Spokane Youth Symphony will be able to provide the required private lessons for students from disadvantaged households.
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 had 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.
Spokane Valley Summer Theatre
As a professional theatre, SVST produces three large mainstage musicals each summer at the Central Valley Performing Arts Center.
Get Lit! Programs
This year’s festival will be held from April 12-18 and Get Lit! is working hard to present a wide range of experiences for their audiences.
Chelsea Martin
SAGA is pleased to help support the creation of Chelsea Martin’s next novel, “Art School.”
Madeline McNeill and Maura Garcia
A multimedia project of the true story of the two artists meeting in Spokane in 2020.
Stage Left Theater
In 2020’s pandemic climate, Stage Left Theatre continues to seek new ways to create art as they shift to creating content while adhering to safety protocols and mandates.
Neato Burrito
Neato Burrito is receiving SAGA funding to support a live-streaming service for local and regional talent.
YWCA Spokane
YWCA will equip survivors of Domestic Violence with the technology and support they need to capture their stories.
Community-Minded Television
With operational support from the Spokane Arts Grant Awards, CMTV will continue to represent underserved populations.
Skyler Oberst
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.
Donell Barlow
Creature Teacher Yoga, will provide a cultural resource with mindful movement to the Native population in Spokane.