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Community Projects

Discover community projects that support artists, strengthen organizations, and build more vibrant communities. Our work combines community arts, creative entrepreneurship, climate action, public art, placemaking, and cultural programming to create meaningful local impact. Through artist professional development, leadership training, community engagement initiatives, nonprofit capacity building, and creative economy projects, we help artists, cultural organizations, and communities develop the skills, partnerships, and opportunities needed to thrive.

Fractals: Math as a Canvas
Community Projects

Fractals: Math as a Canvas

Explore infinite geometry with Fractal Fun, an interactive app blending code, art, sound, and animation.
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Sometimes you just need to crop a photo for class without dealing with a dozen popups. Our latest experimental tool is live on our site, featuring quick social presets, color sliders, and sample photos from Winnipeg and the Yukon. Click the image to try it out!
Community Projects

Art, Code, and Quick Crops: Building A Simple Image Editor

Built in an afternoon sprint, our lightweight image editor offers clean crops, quick filters, and privacy directly in your browser.
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The best stories are written in the paint splatters on your floor and the stains on your palms.
Community Projects

Growing Community Leadership and Organizational Capacity

A new community program supporting nonprofit succession planning, leadership development, organizational growth and long-term community capacity.
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Artists can experiment with different media textures ranging from fluid watercolor washes to crisp chisel-tip calligraphy. Selecting different nib sub-types lets you switch effortlessly between soft round strokes, geometric edges, and organic dry-brush speckles.
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Building Our Own Digital Paint Studio: A Weekend Exploration in Art and Code

Exploring design thinking, rapid prototyping, and the joy of making creative tools together.
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From meeting notes to everyday workflow problems, our fall and winter programming puts software development and digital self-reliance into practice.
Community Projects

Less Subscribing. More Making.

Learn practical digital skills through hands-on software projects that reduce subscription costs, encourage self-reliance and put creative ideas to work.
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Here's one of the moose jaws Kaya painted during recent art workshops. It was so much fun!
Community Projects

Painting Workshops

This summer's painting workshops brought people together to experiment, get messy and have some fun with bones, skulls and paint.
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Here's why toast is perfect: it knows things are going to get messy. Jam drips. Butter melts. Peanut butter sticks to the roof of your mouth. Toast doesn't judge. It just holds it all together long enough for you to take a bite. Our infrastructure is built on that same principle. Research in the arts is inherently sloppy—half-formed ideas, process artifacts, things that don't fit in boxes. The system isn't there to clean it up. It's there to catch it before it hits the floor.
Community Projects

The Infrastructure Is Toast

Toast, not hard hats: the lightweight infrastructure keeping our research network connected over time.
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This is a snapshot of our arts incubator as a living network rather than a collection of separate projects. We’ve been experimenting with knowledge graphs, mapping, and data visualization, but the process has also become a creative way to look back through our own work and discover relationships that aren't always obvious when everything is sitting in separate folders, spreadsheets, and posts.
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Mapping What We’ve Been Up To

Traditional data visualization often flattens complex histories into static, two-dimensional charts that tell a frozen story.
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After our first exploration visualized the messy-wonderful mixture of scrambled research roles, we're taking the next big step: figuring out the cognified governance and consortium models that make it all work together. Think of this next phase as adding the bacon to our scrambled eggs; it’s not just a side, but the essential, savory, and structured element that brings everything to its full potential and makes the whole experiment infinitely more complete.
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What Happens When Scrambled Research Meets Cognified Governance?

Scrambled Research gets a new ingredient: cognified governance. We’re exploring what happens when intelligence and decision-making become networked.
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Real-world research rarely fits neatly into separate boxes, which is why this fall we’re exploring what might happen if we stopped trying to keep all the ingredients apart. With Scrambled Research, we’re experimenting with ways to bring community partners, artists, students, academics, organizations and other contributors into a more flexible research network, while asking what happens when roles, funding, expertise and knowledge can move in different directions. We’re not starting with a finished model or claiming we’ve figured it out; we’re curious about what becomes possible when the usual institutional boundaries get loosened, rearranged and tested. The fun part is seeing what emerges when we scramble the ingredients and let the research itself show us where it wants to go.
Community Projects

Scrambled Research: Rethinking the Boxes We Put Research In

What happens when research stops fitting neatly into institutional boxes? We're experimenting with Scrambled Research this fall.
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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!

MANITOBA 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

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

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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