Artbeat Studio Inc

02/03/2026

We are a month into the artist residency with group 42! What do you remember from your first month in the residency? How did you change from the beginning to the end?

Share your thoughts for anyone interested in joining the program. How was your experience?

All happy, silly, heavy, warm, mushy, and kind memories are welcome.

[ID: "Group 42" in bold, red text over a faded photo of the studio.]

01/31/2026

SELF-LOVE by L.J. Anderson opens February 6th for First Friday in the Exchange.

With a theme of nature in all its beautiful, dark, and mystical forms, each piece is masterfully painted with soft yet powerful spirit. The hand of the artist carries through.

Stop by 4th floor - 62 Albert St between 5:30 pm - 9 pm to join us at the opening. Call 204-943-5194 for a stair-free entrance.

Can't make it opening night? The show runs until February 20, 12 noon - 5 pm, Monday - Friday.

[ID: Poster for "Self-Love," the info is placed between two halves of a fox painting, one in bright orange, the other a subdued yellow depicting the image through the eyes of someone with deuteranopia colourblindness.]

01/30/2026

Art from the Heart is back for another year! Applications are open now for low-income artists and those with disabilities. Participation is free and 100% of sales return to the artists.

Art must be original work created within the last year, smaller than 20" x 20", and ready to hang.

If you want to be one of the 75 artists in this year’s show, please complete the application by April 13th, 2026.

Find all the info on how to sign up on our website. You can find a link directly to our Art from the Heart page in our bio.

For any assistance in completing the application form or general information about this amazing event, please email contact@artbeatstudio.ca call us at (204) 943-5194 or visit us at Studio Central.

For inquiries, sponsorship, and advertisement opportunities, please email us at contact@artbeatstudio.ca.

[ID: Poster announcing info for Art from the Heart 2026.]

01/27/2026

It's not too late to get your hands on a copy of our magnificent 2026 calendar. Showcasing beautiful art inspired by Manitoban nature, all created by local artists.

Featuring the art of:
Chloe Everly
Elizabeth Werestiuk
Ildiko Nova
Ilyd
Jaime Vaughn
Kaizic L. Fontaine
Kevin Grummett
Logan Xiong-Powell
Marie LeBlanc
Marrisa Hoff
Renata (Ren) Bikar
Stephanie Phillips
Tom Bode
Vanessa Russell
Zephyr Mask

All proceeds support Artbeat and our work to make art and mental health supports more accessible.

Art available in the gallery or online at upbeatartworks.com

[ID: The front of the 2026 Artbeat calendar featuring a watercolour painting of trees across a lake under a moody, moonlit sky.]

01/22/2026

Our artists-in-residents getting messy on our first day in the pottery room with some clay foundations facilitated by Eleanor and Jayme

[ID: An overhead view of 7 artists rolling out coils in dark brown clay, the surrounding table is filled with clay, tools, and cups.]

01/21/2026

We want to see your art!

While we see many beautiful pieces pass through our gallery and studio, we still want to see more. And we hope to share it with the rest of the community as well!

Use on your posts and we'll check in regularly to admire your work and share on our stories.

Whether you see us nearly every day or haven't checked in for a while, we want to hear from you. Let’s keep creating!

[ID: Yellow and orange swirling colours with deep red text that reads "share your art with us" along with some of the details from the caption.]

01/14/2026

Our January newsletter has landed! 💛
From welcoming Group 42 to the studio, to sharing our one-of-a-kind 2026 fundraising calendar and thoughts on creativity and mental health—there’s so much to start the year with heart.
👉 Read the newsletter and join us for what’s ahead.
https://conta.cc/4sLJLbE

Email from Artbeat Studio Creativity, connection, and new beginnings at Artbeat Studio background artwork from Artbeat 2026 Calendar Hello Artbeat Community, As we step into a new year, we’re reminded

01/14/2026

Our artist residency just got an amazing refresh thanks to !
All our studios have brand-new, clean, light, and functional furniture to make our spaces tidier and more flexible.

And just in time for our new residency group to move in. Welcome group 42!

