177 Weeks
Top Viewed Images From 177 Weeks of our Arts Incubator.
Across the 177 weeks since launching our arts incubator program, these top photos, collectively saw more than 2,703,807 views across platforms. This gallery showcases the moments that most captured attention. From curated art spaces to Winnipeg diners and the fleeting, yet mundane beauty of everyday life, this collection reveals the unexpected connections forged between our captured perspectives and a vast, unseen audience drawn to these seemingly random slices of life. The results were surprising, with the most viewed photos being the least expected.
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Conversations in a House of Ketchup
The real galleries aren’t lit by halogen or sponsored by institutions; they emerge in the in-between: cafés at closing time, back booths where someone is sketching the same idea again, and again, waiting for it to say something new.
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Qaumajuq: The Power of Stories
Workshops at the Winnipeg Art Gallery 410,790 views—and each one carries a whisper of that moment. A gathering
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Soft Serve Frequencies
The cold hum spills sideways across time, tasting like the absence of plans. A cone dissolves before it’s named. Somewhere between ketchup packet and ceiling tile, the sacred forgets itself. A chair is a chair is a chair is a shrine. The fries pray quietly. Kindness echoes in fluorescent.
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Art Lives in the Silence Between Bites
In the still life of a Winnipeg diner table, time rests between granules. Sugar, salt, and ketchup — the elemental trinity of the everyday — stand as quiet sentinels of memory, taste, and gesture.
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Come Eat With Me: Food Security
Participatory Arts and Food Production in Manitoba 204,310. That’s the number of views as the algorithm watched us
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The Aesthetics of the Temporary
Here, against the rough texture of time-worn brick, rests an artifact excavated not from soil, but from the vibrant strata of Winnipeg’s Exchange District. Its medium defies traditional classification.
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Qaumajuq. The Winnipeg Art Gallery
This photo from the Winnipeg Art Gallery and Qaumajuq during ‘Auviqsaqtut,’ is still growing, now over 255,000 views. It wasn’t just a snapshot from a conference. It was a glimpse into a space that’s become a second home.
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Winnipeg: The Stillness of Cityplace
Echoes in the concrete veins. The artist’s path: a thread pulled through gritty streets, down worn walkways, swallowed by the humming underground. Seeking the pulse in the pavement, the narrative in the neglected.