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Understanding the Arts Ecology of Saskatchewan

Discoveries and Questions

Saskatchewan Arts Alliance Community Forum

Rosthern, SK – 7 April 2017

Saskatchewan Partnership for Arts Research

SPAR formed in 2012 for research to support evidence-based programming and policy-making for the arts.

Partners: Saskatchewan Arts Alliance (SAA)

Saskatchewan Arts Board

SaskCulture

University of Regina

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http://www.artsalliance.sk.ca/

SPAR Mandate

• Scientifically gather primary data on Saskatchewan

• Study the arts as an ecosystem in Saskatchewan

• artists and the public

• better understanding of how artists create and work on a daily basis

• Connections, Networks, Community interaction

• Needs/access

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Understanding the Arts Ecology of Saskatchewan

First Project, funded by:

• a $200,000 grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), and

• contributions from the SPAR partners.

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SPAR Research

Ground-breaking research:

• First-ever comprehensive survey of Saskatchewan Artists

• Survey of the Public

• Focus Groups, Interviews, & Case Studies

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Image by artist Jinzhe Cui Interpretation of 19th St. Public Art, Saskatoon

SPAR Reports and Publications at: www2.uregina.ca/spar/

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http://www2.uregina.ca/spar/index.php/reports-and-resources?id=54:reports-and-resources-maps&catid=54

How well is the system sustaining creativity?

• What is the nature of professional connections and networks forged by artists among themselves and with their community (or communities)?

• Are these connections contributing to

1. healthy and sustainable arts ecosystem?

2. cultural, social and economic dimensions of the provincial ecosystem?

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SPAR Artist Survey Database

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Respondents

348 Artists

Invited to Survey

1,432

SPAR’s database

3,135 artists

Artists by Disciplines

Artist respondents were highly cross-disciplinary:

• Average 2.77 disciplines/person

• 74% of respondents cited more than one discipline.

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How do Artists identify in Saskatchewan?

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Artists could self-identify in any or all of the three categories. Many did.

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Artists build complex networks within and beyond the arts

Artists ranked networking/ informal connections as important to their:

• overall evolution as an artist = 78%

• ability to create/interpret work = 62%

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“I have worked with a number of Saskatoon businesses to produce work, most recently: Don's Photo, Mondrian Hall, Globe Printers, Laser Impressions, Art Placement. I purchase materials and supplies from hardware stores (Home Depot, Rona, COOP) as well as Art Placement and Michaels.”

- SPAR artist respondent

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Saskatchewan Arts Board City of Regina

Libraries

Potash Corp Cameco

City of Saskatoon

RBC Dominion Securities SaskTel

SGI

St Peter's College accountant(s) advertiserséing

Booksellers/stores Canadian Mental Health Association

CBC Dakota Dunes Casino ( & Community Development Corp)

Farming FNUC high schools

Ideas Inc. Independent artists Luther College

Public Libraries SaskCulture school boards/schools

SIAST TD Bank


“N/A” & “none”

University of Saskatchewan

220 collective Coffee Bars City of Suzhou China Don's Photo GreenPeace Canada Laser Impressions myself Ponteix Catholic Arch Diocese Sask Abilities Council (SACL) small local groups Trades

USSU Women's Centre

Access Communications Battlefords Publishing City of Swift Current Dr.Dolores and Murray Logan Greyhound Lawyers National Aboriginal Fashion Week Portfolio Photographics Sask Central Credit

Union SMPIA Transportation Val Marie Economic Development Committee/Village of Val Marie

Access Copyright Beadplus City of Weyburn Dress for Success Regina Habitat for Humanity Lloydminster Life experience National Fashion Week Prairie Messenger Sask Education Software - Adobe &

Microsoft Trevor Boquist from Bennett Dunlop Ford various corporate clients who purchase work

ACFN Beaver Lumber Company Claude’s restaurant Drumheller Penitentiary Harvard developments Local Library and Gallery national groups Printing Sask filmpool Sound 291 Film

Company Trilogy Energy Corp Various film companies

Alberta oil Sands Technology & Research Authority BMO Claybank Brick Plant Historical Site Dunlop Art Gallery Hatch local restaurants Neil Young private collectors Sask Heritage South Zone

Community Soccer Tron Engineering Various groups and organizations hiring artists

Alberta power Brown Communications Climate Master inc. Eagle Feather News Health local venues sponsoring readings e.g. Crave. Neue Bach-Gesellschaft private lessons Sask Lotteries Southeast

Cornerstone School Division Twisted Pair various rural town councils

All Natural Health Clinic Bureau du gouvernement du Quebec (ouest) CMHA (SASK. DIVISION) Eastend Arts Council Heritage Canada Lt. Governors Office NeWest Press private sponsors/businesses and/or crowd funding contributors

Sask. Ministry of Advanced Education Spadina Freehouse U of R Vertigo reading series

Crown Life businesses that have budgeted for Art purchases CNIB Edge Agency Heritage Regina Lulu's newspapers in Sask Progress to Capital Saskatchewan Express sponsors

U of R - The former Extension Dept Victoria City Council

Alzheimers Society Schizophrenia Society businesses that support the Lieutenant-Governor's Arts Awards. commercial galleries Edmonton Space and Science Center Heritage Saskatchewan Lyric Theatre non-art magazines Public Lending Right

Saskatchewan Film Tax Credit SPRA/YWCA U of R Department of Computer Science and Engineering Victoria Hospital Prince Albert

Ambrosi Printers (Phil and Bernice Ambrosi) businesses that support the Saskatoon and Area Theatre Awards COMMISIONS Elementary schools HJ Linnen & Associates Manufacturers Northwind Entertainment publications who

hired me Saskatchewan History and Folklore Society Square foo New Media U of R Education Department Victory Motors

