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.

Winter Workshops & Outdoor Visions: Learning to Build Our Own Easels This easy, experimental and hands-on project is more than just building; it's about empowering our program participants and preparing for our upcoming outdoor pop-up exhibition.

This easy, experimental and hands-on project is more than just building; it's about empowering our program participants and preparing for our upcoming outdoor pop-up exhibition.

Winter Workshops & Outdoor Visions: Learning to Build Our Own Easels

Tony Eetak March 6, 2025

Learn how our arts mentorship program is building DIY easels from local materials for upcoming outdoor art...

Formal Learning: Building Bridges & Strategic Pathways in Arts & Leadership Beyond passion, leadership requires strategy. Explore how formal education empowers young creatives with essential skills in management, policy, and more. Part 3 shows how academic learning builds bridges for youth leadership.

Beyond passion, leadership requires strategy. Explore how formal education empowers young creatives with essential skills in management, policy, and more. Part 3 shows how academic learning builds bridges for youth leadership.

Formal Learning: Building Bridges & Strategic Pathways in Arts & Leadership

The Arts Incubator - Winnipeg March 6, 2025

Beyond passion, leadership requires strategy. Explore how formal education empowers young creatives with essential skills in...

Deterritorialization and the art of Creative Takeovers Creativity isn't static, it's about constant evolution. Deterritorialization embraces this dynamic spirit. It's the process of intentionally shaking things up, letting go of rigid structures in art, AI, and music, and allowing your practice to transform and become something you couldn't have predicted. Embrace the flow of creative change!

Creativity isn't static, it's about constant evolution. Deterritorialization embraces this dynamic spirit. It's the process of intentionally shaking things up, letting go of rigid structures in art, AI, and music, and allowing your practice to transform and become something you couldn't have predicted. Embrace the flow of creative change!

Deterritorialization and the art of Creative Takeovers

Jamie Bell March 5, 2025

Explore uncharted creative territory! Learn about the concept of deterritorialization, and how using media arts, AI &...

Building Bridges: Arts & Recreation Partnerships for Community Health Beyond Sports: Think recreation is just about games? Think again. This article explores the surprising power of arts-based programs within recreation, revealing how they can address community challenges and foster youth leadership.

Beyond Sports: Think recreation is just about games? Think again. This article explores the surprising power of arts-based programs within recreation, revealing how they can address community challenges and foster youth leadership.

Building Bridges: Arts & Recreation Partnerships for Community Health

Jamie Bell March 5, 2025

Beyond Sports: Think recreation is just about games? Think again. This article explores the surprising power of...

Re-Organizing Organizations: A Body Without Organs Case File from the Nomadic Detective Agency We learned about radical new ways to think about organizations, moving beyond rigid hierarchies and embracing fluidity like the "Body without Organs." It's about unleashing potential, not just managing structure. The Nomadic Detective Agency is showing us how!

We learned about radical new ways to think about organizations, moving beyond rigid hierarchies and embracing fluidity like the "Body without Organs." It's about unleashing potential, not just managing structure. The Nomadic Detective Agency is showing us how!

Re-Organizing Organizations: A Body Without Organs Case File from the Nomadic Detective Agency

Jamie Bell March 4, 2025

Build better groups like a Body without Organs. We're learning about radical organizational development from the...

Artist Collectives & Cooperatives: Can They Work? In part two of our five-part series, we dive deeper into the heart of artist collectives, exploring how collaboration and shared spaces ignite creativity. This week's focus highlights how these collectives create environments where artists thrive together, exchanging ideas and breaking down traditional boundaries.

In part two of our five-part series, we dive deeper into the heart of artist collectives, exploring how collaboration and shared spaces ignite creativity. This week's focus highlights how these collectives create environments where artists thrive together, exchanging ideas and breaking down traditional boundaries.

Artist Collectives & Cooperatives: Can They Work?

Jamie Bell March 4, 2025

Explore concepts behind artist collectives and co-operatives, from consensus-based decision-making to creating sustainable creative spaces.

Diving into the Deep End: Are You Ready for Rhizomes, Cosmic Artisans, and Smooth Spaces? Forget straight lines. Forget hierarchies. The universe is a messy, interconnected, rhizomatic masterpiece waiting to be explored. Join us as we delve into the revolutionary ideas of smooth spaces and cosmic artisans, guided by the visionary work of the Nomadic Detective Agency.

Forget straight lines. Forget hierarchies. The universe is a messy, interconnected, rhizomatic masterpiece waiting to be explored. Join us as we delve into the revolutionary ideas of smooth spaces and cosmic artisans, guided by the visionary work of the Nomadic Detective Agency.

Diving into the Deep End: Are You Ready for Rhizomes, Cosmic Artisans, and Smooth Spaces?

Jamie Bell March 3, 2025

Ever feel like the world is way more interconnected and fluid than it seems? Like there's a...

Youth, Artists create Audio Visualizers with OpenAI GPT-4 Turbo We learned how to use audio visualizers using GPT 4 Turbo (GPT 4.5) and Javascript. It was lots of fun!

We learned how to use audio visualizers using GPT 4 Turbo (GPT 4.5) and Javascript. It was lots of fun!

Youth, Artists create Audio Visualizers with OpenAI GPT-4 Turbo

Tony Eetak March 1, 2025

Learn about audio-reactive art with AI tools where music transforms into visual spectacles, capturing the essence of...

The Power of Informal Learning: Cultivating Art, Creativity & Community from the Ground Up Want to know the secret to unlocking raw talent and building strong communities? It's informal learning! From workshops to cultural traditions, discover how "learning by doing" shapes the next generation of artists and leaders.

Want to know the secret to unlocking raw talent and building strong communities? It's informal learning! From workshops to cultural traditions, discover how "learning by doing" shapes the next generation of artists and leaders.

The Power of Informal Learning: Cultivating Art, Creativity & Community from the Ground Up

The Arts Incubator - Winnipeg February 27, 2025

Want to know the secret to unlocking raw talent and building strong communities? It's informal learning! From...

A Framework for Renewal: Recreation’s Untapped Arts Potential Unlocking Creativity: Community recreation centers are often overlooked hubs of potential. Discover how integrating arts into these spaces, guided by the Framework for Recreation in Canada, can revitalize communities and spark unexpected creativity.