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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.
While examining books from the old schoolhouse in the 1940s-50s, we found several filled with drawings by former students at the time.
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Marginalia

This student artist transformed a quiet afternoon lesson into a dramatic retelling of a midair combat mission.
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Allyson Dunham’s photography captures light, texture, and quiet moments, bringing Northwestern Ontario landscapes and scenes into sharp focus.
Photos and Short Stories

Allyson Dunham Photography Featured at Dyment Spring Exhibition

Allyson Dunham’s photography captures light, texture, and quiet moments, bringing Northwestern Ontario landscapes and scenes into sharp focus.
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Handcrafted fabric pieces reflect decades of experience rooted in family teaching, memory, and everyday making.
Photos and Short Stories

Francine Higgins Textile Arts Featured in Spring Exhibition

Francine Higgins’ textile art highlights Dryden craftsmanship and Northwestern Ontario arts traditions through detailed, handmade sewing work.
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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
Community Lens

May 6: Learn about Nuclear Waste in the UK

You are invited to Get to Know International Collaboration and Projects Around the World featuring the United Kingdom (UK) Geological Disposal Facility (GDF). This special…
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Residents are shaping complex discussions on nuclear futures using creative practices that invite multiple voices into shared spaces.
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Art, Dialogue, and Nuclear Futures in Melgund

Participatory workshops are creating space for honest dialogue as communities respond to one of Canada’s largest projects.
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Charles Félix-Ross: "Producers are good managers. They can manage risk, but they can't manage a war or an exceptional weather event," said Charles-Félix Ross, general manager of the Union des producteurs agricoles, adding that federal research cuts compound the lack of on-farm resilience tools.
Food Security and Innovation

Living Lab Cuts Cutting the Lifeline

Federal research budget cuts threaten Canada's living laboratories initiative designed to test climate-resilient farming practices directly onsite.
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Tanya McArthur Brings Fresh Watercolour Series to Regional Gallery
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Northern Landscapes in Watercolour at 2026 Melgund Art Show

Dryden Artist Tanya McArthur Showcases New Watercolour Collection at 2026 Spring Arts Exhibition in Melgund Township We are pleased to feature Dryden-based artist Tanya McArthur…
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After a long, frosty winter in Northwestern Ontario, our tiny apple seedlings are officially waking up and showing off their first vibrant buds of the season.
Food Security and Innovation

Rooting for Success

Our Tiny Apple Orchard Survives Its First Northern Winter! The wait is finally over, and the results are in: nature is resilient! After a long,…
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Our overgrown raspberry beds will soon be moved as our land lab and local community garden program enters its spring planting season.
Community Garden

Spring Land Lab Cleanup Begins

Spring cleanup begins with the Art Borups Corners Land Lab as raspberry plants prepare for transplant into expanded community gardens.
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Leaders urge Ottawa to establish stabilized, Indigenous-led agricultural funds rather than relying on temporary short-term grant injections.
Food Security and Innovation

Excluded at the Checkbox

Systemic institutional neglect of the fastest-growing demographic in Canadian agriculture directly threatens critical national economic reconciliation goals.
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Latest News and Updates

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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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