |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
Create an oil painting series linking the skies of Iran, Ukraine, and Canada, transforming landscapes into reflections on migration, belonging, and the universality of horizon lines. |
| Cameron, Ian |
Regina |
Music |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2021-2022 |
$2,450 |
“As a studio musician who does a lot of remote sessions (recording and sending tracks), a new computer will better help me meet this demand.” |
| Brophey, Erin |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2021-2022 |
$2,500 |
To purchase a gouging machine to precisely remove the interior of bamboo in order to produce reeds for my oboe. |
| Robinson, Jared |
Moose Jaw |
Visual |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2021-2022 |
$4,010 |
Purchase of a Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6K Pro to advance professional video production capacity |
| Elder, Daniel |
Regina |
Music |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2021-2022 |
$1,485 |
Purchase of digital hand percussion instrument to expand live show performance ability and further artistic practice. |
| Minnema, Conner |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
Purchase a top of the line microphone to record live instruments and vocals to add a new dynamic to my music production. |
| Van Rees, Ken |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2021-2022 |
$1,700 |
To purchase a specialized desktop kiln |
| Williams, Janet |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Equipment Purchase Fund |
2021-2022 |
$944 |
To purchase an all-in-one HEPAclean desk-top polisher to produce finer quality work with my jewelery practice. |
