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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.
Melgund Township is home to two of Ontario’s smallest rural communities, Borups Corners and Dyment, each rooted in a long history of northern settlement and community life. Despite their size, both communities continue to stay active through local recreation, culture, and shared public spaces. Travellers passing through Northwestern Ontario are welcomed at the historic Dyment Community Hall, built in 1929, which remains a central gathering place and a familiar stop for those travelling across Canada on Highway 17.
Tourism

Visit Melgund Township in Northwestern Ontario

Visit Melgund Township in Northwestern Ontario, just off Highway 17 on Highway 603, offering a welcoming rural stop with rest facilities and seasonal cultural exhibits.
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The Land Lab's sustainable agriculture project expands this summer with the successful cultivation of traditional herbs like sage, enriching our storytelling initiative.
Community Garden

How to Care for Sage

Learn how to care for sage with our expert guide to sunlight, watering, and pruning.
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Beautiful, ripe strawberries, hand-picked after a season of careful cultivation.
Community Garden

How Often to Water Strawberries?

A lot of people have been asking: How often to water strawberries?
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Canada addresses infrastructure gaps in national AI strategy
Community Lens

Canada addresses infrastructure gaps in national AI strategy

Federal planners seek to secure domestic computing capacity and prevent local innovations from moving abroad
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A fun, collaborative arts project shows how AI literacy can develop through creative activities, local culture, and community-based digital engagement in rural Canada.
Community Lens

How Community Arts Can Support AI Literacy

A weekend arts project in Northwestern Ontario demonstrates how creativity, community participation, and AI tools can support digital literacy and learning.
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New Canada AI strategy to boost employment
Community Lens

New Canada AI strategy to boost employment

Low adoption rates among small businesses prompt a massive federal employment and technology push
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A summer research project examining how WordPress, React, and AI can expand digital opportunities for grassroots organizations.
News

Can AI Help Small Arts Organizations Build Better Websites?

Investigating how artificial intelligence and modern web development can strengthen digital heritage, arts, and cultural initiatives.
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A vibrant, purple chive blossom bursts forth in a delicate, globe-like cluster of tiny florets, a beautiful and edible jewel in the garden. Set against a dense backdrop of their slender, emerald-green, and onion-scented stalks, this blooming stage signifies a healthy, well-established plant.
Community Garden

How to Care for Chives

Learn how to care for chives with our comprehensive guide to sunlight, watering, and soil. Discover the simple steps to keep this cold-hardy perennial producing…
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Blooming before the trees leaf out, this resilient native sedge brings early life to shaded northern forests. With its signature triangular stems, Pennsylvania sedge forms soft, flowing green carpets under the dense boreal canopy.
Community Garden

Golden Tassels: Pennsylvania Sedge

Learn how Ontario's wild Pennsylvania sedge uses wind pollination and creeping roots to anchor dry woodland ecosystems.
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One of the newest additions, this apple tree was seeded last winter in the greenhouse and was just planted in its new home.
Community Garden

How to Care for Apple Trees

Discover how to care for apple trees from planting to harvest.
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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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