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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.
Arts programming rooted in northern communities supports healing through storytelling, creative practice, and shared cultural expression processes.
Community Lens

May is Mental Health Awareness Month

Community-led initiatives continue shaping mental health conversations through art, dialogue, and intergenerational knowledge exchange across regions.
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Wild berries depend on the unique buzz-pollination skills only our native bumble bees bring to the boreal forest.
Photos and Short Stories

The Boreal’s Best Brawler

Planting milkweed and goldenrod ensures that Northwestern Ontario remains a thriving stronghold for bees and migrating butterflies.
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Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) manages the delivery of the UK’s first Geological Disposal Facility (GDF). The UK Government’s GDF siting process requires Nuclear Waste Services to identify both a suitable site and a willing host community
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Events: Get to Know Nuclear Waste Projects Around the World

Lessons from the UK reveal how engagement, transparency, and long-term thinking are essential in decisions affecting generations.
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Ontario nonprofits must adopt by-laws early, defining how decisions, meetings, and responsibilities will function internally.
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Hosting Your First Nonprofit Board Meeting

The first board meeting sets up governance systems, roles, banking authority, and operational foundations for nonprofits.
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A silent predator waits beneath the waves while a merchant vessel sails across a textbook's deep margins.
Borups Corners

Marginalia: At Sea

A bored student used their pencil to document the terrifying reality of naval warfare during their lessons.
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Squeezing these velvety soft catkins is the only acceptable way to celebrate the arrival of the mud.
Photos and Short Stories

Spring’s Fuzzy First Responders

Forget the calendar because the first sight of a pussy willow is the true start of spring.
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The first nonprofit board meeting in Ontario is required but does not need public advertising whatsoever. Ontario law only requires notice to directors, not the public, for initial organizational board meetings.
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First Board Meetings for Ontario Nonprofits

This meeting establishes governance foundations like by-laws, officers, banking, and internal operational decision-making structures.
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Domestic fruit growers face severe financial distress after operating at an outright net loss for consecutive years.
Food Security and Innovation

The Squeeze on Canadian Agriculture

Canadian greenhouse profit margins plummeted from nine percent to five percent due to rampant input cost inflation.
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Find the perfect Mother’s Day gift at the Métis Center’s massive craft market this Saturday morning, like these beautiful dragonfly cards painted by Dryden artist Tanya McArthur.
Photos and Short Stories

Painted Wings and Local Things

Join local artists Tanya McArthur and Francine Higgins for a day of unique handmade shopping in Wabigoon.
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Leanne Nicholson’s Land-Based Art Featured in Spring Exhibition
Melgund Township

Leanne Nicholson’s Land-Based Art Featured in Spring Exhibition

Leanne Nicholson’s work blends natural materials with vivid imagery, reflecting Northwestern Ontario landscapes, wildlife, and land-based artistic practice.
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Latest News and Updates

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  • Blueberries. Coming soon!
  • Collecting Poplar Brush for Fall Pottery Pit Firings

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Upcoming Events

The Nuclear Waste Management Organization is inviting residents and land users in the area of Canada's proposed Deep Geological Repository for used nuclear fuel to participate in a Diet and Land-Use Survey. The information collected will help inform local perspectives as the project moves through the federal regulatory process.

The survey can be completed online or through an in-person interview at the Ignace Learn More Centre. It is open until September 7, 2026, and participants will have the opportunity to enter a draw to win one of twenty C$125 gift cards redeemable at local businesses.
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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