Amigo's Cantina businesses that support theatre Community association programing Elk Ridge Resort Hollows Materials NSCRD Northern Lights School Division Queen's University Saskatchewan Writers Guild

st Michael's at lumsden U of R music teachers video production companies

AMMSA Cabarets Community organizations employers Home Depot MCAC (Heritage advisory) committee Oil and Gas RCMP Heritage Centre. Saskatoon Blues Society

St. Paul's Hospital U of S Department of Computer Science and Engineering Village of North Portal

Anne Parker from Greystone Callback Corporate Entertainment Compassion Canada Envirocorp Design Group inc. Hospitals and health care facilities McGill University Online learning and tutorials Regina Buffalo Days

Saskatoon Farmers Market St. Thomas More College Saskatoon U of S Kenderdine Campus Wascana Centre

architectural offices Calories Conexus Credit Union Events Edge Entertainment & Speakers Bureau HOST Players Drama McKercher LLP Ontario juried 'Threads' Show Regina Early Learning Centre Saskatoon Health

Region Standardized patient program Underground Cafe Waterhen Productions

art collectors Calories Restaurant Confucious Institute Fans Hudson Bay Composite High School McNally Robinson Booksellers Opera Hamilton Regina Hertiage Community Association Saskatoon Jazz Festival

Staples Agencies Unitarian Centre Watermill Centre (New York).

Art Gallery of Regina campion college Conseil des ecoles fransaskoise (CEF) CATA (Canadian art therapy association) Festivals Illuminato media Orono Regina Inn Saskatoon Public Library

steel and art suppliers United Church of Canada Waukeesha County Technical Institute

Art Placement Canada Council COOP Flow Magazine individual patrons MediaGroup OTV Computers Regina Police College Saskatoon Public Library Sun Country Health Region University courses

Western Developement Museum

arts organizations Canadian Progress Club Coop Refinery Forestry Farm Industrial Medicine Hat College (AB) University of Regina Kutenai Art Therapy Institute (BC) Pacific Institute of Mathematical Sciences / Banff International

Research Station Regina Public Schools Saskatoon Transit Sun Life University of Alberta Wisconsin

Aspen Links Golf Course Canadian Public Relations Society Corporate Entertainers GetMoreCorporateGigs Gary Corcoran - Edward Jones Innovation Credit Union Mendel Art Gallery Paddockwood

Brewing Regina Qu'Appelle Health Region SCC Saskatchewan Craft Council Superior cabinets University of Brandon Women Entrepreneurs of Regina

Association jeunesse fransaskoise (Saskatchewan French Youth Association) Canfitpro Costume Emporium general community International Fasch Society Michaels Partners in Motion Gyro Productions Regina Warehouse

District Schools and churches supporters in the general public. University of British Columbia Women Entrepreneurs of Saskatchewan

Avram Events - Jennie Avram canpotex CoWork Generalitat de Catalunya iQmetrix Milk Canada Peers Remax Weyburn SCN SWG University of Maine

York University (Toronto)

B&E Electronics Cathedral Free House cultural community of friends and artists Georges Vanier Catholic Fine Arts School John Bridges Pontiac Mo Bundon from Harvard Development Petro-Canada Reno ops Seaspray Laundry TEDx

University of Manitoba

B2B Centre for Performance Research (UK) Dartington College of Arts (UK) Giggles Comedy Agency John Cormack of Law Enforcement Academy Mondrian Hall Pewaukee Roca House Sergio Lub inc.

Walnut Creek CA The 220 University of Manitoba

BA/MA at York University Century 21 DeBeers Globe Printers K.L. Martin and Associates (Ohsweken Moo.com PGI printers Rock 102 Shaunavon School Division the machinations of

governments University of Ottawa

Baha'i World Faith community. Charitable organizations Delta hotels globe theatre (Shu box series) Kaiwo Maru Nipon Ship Japan Moose Jaw Festival of words and Performers' café University of Toronto

Rona Sheldon Williams Collegiate the Regina Multifaith Forum University of Regina and University of Regina Extension

Bamboo Shoots Charter House Interiors Dennis Miller Wine merchants Government House Kobayashi Corporation Tokyo Mount Royal College Photography Roy Hart Centre (France) Sheraton Cavalier

Tides Foundation University of Regina Computer Science Department

Banff Center Circle Park Mall Department of Drama Government of Saskatchewan Lakeland Leisure Bed and Breakfast Municipal government Local businesses Planet S Royal Bank SIGA Toronto Operetta

Theatre University of Regina Engineering Faculty

Banff Centre for the Arts City of Hokkaido Japan Department of Foreign Affairs Great West Life Lakeview Community Asssociation museums Playwrights Press of Canada Royal Canadian College of Organists

Sleepers Tourism Saskatchewan University of Regina Press

Banff School of Fine Arts City of Khabarovsk Russia donors etc. Green & White Lang Insurance My clients political figures Royal Saskatchewan Museum small businesses Town of Gravelbourg

University of Victoria

20 years later Wascana Rehab Talking Stick Vancouver Rio Grande Pacific Institute of Mathematical Science/Banff International Research Station MagNet Edge Talent Agency Institution of American Indigenous Arts, Santa Fe, NM Cameco Sergio Carolino principal tuba Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música

Ottawa Symphony Orchestra Critiques 4-H Watermill Centre (New York). Tant per Tant Rogers Writers Trust; painting groups Malahat Review EDITORS' ASSOCIATION OF CANADA institutions that exhibited work Canadian Association of Magicians Shakespeare's Shadows Ottawa Youth Orchestra CSEA

ACAD watrous and ares arts council gallery on 3rd(watrous) TCU Place root:community emporium Paper Crane Community Arts Centre Manitoba Association of Playwrights editors at my publishing house International Magicians Society Canadian Association of Theatre Research Shaw Rocket Fund Owl Acoustic lounge in Lethbridge Culture Festivals Swift Current

