Winner of an education award from the Ontario Association of Art Galleries (now Galleries Ontario), Vtape’s Curatorial Incubator program provides workshops, mentorship, and exhibition opportunities to emerging curators. A public call for proposals (this links to an example from 2022) is circulated in spring or early summer, and participants are selected based on their proposals. Established in 2002, the Curatorial Incubator has worked with more than 50 emerging curators to date; many of them have gone on to establish themselves in prominent curatorial, administrative, or artistic careers.

See the Publications section of the site for catalogues from previous Curatorial Incubator programs.