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Manitoba Arts Program

Making art discoverable for everyone. Our community-built schema tool levels the playing field, helping artists and arts organizations showcase even non-traditional creative work on Google. Say goodbye to costly plugins!

Artists scheme over schemas

Making art discoverable for everyone. Our community-built schema tool levels the playing field, helping artists and arts organizations showcase even non-traditional creative work on Google.…
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It stands where steel forgets it’s steel—among colour bleeding from walls, among echoes not meant for birds. A pause with feathers. A poem without lines. Graffitied stillness, urban myth. Something sacred hums low under the bridge, and the goose listens.

Canada Goose

The goose under the coloured bridge Beneath the bridge, in a pocket of stillness layered with shadows and spray paint, a single Canada goose stands…
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Provencher Bridge floats between breath and concrete, a tethered gesture over water’s slow murmur. Light fractures across its spine like memory refracted—half civic promise, half spectral hush. It does not span space, but thought—an architecture of pause, where crossings blur into echoes and the river forgets which way is forward.

Provencher

We never grew up with bridges like this—suspended, sweeping, confident in the air.
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“If you fall, get up.” We found it ghosted beneath the railway bridge, where rust runs like tears down concrete cheeks, where the wind holds its breath beneath traffic’s hum. A phrase not shouted, but etched—faint, hand-drawn— a weathered whisper surviving winter’s bite and autumn’s sigh. It is not just a sentence; it is a gesture, a lifted chin in the chill, a soft defiance sprayed in silver, where no one is watching, but someone once needed it most.

Where Trains Rumble, Walls Talk

It’s easy to miss if you’re just driving by, but under the railway bridge near Higgins and Main, the walls are alive.
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Research suggests AI isn’t replacing northern artists—it’s openinig up the potential for them go further.

Empowering Northern Arts Through AI

Artificial Intelligence is reshaping industries around the world—and now, it's opening new possibilities for the northern arts sector, offering a path to enhanced creativity, collaboration,…
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Digital Literacy Is the New Studio Practice

Digital Literacy Is the New Studio Practice

Artists today aren’t just painting on canvas—they’re coding, curating digital spaces, and negotiating algorithms. In a world shaped by pixels and platforms, digital literacy isn’t…
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Redefining Authorship and Agency in AI-Driven Art

Redefining Authorship and Agency in AI-Driven Art

Over the past year, AI-driven art has exploded into a global phenomenon, propelled by breakthroughs in generative models and unprecedented cultural attention.
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New Spaces

New Spaces

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In Winnipeg, graffiti always pops up like little surprises scattered across the city. We found this one under the bridge near Main and Higgins.

Walls We Walk By: Higgins and Main

We found these inspiring words under a bridge near Main and Higgins.
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Testing out our new tools

Testing out our new tools

Over the past few months, we’ve been having an incredible time exploring and experimenting as part of our fall and winter incubator program.
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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 $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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