Academy of Musical Education week end magazines Teatre Lliure Rosemont Art Gallery Partners In Motion Manitoba Theatre Centre Education Insitutions Iroquois Lacrosse Arena (Six Nations) Canadian Children's Book Centre's Book Week Tour Sheridan College School of Craft and DesignHadar Jacobson dance Actra West magazine Teatre Mossoviet Rosen Publishers Pasqua First Nations Band Manitoba Theatre Workshop Elementary School Java Post Productions Canadian Country Music Association SILS (province's library system - access to materials) Hand Wave Gallery Dance and the Child International (DaCI)

ADAPT syllabus Western Canada Theatre Teatre Nacional de Catalunya Rosthern Station Arts Centre passionate people Manitoulin Conservatory of Creation and Performance Emerging Cultural Leaders Exchange Program Jennifer Switzer - Chinook School Division Canadian Country Music Week simpia Hard Pressed

Dancers Transitions Centre ADULT EDUCATION

Western Canadian Music Awards Conference Telephone booth gallery toronto Rough Writers Writing groups Patrik Kuzek Martin School of Dancing & Baton Twirling (local business) Enslow Publishers Juno Awards Canadian Editors' Association SMPIA

Harmony 2 Go Youth Barbershop Chorus Dandas Valley School of Art (Dundas, ON) AGAVF Westminster United Church television Roxy Theatre peer reviews May Day Poetry Blog Erratics K.M. Paulson Goldsmith Ltd Canadian Film Institute Society of American Magicians Heartland Artists Guild Dartington College of Arts

agents (Vamp and Tramp) in the U.S. Wet Canvas Temiskaming Art Gallery Roy Hart Centre (France) PEP Project (Dr Corey Hamm and Nicole Ge Li) McFatto Films Estevan Arts Council Kappaco Films Canadian Heritage Sounds Like Festival Her-icane Women's Festival David Dahlgren - South East Cornerstone

School Division(CANADA) Airdrie Artists Guild (now defunct) Weyburn Arts Council Tempesta di Mare Baroque Orchestra Royal Saskatchewan Museum Per Sonatori Baroque Orchestra McGill University Ethnic organizations such as Ukrainian Canadian Congress Kelowna Art Gallery Canadian Improv Games SPG Heritage Canada DAW Books Alberta When Words Collide conference text books Sacramento Symphony Peter Skagen's 'Audition Hell' program McIntyre Gallery (now closed) Everything Kendor Publicaitons Canadian Mental Health Association Sports Culture and Recreation District high school arts program (Ontario) Deanne Fitzpatrick's Rug Hooking Studio in Amherst N.S.

Alberta Culture and multiculturalism White Cat Book Store the artisan SAIT (Southern Institute of Technology) Phantasts McMaster University (Hamilton, ON). experiences outside of canada Kendra Worman - Prairie Spirit School Division Canadian Music Centre Spring Fest Highlights Foundation (2011 Chautauqua conference) Dell Arte International School

Alberta Foundation for the Arts Wide Open the Artists Network Sask Arts Association Philharmonic Chorus Medicine Hat College Factory Factory Entertainment Knox-Metropolitan United Church Canadian Quilters Association SSEA His Imprint Christian Writers Department of Foreign Affairs

Alberta Playwrights Network Wildsong Theatre The Boys and Girls Club art shows Sask Book Awards Pilchuck Glass School Mendel Federation des francophones de Saskatoon Kootenay School of the Arts CANSCAIP SSHRC Historical museums and sites Derek Millers Guilt Free Zone (tv Show) and Alberta Potters Association William F. White. the exchange Sask Country Music Awards Festival Plainsman Clays ( Medicine Hat AB ) Metal Designz (Saskatoon - courses) Federation of Indian Nations Kwantlen college university Capital University SSO Hollows Dharma Trading in CA USA

ALRY Publications WiP The Temple Sask Jazz Festival

Popular Theatre Alliance of Manitoba Metis Government Fill Hill Treaty Council la Fundación de las Artes y los Artistas Barcelona Capitol Stage West Calgary Hudson Bay Allied Arts Council director MASSSIVE BRASS ATTACK ESMAE (Portugal);

Amicus Publishing wood turning clubs’ courses and symposiums The Two Twenty Sask Music PotashCorp Mind's Eye Pictures film and television enterprises Lakeland College in Lloydminster Catalyst Theatre (Edmonton) Stall Gallery Hudson Bay Arts Club Director's Lab North

Amigos Woodland Cultural Centre (Brantford, ON) Theatre Alberta Sask Publishers Group Prairie Artists Guild Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery film pool LASA Media Cecilian Concert Series Staple Productions Hues Dorr Woolen Mills in USA AMMSA Media Word on the Street Saskatoon. Think Tank Events Sask. Embroiderers Guild Prairie Dog Mosaic Flicks Film Festival Last Mountain Lake Cultural Centre Centaur Theatre Stegner House ICCC (Interdisciplinary Centre for Culture and Creativity) Dr. George Halsell

Anskohk Aboriginal Literature Festival working with other artists third ave centre Sask. Libraries Prairie Horizons Conference MUCH Fact Flin Flon Community Choir Le Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Quebec Centre Dramàtic de la Generalitat de Catalunya Stratford Festival IFFACA

Dr. Karen Gustafson and Dr. James Bicigo University of Alaska Fairbanks Anthony P. Zilincik Write Out Loud Thunder Bay Art Gallery Sask. Wood Guild Prairie Music Week music and arts festivals around Saskatchewan Floyd Festival Learning through the Arts Centre for Performance Research (UK) Stuck in a Snowbank Theatre ImagineNative Media Arts + FIlm Festival Dr. Roberta M. McKay Professional Medical

Corp.

