For Kids
With SAGA support, Oberst and his team will film, edit, and promote three pilot episodes to facilitate community building and civic-minded engagement in the Inland Northwest.
Cultural
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.
2021 was SAGA’s fifth year serving the Spokane region. At the end of its fifth year, SAGA has funded 129 proposals providing a total of more than one half-million 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.
Native/Alaska Native
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Donell Barlow
Creature Teacher Yoga, will provide a cultural resource with mindful movement to the Native population in Spokane.
Visual
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Neil Martin
The artist’s first solo exhibition at Object Space gallery in Spokane, 2021.
Visual
Grantee
Spokane Print and Publishing Center (SPPC)
With SAGA support, SPPC will be able to purchase the equipment needed to carry out the in-house publishing of their annual work compendium, and pursue gatherings and classes as appropriate.
Visual
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Hannah Charlton
SAGA is excited to support Hannah Charlton in her research, documentation and display for The Forgotten Book of Women. Her project will begin with seven 9” x 12” pieces in gouache and gold on vegan parchment.
Arts Therapy
Grantee
ClayFox Pottery
SAGA will be supporting Jill Smith’s project, which helps our region’s women veterans to heal and connect through working with clay.
Film
Grantee
Spokane Film Project
Based on a survey of need in Spokane’s digital content community, SFP has put together a series of educational panels and workshops.
Music
Grantee
Imagine Jazz
Live-stream concerts and new compositional works by local musicians, and a video educational program for local students and schools.
New Media
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Black Lens News
Black Lens News will create a 24-page, full-color insert will be filled with the photographs of 20 African Americans, who are currently living in Spokane.
Music
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Northwest BachFest
SAGA will support Northwest BachFest in producing and distributing musical “Postcards from Spokane.”
For Kids
Grantee
Spark Central
SAGA is providing support for Spark Central’s “West Central Publishing Union” (WCPU) in order to continue their mission of decreasing the artistic opportunity gap even as their mode of delivery changes.