The Zoo was able to open up with some restrictions and the Zoo Lights Festival is on until March 28th! We made some great stuff this year, here are just a few pics of the new pieces I created for … Continued
In 2018, five of my designs were chosen for a project in the town of Russell, Manitoba. The town partnered with State Industries to fabricate giant metal arches to replace the wood arches of that were once there. They commissioned … Continued
We recently teamed up with Lights Unlimited, Fete Jockey and the Assiniboine Park Zoo to put on an amazing light festival at Assiniboine Park called the Zoo Lights Fest! The whole process started two years ago when Mike Friesen, Michael … Continued
We had a great time out in Transcona this month, thanks to the Transcona Biz! We painted three sidewalk Welcome Mats. We made these to connect the Pandora Bike Path and Regent avenue. Murals can be used to activate spaces! … Continued
The City of Brandon is on a mural mission! My mural is 2 of 9 murals going up there this summer. Located at 921 Rosser avenue, I created a bright, colourful design to brighten up a really dark, uninviting alley. … Continued
I was invited down to Smithville, Texas to complete part 2 of the Smithville Legacy Portraits. This round we focused on three important people from Smithville… Gene Sampson (1939-2013). An educator, coach, and administrator at SISD for over 30 … Continued
Chris Pancoe, Jakobi Heinrichs and I had the opportunity to do some snow carving out in Riding Mountain National Park last weekend as part of their big event this weekend called “There’s Snowplace like Home”. It’s a collection of larger-than-life … Continued
It was a long journey but we finally installed conFluENCE at 33 Hargrave for TimberCreek Communities. We assembled such a great team… Michael Koch-Schulte and I came up with the design…Wallin Industries and Groundhog Anchors helped us fabricate, assemble and install. … Continued
In October I won a commission from the National Endowment for the Arts for a mural I designed called “The Smithville Legacy Portraits”. The mural features portraits of some of Smithville’s most notable citizens. I led a group of volunteers … Continued
It was another fun filled, family-lov’in, dog friendly, action packed, music festival at the 13th annual Harvest Sun Music Festival out in Kelwood, Manitoba. The family and I stayed in the Tiny House on the Prairie for another week long, … Continued
It was an incredibly productive June! I put the final touches on my mural at Club Regent and wow oh wow, what a project it was. Check out the photos and videos below. 60′ x 500′ in size, this is … Continued
It’s official! I’ll be starting on a new mural project at Club Regent Casino at the end of May. I entered a competition, was short-listed and won the commission. The painting is approximately 70′ x 500′, making it one of … Continued
I had the chance to be part of the Winter Adventure Weekend in Riding Mountain National Park this year. I was asked to design something around the idea of ‘home’ and I decided to create ‘Snowplaces’ or winter living rooms … Continued
Our public art piece Aviary, created by Michael Koch-Schulte and myself with the help of Lights Unlimited took on yet another form at the North Dakota Museum of Art. As part of their bi-annual auction, the installation took the form … Continued
I installed Aviary 3.0 out in Brandon, Manitoba recently at the YMCA as part of their Winter Gardens celebration, in partnership with Storefront, MB. Thanks to Chris Cooper from the AGSM for the opportunity! Aviary is an installation of wooden birds … Continued
I just received some amazing drone footage of my labyrinth from this year’s Winnipeg Folk Festival. Special thanks to Jf Desjardins for this! Amazing fly by! #winnipegfolkfestival #prairieoutdoorart
I teamed up with Lights Unlimited, an awesome up and coming light company and Michael Koch-Schulte for a new installment of our bird installation called Aviary. This time we animated some EL wire and equipped it with a motion sensor … Continued
I had a great time designing and painting this 200′ long rainbow of blocks at The Forks this summer. It started as a set of railway tracks, but also makes me think of a kid’s xylophone or a piano. I … Continued
This Canada Day, which happened to be Canada’s 150th birthday, was pretty incredible for me. I had the chance to build what was easily the most epic piece of public art I’ve been involved with yet. With support from … Continued
Chris Pancoe and I were at it again at the Forks in Winnipeg, Manitoba, designing and carving our latest series of Snowfas for the Snow Lounge. Thanks for the help from Leif Norman and U of M student Heather Lepp! … Continued
I just put the finishing touches on my latest mural. This one is at North American Lumber in Transcona. It’s been at least a decade since I did a mural and it was great to get back into it. Thanks … Continued
Nuit Blanche 2016 was truly exciting. Easily Winnipeg’s most important collective art festival, Nuit Blanche is an all night art party that features light inspired artists from across the country. I’ve been participating in this for several years now and … Continued
In 2010 James Culleton was awarded the commission to recreate the facade of the West End Cultural Centre, one of Winnipeg’s greatest musical venues. For a year Culleton drew imagery from the WECC’s history and came up with a design that recreated … Continued
We had the chance to work with a couple great artists/designers at the Forks here in Winnipeg and installed two wonderful art installations. The first one, designed by Takashi Iwasaki, was a 700′ long piece of street art. We created … Continued
Chris Pancoe and I recently teamed up and were short listed for a public art project in Grand Beach, Manitoba. The call was for a piece of public art to mark the trail heads that meet at the beach boardwalk, … Continued
Chris Pancoe and I installed our series of Art Deco inspired ‘snowfas’ at the Forks again this year. The Great West Life Snow Lounge is looking good despite some strange weather patterns. When we installed them it was -30 and … Continued
I’ve been making labyrinths at the Winnipeg Folk Festival for over a decade now. Kids love these things! And for several years I was even able to fly over them in an ultralight to take pictures. So much fun!
Chris Pancoe and I collaborated on a collection of snow furniture for the Forks, this was the second year we did it….and so the “snowfa” was born.