[ID: A studio space with a white desk, 2 shelving units, a locked cabinet, and an easel, an artist has started to fill the space with supplies and belongings.]

01/07/2026

WHAT DID YOU LEARN IN 2025?

We are interested in hearing your answers and they may just help others on their journey as well!

Whether you see it as a grand refresh or just another day, it’s always a great time for reflection. Happy new year!

[ID: Reflection question typed in a simple font over a stippled painting in various shades of green.]

12/19/2025

THE ROYAL ALCHEMY closes for in-person viewing today at 5 pm, but that doesn't mean you've completely missed your chance after today.

See the show online and even purchase pieces until December 27 at the-royal-alchemy.square.site (link in our description).

[ID: A screen capture of the Royal Alchemy website, a drop-down menu includes all the artist's names over a page showing the title of the show from the poster.]

12/18/2025

Tomura Johnson is a Winnipeg-based artist whose work transforms inner chaos into clarity. From a young age, he found comfort in drawing, repeatedly tracing Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy VII until the familiar lines became their own. Anime, video games, and storytelling have remained steady influences; creative worlds that have shaped him, grounded them, and at times, helped save him.
Tomura’s practice centers on anime-inspired self-portraits rendered through graphite, coloured pencil, paint, and words. Writing, poetry, fragments, narrative sparks, is essential to their visual language. His work blends imagery and text to articulate emotions that resist easy explanation, helping them translate overwhelm into forms he can understand. For Tomura, art is both a grounding force and a way to make sense of the world inside and around them.

Throughout his life, Tomura has been aware of his system: complex, challenging, and also a source of creativity and resilience. Art became the primary way the system communicated, evolving from chaotic signals into connection and clarity. During his Artbeat residency, following a challenging season that affected the entire system, they found space to process, reorganize, and grow. These months brought stability, clearer roles, improved communication, and major “glow-ups” among the main hosts, allowing him to reclaim confidence, ambition, and excitement for life.

Tomura hopes viewers feel seen and validated through their work: that their stories matter, and that it is always okay to not be okay. And if the only thing that gets you out of bed is picking up a pencil—then pick up the pencil. Do the thing that keeps you alive.

The Royal Alchemy: 41st biannual art exhibition runs December 15 to 19, 12 noon to 5 pm at 4th floor - 62 Albert St.

[ID: A photo of the artist on a background of purple stars.]

12/18/2025

Victoria McFarlane is a multidisciplinary artist whose creative roots stretch back to early childhood in Winnipeg, where she spent her days at her Grandma Marie’s daycare drawing "The Groovy Girls” comic books for her friends. A lifelong creator, she has always felt most at home in artistic spaces, excelling in any form of expression – from illustration and language arts to baking.

Her practice today is grounded in mixed media, with a deep focus on acrylic painting, digital work, and, most recently, clay. During her artist-residency, clay became a transformative medium for her – an imminent, hands-on way to shape full stories and feel their impact in real time.

Victoria’s work is driven by her identity as a tri-racial, q***r woman of colour and by the realities of navigating the world through a neurodivergent lens. Culture, spirituality, and lived experiences of joy, resilience, love, as well as social injustice form the backbone of her art. Even when a piece isn’t explicitly about neurodivergence, she considers it inherently neurodivergent – an extension of how she receives and processes the world.

Her creative process is intuitive, nonlinear, and deeply connected to the people who inspire her, especially her mom, dad, brother, partner Bolade, and the communities she has served through frontline work. Through pieces like “Ni**as Can Meditate, Ni**as Can Levitate,” she explores not only histories of harm but also abundance of light, life, and liberation.

Victoria hopes viewers walk away from her art with a different perspective because, to her, experiencing life through another person is the key to universal empathy. Her time at Artbeat shifted how she views art, success, and herself, shaping how she moves through the world as an artist.

The Royal Alchemy: 41st biannual art exhibition runs December 15 to 19, 12 noon to 5 pm at 4th floor - 62 Albert St.

[ID: A photo of the artist on a background of purple stars.]