ARC WriteOnCon Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra Saskatchewan architectural heritage societyPrairie Opera music workshops and conferences FOFA Gallery Legacy Studios in Cochrane AB CFCR Community Radio studio visits In Visible Ink dramaturges ARt GAllery Melville Writer in residence program Timeraiser Saskatchewan Arts and Culture prairie sculptors' association my fans Foothills Brass Leighton Artists Colony CFMDC subTerrain magazine out of Vancouver Incredible Story Studio Eastend Arts Council

Art Gallery of Algoma Writers Development Trust. Torquere Press Saskatchewan Band Association Prairie Theatre Exchange Mysteria Gallery Fort San Sask. School of the Arts at Ft San Leighton Colony at Banff Chapel Gallery Sunday Art Market Independent artist collectives Eastend Historical Museum and Cultural Centre (arts partnerships)

Art Guild Writers' Guild of Canada Tourism SK Saskatchewan Children's Writers' Round Robin Prairie Winds and Silver Sage Museum NASCAD Fort San Saskatchewan School for the Arts Les Ballets Jazz du Montreal (Toronto group) Charterhouse Interiors (studio space) Sundog Handcraft Fair independent theatre and supports Echolands

Art Mur writers retreats Travel to Europe Saskatchewan Cultural Exchange Society Prairies north magazine National Arts Centre Orchestra Frances Morrison Library Gallery, Public Library City of Saskatoon Libraries Children's Festival SUNTEP Indigenous Circle (tv Show) Saskatoon Opera

Art on the Move program WSMA (Wisconsin School Muisc Assoc) Festival Troupe du Jour Saskatchewan Culture and Youth

Private Artists mostly Saskatoon National Association of Photoshop Professionals Fringe Saskatoon Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA) Children's Festivals SW Quest Indigenous Media Arts Collective (Vancouver) Saskatoon Potters Guild

art supply stores YAC Twisted Pair Sound Productions Saskatchewan Education private/commercial galleries that present my work National Flute Association Fringe Theatre Festival Lloydminster Cultural Science Centre (formally the Barr Colony Cultural Heritage Centre) Cinergie Film Festival Swift Current Art Gallery Individual curators, small Sask. Galleries Saskatoon School of Music

artful Dodger YALE UNIVERSITY Two Rivers Art Gallery Saskatchewan Film Employment Tax Credit private/public sector National Foundation for Family Literacy (NCFL) conference Gabriel Dumont Institute Local and regional bookstores city I live in Swift Current Kiwanis Club InScribe Christian Fellowship Saskatoon Spinners & Weavers Guild

artistic residency (Umbria Italia) Young Actors Club Tyche Books Saskatchewan Foundation for the Arts Professional Association of Canadian Theatres National organisations Gallery 101 local art gallery and local art council City of Saskatoon Swift Current Music Festival Institut de Teatre i Dança de Barcelona Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra

artistic retreats (baie St-Paul QC; Wadena SK; Bruno SK) Northlands College Tyrone Guthrie Centre Saskatchewan Jazz Fest Professional Photographers of SK/Canada National Theatre School of Canada Galliard Foundation Local churches classes in galleries in Ontario BC Arts Council

University of Western Ontario SATA's Arts Council Saskatchewan Nova Scotia College of Art Ukrainian Museum Saskatchewan Orchestral Association PRS National Youth Orchestra of Canada Gateway Music Festival local community centre Cobb Swanson Music BCIT University of Windsor Scholastic Publishing

Arts Drop in Centre NSCAD University Halifax NS Underground Cafe Saskatchewan Professional Photographers Assoc. Public and commercial art galleries natural beauty Gift shops Local crafting guilds Collective Art By Nine Bedrock Supplies (Edmonton - courses) university professors School Creative Vancouver

ARTsPLACE Nuit Blanche Universities of Calgary Saskatchewan Publisher's Group Public Libraries NEPA (Native Earth Performing Arts -- Toronto -- Weesageechak Dances Festival) Godfrey Dean local dance studio College of Southern Idaho (USA) Blender's Uof T School Division Assiniboia & District Public Library NWT Arts Council University Art Departments Saskatchewan Registered Music Teachers Association Public Library writer in residence Ness Creek Cultural and Recreational Society Graphic Arts Classes at Community College Brandon Mb Local galleries Columbus Ohio Bones & stones (jade carving)

Vancouver Circus School schools

Associated Designers of Canada Oceanside Photographers' Club University BFA Saskatchewan schools and libraries Queer City Cinema Film Festival New Edmonton Wind Sinfonia Grass Roots Regina Local performing groups Common Weal Book Awards Vancouver East Cultural Centre Schools Fransaskois Association of String Instrument Artisans Ochapowace First Nations Band University Extension Division Saskatoon Saskatchewan Weavers & Spinners radio Newest Press Groupe Intervention Video in Montreal long and mcquade music centre community college programs Borealis Brass Vancouver Film School Schools Reserve Schools

Athabasca University Odd Gallery University of BC Saskatchewan Wildlife Art Association Radio-Canada Saskatchewan Newspapers groups of artists Long Term Care facilities Regina Lutheran Home Community Works Bowman Art gallery in Lethbrigde Vangellis Schools, Public

Audio Art Recording Off Broadway dinner theatre University of Guelph Saskatchewan Writers/Artists Rainbow Youth Center NFB Guitar Research & design Lore Films Concordia University College of Alberta BRAG Vann Violin Bow school Schools, Separate Aurora Art Guild On line stone carving group University of Lethbridge Saskatoon community youth arts program inc RAIS Nightwood Theatre (TO) Redwire Youth Media Collective- VancouverLugo Conseil des arts du Canada Brick Books. various teachers SCN

B.E.ZEE Productions One Yellow Rabbit Performance Theatre in Calgary UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA Saskatoon Exhibition Group Rawlco Radio Norfolk Arts Centre Ontario Regina Lumsden Arts Board Conservatory Canada Brushworks Art Guild Vernon Public Art Gallery SCYAP Saskatoon Community Youth Arts

Program Bassment O'Neill High School University of Nevada-Las Vegas Saskatoon Fashion & Design Festival RCM NorTep/NorPac Regina Early Learning Center Lunchbox Theatre Coop Refinery Bundoran Press Vertigo Reading Series Second City Toronto

