Jinny Nieviadomy is celebrating ten years since she first opened Artistic Incidents Studio. (Nikita Ganovicheff/meadowlakeNOW staff)

By Nikita Ganovicheff

Art for Everyone

Artistic Incidents Studio celebrates a decade of art in Meadow Lake

Jul 31, 2019 | 5:02 PM

Art is for everyone and everyone can do art.

This is what Jinny Nieviadomy believes when it comes to art. Nieviadomy is the owner of Artistic Incidents Studio and is celebrating ten years since its opening.

The studio is a place to promote local artists and share the creativity that makes Meadow Lake unique, Nieviadomy said.

She moved to Meadow Lake and worked at Jonas Samson as an art teacher. She loved teaching but felt she wanted to do more outside of the classroom.

“I’m still doing the teaching aspect of it but it’s such a broad range now. I’ve got kids age 2 to adults age 92 that come in here.”

Trades in Sask.

Skilled trades need not limited to building homes

Apr 17, 2024

Raising concerns

Battlefords and Meadow Lake MPs weigh in on new federal budget

Apr 17, 2024

Tragic events

Sask. Gov't confirms investigation after former Pine Grove inmate passes away in hospital

Apr 16, 2024

She opened the studio on Aug. 1, 2009.

“I only expected to be here one year and then nine years after moving here I, all of a sudden, found myself rushing into what I felt was right and it was opening up a community based art studio that would bring all of the creativity that lives in Meadow Lake to the front and centre,” she said.

Growing up in Bienfait, a town 14 km east of Estevan, Nieviadomy wanted to make a studio where someone from a small town can explore and work on their art.

“I found that my interests weren’t always readily available or easily accessible to pursue. Growing up, this is what I would have loved to have, the encouragement, the inspiration and [someone] always being there with support,” she said.

The first year was hectic in the old Provincial building on 2 St. W. as Nieviadomy was pregnant with her first child and had recently adopted a puppy. But, as she continued to push her work with summer art camps and evening classes, the studio started to grow.

Artistic Incidents Studio moved from the old Provincial building to 311 Centre Street in 2011.

In 2011, Nieviadomy moved the business to it’s now more familiar location on Centre St. There, she continues to teach several after school classes, preschool morning classes and adult classes. She has also gone out to surrounding communities to teach, all while working on her own acrylic painting and mixed media art.

Nieviadomy said the keys to her success are to always change, grow and try new things.

“From week to week it changes in here. There’s new artwork on the walls, there’s new artists contacting me and not necessarily focusing on one specific form but I’ve tried all forms of art.”

Nieviadomy is celebrating a decade of operation with some social media promotions and will give away ten of her favourite things as well as share some of her favourite memories.

She hopes to continue helping the art community in Meadow Lake but also wants to bring her skills to some Northern Saskatchewan communities in the future.

“I’ve had a lot of people and individuals from some of the First Nations north of us contact me. A big part of what I do now within this past year is creative healing. Taking the art and working through different things about who you are and what you’ve experienced to help move forward.”

–

nikita.ganovicheff@jpbg.ca

Twitter: @Nikitaganov