Tony Eetak

Tony Eetak is an emerging artist, musician and culture connector from Arviat, Nunavut, now exploring the arts in Winnipeg, Manitoba. A founding member of the Art Borups Corners, Tony has a demonstrated passion for photography, music, composition, and visual arts. With over five years of experience as a dedicated volunteer, collaborator and co-funder of several arts projects, Tony has been involved in various participatory arts events through organizations like the Arviat Film Society, Global Dignity Canada, Inclusion in Northern Research, and Our People, Our Climate. His contributions earned him recognition as a National Role Model by Global Dignity Canada in 2023. His work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Manitoba Arts Council and the OpenAI Researcher Access Program.

Bridges: The Forks Beneath the rusted lattice of the old rail bridges near the Forks, time bends—steel bones whispering histories into the wind, footsteps echoing between memory and motion. The river moves slow and thick below, like thought unspoken, while overhead the iron arches cradle sky and silence.

Beneath the rusted lattice of the old rail bridges near the Forks, time bends—steel bones whispering histories into the wind, footsteps echoing between memory and motion. The river moves slow and thick below, like thought unspoken, while overhead the iron arches cradle sky and silence.

Bridges: The Forks

Tony Eetak April 7, 2025

There’s something sacred about walking through The Forks in Winnipeg, especially when winter hasn’t quite let go....

Where the Sky Fell Sideways The sky folded under the weight of something forgotten. The buildings stay still not because they want to, but because they’ve been asked to remember a world that no longer runs upright. What if time shifted its axis, and only snow noticed?

The sky folded under the weight of something forgotten. The buildings stay still not because they want to, but because they’ve been asked to remember a world that no longer runs upright. What if time shifted its axis, and only snow noticed?

Where the Sky Fell Sideways

Tony Eetak April 4, 2025

The sun didn’t rise. It drifted. Everything else followed—snow, buildings, memory. Now we live sideways.

Above the Silence The sky above the Arctic doesn’t shout. It murmurs. These clouds are not weather — they are memory in motion, frost turned to breath, breath returned to sky. Look too long and you forget where you end and the sky begins. Up here, nothing is separate. Everything floats.

The sky above the Arctic doesn’t shout. It murmurs. These clouds are not weather — they are memory in motion, frost turned to breath, breath returned to sky. Look too long and you forget where you end and the sky begins. Up here, nothing is separate. Everything floats.

Above the Silence

Tony Eetak April 2, 2025

The sky above the Arctic is never empty — it is layered, textured, alive. In this photograph,...

Conversations in a House of Ketchup

Belonging tastes like a memory you never made, folded into bread and handed to you warm. It sits beside you, unspoken, like steam rising from a chipped mug. Between bites, there’s a silence that doesn’t ache—only nods. Food doesn’t ask. It remembers. It cradles your absence until you return. The salt on your lip might be from a tear or a fry; it doesn’t matter. The plate listens. The spoon forgets your name but knows your hunger. In the clatter and hush of diners, in the half-light of closing time, there is a choir of ghosts singing lullabies in sauce. You do not need to be known. You only need to chew.

Conversations in a House of Ketchup

Tony Eetak March 31, 2025

The real galleries aren’t lit by halogen or sponsored by institutions; they emerge in the in-between: cafés...

Soft Serve Frequencies

A scoop becomes a witness. The swirl is not dessert—it is doctrine, layered with pixel-static and the soft surrender of vanilla in fluorescence. Forty-six thousand five hundred fourteen eyes have seen it, but none tasted the same myth twice. The cone, pinned to the wall like a saint. Cold sugar, eternal return. A bite taken in Elmwood ripples into the archive of glances, archived now in memory, now in metadata. Art lives here—not in frames, but in freezers, in marker-signed mandates, in the quiet sermon of soft-serve melting into ritual.

Soft Serve Frequencies

Tony Eetak March 26, 2025

The cold hum spills sideways across time, tasting like the absence of plans. A cone dissolves before...

Manitoba Rhubarb and Berry Galette For this week's AI Food Prompt Art series image and recipe, we present a tangy-sweet Manitoba rhubarb and berry galette, perfect for summer gatherings.

Manitoba Rhubarb and Berry Galette

Tony Eetak March 23, 2025

For this week's AI Food Prompt Art series image and recipe, we present a tangy-sweet Manitoba rhubarb...

Wild Manitoba Strawberry and Venison Tart For this week's AI Food Prompt series image and recipe we present a refined tart filled with wild venison and fresh Manitoba strawberries. Topped with birch syrup, it’s a perfect blend of sweet and savory. Try it today!

For this week's AI Food Prompt series image and recipe we present a refined tart filled with wild venison and fresh Manitoba strawberries. Topped with birch syrup, it’s a perfect blend of sweet and savory. Try it today!

Wild Manitoba Strawberry and Venison Tart

Tony Eetak March 21, 2025

This week’s AI Food Prompt Fridays image and recipe showcases a decadent wild Manitoba strawberry and venison...

Art Lives in the Silence Between Bites

This is where the practice breathes — not in the studio or the pitch deck, but in the exhale afterward. In the quiet after you’ve given so much. In the ordinary, where art doesn’t have to prove itself. You are not your deadline here. You are not your critique. You’re just someone with tired hands and an appetite for something simple, something real, something served with a smile and a "thanks for coming in tonight."

Art Lives in the Silence Between Bites

Tony Eetak March 20, 2025

In the still life of a Winnipeg diner table, time rests between granules. Sugar, salt, and ketchup...

Where Trains Rumble, Walls Talk "If you fall, get up." We found this under the railway bridge near Higgins and Main.

Where Trains Rumble, Walls Talk

Tony Eetak March 20, 2025

It’s easy to miss if you’re just driving by, but under the railway bridge near Higgins and...

Youth Leadership Pipelines: Arts as a Catalyst for Future Recreation Leaders Who will lead community recreation tomorrow? This article highlights the power of arts as a catalyst for developing youth leadership, ensuring a vibrant and dynamic recreation sector for years to come.