| Hankewich, Melanie |
Regina |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$7,800 |
To compose and arrange 8-10 new songs about my upbringing in Saskatchewan on my great grandparents' homestead. Works will be used in performance and recording. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Kinner, Monika |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$7,109 |
Time and materials to create a body of textile artwork inspired by the botanical collection of the late Thelma Pepper. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Lund, Shelby |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$2,090 |
This grant is to support the creation of three large-scale semi-abstract, soak-stain inspired paintings on canvas, communicating my lived experience with hearing loss. |
| Ly, Jenny |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$7,125 |
developing a cone shaped roller to make prints for exhibition |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Mathieu, Véronique |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$10,000 |
Research, record, and prepare performance editions of violin works by Canadian composer Violet Archer. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| Neufeld, Clint |
Osler |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$6,000 |
This project uses ceramic figurines of 1990s Canadian peacekeepers to explore memory, trauma, and identity, preserving personal and collective histories through fragile, reflective forms. |
| 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. |
| Nwajei, Carlee |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$2,000 |
I am seeking funding to complete the final 10 illustrations for a Children's Book I wrote.
I will then edit and format/copyright/and self-publish. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Sandbeck, Derek |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$6,850 |
A collaborative sculpture project exploring the intersection of neon and porcelain, blending technical learning, material experimentation, and community-driven practice rooted in play. |
| 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. |
| Savage, Candace |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$6,000 |
'Buffalo Is Our Relative' is a nonfiction book that honours the return of buffalo to Indigenous lands by amplifying the voices of young Indigenous adults. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Stock, Shayna |
Regina |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$2,500 |
Research and writing retreat toward development of my first manuscript of poetry |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Utman (Koops), Victoria |
Weyburn |
Literary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$7,500 |
To complete a submittable final draft of a young adult novel about teenage sisters exploring their Japanese-Canadian identity at comic con. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Walton, Jack |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
In collaboration with professional theatre artists create the script of High Rock, a new Canadian stage musical that explores and celebrates abandoned spaces and memory. |
| Weber, Hailey |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
Funding to support the creation of a body of work exploring forest fires. |
| Wecker, Sabine |
Regina |
Visual |
Independent Artists Program |
2025-2026 |
$7,500 |
Growing Roots: Working towards becoming an established ceramic artist, step one. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Adams, Brittany |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2025-2026 |
$2,000 |
A series of 6 woodland style paintings displaying the importance northern wildlife has on the environment. I intend to showcase these paintings. |
| Alexson, Kamisha |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2025-2026 |
$2,000 |
This project interviews Elders about ancestral history, using their teachings to guide a visual story of the seven generations through mixed-media portraits. |
| Baird, Gavin |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2025-2026 |
$7,500 |
I am applying for funding to continue to development and write a new independent feature-length screenplay titled "Uranium Boy." |
| Bigeagle-Kequahtooway, Joely |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2025-2026 |
$10,000 |
To interview 13+ matriarchs to ask questions about the important matriarchs in their life. Lessons learned and future visions/hope for future and their legacies. |
| Campbell, Maria |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2025-2026 |
$18,000 |
Mahmaskatch Project, Phase One: kiyokiwin – visiting various people and communities in Saskatchewan and Alberta to share and record achimowina (stories) for future podcast series |
| Cuthand, Shawn |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2025-2026 |
$10,000 |
I would like to take a script I have developed and edit/format it to make into a PSA comic book about addictions. |
| Dorion, Leah |
Prince Albert |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2025-2026 |
$15,575 |
To design, develop, and create 13 Metis inspired moon belts for public exhibition using mixed media to represent Metis women's connection to the land. |
| Fulcher Gagnon, Jesse |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2025-2026 |
$8,274 |
A multi-month collection of 1050 performance-for-video pieces that will be digitally assembled to create my first Métis sash in a video piece for exhibiting. |
| Gladue, Raeanne |
Regina |
Media Arts |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2025-2026 |
$7,500 |
I would like to make a documentary on children in care who are aging out of the system and show the challenges they face. |
| Goodon, Jayde |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2025-2026 |
$12,500 |
My plan is to create a large collection of paintings to hold a public and open art exhibition. |
| Houle, Jade |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2025-2026 |
$7,500 |
As a Nehiyaw man, suicide is ever-present among friends & family in my life. With my music, I hope to inspire listeners to choose life. |
| Kehler, Danielle |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2025-2026 |
$2,000 |
To visually articulate the importance of "for as long as the sun shines, the grass grows and the rivers flow" in context of the Treaties |
| Lafond, Mika |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2025-2026 |
$5,500 |
The creation of 5 children's books in nêhiyaw syllabics. The books will highlight Treaty 6 Territory Land, Language, Story, and Emotional Wellbeing. |
| LaPlante, Brianna |
Regina |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2025-2026 |
$7,500 |
