Category: Mentorship Spotlight

Branding, style development, and gallery pieces- when you're an early career visual artist, where do you start? Mentor Danita Stallard and her mentees Scarlett Gunn and Sean Chadwick put their heads together to form a motivated arts mentorship super team!

Being a visual artist can feel like a solitary experience, even as you're trying to develop your craft. Artists Anastassiya Polinkina and Cori Jaye Etienne recently participated in the Professional Mentorship Program and shared their experiences!

When exploring a new facet of one's creativity, it helps to have a seasoned professional along for the ride with good advice and encouragement. Scriptwriters Anna Schaible-Schur and Rick Chafe recently participated in the Professional Mentorship Program and shared their experience here!

Mentorship isn’t just about hard skills and arts business training, it’s also about passing on advice and discussing different career paths within your creative discipline. Performers Hailey Witt and Lara Ciekiewicz recently participated in the Professional Mentorship Program and shared their experience here!

So many different aspects contribute to the live theatre-going experience, and lighting and visuals are no small part! Designers and artists Hugh Conacher and Anika Binding recently participated in the Professional Mentorship Program and shared some of their insights with us.

No matter the discipline, the creative process is a process! Professional mentorship can help artists work through creative blocks, bounce ideas off each other and share knowledge gained in years of experience in the arts. Playwrights Ellen Peterson and Sarah Flynn recently completed the Professional Mentorship Program through Creative Manitoba and shared a few of the highlights with us!

Mentoring is a rewarding experience for both the mentor and the mentee. Creative Manitoba serves as a facilitator to help up-and-coming rural artists find mentors to further their artistic growth.

In this spotlight, we feature visual artist and mentor Kelly Klick and her mentee Atlas Lister. Read on to find out more about their experiences working together!

Mentorship pair Colten Matousek & BJ Verot are taking part in our 2022/2023 Professional Mentorship Program, in the discipline of film. They have been working on developing Colten’s first official short film: developing the script, editing, shot listing, and refining grant writing skills.

Mentorship pair Lara Schroeder & Débora Cardaci took part in our 2022/2023 Rural Mentorship Program, in the discipline of visual art, working with molds, oil painting and charcoal.