Battleford Allied Arts Council one-on-one creative art time with a friend/mentor University of Ottawa Saskatoon Jazz Society Reading North Light Book On-line seminars Regina Encaustic Luther College Cosmopolitan Learning Centre Business for the Arts Video In in Vancouver Regina Modern Danceworks

Bazart Ontario College of Art University of Toronto Saskatoon music community Recording Arts Institute of Saskatoon Northern Arts Centre Yellowknife Regina Guild for Colour Photography Lyric Theatre courses Business Sponsorships supporting arts (various) Video In Video Out Regina Photo Club Bazzart fair Ontario Writers Reserve Grants University of Victoria Saskatoon Music Festival Recreation District Northern Lights Bluegrass Festival Regina Jazz Society Class Act Performing Arts Studios coworking business support for theatres VideoPool in Winnipeg. Regina Stitchery guild

CAC Opera Nuova Voices of the North Self study & education Research Other Artist mentors Regina Ladies Choir Creative Rug Hookers of Regina (now defunct) Craven Country Jamboree businesses Village Guitar Renegade Motion Pictures

Regina Summer Stage Opera Saskatchewan Create through regina public school board Cable Regina visual art program

CARFAC

Saskatchewan Writers' Guild

Saskatchewan Craft Council


Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre

Writers Union of Canada

SaskMusic CAEA

Saskatchewan Filmpool

Saskatchewan Arts Alliance

"University" total

Art Gallery of Regina

ACTRA SOCAN

AKA

Dance Saskatchewan Inc

PAVED ARTS

OSAC

SaskCulture

Live Five

MacKenzie Art Gallery

Mendel Art Gallery

Registered Music Teachers of Saskatchewan

IATSE

League of Canadian Poets

Saskatchewan Association of Theatre Professionals

SMPIA

AFM

Canada Council

CANSCAIP

Persephone Theatre

RSO

Sakewewak

SSO

Regina Little Theatre

Chapel Gallery Dunlop

Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas

Mann Art Gallery

On the Boards

Saskatchewan Arts Council

Shakespeare on the SK Theatre SK

Common Weal Community Arts

Conseil culturel fransaskois (CCF)

Globe Theatre

Regina Federation of Artists

Saskatchewan Publishers Group

Tonight It's Poetry

Accesscopyright

INKSLAB

Access Copyright

Artists in Canada

Arts Health Network Canada

Canadian Association for Theatre Research (CATR)

Canadian Dance Assembly

Canadian Federation of Musicians

Dancing Sky Theatre Rosthern

FACTOR

Holophon

Metal Arts Guild of Canada (MAG)

New Dance Horizons

Persephone Theatre

Playwrights Guild of Canada

PPOC - The Professional Photographers of Canada

Prairie Artists Guild

Prairie Sculptors' Association

Regina Lyric Musical Theatre

Saskatchewan Express

Saskatchewan Music Festival Association

Saskatoon Community Youth Arts Programming

Signal Hill Arts Centre

TRIBE Inc.

American Musicological Society

Anskohk Aboriginal Literature Festival

Artist Society

Artist-Run Centres and Collectives Conference of Canada Arts Without Borders Lloydminster

Assocation Canadian Federation of Music Teachers

Associated Dance Arts for Professional Teachers (ADAPT)

Associated Designers of Canada

Association Canadian Women Composers

Association des theatre francophones du canada (ATFC)

Association of Canadian Publishers

Association of Middle Eastern Dance

Audio Publishers Association (APA)

Blue Canvas

Blue Sky Cultural Connections

Books Saskatchewan

Bridge City Artists

Brushworks Art Guild

CAGE

Canada Arts Connect

Canadian Art Therapy Association

Canadian Artist Representation ARCA

Canadian Arts Coalition

Canadian Bookbinders Book Artists Guild Canadian Dance Teachers Association (CDTA)

Canadian League of Composers (CANADA)

Canadian Music Centre

Cantuar Art Group

CARCC

Caro

CBC broadcasting Centre des auteurs dramatiques (CEAD)

Collective Voice Common Ground

Creative non-fiction Collective Society

Crime Writers of Canada

CSC

Curtain Razors

Dance and the Child International

Dancer's Transition Resource Centre

Deviantart.com

Do It With Class Young People's Theatre

dorkbot

Drawing Academy

Editor's Association of Canada (EAC)

Embrace Theatre

Embroiderers Association of Canada

Emerging Cultural Leadership Program

Experimental Intermedia (NYC)

Fada Dance Company

Fair Sheik Bellydancers

Feed the Artist

Fibre Arts Network

Fifth Parallel Gallery

Flatlands Artists studios

Folk Music Canada

Ganoksin

Global Alliance for Arts & Health

GMA Canada

Golden Apple Theatre

Grapic Designers Association of Canada

Guild of American Luthiers

Hadar's Clay Support Forum

Heart of the City Piano Program

IAIA Alumni

Image West Photography Assoc.

IMMA

Indian & Inuit Artists INAC

International Association for Scenographers

International Association of Crime Writers

International Federation for Theatre Research

International Women's Brass Conference (USA)

IPAC

Kappaco Films

Karma films

Knox-Metropolitan United Church

La Ronge Arts Council Leipzig International Fasch Society

Literary Press Group of Canada

Lloydminster Community of Artists

Lloydminster Jewelry Guild

Mispon

Moose Jaw Cultural Centre

Multimedia.com

Musicians' Association International

NAEA

National Association of Teachers of Singing

National Saxophone Alliance

NATS Neil Balkwell Art Gallery of Regina

Ness Creek Neue Bach-Gesellschaft (New Bach Society)

Neutral Ground

Northern Horizons Journey of Creativity (artisan tour)

Northern Lights Bluegrass

Old Time Music Association

PEN Canada

Performance Studies International

Prairie River Art Guild

Professional Association of Canadian Theatres

Professional Writers' Association of Canada

Professional Writers Association of Canada (PWAC) Saskatchewan Chapter

RAMED

Regina & Area Potters Guild

Regina Classical Guitar Society

regina folk festival

Regina Fringe Festival

Regina Music Festival

Regina Photo Club

Regina Summer Stage

Rosebud Burlesque Academy

Rosetown Arts Council

Rosetown Writers Group

Royal Academy of Dance (RAD)

Royal Canadian College of Organists

Saatchi SAG

sask interactive

Saskatchewan Professional Art Galleries Association

Saskatchewan Band Association

Saskatchewan . Music Educators Association

Saskatchewan Aboriginal Writer's Circle Incorporated

Saskatchewan Archaeological Society

Saskatchewan Children's Writers' Round Robin

Saskatchewan Country Music Assoc.