I will learn the traditional technologies of hide development and painting from community and elder/knowledge keeper engagement while working on my new body of artwork. |
| Merasty, Leighsa |
Meadow lake |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2025-2026 |
$16,000 |
I want to create the first chapter of a graphic novel that is an indigenous retelling of a fairytale. |
| 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. |
| Pascal, Madison |
Regina |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2025-2026 |
$5,000 |
Supplemental funds to help create a new body of work. |
| Pederson, Krystle |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2025-2026 |
$7,500 |
A (Prairie) Métis Love Story: A musical honouring the strength and courage of Indigenous matriarchs, offering a heartfelt story of gratitude and recognition. |
| Pewapsconias, Janelle |
Paynton |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2025-2026 |
$15,401 |
A blending of Nehiyaw storytelling, spoken word poetry, and prairie soundscapes, strengthening artistic practice in sound design, poetry presentation, and multidisciplinary practice for collective remembrance. |
| Roden, Marjorie |
Regina |
Literary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2025-2026 |
$7,500 |
I shall be working on the first draft of my second Western Canadian science fiction novel, tentatively titled "Winneton Web", the second in the series. |
| Rose, Melanie |
Regina |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2025-2026 |
$7,500 |
I want to make thirteen land-based eco-printed & botanically dyed textiles that will be featured in a 2026 Indigenous Fashion Show & fundraiser in Regina. |
| Rose, Melanie |
Regina |
Visual |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2025-2026 |
$15,500 |
Provide artist fees and supplies to create a thirteen piece wearable art collection for presentation at an Indigenous Fashion Show at the MacKenzie Art Gallery. |
| Tootoosis, Lovina |
North Battleford |
Music |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2025-2026 |
$7,500 |
Write and Record Demo Songs For My next album at my home studio |
| Tootoosis, Michael |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2025-2026 |
$7,500 |
“Rise Within” by Micsmith is a motivational album blending music and affirmations to inspire resilience, self-belief, and personal transformation through sound and storytelling. |
| Woytiuk, Jamie |
Buena Vista |
Media Arts |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2025-2026 |
$9,750 |
By merging my mother’s MS story with self-portraiture, I create a visual language of grief, reclaiming presence and exploring the textures of loss. |
| 5 Guys Named Dave |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$2,000 |
Five Guys Named Dave would like to record and release our first ever professionally-recorded live-off-the-floor old-time album. |
| 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. |
| Alexander-Luna, Tina |
Regina |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
Presenting a lecture-recital with pianist Leanne Regehr at International Congress of Voice Teachers in Toronto, Ontario, about art song contributions of Canadian composer Violet Archer. |
| Alvarez, Kris |
Regina |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
Saskatoon's Kyuubi Culture Artist Collective has invited me to participate in their 2025 collaborative artist residency project as the artist for the month of May. |
| Ba, Flany |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
Kora masterclass with Djely Tapa's Kora master to develop musical foundation for Mami Wata: An Immersive African Ballet, an Afrofuturist immersive work I'm developping. |
| Baird, Gavin |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
I plan to attend the International Premiere of my film Klee in Rotterdam, Netherlands. |
| Ballantyne, Kistin |
Saskatoon |
Media Arts |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
imagineNative is a Film/Media Arts festival held in Toronto, I have been invited to attend due to my involvement in the project "Buffalo Futurism". |
| Bandur, Breanne |
Saskatoon |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
I will be attending the Vermont Studio Center to participate in their Visiting Artist & Writer Residency Program from March 2nd - 20th, 2026 |
| Barreno, Cristian |
Regina |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
I want to frame 3 original paintings and 2 prints on canvas for a 3-year touring exhibition presented by OSAC. |
| Beau Nectar Collective |
Moose Jaw |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
Creative residency with renowned mentor Christian Bordarier |
| Bellefleur, Stephanie |
Willow Bunch |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
Travel to Toronto for arts and culture festivals to participate in panel discussion; Muse Arts and support as ambassador for the Downie & Wenjack Fund. |
| Berenbaum, Jenna |
Saskatoon |
Theatre |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
Meet with casting and artistic directors at Stratford. See theatre at Stratford, Shaw and Drayton. Pitch my new play to prospective theatres. |
| Bigeagle-Kequahtooway, Joely |
Regina |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$750 |
To attend ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival June 4 - 6, 2025 in Toronto as part of a contingency for Buffalo Futurism app |
| Blanchard, Abby |
Prince Albert |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
To attend the Ballets Jazz Montreals Winter Intensive |
| BlueStack |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$2,000 |
To record 2 original songs that will be initially performed at the Saskatoon Spring Festival Celebration (Chinese New Year) Feb. 14th, 2026. |
| Bogdan, Pearl |
Regina |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
Manuscript consultation from professional editor at publishing press. |
| Bradshaw, Ryan |
Saskatoon |
Multidisciplinary |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
Travel to New Zealand for two opportunities: performing and leading a workshop at the BurlesKiwi International Festival, and headlining at a monthly poetry night. |
| Brenna, Beverley |
Saskatoon |
Literary |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$640 |
Travel from Saskatoon to Toronto to attend the launch of 'I'm Here,'' a YA anthology which I conceived and edited to publication (Red Deer Press). |
| Budgell-Eaglespeaker, Forrest Scott |
Saskatoon |
Music |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
Showcase and panelist speaker at Breakout West 2025 in Winnipeg |
| Burns, Sherron |
North Battleford |
Visual |
Microgrant Program |
2025-2026 |
$1,000 |
Participate in art, myth and mask making 5 day intensive workshop exploring natural materials as led by award winning artists Chrystene Ells and Xstine Cook. |
