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Manitoba

The Arts Incubator’s programs in Manitoba, anchored by its Winnipeg hub, provide essential support for Northern and rural artists across the province and into Northwestern Ontario. Established with funding from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Manitoba Arts Council, these initiatives offer mentorship, workshops, digital arts training, and land-based projects that highlight Indigenous creativity, rural innovation, and community-driven arts.

Through its Manitoba programs, the Arts Incubator connects emerging and established artists to networks, resources, and collaborative opportunities that strengthen cultural resilience and sustainability. By fostering place-based creativity, interdisciplinary collaboration, and peer-to-peer learning, the Incubator ensures that local artists can develop their practices, showcase their work, and engage audiences regionally and nationally.

With a focus on Northern perspectives and Manitoba arts, the Incubator positions the province as a hub for transformative, community-rooted artistic projects that resonate across Canada’s cultural landscape.

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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Packing up the fabric scraps and trying to mentally prepare for early alarms again.
Winnipeg

Strong Stitches: A Community of Craft

We’re stitching together a strong community after a summer full of fun and learning. Keep Connected!
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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.
Arts & Creative Leadership

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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This fall and winter, our arts incubator and its nonprofit partners will be exploring boards, governance, and strategic capacity building as a central focus of our programming season.
Arts & Creative Leadership

Exploring Leadership Pipeline Development for Nonprofits

This fall, our arts incubator tackles boards, governance and capacity building grounded in national data.
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Artist and drum dancer Eva Suluk with Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew during the Manitoba–Nunavut gathering in Arviat, Nunavut, July 7, 2026. Photo: Wab Kinew
Arts & Creative Leadership

The Drum Brings Us Together

Arts and culture help build stronger northern connections, bringing communities together through tradition, performance and shared experience.
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This beautiful and colourful mural catches our eye every time we're walking through the north end. Photo: Tony Eetak
Winnipeg

Finding Inspiration in Winnipeg’s North End Murals

Thinking about how community murals come together through local stories, artist collaboration, planning, and a shared sense of place.
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Caribou in the City: Peter Sawatzky’s Seal River Crossing
Winnipeg

Caribou in the City: Peter Sawatzky’s Seal River Crossing

Peter Sawatzky’s Seal River Crossing brings northern Manitoba’s caribou migration into downtown Winnipeg, connecting visitors with wildlife, landscape, and place.
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There is nothing quite like the smell of fresh dill brushing against your hands in the morning. This batch is thriving in the summer heat and is officially ready to elevate tonight’s dinner straight from the backyard.
Food Security and Innovation

We Love Dill.

Dill is one of favourite plants to grow in the summer. It's all about the taste!
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The tilt shift lens brings focus to the heart of the sidewalk, blurring the heavy traffic and overhead skywalks to emphasize the people who make Winnipeg feel truly, deeply alive.
Winnipeg

Winnipeg’s Biggest Art Show Arrives This August

Support Manitoba artists at the first ARTSPOT Under $100 Art Show in Winnipeg, August 13-16 at Portage Place.
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This is our dried and smashed up wild clay that we are now going to turn into powder.
Community Projects

Crushing Wild Clay the Simple Way

Learn how we process harvested wild clay into fine powder using simple tools, natural materials, and traditional methods for pottery.
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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!

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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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