Emma Benoit, Alara Chester, Savanna Blackwell, Mary French, Lejo Liimatainen, Avery Neumiller, Julianna Phillips, Gracyn Torgerson, Marlo Turk and Ella Zentner are artists who are based in Saskatoon and connected through the USask Senior Drawing course. This pop-up exhibition is curated by Cameron Forbes

Synthetic Meridian is an interactive cybernetic installation that positions the participant at a speculative threshold between the present and possible futures. Through a deceptively simple interface, the terminal invites individual reflection on how our individual choices participate in the ongoing construction of what comes next. By transforming the act of choosing into a physical encounter, the installation asks us to consider the future not as a distant destination, but as something continuously produced through our own actions in the present.

Help us light up 2nd Avenue! The YXE Art Collective and Nuit Blanche Saskatoon are joining forces to transform the the street into a glowing, collaborative canvas with UV-reactive chalk paint and black lights.

Watch artists create throughout the evening, then grab some chalk and join in. The public is encouraged to add their own mark!

The Nuit Blanche Community Dance Stage is a celebration of local dance groups right in the heart of the NBYXE festival footprint. With performances scheduled throughout the night, you are encouraged to visit the Community Dance Stage and foster a social connection through collaboration and cultural expression.

Worldcrust is presented by the Sculpture Area in the School for the Arts at the University of Saskatchewan, organized by artist and professor Ella Dawn McGeough and featuring fourth-year sculpture student Amanda May. Together, the project reflects an approach to sculpture grounded in experimentation, material curiosity, reuse, and collective making.

As a third-year university art student, my practice is inspired by the natural world and the beauty found within it. I create artwork that explores nature through my own perspective, drawing inspiration from organic forms, landscapes, plants, and the environments around me. Through my work, I aim to capture the atmosphere and visual qualities of nature while expressing my personal connection to the world around me. As I continue to develop my artistic practice, I explore different materials and techniques to better communicate these ideas and experiences.

Family Flowers is an interactive experience that viewers can participate in by moving the flowers from the canvases into the vase (tap and hold on the flowers and slide your finger on the phone screen to move them). Each one of these flowers is a favorite that my grandparents and mom had, adding a personal layer of meaning but one that remains ambiguous for the viewers who simply see flowers. As the viewer places the 2D flowers into the 3D vase, they merge my personal memories with a shared experience that sits between real and virtual worlds.

Nora Nguyen is a Vietnamese girl who is passionate about spreading Vietnamese culture through art. She believes that every country has its own unique history and cultural background, and that no country is superior to another.

Bárbara González is an architect and urban designer from Guadalajara, Mexico, currently based in Saskatoon, Canada.

Her work explores grief, identity, and the understanding of her body and her life as fragile, creating spaces of transition where intimate experiences are brought to light, inviting audiences to experience what words are unable to contain.

Vinh Pham recently graduated with a B.Sc. in Applied Computing and enjoys combining technology with playful, imaginative art. Using Hoverlay, Vinh creates AR spaces that explore identity, freedom, healing, and joy through scrapbook textures, watercolor mist, and low-poly objects, while reflecting a curious, silly, and creative personality.

The Digital & Integrated Practice (DIP) area in the School for the Arts at the University of Saskatchewan includes undergraduate and graduate classes in animation (both traditional and digital), video art, sound art, and integrated media which includes 4D, inter/transdisciplinary, mixed media and other non-traditional art forms (performance art, installation, augmented reality, community-engaged practice, as well as others). The area chair is Lisa Birke, Associate Professor of Digital and Extended Media and practicing artist working in the collision of video, performance art, and expanded media practice.

Julie Larson and Anna Setyo are Saskatchewan artists who collaborate to create immersive, interactive giant gardens that invite children and adults alike to play, explore, and contribute. Inspired by nature, growth, and storytelling, they combine Anna's large-scale paper floral installations with Julie's background in interactive design, realism painting, murals, and studio art. Together, they create whimsical environments that encourage visitors to step beyond everyday life, embrace child-like wonder, and discover that imagination can transform both spaces and perspectives.

ZHE the FREE is a multi-disciplinary artist, community builder and explosive performer. Growing up on Treaty 7 Land, she extends her fire from mountains to prairies. Fun, uplifting and powerful. ZHE delivers poetic hip hop and ignites the crowd from the moment she touches the microphone. She creates a celebratory vibe through storytelling, intentional lyricism, freestyle skills and energizing beats. As a hip hop artist, and National Music Centre 1st place winner in the 50th Anniversary of Hip Hop track competition, ZHE brings the strength of the feminine alive and loves inspiring others about the power of their voice. Hip hop saved her life, and she aims to inspire others to use creativity as a positive outlet.

Eli Hartman is a multidisciplinary performing artist that has been producing theatre and interactive performance art in the prairies for 13 years. Having been leadership for the FLoYD Festival, Chaos Encouraged Productions, the Green Beans Drag show, and performing as drag king Queer'd Al, they love pushing the audience's envelope. Their style is based in experimental exploration of connection and interactive displays that aim to change the audience's perspective on what counts as "art".

Peace Akintade-Oluwagbeye, Saskatchewan 11th Poet Laureate, is an African-Canadian Interdisciplinary Poet, Workshop Facilitator, Chorus-Poem Playwright residing in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Organically from Yorubaland Nigeria, Peace explores the intersectionality of the artist community from an explorer's perspective, dipping her honey-stained fingers into poetry, playwriting, intimacy direction, textile creation, and performance art. Her work knits together folklore, abstract riddles, and Òwé Yorùbá elements of poetry to create a collective one-self. Author of Earth Skin, Equanimity in Sonder, Equanimity in Conversation and The Taste of Sonder. Her newest manuscript, “The Goat’s Tongue,” won the Metatron International Poetry Prize and will be released September 2026.

The LUPE Collective (Theron & Sierra) are excited to bring the first iteration of their audiovisual instrument to Nuit Blanche.

The Cosmic Groove Chefs are a group of humans with interests in original music, light programming, laser art, and video production/editing. They use all sorts of devices to present flavours visually. They are definitely local to Saskatoon, and they are certainly not from outer space. They are normal humans with names like Dylan Evans and J.J. Neufeld.

The Saskatoon Glassworkers’ Guild is a member-funded, registered non-profit organization dedicated to glass art. From across Saskatchewan, our members’ expertise spans all levels - from novice to internationally recognized. The guild supports a wide variety of glass art forms including stained glass, mosaic, painting, fusing, glassblowing, lampworking and many more.

E. M. Alysse Bowd holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the AUArts in Calgary, and an Master in Fine Arts from NSCAD University in Halifax. Her creative practice navigates object-making, drawing and live art with a thematic focus on female perfectionism, self-care and motherhood mythologies. Her work finds the beauty and complexity held in the contradictions of being human. Through her work, she often seeks a balance between wildness and domesticity, playfulness and repose, while glimpsing the absurdity within the everyday.