Saskatchewan Drama Association

Saskatchewan Education Through Arts

Saskatchewan Federation of Artists

Saskatchewan Music Educators' Association

Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company

Saskatchewan Network for Arts Collecting

Saskatchewan wildlife art

Saskatoon Composers Performance Society

Saskatoon Jazz Society Saskatoon Klezmer Band

Saskatoon Opera Association

Saskatoon Potters Guild

Saskatoon Soaps Improv toupe

Saskatoon Storytellers Guild

Saskatoon Storytellers Guild

Saskatoon Summer Players

Saskatoon Writers' Coop

Saturday Morning Workshop

SAWCI (Anskohk)

SCES

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America

Sciences and the Arts (international)

Scott Nicholson Fine Art

SIMA

Six to eight Writers Inc

Society for Literature

Society of Layerists in Multimedia

Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG)

SOIL Media Arts & Technology

Songwriter's Association of Canada.

South Sask. Wood Turners Guild spirit of Manitou studio trail

SRC

Stall Gallery

Station Arts Centre

Storytellers of Canada Storytellers of Canada-Conteurs du Canada

Studio Tour committee

Summer School for the Solo Voice

Surface Design Association

Swift Current Little Theatre

Symphony Musicians Union

The Two Twenty The Word Guild

Theatre Alberta

Theatre Architects and Technicians

Trombone Association

TWL Arts and crafts

UArtsy USCAD

Visions Art Guild Visual Arts Alliance

Web Art Academy Writers Guild of Canada

Arts Health Network

Sask Dance

Art Gallery of Swift Current Saskatchewan Book Awards

SaskFilm

(SCBWI) Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators

330 design group

628 Inc.

Aboriginal Curatorial Collective

Academy of Magical Arts

Acrobatique

Adkins Chiti Foundation Donne in Musica (Women in Music) (Italy)

AGO

AGOR

Alberta Dance Educator's Association

Alliance of Canadian New Music Projects

Art Quest.



University of Saskatchewan Canada Council

SaskCulture

Mackenzie Art Gallery

Persephone Theatre

Banff Center none

SPC Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre

Globe Theatre

Emma Lake/Kenderdine Campus

OSAC Organization of Saskatchewan Art Councils

SIAST

CARFAC

Creative City Centre

Mendel Art Gallery

SCC Saskatchewan Craft Council

Sage Hill Writing Experience Saskatchewan Writers Guild

Art Gallery of Regina

PAVED Arts

RPL Regina Public Library SaskFilm

Art Gallery of Swift Current

Dancing Sky New Dance Horizons

CBC

Curtain Razors

Dunlop Art Gallery

Free Flow Dance

SAA Saskatchewan Arts Alliance

25th St Theatre (& Fringe)

Alberta College of Art and Design

Art Placement

Cathedral Village Arts Festival

City of Regina

Estevan Art Gallery & Museum

On the Boards

Access Copyright

AKA Art Gallery Coteau Books

Creative Saskatchewan

Festival of Words

Neil Balkwill Civic Arts Centre

Neutral Ground Gallery

Playwrights Guild of Canada

Regina Symphony Orchestra

Saskatoon Public library

Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan

Theatre Saskatchewan

Broadway Theatre

Concordia University

Dance Saskatchewan

First Nations University of Canada

Fort San Summer School of the Arts

La TRoupe du Jour de Saskatoon

Mann Art Gallery

McNally Robinson Book Sellers

N/A

National Film Board of Canada

Regina Little Theatre

Saskatchewan Book Awards

SaskTel

SNTC

SWG Thistledown Press

University

University of Alberta

Alberta Theatre Projects

Articulate Ink

artist-run centres.

CAEA Emily Carr Art College

FACTOR

galleries

Golden Apple Theatre

Grain Magazine

Grand Coteau Heritage and Cultural Centre

Grant MacEwan University (Edmonton)

Grasslands Gallery

Hagios Press IATSE (300 and 210)

Ideas Inc

International Brotherhood of Magicians

Le Conseil Culturel Fancsaskois

Live Five

Museums

National Arts Centre of Canada

Neutral Ground

Nouveau Gallery

Ontario Arts Council

Playwrights Canada (Press)

Professional theatre

Public Galleries

Red Deer College

Refinery

Regina Federation of Artists

Regina Folk Festival

Royal Academy of Dance

Royal Conservatory of Music

Ryerson University

Sask Filmpool

Sask Lotteries

Saskatchewan Express

Saskatchewan Music Festival Association

Saskatoon Fringe Festival

Saskatoon Writers' Coop

SaskMusic

Simon Fraser University

SOCAN

Sound and Silence Collective St. Peter's College

Station Arts Center

Sum Theatre

Talking Dog Studios

Telefilm Canada

Tonight It's Poetry

Traditions Handcraft Gallery

Void Gallery

Writers Union of Canada

writing groups

York University

SPAR artists listed the

organizations, groups,

and people as “most

important” to them…

within the arts and

beyond…

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Artists ranked networking & informal-connections as important.

