Aka artist run centre

09/10/2026

Sikwan AGM postponed: Tuesday October 13, 2026 5:15 to 5:45pm via zoom

We have decided to postpone our AGM due to our website being intermittently disabled. Unfortunately our domain transfer was done improperly and has resulted in ongoing fixes with Squarespace. We want to ensure that all community members can be in attendance, and that anyone who wishes to purchase a membership can do so. If you wish to renew your membership and continue to experience issues with the website please send us an email or dm and we will note your name down and contact you when our stripe link is working. All members will be sent a personal invitation 15 days prior.

An Agenda, Year in Review, and Financial Statements will be available to members in advance, and during the meeting.

We welcome your ideas, investment, and feedback. The purpose of the AGM is to ensure our financial statements are in order, appoint an auditor, and new board members. Open discussion can take place during Other Business. We also invite you to email, call, or drop by for discussion, members are also welcome to attend Collective meetings.

Link for the zoom meeting will be in our bio!

09/03/2026

Sikwan Annual General Meeting
Tuesday, September 15th, 2026, 5:30-6pm

The Sikwan Collective would like to invite all of our members to our Annual General Meeting on Tuesday, September 15th.

You can find the zoom link in our bio!

07/02/2026

sīkwan and Paved Arts will be hosting Canada Council for the Arts on Friday July 10th from 4 to 6pm. Come and meet Program Officers Marty Ballentyne and Michael
Peterson and learn how to create a grant and apply for funding for your art project, including:

Funding opportunities for all eligible artists in the Explore and Create program.

Funding opportunities specifically for First Nations, Inuit, and Metis artists in the Creating, Knowing and Sharing program.

Individual meetings are also available from 12 to 3pm by booking at https://bit.ly/saskatoon-cca

06/12/2026

Studio Apartment for Rent!

Welcome to the first phase of our arts focused residency and housing project in the heart of Caswell Hill. Together, Paved Arts and sīkwan are in the process of realizing the core values, neighbourhood and land-based responsibilities, and support systems to visiting and local artists in all disciplines in our residency house. The vision for the house will be co-authored with Elders and communities.

Starting July 1, 2026 the artist’s apartment is available for rent. The basement studio apartment is fully renovated, a 15-minute walk from downtown and Riversdale, includes utilities, and internet and comes with the option of a studio at sīkwan, together with a production membership with Paved Arts, and a membership with Makerspace.

This space is prioritized for artists and makers from all disciplines. Rent is 1219.10 monthly for a 12-month lease. Email [email protected] for an application.

See the full gallery on our website, link in bio

06/06/2026

Happy Pride Month from us to everyone this June!

We will have our exhibition open and open studios for the Riversdale Art walk in partnership with Saskatoon Pride on Saturday, June 27th at 12-5pm.

Art: Colouring, 1788 by Angelica Kauffman

05/27/2026

05/21/2026

Join us on Saturday May 30th at 1:30pm for conversations with the artists of nanâtohkokwâsowak | Bidakiigiwewog over tea and pastries. Crafting and making supplies will be provided, if you have a project you’re working on please feel free to bring it.

nanâtohkokwâsowak | Bidakiigiwewog brings together Anishinaabe, Cree, Métis, and Saulteux prairie artists using quilting as an exploration of relationship building, understanding familial relationships, building new friendships, and the impact of gifting.

Quilting is an action, one of bringing something together, each stitch holds more than the fabric it binds together.

In addition the AKA/PAVED Arts shared studios will be hosting Open Studios from 12pm to 1:30pm!

05/13/2026

The gallery will be closed this Friday and Saturday and will reopen on Thursday, May 21st.

Exhibit hours:
Thursdays, Fridays •  12 - 6pm
Saturdays         •  12 - 3pm

05/01/2026

Open Studios
Friday May 8, 5-7pm
Saturday May 30, 12-1:30pm

We are excited to announce a couple of upcoming open studio dates this spring along with introducing our current cohort of incredible artists!

Soheila Fallah
Colin Farnan
Rawda Mabrouk
Chikako Ogawa
Andie Palynchuk
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Stefanie Smith

During the open studios the public are welcome to walk through the studios and see all of the incredible work these are artists have been creating in the space for last few months!

04/10/2026

nanâtohkokwâsowak
They sew patchwork blankets
Bidakiigiwewog
They put needles into fabric

May 8 to June 26, 2026
May 8, 5 to 7pm exhibition opening
May 30, artists in conversation

KC Adams, Holly Aubichon, Kishey A., Wally Dion, Norma Houle and Sarah Houle, Niki Little, Bre Little
co-curated by Jen Smith and Tarin Dehod

Quilts preserve our family stories, are physical representations of collaborative making, learned techniques, and tangible representations of the labour of ancestral hands. So often the common narrative centres quilting as a settler tradition, but we know that sewing patchwork blankets was transformed into its own practice by many Indigenous cultures.

nanâtohkokwâsowak | Bidakiigiwewog brings together Anishinaabe, Cree, Métis, and Saulteux prairie artists using quilting as an exploration of relationship building, understanding familial relationships, building new friendships, and the impact of gifting.

Quilting is an action, one of bringing something together, each stitch holds more than the fabric it binds together.

Images:
Slide 1: Holly Aubichon
Slide 2: Sarah Houle, Norma Houle
Slide 3: Wally Dion