Workshops for Artists

Empower your creativity with business-focused workshops

Creative Manitoba works with various partner organizations to offer one-off workshops and workshop series throughout the year. All of our programs have a focus on the business side of being an artist and are taught by artists and professionals from a variety of disciplines. Topics include artist taxes, grant writing, arts marketing, social media, artist websites, and more. Check out all of the upcoming workshops!

Featured Classes & Workshops for Artists

Check out some of our upcoming workshops tailored to artists who want to increase their business acumen, develop their artistic practice, or just brush up on some hard skills. See the full list of workshops below.

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Pitching Your Purpose | Creative Entrepreneurship Day 2026

March 14, 2026
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Ozhitoon jii Miigiweng (To create and to share) Ziigwan Renewal

March 28, 2026

Need a more concentrated approach?

Do you need a professional kick start to your creative career? Do you need support and direction with the business side of your art? Feel a need to connect with peers facing similar challenges?

The Art of Managing Your Career may be for you! Guided by a knowledgeable team leader, this program provides artists with access to a professional co-working space and business skills training with guest lecturing by seasoned industry professionals. Participants will also get access to coaching from industry experts in business planning, finance and tax management, marketing and social media, and life work balance. This program is open to artists of all disciplines running their own creative practice.

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Spring renewal for your arts business

Creative Entrepreneurship Day is Creative Manitoba’s annual conference for emerging artists of all disciplines and ages. It’s a day designed to teach you the basics of how to take your art into the world as a self-employed business, no matter the discipline. Every spring, we learn from a new group of amazing local creators who’ve been through it all.

All Creative Manitoba Workshops for Artists

  • Red City Voices with David A. Robertson

    Canadian Plains Gallery B1 - 290 McDermot Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
    Winter is for storytelling and RED CITY VOICES is a space for Indigenous poetry and storytelling, it’s an open mic gathering, with special guests at Canadian Plains Gallery.
  • Finding Your Artistic Voice with Bonnie Marin

    MAWA - Mentoring Artists for Women's Art 203 - 329 Cumberland Ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
    Erratic? Unfocused? Lost in the sauce? Do you feel like your artistic practice may be experiencing an identity crisis? This workshop will help visual artists find and develop their distinct artistic voice. It will explore ways to focus your practice and develop a cohesive and personal body of work. A unified body of work is almost […]
  • Pitching Your Purpose | Creative Entrepreneurship Day 2026

    Launch Coworking - Exchange 167 Lombard Ave suite 500, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
    On March 14, 2026, Creative Entrepreneurship Day returns with ‘Pitching Your Purpose’! How do you tell your story? How do you wrap up all the things you do into a neat little package? In this year’s event, we will explore who we are as artists, what we put into the world, and how to communicate […]
    Get Tickets Free – $30.00 30 tickets left
  • Ozhitoon jii Miigiweng (To create and to share) Ziigwan Renewal

    Creative Manitoba - 4th Floor Large Classroom 300-245 McDermot Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
    Indigenous Knowledge Keepers and artists Albert McLeod (Cree) and Lita Fontaine (Dakota/Anishinaabe), will facilitate in guiding participants through a holistic hands-on experience enhancing the learning of Self and Indigenous Ways of Knowing.
    Get Tickets $50.00 – $75.00 16 tickets left