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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.
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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Canada’s Nuclear Waste Repository Models Face Critical Data Gaps, Reviewers Warn
Community Lens

Canada’s Nuclear Waste Repository Models Face Critical Data Gaps, Reviewers Warn

Release of South Bruce geoscientific work would build confidence in Revell Site selection, reviewers argue
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Community members came together in Borups Corners this Saturday for the first Everyone Outdoors Together event.
Recreation

Everyone Outdoors Together: A New Outdoor Tradition Begins

Melgund residents gathered outdoors for Canada's first Everyone Outdoors Together event, celebrating connection, active living and community.
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Clusters of winged rhubarb seeds hang heavy on their stalks in early July, slowly transitioning from a pale green to a warm, papery rose. Harvesting these pods right as they begin to dry ensures a high yield of viable seeds before summer winds scatter them across the garden. Saving them now guarantees a brand-new generation of hardy, tart perennials for future spring plantings.
Food Security and Innovation

Beyond the Pie: Why You Should Save Your Rhubarb Seeds

Don't throw away bolted rhubarb stalks. Learn how to easily harvest, dry, and store rhubarb seeds for next spring.
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After the Storm
Borups Corners

After the Storm

It feels like magic, but it’s actually a beautiful mix of physics and atmospheric timing.
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Birch bark is a highly responsive firing material that burns quickly in low oxygen conditions, producing intense carbon black that transfers directly onto clay surfaces during pit firing.
Northern Ontario Arts

Birch for Pit Firing: Exploring Wild Clay and Bark Effects

Summer birch harvest supports both firewood storage and upcoming ceramic pit firing work.
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Blueberries are starting to ripen. A few more weeks and we'll be picking!
Food Security and Innovation

Blueberries. Coming soon!

Firm green blueberries soak up the July sun, promising a sweet, midnight-blue harvest very soon.
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Freshly cut poplar branches drying down under the sun, preparing for a fall pit firing season.
Northern Ontario Arts

Collecting Poplar Brush for Fall Pottery Pit Firings

Seasonal brush collection turns poplar into reliable, no-waste fuel for atmospheric ceramic pit firings in the fall.
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Tanya McArthur crafted these beautiful stuffed animals. They were on sale at the Canada Day Festival artists market at the Dyment Recreation Hall and Park earlier this week. Aren't they adorable?
Borups Corners

Plush Perfection

Beautiful hand-crafted stuffed animals created by Dryden artist Tanya McArthur were on display at this week's artist market.
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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.


BN: 790519573RC0001

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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