Grants for Individuals & Collectives: Stream 3 Winter 2025

Stream 3 of the Individuals & Collectives program supports artist driven major projects ready for implementation, production and/​or presentation. This can include support for creation, subsistence, travel and/​or mentorship. Projects may be individual or collective, and grants are available up to $25,000 based on projected expenses, including artist subsistence. 

For the winter 2025 program cycle, 52 applications were recommended for Stream 3, for a total investment of $ 1,124,174.

AJA Louden will create Hammers of Enoch, two new large-scale tapestry works for an exhibition at the Mitchell Art Gallery opening in September 2025.

Alex R.M. Thompson will expand the scope of Carbon Generations, his viewer-activated, interactive installation consisting of over 1000 blocks of salvaged wood, depicting fragments of construction sites and vehicles created using a range of historical printmaking technologies.

Alicia Proudfoot will collaborate with Mika Haykowsky to create an intimate garden of meditative sculpture and sound-based work for exhibition at the McMullen Gallery from January — March 2026.

Aliyalophotography will present ROOTS – A Hairstyle Series, a contemporary visual arts project that is inspired by the work of the Nigerian photographer J.D. ​’Okhai Ojeikere. ROOTS celebrates the beauty, cultural significance, and artistry of African hairstyles within the Black diaspora. 

Amit Vaghela will organize and produce One For The City Vol. 5, a weekend-long street dance event in Edmonton.

Aretha Tillotson will record a full length album of the Aretha Tillotson Quartet, featuring Ingrid Jensen on trumpet, Christine Jensen on alto sax, and Dave Laing on drums.

Batrabbit Theatre Collective will begin production, rehearsal and presentation on the new work, Rat Academy 2: Gnaw and Order, a sequel to the acclaimed touring production of Rat Academy.

bb iskwew will collaborate with the Wîhkwêntôwin Community League to create a mural that celebrates the neighbourhood’s renaming. The mural will be on a public multi-use path.

Beppie will prepare to launch A Year of Music featuring 12 high-quality children’s songs, released monthly in 2026, adapting to the evolving music industry while maintaining creativity, engagement, and excellence in children’s music content.

Braxton Garneau will produce and present a solo exhibition at the University of Saskatchewan campus art galleries, Kenderdine Art Gallery and College Art Galleries in January 2026.

Brianna Tosswill, a printmaker, will allocate time, space, materials, and carpentry assistance to expand her in-progress body of work into sculptural/​interactive art for an exhibition 

Busyrawk will commence work on The Black Tortoise of the North, the third installment in his four-part Chinatown mural series, a multimedia public art project combining an 1800 square feet mural, film, and community engagement. 

Cikwes will market her new Cree language album, Nehiyaw Iskô. The goal of the album is to support and expand Cree language revitalization efforts and respond to intergenerational trauma/​colonial harm from a Cree woman’s perspective.

Clare Gibson will explore the value of engaging in photographic practices as a method of self-care told through personal stories of photographers interspersed with academic knowledge, in a feature-length documentary.

Courtney Loberg will create the first draft of a graphic novel about a depressed, trans office worker who finds love in a hidden world. Based on the Scottish ballad of Tam Lin.

Dave Goel, Samuel Anderson, Shasta Johnsen-Sollos, Zoe Snyder and Ganesh Saraswat will create a 10 minute polished demo for a single person horror video game which integrates real-world eye movement through webcam tracking.

Emmanuel will produce the first volume in the Black Phantom comic book series. The series follows a spirited orphan on a quest to save the world from soul-eating monsters. Inspired by African mythology, this comic uplifts Black youth through powerful storytelling and representation.

Faith Abimbola will aim to empower Black immigrant youth by combining hands-on photography training with open conversations on identity, mental wellness, and creative expression, based on her experiences as a Black immigrant who found healing through photography.

Garfield Morgan will attend a residency at Cold Hollow Sculpture Park in Vermont where he will re-mount his Cloth & Conscience exhibition in the Cold Hollow Sculpture Park Gallery.

Geoffrey Simon Brown will develop the third and fourth drafts of his new play, Static, through dedicated writing time, dramaturgical support, and a one-week workshop with actors. 

hundredmillionthousand will première, Conversations with Your 90-Year-Old Self: A Choral-Electronic Performance, featuring live choir, immersive visuals, audience interaction, and lyric zines. 

JJ Miller will complete Brothers of Thunder, a full-length, 10-song album. The album will expand stylistically and thematically on his EP, Hometown Believer.

Joanne Madeley, who experiences chronic pain, will hire a printmaker to assist in the production of The Issue at Hand, a new series of screenprints.

Joe Nolan will work on the artistic presentation of a new album Luv in the New World, including the creation of three music videos, as well as album and single artwork.

Kelsey van Moorsel will produce Urban Coyote, a documentary film that follows Ph.D. student Sage Raymond and renowned researcher Dr. Colleen Cassady St. Clair as they unlock the secret world of urban coyotes.

