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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.

Community isn't always about being in the same room at the same time. It's the encouragement, shared ideas, small acts of kindness and willingness to pitch in that keep people connected, even when life takes them in different directions.
Arts & Creative Leadership

Happy Thanksgiving!

From community gardens to creative technology, we're looking ahead to fall and winter while wishing everyone a peaceful Thanksgiving weekend.
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A close-up view of Manitoba maple leaves glowing in vivid pink and deep crimson tones under the crisp autumn light.
Winnipeg

Forget Muted Yellows: The Manitoba Maple’s Autumn Transformation

Exploring Winnipeg’s autumn streets as Manitoba maple trees turn brilliant shades of crimson, pink, and fiery red.
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Games are some of the most effective classrooms for understanding digital logic and user experience design. By breaking chess down into state changes, coordinates, and feedback loops, we turned abstract coding concepts into something immediately tangible and fun to play with.
Community Projects

Bush Chess

Bush Chess blends art, code, and game logic. Read our weekend lab notes and take the prototype for a spin!
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Pausing on our walk back downtown to capture the alien beauty of one of Canada’s most striking architectural achievements.
Winnipeg

The Spaceship in Our Backyard

A crisp autumn walk through Winnipeg’s Forks turned into a moment of awe at the alien-like CMHR structures.
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A macro shot highlighting the intricate, velvety buds and tight geometric spiral of a Manitoba lupine in bloom.
Winnipeg

Purple Geometric Lupines: The Summer Gem We Almost Forgot to Share

Autumn is here, but this vivid purple lupine from earlier this summer in Winnipeg deserved its own spotlight.
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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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A Little Rest Before the Long Journey
Photos and Short Stories

A Little Rest Before the Long Journey

The monarch migration is underway, and this beautiful butterfly pauses briefly before continuing south.
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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 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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  • Forget Muted Yellows: The Manitoba Maple’s Autumn Transformation
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!
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!

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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