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64 Special STOCK The Forks is home to several galleries featuring Aboriginal and multi-cultural works, and private galleries proliferate throughout the city. Head to Corydon Avenue to shop for unique pottery at the Stoneware Gallery, check out paintings, jewelry and more at Woodlands Gallery on Academy Road, and peruse new works at La Galerie in St. Boniface's Centre Cultural Franco-Manitobain. The Exchange District is a creative hotbed for artists, collectives and galleries. Drop by Artspace on Arthur Street to catch an independent film at the Winnipeg Film Group's ground-floor theatre Cinematheque, and cruise exhibits on the same floor at the Platform Gallery Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts. On McDermot Avenue, Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Gallery is housed in the same building as artist-run contemporary gallery Aceart Inc. , just up the street from Mayberry Fine Art, where you may find works by sculptors Leo Mol and Joe Fafard alongside a Group of Seven painting. Look for a digital painting by MURAL, MURAL on the WALL It's often said that Boissevain is big on art, and it's easy to see. Artists have drawn on area history to create more than 20 murals around the southwest Manitoba town, depicting scenes from a one-room schoolhouse, Saturday night on the town, an old sawmill and much more. Check into tours at the visitor centre near Tommy Turtle, the town's 28-foot-tall mascot. In Thompson, it's hard to miss a 10-storey high mural of a wolf created from a Robert WORTH the Trip There must be something in the water. Wherever you go in Manitoba, local artists are producing one-of-a-kind pieces of jewelry, pottery, paintings, sculptures and multi-media works, which are often displayed in unique settings. Dauphin's Watson Art Centre is a provincial heritage site, housed in the 1905 town hall, while the Selkirk Community Arts Centre has taken up residence in a historic post office on Main Street. The Flin Flon Arts Council encompasses a theatre company, a quilting guild and the Flin Flon Community Choir — which has performed at New York City's Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Centre — and the Northern Visual Arts Centre, which exhibits pottery, paintings, stained glass and other works. Look for three-dimensional works made from caribou hair and carvings in antlers and whalebone at Churchill's Arctic Trading Company. In Brandon, the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba has roots dating back to 1907. The gallery has amassed a large collection of Aboriginal art, contemporary paintings, ceramics and textiles. Browse in the gift shop for art to go. > watsonartcentre.com > gwenfoxgallery.com > flinflonartscouncil.com > norvacentre.com > arctictradingco.com > agsm.ca musician-activist Buffy Sainte-Marie at Gurevich Fine Art on Albert Street and check out curated exhibits at a satellite location at McNally Robinson Booksellers at Grant Park. The Graffiti Gallery on Higgins Avenue is devoted to nurturing youth and fostering community development, with classes, curated exhibits and a satellite gallery at the Skate Plaza at The Forks. > tourismwinnipeg.com/things-to-do/ arts-and-culture/galleries Bateman drawing. The wolf towers over Thompson's Spirit Way walking path, which is lined with painted wolf statues. And in Winnipeg, more than 400 murals depict scenes of community life and history. > boissevain.ca > themuralsofwinnipeg.com OUTDOOR ART GALLERY IN BOISSEVAIN Meet me at The Forks. theforks.com #FindMeAtTheForks