Arts Incubator and Land Lab News

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...

Create a Simple WordPress Contact Form Plugin With AI and Vibe Coding. For Free! Say goodbye to expensive WordPress contact form plugins. Embrace AI tools and vibe coding to create dynamic, simple contact forms effortlessly and for free!

Say goodbye to expensive WordPress contact form plugins. Embrace AI tools and vibe coding to create dynamic, simple contact forms effortlessly and for free!

Create a Simple WordPress Contact Form Plugin With AI and Vibe Coding. For Free!

Jamie Bell March 30, 2025

Create Free WordPress Plug-Ins with AI Tools and Vibe Coding These days having a contact form is...

Qaumajuq: The Power of Stories

Winnipeg shimmered in June heat—sunlight pooling on concrete, stories blooming louder than the traffic hum. We gathered there not just to share, but to listen, to witness what happens when distance collapses into presence. Every hallway, every bench, every patch of shade outside Qaumajuq became a studio, a stage, a scene unfolding in real time. Canada Council for the Arts lit the spark—Digital Greenhouse breathing life into ideas too big for one voice, too complex for a single frame. Qaumajuq made it lit. Digital became tactile. We touched screens and stone, code and carving, discovering new ways of holding memory and dreaming forward. In this heat, even the data felt alive, growing wild through collaboration, rooted in love, land, and long-held knowing. Laughter echoed off glass and stone, caught in air vents and elevator doors. We stitched together movement, memory, and light—pixels humming with intention, hands working with purpose. Nothing stood still. Even the quiet moments were loud with meaning. We didn’t just make art—we made atmosphere, made kin, made future.

Qaumajuq: The Power of Stories

Jamie Bell March 30, 2025

Workshops at the Winnipeg Art Gallery 410,790 views—and each one carries a whisper of that moment. A...

Rewind, Fast-Forward, Reframe

Jamie Bell March 29, 2025

Uncover how strategic flashbacks and flash-forwards deepen intrigue, reveal character, and reshape time in powerful stories.

Sustaining the Vision: Funding, Collaboration, and the Future of Arts-Based Recreation The Future is Creative: A vibrant future for our communities requires a sustained commitment to the arts. Explore innovative funding models and collaborative approaches that will secure the vision of arts-based community rejuvenation for generations to come.

The Future is Creative: A vibrant future for our communities requires a sustained commitment to the arts. Explore innovative funding models and collaborative approaches that will secure the vision of arts-based community rejuvenation for generations to come.

Sustaining the Vision: Funding, Collaboration, and the Future of Arts-Based Recreation

Jamie Bell March 28, 2025

Short-term projects can spark change, but lasting impact requires careful planning and sustained resources. Discover the strategies...

Crispy Manitoba Trout with Charred Corn and Wild Greens For this week's AI Food Prompt series, Manitoba’s bounty shines with a beautifully crisp trout fillet, served with smoky charred corn and a touch of wild mustard. A perfect harmony of flavors!

For this week's AI Food Prompt series, Manitoba’s bounty shines with a beautifully crisp trout fillet, served with smoky charred corn and a touch of wild mustard. A perfect harmony of flavors!

Crispy Manitoba Trout with Charred Corn and Wild Greens

Jamie Bell March 28, 2025

This week's AI Food Prompt Fridays image and recipe is a flavourful Manitoba trout dish, served with...

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...

Northern Art: Revolutionizing Preservation and Creation with LiDAR, 3D Photogrammetry, and Virtual Spaces This 3D photogrammetry scan of Qaumajuq, the Inuit art centre at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, brings the intricate design and cultural significance of the space to virtual life.

This 3D photogrammetry scan of Qaumajuq, the Inuit art centre at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, brings the intricate design and cultural significance of the space to virtual life.

Northern Art: Revolutionizing Preservation and Creation with LiDAR, 3D Photogrammetry, and Virtual Spaces

Jamie Bell March 25, 2025

Imagine walking through a museum, but instead of navigating crowded hallways or worrying about the next tour...

The Future of Self-Managed Arts: Lessons & Next Steps This week’s article explores the growing trend of self-managed arts spaces, highlighting best practices, challenges, and visions for a sustainable, non-hierarchical arts ecosystem. The future of artist-run initiatives is collaborative, resourceful, and empowering. Read on for lessons from successful collective-driven projects.

This week’s article explores the growing trend of self-managed arts spaces, highlighting best practices, challenges, and visions for a sustainable, non-hierarchical arts ecosystem. The future of artist-run initiatives is collaborative, resourceful, and empowering. Read on for lessons from successful collective-driven projects.

The Future of Self-Managed Arts: Lessons & Next Steps

Digital Salvage March 25, 2025

The future of self-managed arts involves shifting to non-hierarchical structures, overcoming challenges, and building sustainable, inclusive creative...

Expanding Community Reach Connecting small and northern community programs to broader regional and national networks enhances their visibility and fosters collaborative opportunities for growth.