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Ontario Arts

The Arts Incubator is an active contributor to the growth of Ontario arts, with a strong focus on supporting communities across Northern and Northwestern Ontario. From Winnipeg to Dryden, Ignace, Melgund, and Dyment, the Incubator delivers mentorship, workshops, and digital arts programming that connect local artists to broader networks and opportunities. With support from the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts, its initiatives highlight Indigenous creativity, rural innovation, and the cultural strength of the North. By investing in community-driven projects, the Arts Incubator ensures that Ontario arts remain vibrant, inclusive, and representative of the diverse voices shaping Canada’s cultural future.

Work in Culture Report: Ontario Cultural Careers Facing Breaking Point
Creative Entrepreneurship

Work in Culture Report: Ontario Cultural Careers Facing Breaking Point

New research from Nordicity, OCAD University and Work in Culture exposes massive income gaps and administrative burnout across Ontario's arts and design sectors.
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Community workshop addresses grief, resilience, and support systems, encouraging open dialogue and creative approaches to healing.
Arts & Creative Leadership

Supporting Grief and Healing Through Art and Conversation

Artist-led workshop examines mental health, grief, and healing through art, focusing on storytelling and emotional processing.
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Lund’s Cozy Cabins
Photos and Short Stories

Lund’s Cozy Cabins

Looking at old signs from long-gone businesses in Northwestern Ontario.
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From Hearth to Hospitality
Photos and Short Stories

From Hearth to Hospitality

Explore Northwestern Ontario heritage through vintage stoves, stoneware, and local motel artifacts at our new museum exhibition.
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This beautiful, but heavily worn, Volvo P1800 sports coupe—famous for its elegant design and starring role in The Saint—now sits quietly, its original red paint fading to purple. The distinct curves and chrome details are still visible beneath the rust, suggesting a glamorous life that ended here among the trees.
Photos and Short Stories

The Saint’s Last Stand: A Volvo P1800

Once driven by The Saint across Europe, this elegant Swedish sports car now sits rusting, quietly surrendered to the deep woods.
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This weathered side panel, likely belonging to a Ford Model A or similar early 20th-century vehicle, features the ghosted hand-painted signage of "Percy Anderson's Garage Dyment." The bold lettering, despite decades of exposure, serves as a tangible link to a local business from a bygone era.
Photos and Short Stories

The Ghost of Percy Anderson’s Garage

An antique truck's faded door retains the hand-painted sign of "Percy Anderson's Garage Dyment," linking us to early local commerce.
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This old Huey St. Aubin Lumber truck is likely a 1942 model Dodge Power Wagon. It tells the tough story of Northern Ontario hauling.
Photos and Short Stories

The Lumber Truck’s Last Haul

This old 1942 Dodge Power Wagon with "Huey St. Aubin Lumber" on its door stands as a silent sentinel of Ramore's logging history.
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This rugged 1954 Chevrolet 3100 truck rests quietly, its once-vibrant blue paint now a beautiful, multi-hued patina earned over decades of exposure to the elements.
Photos and Short Stories

A Sentinel of the Forest

Witness the weathered 1954 Chevrolet "bullnose" pickup, an enduring American classic slowly being reclaimed by the wild.
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Arts collectives can escape chaos by replacing committee management with system flow and algorithmic stewardship.
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Creative Flow

The future of creative leadership isn’t HR—it’s algorithmic stewardship, where systems replace meetings and unleash art.
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Research suggests AI isn’t replacing northern artists—it’s openinig up the potential for them go further.
Artificial Intelligence

Beyond Chatbots

AI agents are transforming work, moving beyond conversation to handle tasks, automate processes, and act intelligently.
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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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