Kevin Cardinal will create 28 original paintings over six months, culminating in hosting his first solo art show in Alberta.

Kiona Callihoo Ligtvoet will create a script and drawings for Rosehips, a graphic novel/​artist book to be published by Conundrum Press in winter 2027.

Kip Lily will present and market her first album, Root Bound. The alt-folk album explores themes of growth, expression, and conflict.

Laura La France will shoot a 20-minute documentary on Super 8 film. In the film, PIYÊSIW, the disabled, queer, Indigenous birthworker, Piyêsiw Crane, uses her own words to discuss grief, intentionality, and the medicine of parenthood.

Lianna Makuch and Joleen Ballendine will present the Edmonton première of their family theatre adaptation of Kohkom’s Babushka at the Westbury Theatre from November 6 — 16, 2025.

Michael Watt and Jacquelin Walters will work on rehearsal and production for the performance of Reign Check, a multidisciplinary, found space theatrical show, at Edmonton’s Found Festival 2025.

Molly McDermott will work on the creation of her full-length contemporary dance work, in and out of dark, in anticipation of its confirmed presentation by Brian Webb Dance Company in 2026. 

Mũkonzi Mũsyoki and the Postmarginal Edmonton Collective, with Mile Zero Dance, will create two theatre productions in Edmonton that explore inclusive creation. The interlinked productions will aim to increase intercultural understanding within our community. 

Omar Mouallem will begin post-production, publicizing and making festival submissions for Nader’s Girl, a film adaptation of Saeed Teebi’s short story, Cynthia, a dramedy about the viral nature of toxic masculinity and international student exploitation.

Patrick Lundeen will enter the post-production and development phase for NOW: No Ordinary World, a documentary film that captures a network of committed international volunteers rising to support civilians and soldiers living near the frontlines of Ukraine.

Post Script will release We’re All Alone, their highly anticipated full-length album fusing vintage sensibilities with new-wave subtlety, weaving an authentic portrait of their shared and individual power. 

Reckie Lloyd will embark on the production and promotion leading up to the fall debut of SEKOU: The Quest – A Theatrical Musical Production, which showcases live drumming from West Africa, traditional dances, poetry, and acrobats. 

Robin Alex McDonald will present But Wait, There’s More! A six-week online presentation of video artworks that critically engage the infomercial format.

Sarah Taylor will work on the development and production of Invisible Imagination, a feature length documentary from the point of view of an artist with aphantasia (no visual imagination).

Sarah Von Gertzen and Cameron Costain will begin production and post-production on The Phantom Mask, a 10 minute narrative short horror film exploring themes of disability.

New Standards Jazz Orchestra is a new and unique multidisciplinary big band in Edmonton. They will produce two events in Edmonton showcasing the local talent in the New Standards community and beyond.

Sterling V Scott will record a live special taping of the one-hour live stand-up comedy set Love Yourself at the Moon in Edmonton that will be aired on Sirius XM, YouTube and submitted for a Juno Award consideration.

Tai Amy Grauman will develop Michif and Bungee language, music and historical context in the play she is drafting: Rose and James: A Métis Scottish love story.

Tesh Aytenfisu will organize and produce the inaugural four-day Edmonton Black Comedy Festival, a stand-up comedy event dedicated to showcasing Black and BIPOC comedians.

The Fox Den Collective will produce the world première of their play R+J: Closing Night, written by award-winning playwright Jessy Ardern.

The Mbira Renaissance Band will launch an album in Edmonton and Zimbabwe that fuses contemporary mbira music with jazz and West African drum patterns.

Theresa Shea will write the first draft of The Domestics, a novel that examines the lives of newly arrived Irish domestic servants in New York at the end of the 19^th century.

Travis Nesbitt will fully produce Dan Sandwich, a live-action children’s series blending music, imagination, and life lessons, encompassing a broad cultural range of diverse stories, perspectives, and musical genres.

UltraViolet will commission and workshop two new contemporary sound art compositions from Edmonton composers Andriy Talpash and Raylene Campbell to be premiered at a New Music Edmonton concert in fall 2026. 

Vivian Han-Tat and Alexander Milo will create the second volume of SLEEPER Magazine, an exploration of how the golden age of import car culture brought community and a sense of belonging to first generation East/South-East Asian-Canadian youth of the 2000s, and into today.

WindRose Trio will present a classical chamber music concert featuring flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, and marimba.

Zhenni Li-Cohen with Marin Alsop and Vienna Radio Symphony will make the world première recording of Ukrainian composer Sergei Bortkiewicz’s ​“Rhapsody” for piano and orchestra paired with his third piano concerto, ​“Per aspera ad astra”. 

Read about the Winter 2025 Individuals & Collectives Stream 1 and 2 recipients here.

Interested in applying for an Individuals & Collectives grant? The Fall 2025 deadline is October 1, 2025 at 11:59 AM (noon) and applications will open one month before the deadline.