Arts & Creative Leadership

Here, we cultivate arts and creative leadership through participatory, arts-based community initiatives. We offer news, features and stories on developing essential skills such as collaboration, innovative thinking, and effective communication, empowering artists and communities to lead with creativity and purpose. Through hands-on training, mentorship, and community engagement, we provide opportunities to build confidence, foster resilience, and drive social impact. Connecting artistic practices with leadership development, we prepare individuals to inspire change and strengthen their communities through the transformative power of the arts.

When the Old Economy Fades — Creative Work as a Way Through In Northwestern Ontario and beyond, the collapse of local arts collides with toxic influencer culture. This article reveals how grassroots creativity can restore community and resist the pressures of digital disintegration.

In Northwestern Ontario and beyond, the collapse of local arts collides with toxic influencer culture. This article reveals how grassroots creativity can restore community and resist the pressures of digital disintegration.

When the Old Economy Fades — Creative Work as a Way Through

Jamie Bell April 4, 2025

As arts groups decline and influencer culture grows, communities across Canada face disconnection. This piece explores how...

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...

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...

Creative Leadership & Entrepreneurship: Youth Driving Sustainable Arts & Community Futures Youth Driving Sustainable Futures: Lifelong learning culminates in creative leadership and entrepreneurship. See how youth innovation is shaping a vibrant and sustainable future for arts and communities.

Youth Driving Sustainable Futures: Lifelong learning culminates in creative leadership and entrepreneurship. See how youth innovation is shaping a vibrant and sustainable future for arts and communities.

Creative Leadership & Entrepreneurship: Youth Driving Sustainable Arts & Community Futures

Jamie Bell March 20, 2025

Youth Driving Sustainable Futures: Lifelong learning culminates in creative leadership and entrepreneurship. See how youth innovation...

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.

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.

Youth Leadership Pipelines: Arts as a Catalyst for Future Recreation Leaders

Tony Eetak March 20, 2025

The future of recreation depends on nurturing young leaders today. This article delves into how arts-based recreation...

Funding Without Hierarchy: Alternative Economic Models This week, we explore how alternative funding models like community-supported art and mutual aid are empowering independent artists. Moving beyond traditional grants, artists are finding new ways to sustain their work. Discover how decentralized financial support is changing the landscape of the Canadian arts scene.

This week, we explore how alternative funding models like community-supported art and mutual aid are empowering independent artists. Moving beyond traditional grants, artists are finding new ways to sustain their work. Discover how decentralized financial support is changing the landscape of the Canadian arts scene.

Funding Without Hierarchy: Alternative Economic Models

Jamie Bell March 18, 2025

Explore community-supported arts, mutual aid funding, and alternative economies reshaping decentralized funding models for independence.

Centering Indigenous Youth: Culturally Relevant Learning for Northern & Remote Communities Culture as Curriculum: Empowering Indigenous Youth: Understand the critical importance of culturally relevant learning for Indigenous youth in northern communities. Tradition and heritage are key to leadership.

Culture as Curriculum: Empowering Indigenous Youth: Understand the critical importance of culturally relevant learning for Indigenous youth in northern communities. Tradition and heritage are key to leadership.

Centering Indigenous Youth: Culturally Relevant Learning for Northern & Remote Communities

Jamie Bell March 13, 2025

Culture as Curriculum: Empowering Indigenous Youth: Understand the critical importance of culturally relevant learning for Indigenous youth...

Inclusion & Innovation: Arts Addressing Systemic Barriers in Recreation Leading the Way: The future of recreation depends on nurturing young leaders today. This article looks into how arts-based recreation programs are building essential leadership skills in youth, creating a vital pipeline for the next generation of community champions.

Leading the Way: The future of recreation depends on nurturing young leaders today. This article looks into how arts-based recreation programs are building essential leadership skills in youth, creating a vital pipeline for the next generation of community champions.

Inclusion & Innovation: Arts Addressing Systemic Barriers in Recreation

Jamie Bell March 12, 2025

Arts-based recreation programs offer innovative strategies to dismantle these barriers and create more equitable and welcoming community spaces.

Level Up: Why Artists Need Capacity Building Helping artists get better at the business side isn't just about them as individuals. It's about making the whole art world stronger, and that's good for everyone.

Helping artists get better at the business side isn't just about them as individuals. It's about making the whole art world stronger, and that's good for everyone.

Level Up: Why Artists Need Capacity Building

The Arts Incubator - Winnipeg March 11, 2025

Artists make the world more alive, you know? They're full of talent and drive. But just having...

Networks & Collectives: Decentralizing the Arts This week, we explore the power of decentralized networks in the arts. Artist-run collectives and open-source platforms are disrupting traditional structures, giving artists the freedom to collaborate without gatekeepers. Learn how these networks are empowering independent creators and reshaping the future of art.