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Photos and Short Stories

The Arts Incubator Winnipeg is a hub and space for experimentation, collaboration, and creative production grounded in real community experience. Through story and photo, we document the moments that shape our work—late-night editing sessions, first-time gallery installations, youth-led workshops, quiet breakthroughs, and collective challenges. These snapshots offer more than a behind-the-scenes look; they reflect the rhythms, relationships, and realities of building something meaningful together. Whether it’s an emerging artist discovering their voice or a group reimagining their surroundings through art, each moment tells a part of the story we’re living and shaping as a creative community. Sometimes, we just post photos we like for fun.

Step onto the northern landscape and discover Labrador Tea—the iconic shrub with fuzzy leaves and a fragrant, pine-infused past that has fueled generations of gatherers from the boreal line to the open tundra.
Food Security and Innovation

From Tundra to Timberline: The Lasting Legacy of Labrador Tea

Long before coffee shops dotted the map, northern communities across the Arctic and subarctic relied on Labrador Tea.
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Spot bird's-foot trefoil on your next northern hike.
Photos and Short Stories

Bird’s-Foot Trefoil

Look closely at the sunny yellow blossoms of Ontario's bird's-foot trefoil.
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Tony Eetak captured these shots of graffiti under a bridge in the North End.
Photos and Short Stories

Higgins and Main in Monochrome

Exploring the ever-changing underpass at Higgins and Main in Winnipeg through contrast, texture, and time.
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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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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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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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The Arctic summer sun completely changes the coast once the winter ice breaks.
Photos and Short Stories

Chasing the Arctic Summer Sun

June brings a massive shift to the Hudson Bay coast.
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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 today!

Upcoming Events

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.

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