Manitoba arts

Based in Winnipeg, The Arts Incubator is a hub for Manitoba arts, connecting local creators with Northern and Indigenous projects across the province and beyond. By supporting community-driven initiatives, mentorship opportunities, and digital innovation, the Incubator strengthens the arts sector while amplifying the unique voices of Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario. From emerging artists to established cultural leaders, the Incubator fosters collaboration and sustainability, ensuring that Winnipeg and Manitoba’s arts community continues to thrive as a center for creativity and cultural exchange.

Finding Art in Winnipeg’s Unexpected Places In Winnipeg, graffiti always pops up like little surprises scattered across the city. We found this one under the bridge near Main and Higgins. Photo: Tony Eetak

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

Finding Art in Winnipeg’s Unexpected Places

Digital Salvage June 7, 2025

Tony Eetak captures the city's hidden graffiti and explores the quiet beauty of its bridges in his...

Capturing the shot Tony Eetak, a founding member of our program, frames a shot outside the Asper Centre for Theatre and Film in Winnipeg. Photo: Jamie Bell

Tony Eetak, a founding member of our program, frames a shot outside the Asper Centre for Theatre and Film in Winnipeg. Photo: Jamie Bell

Capturing the shot

Jamie Bell June 6, 2025

Tony Eetak, a founding member of our program, frames a shot outside the Asper Centre for Theatre...

Light for the Sleeping by Tony Eetak A reflection from the virtual exhibition “Shifting Horizons: Edges of Ice and Snow” by Tony Eetak

Light for the Sleeping by Tony Eetak

Digital Salvage June 3, 2025

In Light for the Sleeping, Tony Eetak offers not just a photograph, but a moment of presence....

Provencher: A Bridge Between Memory and Sky $Provencher Bridge floats between breath and concrete, a tethered gesture over water’s slow murmur. Light fractures across its spine like memory refracted—half civic promise, half spectral hush. It does not span space, but thought—an architecture of pause, where crossings blur into echoes and the river forgets which way is forward. Photo: Tony Eetak$

Provencher: A Bridge Between Memory and Sky

Tony Eetak June 2, 2025

Provencher is part of Bridges: Waiting at the Water’s Edge, an immersive online exhibition exploring the spaces...

Bridges: Waiting at the Water’s Edge by Tony Eetak “Mud pulls at your feet, the river hums under closed bridges, and the air thickens with thawed-out memory.”

“Mud pulls at your feet, the river hums under closed bridges, and the air thickens with thawed-out memory.”

Bridges: Waiting at the Water’s Edge by Tony Eetak

Digital Salvage June 1, 2025

Beneath still bridges and softened trails, the landscape invites us into a season of return—a ritual written...

Winnipeg in Black and White Winnipeg in Black and White is a short virtual exhibit by youth artist Tony Eetak.

Winnipeg in Black and White

Art Borups Corners May 14, 2025

WINNIPEG, MB — A striking new photography exhibition titled Winnipeg in Black and White is now on view, showcasing the...

Back to the Land Lab! The Arts Incubator Land Lab in Northwestern Ontario is a funky outdoor space where we connect art with nature.

Back to the Land Lab!

Jamie Bell May 3, 2025

Our program is hitting the road this summer, from our home base in Winnipeg to Northwestern Ontario!

Shifting Horizons: Edges of Ice and Snow This virtual exhibition, inspired by the "Our People, Our Climate," program showcases Tony Eetak's photographs of Nunavut, providing a unique Inuit perspective on the environmental shifts affecting his homeland.

This virtual exhibition, inspired by the "Our People, Our Climate," program showcases Tony Eetak's photographs of Nunavut, providing a unique Inuit perspective on the environmental shifts affecting his homeland.

Shifting Horizons: Edges of Ice and Snow

Art Borups Corners May 1, 2025

WINNIPEG, MANITOBA -- Inuit youth photographer Tony Eetak is using his lens to capture the changing Arctic...

Light for the Sleeping The sky sings above those who sleep. The wind carries stories no longer spoken aloud. In this northern hush, every tilted cross is a line in a poem written by ancestors — not to be read, but to be felt. Nothing here is gone. Everything waits beneath snow, beneath stars, beneath the turning light.

The sky sings above those who sleep. The wind carries stories no longer spoken aloud. In this northern hush, every tilted cross is a line in a poem written by ancestors — not to be read, but to be felt. Nothing here is gone. Everything waits beneath snow, beneath stars, beneath the turning light.

Light for the Sleeping

Tony Eetak May 1, 2025

Weathered crosses rise from snowdrifts like prayers etched into wind, quietly watching the horizon. This is not...

Edges of Ice Ice rises like fingers sculpted in a moment of thaw—sharp, delicate, reaching toward the low sun. In this blur of focus, what is foreground and what is memory? A crystallized tension sits between presence and erosion, the dirt and grains trapped inside as witness. Nothing here is still, though everything looks like it might be.