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Northwestern Ontario Art Collective
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Art Borups Corners

Art Borup’s Corners is a northern arts incubator based in Melgund Township, Northwestern Ontario, where community-led creativity, land-based practice, and digital innovation come together. Rooted in the cultural rhythms of the boreal forest and shaped by years of grassroots organizing across Ontario, Manitoba, Nunavut, and Minnesota, Borup’s Corners supports artists, youth, and community members through participatory storytelling, climate-focused projects, and creative entrepreneurship. From wild blueberry walks to immersive exhibitions and applied AI research, our seasonal programs and artist residencies foster connection, skill-building, and self-determined expression—all grounded in place, culture, and care.
More than 35 pounds of locally harvested grey, red, and varved wild clay drying after being slaked and processed. Every batch has helped us learn more about the natural materials beneath our feet.
Northern Ontario Arts

Pit Firing Update: Preparing for the Fire

One of our summer Living Lab projects is transforming local wild clays and forest materials into a ceramic research program.
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Dangling beneath broad leaves, these delicate orange blossoms attract hummingbirds while launching seeds like tiny catapults.
Community Garden

Spotted Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis)

With dangling orange lanterns and anti-itch stem sap, Spotted Jewelweed is the ultimate humid-trail companion.
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Looking like a cheerful imposter, the False Sunflower quietly plays by its own unique botanical rules.
Community Garden

False Sunflower (Heliopsis helianthoides)

Don't let the name fool you—the False Sunflower outshines true sunflowers with seeds packed into every petal.
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The fine grains of birch sawdust that will surround the pottery during firing. As the material burns and smoulders, it leaves behind traces of smoke and carbon that become part of the ceramic surface.
Northern Ontario Arts

Smoke, Shadow, and Birch Bark

How a bucket of birch sawdust can change your autumn pit fire forever.
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Famous for its fiery yellow petals, the Black-Eyed Susan delivers essential nectar when other summer flowers fade.
Community Garden

Black-Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)

Famous for its fiery yellow petals, the Black-Eyed Susan delivers essential nectar when other summer flowers fade.
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Canada’s Nuclear Strategy Contradicts Waste Repository Scope, Indigenous Government Warns
Community Lens

Canada’s Nuclear Strategy Contradicts Waste Repository Scope, Indigenous Government Warns

First Nations accuse regulators of breaching the Honour of the Crown by excluding them from nuclear DGR impact assessment process.
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Working outdoors continues to shape beautiful community spaces as we prepare for more summer garden programming.
Community Garden

Watching the Gardens Fill In

Our donated flowers have filled out beautifully, bringing colour, community pride, and new life to Dyment Recreation Park.
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More than 35 pounds of locally harvested grey, red, and varved wild clay drying after being slaked and processed. Every batch has helped us learn more about the natural materials beneath our feet.
Northern Ontario Arts

More Than 35 Pounds of Wild Clay, One Handful at a Time

Forest fires delayed our pit firing, but our wild clay journey continues with beautiful grey, red, and varved native clays.
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A beautiful cluster of native highbush cranberry blossoms blooming along the trails surrounding our land lab.
Community Garden

Highbush Cranberries

A surprising native shrub adds another species to the growing list of plants we love documenting each summer.
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Tomatoes Coming Along
Community Garden

Tomatoes Coming Along

Checking in on the land lab where this year’s tomato crop is coming along nicely.
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Latest News and Updates

  • Pit Firing Update: Preparing for the Fire
  • Spotted Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis)
  • False Sunflower (Heliopsis helianthoides)
  • Smoke, Shadow, and Birch Bark
  • Black-Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)

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Upcoming Events

The Under $100 Art Show is coming to Winnipeg, Manitoba August 13-16, 2026!
The Under $100 Art Show is coming to Winnipeg, Manitoba August 13-16, 2026!

ART BORUPS CORNERS SOCIETY

Art Borups Corners is a non-profit arts incubator based in Melgund Township, Northwestern Ontario. We bring artists, youth, and local residents together through hands-on creative projects, workshops, and storytelling rooted in everyday life in the North. Our focus is on making space for people to try things, share skills, and build confidence through art that grows out of where they live.


We’re also a place for testing ideas and working across different ways of making — from land-based practice to digital work and everything in between. Much of what we do happens through partnerships and shared projects, connecting local creative work with wider conversations while keeping things grounded, practical, and community-led.


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ESTABLISHED WITH FUNDING FROM

Canada Council for the Arts Digital Greenhouse Logo

This program was seeded with funding from the Canada Council for the Arts Digital Greenhouse program. This program allowed us to explore strategic arts innovation, capacity building and new technologies. Programming was also supported by the OpenAI Researcher Access Program, the Ontario Arts Council Multi and Inter-Arts Projects Program and the Province of Ontario. We thank them for their support.

PROGRAMMING SEEDED BY

Ontario Arts Council Multi and Inter-Arts Projects Program
Ontario Arts Council Multi and Inter-Arts Projects Program
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