Carole Epp’s mixed-media sculpture highlights the divide of privilege during the pandemic.

When Carole Epp was invited to participate in the borderLINE: 2020 Biennal of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Alberta, she had plans to create a piece using a combination of handmade ceramic dishes and found object commercially made plates. She wanted to work with a company that could cut windows in the plates using a water jet, so they could be layered and show the ones behind them.

Biofeedback Art Collective has created a virtual art gallery to feature emerging Saskatchewan artists who have lost opportunities due to the pandemic.

Saskatoon-based Biofeedback Art Collective noticed that many opportunities for emerging artists disappeared or were postponed because of the pandemic. In response, they created a virtual art gallery to feature emerging Saskatchewan artists.

Amber Goodwyn translated her album into a science fiction musical.

When multidisciplinary artist Amber Goodwyn (aka Natural Sympathies) was writing her latest sequence of songs, it made sense for her to name the resulting album Porous.

Meacham artist June Jacobs is known for transforming fibre into unique sculptural forms inspired by the flora of Saskatchewan. SK Arts was fortunate to add two of these pieces, SubAqueous Gentiana I and Gems of the Salt Flat, to our Permanent Collection this year.

Creighton photographer Daniel Dillon gathered a team of 12 artists to create and document art projects during the COVID-19 lockdown.

Like many artists, documentary photographer Daniel Dillon has had a project “in his back pocket” for the past five years. His goal was a photo series following local artists as they create a body of work, but he could never find the time. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and he and the artists he wanted to feature were stuck at home. All they had was time.

Miriam Körner had planned to travel to research her latest novel but had to come up with a new plan after the pandemic hit.

A sense of place plays a major role in all of Miriam Körner’s writing. For her latest novel, Burnt, she planned on visiting locations her protagonist, Mia, encounters in her journey. Grants from SK Arts and the Canada Council for the Arts were to help her travel to Toronto and Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, for three weeks each to conduct this research.

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the Nutrien Children’s Festival of Saskatchewan initially planned to postpone the summer event until September 2020. Then it became clear that September wasn’t a viable option. Instead of cancelling altogether, the festival decided to do something different.

An Artists in Communities project helped trans and non-binary people express themselves and challenge the cisgender gaze.

SK Arts was pleased to add ēkawiya nepēwisi by Joi T. Arcand to our Permanent Collection at the recent submission deadline.

As with Arcand’s previous work, ēkawiya nepēwisi speaks to promoting the use of traditional Indigenous language in public spaces. “It’s important to educate people about the Cree language and that we have our own origin stories about the syllabics writing system. I just want to highlight that in my work, because language is something that is important to the culture.

Depression can be difficult to talk about, even though it has touched the lives of so many. Métisartist Marcy Friesen is creating artwork that will start that conversation. With the help of a Micro-Grant, Friesen is beading an oversized “Depression Moccasin” in various shapes and shades of blue beads to represent the tears shed by someone living with depression, as well as the struggles of their caregivers.