We developed a new variable:

“network density”

Photo: City of Saskatoon

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Network Density

Greater Network Density correlates with a higher likelihood of having received a grant.

28.5% of artist respondents recently received a public grant for creative work.

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Network Density

Greater Network Density also correlates with:

• Higher incomes

• Residence in major cities (Regina and Saskatoon).

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Orgs to which Artists are connected

Education and networking

“It's clear that higher networking is correlated with higher levels of education but we can't determine what is affecting what…

Also worth mentioning, newly-graduated had the highest networking density.”

- Sam Hage, SPAR researcher

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Orgs to which Artists are connected

How can we foster even more complex networks?

Can we foster even more complex networks?

We asked:

• “Are there any resources that you consider to be necessary for the realization of your creative goals as an artist to which you do not currently have access?”

Answers often mentioned networking opportunities (or Infrastructure for connections): • Social as well as Physical

• Within the Arts

• Within the Wider Community

• Beyond the Province

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Infrastructure for connections

Artists identified the importance of virtual spaces:

• “Virtual space is important as is physical space.”

• “The world has grown smaller and is now on our very doorstep… We have to open up more, work together, and stop being so closed off. As artists and as a people.”

-SPAR Artist Respondents

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Infrastructure for connections

As well as the importance of physical spaces:

• “I see the internet as a great way to still find opportunities, but I have made the greatest leap forwards with my career when I have been able to collaborate and be inspired by local people doing the same thing as I am or that I aspire to do.”

-SPAR Artist Respondents

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How generative is the system?

SPAR respondents identified need for developing resources such as:

• Professional development opportunities

• Arts Infrastructure

• Human Resources training

• Organizational development

• Funding

• Critical discourse

• E-resources/information

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Manifesto! Workshop, Photo Jessica Riess, SAA

How well are we doing “new”?

How can we do it better?

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SPAR needed to study responses as well as who responded: • Connections to the partner org’s etc who helped us build out database

Under-represented among artist respondents: • Newcomers to province

• Young and Emerging artists

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SPAR Quiz Question!

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The SPAR Saskatchewan Artist Survey Quiz!

Question:

Approximately what percentage of Saskatchewan artist respondents were 55 or older?

a) 27% b) 37% c) 47% d) 57%

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Answer:

Approximately what percentage of Saskatchewan artist respondents were 55 or older?

a) 27%

b) 37%

c) 47% d) 57%

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Who Responded?

Of all artist respondents:

• 47% (N=162) were 55+

• 18% (N=62) were below 35.

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3.5%

14.8% 15.7%

19.4%

31.6%

12.8%

2.3%

18-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65-74 75 or over

What is your age? (n=345) SPAR Artist Survey, 2014


“There is a severe lack of opportunities for emerging and mid career artists and makers to get together in collaborative settings. The transfer of knowledge, ideas and learning is immense in those settings. Increased opportunities for collaboration and learning may also encourage young artists to see potential for careers in the arts.”


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Are newcomers included? • They are under/not represented in survey

responses

Ancestry, SPAR artists:

• Canadian 81.2% • British 6.3% • German 4.6% • French 4.3%

76% of Saskatchewan’s total population of European ancestry (2011, NHS)

Birth Country, SPAR artists:

• Canada 93.6%

• United States 2.7%

• United Kingdom 2.4%

92% of Saskatchewan’s total population born in Canada (2011, NHS)

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How well are we doing “new”? “The arts community in

Saskatchewan is very much a word-of-mouth, networking community.

It is very hard for newcomers to Saskatchewan to break into the arts community successfully without a strong network in place.”


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Artist: Jinzhe Cui Interpretation of 19th St. Public Art, Saskatoon


Focus groups & interviews indicate (so far) that newcomers and young and/or emerging artists might face challenges connecting with existing structures, organizations, and groups.

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How can we foster a more robust system?


• How can the arts become more accessible and equitable as well as more representative of the diversity of the provincial population?

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“Are you an Aboriginal person? (First Nations, North American Indian, Métis or Inuit)”

• 9% of SPAR Artist Respondents • Regina 2% • Saskatoon 4% • Other 3%

• 3.8% of SPAR Public Survey Respondents

Saskatchewan population of Aboriginal identity = 16%

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SPAR’s interviews and consultations reveal

Arts Ed as core curriculum

is not generally available on reserve schools.

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• Important to note apparent gaps among our respondents, e.g.: • Newcomer artists

• Artists from non-European or Indigenous backgrounds

• Specifically, Indigenous artists outside of major cities

• We are already working to involve such individuals and groups: • Focus Groups

• Interviews

• Case Studies

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Income from Creative Work

96.8% (n=334) of respondents reported income from creative work

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SPAR Quiz Question!

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Question:

What was an average Saskatchewan artist’s earnings

from their creative work? a.$15,000

b.$30,000

c.$45,000

d.$60,000

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Answer:


from their creative work?

a.$15,000 b. $30,000

c. $45,000

d. $60,000

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“Averages” are a blunt measure, however…

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Income from All Sources

55.3% (n=188) of respondents derived income from employment outside the arts and culture

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Question:


from all sources? a.$24,000

b.$44,000

c.$64,000

d.$84,000

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Answer:


from all sources? a.$24,000

b.$44,000 c. $64,000

d.$84,000

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Artist Work Week

Artists were clear: work times vary widely from week to week

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Question:

SPAR calculated the average Saskatchewan artist’s workweek as totalling how many hours? (This includes creative practice, teaching/mentoring, and other employment.)

a) 58.5 hours/wk.

b) 48.5 hours/wk.

c) 38.5 hours/wk.

d) 28.5 hours/wk.

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Answer:

SPAR calculated the average Saskatchewan artist’s workweek as totalling how many hours? (This includes creative practice, teaching/mentoring, and other employment.)

a) 58.5 hours/wk.

b) 48.5 hours/wk. c) 38.5 hours/wk.

d) 28.5 hours/wk.

