The Pine Cone That Wasn’t
The Weird and Wonderful Willow Pine Cone Gall: An Artistic Discovery.
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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.
Split, Stack, and Settle In
There’s something deeply satisfying about the thunk of a wood splitter cutting clean through a log.
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Northern Bog Violet: A Bloom in the Wetlands
The Northern Bog Violet (Viola nephrophylla or sometimes Viola adunca) is a delicate wildflower found across boreal and subalpine regions of North America, thriving especially…
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Home is Where the Tent Is
Laughter, Lore, and Land There's this sweet spot in the year, right now, as spring shakes off the last bits of winter and nudges us…
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Northern White Violet
Tucked quietly among mosses and ferns, the Northern White Violet (Viola macloskeyi) is one of the forest's most understated treasures.
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Spring Sun: Preparing Caribou
There’s something deeply grounding about this work, about the rhythmic push and pull of the blade against the caribou meat.
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The Nodding Trillium
Identifiable by its pale stamens and characteristic "nodding" posture, Trillium flexipes is a unique white trillium inhabiting the rich forest floors of Northwestern Ontario.
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Pollen Saddlebags and Bumblebee Gold
Something special happens in the early northern spring when the first dandelions burst open.
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Sunlight, Smiles, and Sustenance
Out on the land near Arviat, Nunavut — on the western coast of Hudson Bay — artists, cultural advisors and program mentors Lucy Eetak and…
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Changing Seasons
The wind off Hudson Bay is still sharp, still heavy with salt and cold, but something is shifting.
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