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Packing up the fabric scraps and trying to mentally prepare for early alarms again.

Strong Stitches: A Community of Craft

We’re stitching together a strong community after a summer full of fun and learning. Keep Connected!
By Arts Incubator Winnipeg 24 Aug 2026
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After our first exploration visualized the messy-wonderful mixture of scrambled research roles, we're taking the next big step: figuring out the cognified governance and consortium models that make it all work together. Think of this next phase as adding the bacon to our scrambled eggs; it’s not just a side, but the essential, savory, and structured element that brings everything to its full potential and makes the whole experiment infinitely more complete.

What Happens When Scrambled Research Meets Cognified Governance?

Scrambled Research gets a new ingredient: cognified governance. We’re exploring what happens when intelligence and decision-making become networked.
By Arts Incubator Winnipeg 24 Aug 2026
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This is a snapshot of our arts incubator as a living network rather than a collection of separate projects. We’ve been experimenting with knowledge graphs, mapping, and data visualization, but the process has also become a creative way to look back through our own work and discover relationships that aren't always obvious when everything is sitting in separate folders, spreadsheets, and posts.

Mapping What We’ve Been Up To

Traditional data visualization often flattens complex histories into static, two-dimensional charts that tell a frozen story.
By Arts Incubator Winnipeg 23 Aug 2026
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Real-world research rarely fits neatly into separate boxes, which is why this fall we’re exploring what might happen if we stopped trying to keep all the ingredients apart. With Scrambled Research, we’re experimenting with ways to bring community partners, artists, students, academics, organizations and other contributors into a more flexible research network, while asking what happens when roles, funding, expertise and knowledge can move in different directions. We’re not starting with a finished model or claiming we’ve figured it out; we’re curious about what becomes possible when the usual institutional boundaries get loosened, rearranged and tested. The fun part is seeing what emerges when we scramble the ingredients and let the research itself show us where it wants to go.

Scrambled Research: Rethinking the Boxes We Put Research In

What happens when research stops fitting neatly into institutional boxes? We're experimenting with Scrambled Research this fall.
By Arts Incubator Winnipeg 21 Aug 2026
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Artist and drum dancer Eva Suluk with Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew during the Manitoba–Nunavut gathering in Arviat, Nunavut, July 7, 2026. Photo: Wab Kinew
Artist and drum dancer Eva Suluk with Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew during the Manitoba–Nunavut gathering in Arviat, Nunavut, July 7, 2026. Photo: Wab Kinew

Arts Incubator Winnipeg

The Arts Incubator Winnipeg is a community-based arts organization and network of artists, cultural workers, and researchers working across Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Northwestern Ontario. We support artists, youth, and community partners through media arts programs, digital storytelling workshops, creative research, and public programming.

Our work focuses on accessible arts participation, digital literacy, and community-based storytelling. Originally seeded through the Canada Council for the Arts Digital Greenhouse program, we explore how digital media and emerging technologies—including artificial intelligence—can support artists, strengthen community connections, and create new opportunities for learning and collaboration.

Our Programming Has Been Supported By:

The Arts Incubator and its programming was seeded with strategic arts innovation funding from the Canada Council for the Arts Digital Greenhouse program.
The Arts Incubator and its Winnipeg hub and programs were made possible with funding and support from the Manitoba Arts Council Indigenous 360 Program and Share - Artists in Communities program.
The Arts Incubator was made possible with support from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) Creative Entrepreneurship and Master of Arts in Creative Leadership programs.
Projects and Programs for The Arts Incubator are made possible with support and funding from the Ontario Arts Council.
The Arts Incubator and its participatory arts and food systems innovation programs were made possible with support from Manitoba Agriculture and the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership.
Activities in support of the Arts Incubator were made possible with support from Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada.
The Arts Incubator was made possible with support from the University of Minnesota Duluth and the Labovitz School of Business and Economics.
The Arts Incubator and its programs were made possible with support from Global Dignity Canada.
The Arts Incubator was inspired by and many activities made possible with support from the University of Victoria Community Based Research Lab.
The Arts Incubator and its food security and participatory research was supported by the University of the Arctic. Thank you for supporting our adventures to the 2024 Arctic Congress in Bodø, Norway.
The Arts Incubator builds on the work of the Arviat Film Society and Arviat Television. More than a decade of media arts and community-based participatory research.
The Arts Incubator and its participatory arts and food systems innovation programs were made possible with support from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership.
The Arts Incubator and its participatory arts and food systems innovation programs were made possible with support from the Province of Manitoba, Manitoba Agriculture and the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership.
The Arts Incubator and its programs were made possible with support from ArcticNet and the Inclusion in Northern Research Program.
Thank you to CKDR Radio in Dryden for supporting this year's Canada Day Celebrations in Melgund Township, Dyment and Borups Corners.
The Arts Incubator and its Participatory Artificial Intelligence Research was made possible with support from the OpenAI Researcher Access Program.

Community-Based Arts Programs in
Winnipeg and Northwestern Ontario

Our Winnipeg hub operates through a flexible network of virtual and in-person spaces, allowing us to deliver media arts workshops, community storytelling projects, digital skills training, and collaborative research initiatives across Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario.

We work with artists, youth, Indigenous communities, and partner organizations to create accessible opportunities for creative practice, cultural exchange, and community-based learning. Through these partnerships, Arts Incubator Winnipeg supports local arts projects while contributing to broader conversations about arts, culture, technology, and community resilience.

Our programs evolve in response to community needs, new partnerships, and emerging ideas—creating space for experimentation, creative collaboration, and ongoing learning in both urban and northern communities.

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.

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