Achieving Growth through Innovation: The Role of Arts Education in Supporting Economic Sustainability

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The SAA and its PreK-12 arts literacy research sub-committee commissioned innovation expert C. Brooke Dobni to write a position paper exploring the relationship between arts education and innovation.

A Rope of Sand: Change in Saskatchewan`s Creative Economy

Did working toward developing an agency like Creative Saskatchewan alleviate the worry and fear in the arts and cultural sector? It didn`t.  Jillian Bell is a writer and editor who lives in the Qu’Appelle Valley. She was part of the…

Speak Up: A Call to Action

Talk to your MLA on the Importance of the Arts

News: Canada Council Annual Public Meeting

January 21, 2015 On January 20, the Canada Council for the Arts held its Annual Public Meeting. Director and CEO, Simon Brault spoke about how investing public money in the arts must be for all the public, that public funding must be…

Press Release

Federal Budget Analysis Provides Thorough Overview of Year 2014

A Pointed Shoe: The Challenges of Securing Arts Funding in Northern Saskatchewan

As an independent artist, and on behalf of both groups, I have applied for numerous arts grants.  Some have been successful, and many have not.  I don’t give up easily.    I carefully place an elegant shoe next to the laptop and…

SAA News Release

October 1, 2014

Turning Mistakes Into Gold

Turning Mistakes Into GoldMarsha DeLouchery-Day works in Saskatoon as an artist and visual art reviewer for the StarPhoenix newspaper.The vacated premises at the Emma Lake Kenderdine Campus are a sorry sight of downed power lines, damp boarded-up…

Emma Lake Kenderdine Campus

The Kenderdine Campus -  September 2014Marcus Miller - Op/Ed EditorOn November 15, 2012, the University of Saskatchewan announced the suspension of all activities at the Emma Lake Kenderdine Campus for a three-year period as it embarked on…

Interim President and Vice-Chancellor, U of S Comments on the Kenderdine Campus

Gordon Barnhart, C.M., S.O.M., Ph.D. - Interim President and Vice-Chancellor, University of SaskatchewanThe Emma Lake Kenderdine Campus has been, since its opening in 1936, a symbol of the University of Saskatchewan’s, and the province’s,…