Virtual Gallery
Photo: Tony Eetak
Step into the world as seen through the lens of Tony Eetak, a young Inuit photographer bearing witness to the profound transformations shaping his homeland. This virtual exhibition, “Our People, Our Climate: A View Through Inuit Eyes,” offers an intimate and powerful journey into the Arctic.
As the last whispers of winter fade, and the promise of spring hangs crisp in the air, step into a realm where the stark beauty of the season’s end meets the burgeoning energy of new beginnings. This contemporary art exhibit captures the liminal space between frosted landscapes and the first blush of thaw.
Hudson Bay
Photo: Tony Eetak
This black and white photo exhibition by Tony Eetak explores the quiet poetry of Winnipeg’s bridges—their bones, their shadows, their forgotten corners. Stripped of colour, each image reveals new textures: rivets softened by decades of wind, graffiti etched like ghost-script, frozen reflections curling beneath. From the elegance of Esplanade Riel to the industrial hush of lesser-known overpasses, these bridges become more than crossings—they become metaphors.
Rooted in the rhythms of Winnipeg’s urban landscape, each image in this exhibit reflects a practice shaped by light and the quiet details of daily life. This is photography distilled to its core—composition, contrast, and feeling—offering a window into the city as seen through Indigenous youth perspective and presence.
Top Viewed Images From 177 Weeks of our Arts Incubator.
Across the 177 weeks since launching our arts incubator program, these top photos collectively saw more than 2,703,807 views across platforms. This gallery showcases some of our favourite moments that most captured attention. From curated art spaces to Winnipeg diners and the fleeting, yet mundane beauty of everyday life, this collection reveals the unexpected connections forged between our captured perspectives and a vast, unseen audience drawn to these seemingly random slices of life
Traditional values are the quiet architecture behind our lives—the steady lines that shape how we see, speak, and care for one another. They hold the weight of generations, carried not in grand declarations, but in small, intentional acts: the way we greet our elders, the stories we pass down at the table, the silence we keep in moments of reverence. In a world that moves fast and forgets easily, traditional values ask us to pause, to remember what matters. They are not rules, but rhythms—a kind of cultural heartbeat that reminds us who we are, and who we’re responsible to. Holding onto them isn’t about staying still; it’s about moving forward with depth, connection, and meaning.
This program was an experiment in system collision. Thanks to the OpenAI Researcher Access Program, we embedded participatory art and Indigenous-led storytelling inside processes usually reserved for optimization and prediction. And it was an adventure.
We tested how art and story behaves in machine environments. We used narrative to destabilize logic. We explored resilience not as an outcome, but as a system function — emergent, collective, recursive. We built stuff. We broke things. We explored the codes beneath the codes. This project didn’t ask how AI can help communities. It asked what communities do to AI.
Funded by Manitoba Agriculture and the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership, the initiative explored the development of a network of projects and programs to support northern food security and entrepreneurship in the food sector.
The project included relationship-building, consultation, and engagement focused on participatory food security research and training. It also involved collaboration with the Minneapolis College of Art and Design’s Creative Entrepreneurship program. In addition, the project helped design research efforts to attract investment in Manitoba’s food systems.
The world was opening up again after what felt like years away from places and spaces that were special to us. This short exhibition shares some of the special moments from our digital arts and creative entrepreneurship pilot program made possible with support and funding from the Canada Council for the Arts Digital Greenhouse program.
