The Arts Incubator Winnipeg is a community-based network of artists, cultural workers, researchers, and creative practitioners exploring the connections between media arts, digital technology, storytelling, and community engagement. As an ad-hoc collective working across Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Northwestern Ontario, we support artists, youth, and community partners through collaborative projects, workshops, creative research, and public programming.
Originally seeded through the Canada Council for the Arts Digital Greenhouse program, our work focuses on accessible arts participation, digital literacy, cultural storytelling, and creative experimentation. We are particularly interested in how emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence and digital media, can support artists, strengthen community connections, and create new opportunities for learning and collaboration.
Our Winnipeg hub operates through a flexible network of virtual and physical spaces, allowing us to work with communities, organizations, and artists where they are. From media arts workshops and community storytelling projects to digital skills training and collaborative research initiatives, we aim to create welcoming spaces for creativity, knowledge sharing, and cultural exchange.
Through partnerships with artists, Indigenous communities, educational institutions, and grassroots organizations, Arts Incubator Winnipeg helps foster creative development while connecting local projects to broader regional and national conversations about arts, culture, technology, and community resilience.
No two seasons at Arts Incubator Winnipeg are exactly the same. As new artists, ideas, partnerships, and community needs emerge, our projects continue to evolve—creating space for experimentation, learning, and unexpected creative collaborations.
