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Arts Incubator Winnipeg

The Arts Incubator - Winnipeg is a participatory arts collective and living lab, based in Winnipeg, Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario. It's a space where innovation and creativity thrive. It's latest iteration was launched in 2021 with funding and support from the Canada Council for the Arts Digital Greenhouse. Today, working with students and faculty from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, we fuse traditional and participatory media arts with artificial intelligence, music, storytelling and community-driven, land-based artist residencies to cultivate new voices and bold ideas. Whether through collaborative projects or immersive experiences, our small but vibrant community supports creators to explore, experiment, and connect. Join us at the intersection of artistry, technology, culture and community—where every moment is a new opportunity to create.
Experimental audio production: Exploring the creative possibilities of digital narration, audio technology and new approaches to producing long-form spoken content through hands-on experimentation and independent tool development.
Technology

Storytelling: What Happens When We Build Our Own Narration Tools?

An experimental arts entrepreneurship project exploring text-to-speech technology, digital skills and independent creative production.
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The Under $200 Art Show is coming to Calgary October 15-18. Art of all kinds- paintings, photography, textiles, mixed media, ceramics, handmade accessories, and so much more! Don’t miss your chance to discover amazing local art and one-of-a-kind finds!
Calgary

Don’t Miss The Under $200 Art Show in Calgary Oct 15-18

Don't miss Calgary’s Under $200 Art Show, October 15–18, 2026, featuring affordable original art from 100 artists.
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Community isn't always about being in the same room at the same time. It's the encouragement, shared ideas, small acts of kindness and willingness to pitch in that keep people connected, even when life takes them in different directions.
Arts & Creative Leadership

Happy Thanksgiving!

From community gardens to creative technology, we're looking ahead to fall and winter while wishing everyone a peaceful Thanksgiving weekend.
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Sometimes the best way to understand technology is to build something yourself. Bush Chess gave us an opportunity to experiment with algorithms, test ideas and see how small changes in the code affect the way a computer plays.
Artificial Intelligence

Experiments: Using Classical AI Instead of an LLM

Learn how Bush Chess uses algorithms, search trees and mathematical evaluation to make strategic decisions without a large language model.
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Games are some of the most effective classrooms for understanding digital logic and user experience design. By breaking chess down into state changes, coordinates, and feedback loops, we turned abstract coding concepts into something immediately tangible and fun to play with.
Community Projects

Bush Chess

Bush Chess blends art, code, and game logic. Read our weekend lab notes and take the prototype for a spin!
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Pausing on our walk back downtown to capture the alien beauty of one of Canada’s most striking architectural achievements.
Winnipeg

The Spaceship in Our Backyard

A crisp autumn walk through Winnipeg’s Forks turned into a moment of awe at the alien-like CMHR structures.
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This week we continued our fall and winter exploration of code and game design with a simple hunting game called "Caribou Hunt." You can play it online now!
Community Projects

Chasing Northern Lights and Code: Caribou Hunt

Step inside our fall digital arts program and try Caribou Hunt, our brand-new browser-based northern expedition game.
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This fall, we're building a Pixel Art Generator! It's a creative image-processing tool for transforming photographs, illustrations and digital artwork into pixel-based graphics. The project brings image quantization, colour reduction, raster manipulation and pixelation into an accessible, creative workflow.
Community Projects

Building a Pixel Art Generator

Convert photos and illustrations into customizable pixel art with this free online generator.
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A macro shot highlighting the intricate, velvety buds and tight geometric spiral of a Manitoba lupine in bloom.
Winnipeg

Purple Geometric Lupines: The Summer Gem We Almost Forgot to Share

Autumn is here, but this vivid purple lupine from earlier this summer in Winnipeg deserved its own spotlight.
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We did this little project entirely for fun. Based on the famous game Frogger that our grandparents used to play, we decided to make our own version, called Moose Crossing!
Community Projects

Moose Crossing

We had fun and created a game called Moose Crossing. It's based on the old '80s game Frogger that our grandparents used to play!
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Recent Posts

  • Storytelling: What Happens When We Build Our Own Narration Tools?
  • Don’t Miss The Under $200 Art Show in Calgary Oct 15-18
  • Happy Thanksgiving!
  • Experiments: Using Classical AI Instead of an LLM
  • Forget Muted Yellows: The Manitoba Maple’s Autumn Transformation
  • Bush Chess
  • The Spaceship in Our Backyard
  • Chasing Northern Lights and Code: Caribou Hunt
  • Building a Pixel Art Generator

In Music

Jukebox In Exile is the new country music album from Flin Flon singer-songwriter C.C. Trubiak, blending classic country, honky-tonk, Americana and traditional storytelling into a collection of songs inspired by resilience, community and life in Northern Manitoba. Written during and after the 2025 Flin Flon wildfire evacuation, the album draws influence from country music legends including Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings and George Jones. Featuring the singles "Old Country Songs," "Being Rich" and the charting track "Outlaws Meditation," Jukebox In Exile showcases Trubiak's signature songwriting while celebrating small-town life, northern Canadian culture, queer country music and the enduring spirit of Flin Flon. The album is available now on major music streaming platforms.
Manitoba's own C.C. Trubiak's new album "Jukebox in Exile" dropped on June 5! Check it out!

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The Under $200 Art Show is coming to Calgary October 15-18. Art of all kinds- paintings, photography, textiles, mixed media, ceramics, handmade accessories, and so much more! Don’t miss your chance to discover amazing local art and one-of-a-kind finds!
The Under $200 Art Show is coming to Calgary October 15-18. Art of all kinds- paintings, photography, textiles, mixed media, ceramics, handmade accessories, and so much more! Don’t miss your chance to discover amazing local art and one-of-a-kind finds!

WINNIPEG ARTS PROGRAMS

This platform, our Winnipeg, Manitoba hub and programs have been made possible with support from the Manitoba Arts Council Indigenous 360 Program. We gratefully acknowledge their funding and support in making the work we do possible.

Manitoba Arts Council Indigenous 360 Program

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Arts Incubator was seeded and piloted with strategic arts innovation funding from the Canada Council for the Arts Digital Greenhouse. We thank them for their investment, supporting northern arts capacity building and bringing the arts to life.

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NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO ARTS

This platform, our Northwestern Ontario hub and programs have been made possible with support from the Ontario Arts Council Multi and Inter-Arts Projects Program. We gratefully acknowledge their funding and support in making the work we do possible.

Ontario Arts Council Multi and Inter-Arts Projects Program
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