Updates on SK Arts programs and activities.
SK Arts celebrates International Women's Day 2023 by introducing the strong, passionate women on staff. As a whole, SK Arts team members are also typically members of the arts community themselves in one way or another. With 12 of the 20 members of staff being women, they represent the majority of the small agency.
SK Arts is hosting a free, three-part virtual speakers series on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in the arts in 2023. Videos of talks are available on our YouTube channel which can be accessed from the website. Click here to learn more!
Despite having a background in Law, Michael Afenfia has had a passion for writing since childhood. An immigrant, he published his first novel, When the Moon Caught Fire, a fictional account of slavery, in 2010. When he emigrated from Nigeria in 2019, he wondered (and worried) whether he would have to give up his career.
LIVE (Live Interactive Video Education) Arts Saskatchewan is a distance learning program which allows a variety of professional artists to connect simultaneously with teachers and students in multiple schools across Saskatchewan for a live experience in arts education.
As defined by Oxford Languages, poetry is “literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm….” As the expressive art form that spoke to the 20-year-old poet Peace Akintade over a decade ago - her Nigerian roots perceive language and therefore, poetry as a part of her culture rather than a profession.
In October 2022, SK Arts’ Permanent Collection received a boost, acquiring a donation of 14 pieces from Frank Sudol, an internationally renowned woodturner. A third of the 46-piece donation, the pieces were split between SK Arts, The Mann Art Gallery in Prince Albert and the Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery.
SK Arts joins with Indigenous and non-Indigenous people from across Canada in marking September 30 as the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. This beaded artwork is by Swampy Cree/Welsch artist Marcy Friesen.
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To wrap up Pride month, we want you to meet Faith Rae, a visual artist who used the final exhibition for her degree, “Evolving,” to come out publicly as queer.
Throughout June, we featured Indigenous artists on our social media pages as a celebration of National Indigenous History Month.
SK Arts hosted a free, virtual speakers series on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in the arts sector in 2022. Videos of talks are available on our website.
For Black History Month, we are featuring Saskatchewan artists and arts professionals who have made an impact on our arts community. Meet Chancz Perry, Taynika Walker, Khodi Dill, and Alyssa Fearon.
Our new Ask Artists program connects Grades 5 to 9 students with Saskatchewan artists.
SK Arts joins with Indigenous and non-Indigenous people from across Canada in marking September 30 as the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
SK Arts’ Permanent Collection is seeking work by Indigenous artists in Saskatchewan. Deadline to start your application is October 18, 2021.
SK Arts joins with the full community in expressing our deep sorrow following the discovery of 751 unmarked graves at the site of the Marieval Indian Residential School.
The recipients of the 2021 Saskatchewan Arts Awards were announced at an online event on May 10, 2021.
Congratulations to Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Maria Campbell and the short-listed nominees for the 2021 Saskatchewan Arts Awards.
A notice to artists and arts organizations who receive SK Arts grants.
Walking around in downtown Regina? Until Spring, an exhibition of artwork from the SK Arts Permanent Collection, is on display at Mosaic Tower at Hill Centre III (corner of 12th Ave. and Hamilton St.) from January 13 to April 7.
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