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Arts Incubator Winnipeg brings together timely reporting, grounded storytelling, and reflective thought pieces focused on the intersections of arts, food security, climate action, and creative entrepreneurship across Northern and rural communities in Canada. This category features current events, local and regional reporting, and stories of lived experiences that highlight how communities are responding to change through creativity, innovation, and cultural practice.

A vibrant mixed-media wolf painting by Northwestern Ontario artist Leanne Nicholson. Bold linework and rich textures bring the spirit of the northern wolf to life on canvas.
Photos and Short Stories

Art on Display: Where Wilderness Meets Canvas

Bold canvas strokes meet the raw beauty of the Boreal in mixed-media art show by Northwestern Ontario artist Leanne Nicholson.
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Placemaking means looking at a patch of grass and asking how it can serve the emotional, creative, and physical needs of the community.
Ontario

Turning Acres into Spaces

A visit to Windsor's massive Ford Test Track Park inspires new design paths
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Forget standard golden hours—we’re on that deep subarctic crimson wave now. Who’s road-tripping north with me next time?
Photos and Short Stories

Crimson Skies

Experience the unbelievable crimson sunsets of a Hudson Bay summer.
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A lot happens when people from different backgrounds crowd around one canvas. Everyone is focused on the same thing at the exact same time—some people fill in the backgrounds with blue paint, others sharpen the edges of the graffiti letters, and phones actually stay in pockets. It’s simple, hands-on work, and it forces people to talk and connect without any awkwardness.
Arts & Creative Leadership

Connecting Generations: The Impact of Community Painting Sessions

Shared painting events give youth and older adults a casual, hands-on space to hang out. It lets different generations drop their assumptions, trade skills, and…
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Making Our Own Clay
Community Projects

Making Our Own Clay

Processing wild clay isn't a linear path.
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The weathered facade of this old radio sign shows the cracked paint and enduring hand-lettered signage from Winnipeg's mid-century commercial heyday.
Winnipeg

Echoes of Winnipeg’s Radio Days

Spotting Winnipeg's old signs from the days when radio was everyone's primary link to the outside world.
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Elmwood Park
Winnipeg

Elmwood Park

Elmwood Park has changed very little over the 50 years, maintaining its original footprint as a local gathering space.
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New federal data reveals a stark economic paradox: Canada is a global leader in building AI, but ranks almost last in using it.
Creative Entrepreneurship

Canada leads in AI—but most local businesses still aren’t using it

Only one in eight Canadian businesses has integrated AI into its daily operations.
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Look at the hundreds of caribou teeth and the thousands of beads and imagine the amount of work this took.
Winnipeg

The Clack of Caribou Teeth

A look at a handmade Inuit amauti crafted by Martha Eetak, featuring intricate beadwork and hand-drilled caribou teeth.
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Highway gift shops full of authentic beadwork and moccasins are vanishing. We need serious investment in youth and community arts programs to keep these traditions alive.
Ontario

Rural Craft Spaces Matter

Moving past online algorithms to rebuild the physical infrastructure that independent and Indigenous artists rely on.
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  • Art on Display: Where Wilderness Meets Canvas
  • Turning Acres into Spaces
  • Crimson Skies
  • Connecting Generations: The Impact of Community Painting Sessions
  • Making Our Own Clay
  • Echoes of Winnipeg’s Radio Days
  • Elmwood Park
  • Canada leads in AI—but most local businesses still aren’t using it
  • The Clack of Caribou Teeth

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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Upcoming Events

The Under $100 Art Show is coming to Winnipeg August 13-16, 2026. Get your tickets now for this amazing event! The Art Spot Canada Under $100 Art Exhibition is coming to Winnipeg, Manitoba this August! ART SPOT was created in 2008 in Calgary to support local emerging artists.  ART SPOT has curated and facilitated over 100 successful art events, including solo exhibitions, group exhibitions, workshops, concerts, body painting competitions, markets, community events and more.

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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