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7.3%

14.1%

21.7% 22.0%

12.3%

22.6%

less than 5 5-9 10-19 20-29 30-39 40 or over

Hours devoted to creative practice, per week (N=341)


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37.5%

9.7%

5.0%

8.8% 10.6%

14.5% 13.9%

nototherwiseemployed

less than 5 5-9 10-19 20-29 30-39 40 or over

Hours devoted to work outside of creative practice, per week (N=339)

24.2%

51.6%

11.2% 8.3%

2.7% 2.1%

none 0-9 10-19 20-29 30-39 40 or over

Hours devoted to teaching and/or mentorship, per week (N=341)


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Time devoted to…

Creative Practice 24½ hrs/wk

Work Outside Creative Practice 16 hrs/wk

Teaching/Mentorship in Creative Discipline 8 hrs/wk

Total 48½ hrs/wk

Overall, we calculated an “average” respondent work week of 48.5 hrs

What Other Work Do Artists Do?

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The Important Connection between the Arts and Education

In our survey responses, there were many references to the importance of the arts and education.

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Question:

What percentage of artists reported holding a Bachelor’s degree or higher level of education?

a.42%

b.52%

c.62%

d.72%

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Answer:

What percentage of artists reported holding a Bachelor’s degree or higher level of education?

a. 42%

b. 52%

c. 62%

d.72%

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SPAR Artists = 72% held a B.A. or higher

Other Education Numbers

Holding an undergraduate degree or higher:

• 84% of Waging Culture respondents (2008 survey of Canadian visual artists)

• 44% of Canadian artists (Kelly Hill, with NHS data)

• 15% of the Saskatchewan population, 15 & older (StatsCan, NHS data)

• 21% of the Canadian population (StatsCan, NHS data)

Artists’ Connections with Education

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Artists’ Highest Level of Education (n=344) Percent

Graduate/Professional Degree (e.g., PhD, MA MFA, MD, DVM...) 33.4

Undergraduate University Degree 38.4

College, Technical or Trade School Diploma, Certificate... 15.1

Current or Otherwise Incomplete Undergraduate Studies at... 7.6

High School Diploma 4.9

Less than a High School Diploma 0.6

Total (n=344) 100

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Artists’ Concerns regarding Education

“… loss of arts funding – cuts to education which result in loss of arts programming in school and universities, which in turn has sent students to other provinces for arts education in all fields of the Fine Arts. As a result […] the loss of dozens of established professional artists to provinces and cities across Canada.”

• SPAR Artist Respondent

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“Funding cuts to the University of Saskatchewan and the closing of the Emma Lake Kenderdine Campus has very negatively affected my creative practice.”


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“Funding has been cut, university programs in the arts being cut or disappearing not growing.”


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Evidence Supporting Artists’ Concerns

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Fine Arts and Arts Education Resources at Saskatchewan Universities, 1995-2015

A report prepared for the Saskatchewan Arts Alliance (report available here)

by Paul Gingrich

[email protected]

http://www.artsalliance.sk.ca/resources-and-tools/studies-and-facts/2015/1614

Evidence to support concerns

• Identified concerns • Decline in fine arts undergraduate enrolments • Shift of University budgets away from fine arts

• (Gingrich 2015)

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“Innovative and high quality arts education programs have a direct impact on students’ ability to learn, and to be creative.

Individuals who are successful innovators have higher than normal exposure to the arts.”

• C. Brooke Dobni, in Achieving Growth through Innovation: The Role of Arts Education in Supporting Economic Sustainability, Saskatchewan Arts Alliance 2014.

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• “The students in school today are the 21st century learners we’ve talked about for so long, and it behooves us to ensure that they acquire – through studies in the STEM subjects and the arts, through curriculum and partnerships with the professional arts community – the skills and abilities that will make them the future innovators of Saskatchewan”

• Dianne Warren, Future Innovators: Developing Creativity Through K-12 Arts Education in Saskatchewan Schools, Saskatchewan Arts Alliance 2016.

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SPAR Future Planning

Community Consultations on the place of the arts and artists in the community

How About Here?

Can you give me names?

• Artists

• Arts Educators

• Cultural Professionals

• Arts & Cultural Orgs/Businesses

• Key Community/Regional leaders

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PPAR: Expanding SPAR’s

work and mandate to the Prairie Region

Prairie Region

Expanded mandate & regional focus could

benefit arts ecosystems in

AB, SK, MB.

Ecological approach for other provinces/regions, &

even templates for new federal research.

Federal Partners recognize SPAR’s success

attaining local data

Canada Council for the Arts and

Canadian Heritage

PPAR Partner Orgs Alberta Saskatchewan Manitoba Federal • Alberta Foundation for

the Arts • Alberta Partners for Arts

and Culture • Arts Council Wood

Buffalo • Banff Centre for Arts and

Creativity • Calgary Arts

Development Authority • Edmonton Arts Council

Society • University of Alberta

• Association of Creative Industries of Saskatchewan

• City of Regina • City of Saskatoon • Creative Saskatchewan • Heritage Saskatchewan

Alliance Inc. • Saskatchewan Arts

Alliance • Saskatchewan Arts

Board • SaskCulture Inc. • University of

Saskatchewan • University of Regina

• Arts and Cultural Industries Association of Manitoba. Inc

• Manitoba Arts Council • Manitobans for the Arts • University of Manitoba • Winnipeg Arts Council

Inc. • Winnipeg Symphony

Orchestra

• Canada Council for the Arts

• Canadian Heritage

International •ArtsQuest University of

the Arts London •MyCake ltd •World Cities Culture

Forum

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Thank You Contact Us: Website: www2.uregina.ca/spar/

SPAR Office: 446 Administration Humanities Bldg University or Regina

Email: [email protected]

Telephone: (306) 337-3165

Fax: 306-585-5530

Mailing Address: c/o Department of Theatre University of Regina Regina, SK S4S 0A2

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