For Kids
A six track EP, educational workshops surrounding the release of the album, and a concert debuting the final product.
Music
Grantee
Grantees
Spokane Arts Grant Awards (SAGA) funds multiple programs and projects three times every year through a competitive application process. Grant winners carry out arts related activities in the Spokane area during the twelve months following their award date. Awards can be for any amount up to $10,000.
SAGA defines the term “arts” by observing our community’s creative activity. We live in a region populated by many cultures, talented in varied crafts and trades, and curious about learning and engaging in technique, expression, and artistic community. SAGA has funded blacksmithing and glassblowing, cultural art forms such as canoe making, performance, exhibition, education, therapy, and individual artistic development. We have also funded arts-based businesses and new collaborations.
SAGA stands on the principle that creatives should be paid for the work they do and we educate both the broader community and the artistic sector that creative work has value.
2023 was SAGA’s seventh year serving the Spokane region. At the end of its seventh year, SAGA had funded 171 proposals providing a total of more than $800,000 dollars to local artists, organizations, and businesses. Below we provide a complete list of each of our awardees since our first year of funding in 2017.
View just the most recent year’s winners here.
Cultural
Grantee
Friends of Mmofra
An outdoor exhibition reflecting the universality of play across place, culture and time.
For Kids
Grantee
Blue Door Theatre
Improv League is a year-long transformative program taught by local, professional improv faculty and offered for free to Spokane area high school students.
Native/Alaska Native
Grantee
Robert Charloe
The project will capture the rich narratives and expressive portraits of Kalispel tribal elders.
Fashion
Grantee
Heather Litnauwista Metrokin Cannon
Cannon will study the process of transforming fish skins into usable leather, and hold an educational event in 2024 for Alaska Natives in the Spokane area.
Arts Business
Grantee
HaveUHeard!?Live
You Oughta Know will feature five different panels on various aspects of the music and performing arts business Fall of 2023 / Spring 2024.
Cultural
Grantee
Spokane United We Stand
SAGA is providing support to compensate cultural artists in United We Stand’s International Arts and Foodfest (IAF) and provide materials and arts business education for IAF participants.
Visual
Grantee
Eastern Washington University Department of Design
EWU’s Design Department has been awarded a SAGA grant to pilot university-based risograph residencies. These residencies will help advance the practices of local and regional artists in collaboration with students and the Spokane community.
Stage
Grantee
Madeline McNeill
Bodies in Conversation will be presented at The Magic Lantern Theater as a multimedia event: a screening of a short art film, live music, and a new play.
Artists of Color
Grantee
The Shades of Motherhood Network
Seven days of events are held in the City of Spokane to raise awareness of and activism around the inequities and racism that Black mothers and other birthing people of color face.
Music
Grantee
GLOW Children Early Learning Center
The GLOW Children Early Learning Center is a non-profit childcare center established in 2019 to serve children infant through 12 years old. The mission of GLOW Children is to provide a safe and healthy early education program primarily for children whose parents attend Lumen High School. Their mission is also to address the important issues of poverty, trauma and equity particularly within vulnerable populations, such as teenaged parents.