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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.
Growing Apple Trees from Seed
Community Garden

Growing Apple Trees from Seed

Watching our young apple seedlings leaf out brings a genuine sense of excitement to the garden routine.
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Vibrant glow moss carpets the damp boreal forest floor of Northwestern Ontario, creating a lush green wonderland. Lacking true roots, this microscopic ancient plant absorbs moisture directly through its leaves to survive harsh conditions.
Community Garden

Glow Moss: The Living Sponge

Glow Moss (Aulacomnium palustre), is a vibrant, water-retaining bryophyte blanketing the damp forest floors of Northwestern Ontario.
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These tiny native violets hug the cold forest floor to survive harsh northern winds and early frosts. Intricate purple nectar guides act as vivid runway lights, directing early spring pollinators to these microscopic wildflowers.
Photos and Short Stories

Tiny Treasures: The Secret World of White Violets

From feeding native bees to hosting rare butterfly caterpillars, these minuscule plants quietly anchor Ontario’s fragile ecosystem.
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Delayed by a cold spring, unique green and purple apple seedlings finally leaf out in the land lab.
Community Garden

Apple Trees Opening Up

Discover how Art Borups Corners is utilizing a community apple orchard to talk about northern food security.
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Community Breakfast Brunch on May 30
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Community Breakfast Brunch on May 30

Fresh breakfast, friendly faces, and community connection await residents at the Melgund Township Community Breakfast and Brunch event.
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Tiny green threads of dill lift flat, striped seed hulls out of the coarse earth.
Community Garden

The Dill Appears

Dill. Our favourite plant begins its season as a pair of thin shoots in the mulch.
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Rain Catchers: A single bead of rainwater rests perfectly in the center of a radiating lupine leaf, capturing the quiet, green morning light of a northern garden.
Community Garden

Lupines: Living Lenses in the Soil

Lupines shape the soil and inspire creative growth in our Northwestern Ontario community garden.
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This rugged clump of Common Wood-rush stands out against the surrounding terrain at our Northwestern Ontario land lab. The plant showcases its characteristic wide, flat leaves mixed with weathered, papery brown tips left over from surviving a brutal Boreal winter under the snow. On the left side, the newly emerging spring flower clusters are already waving on thin stalks above the dense mound.
Community Garden

Wood Rush

Wood-rush looks like grass but belongs to a different family. Learn to spot this resilient native plant in Northwestern Ontario.
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A northwestern Ontario arts and speaker series event focused on grief, memory, and healing, featuring artist Leanne Nicholson. This session explores how loss reshapes the body, work, and identity, and how art becomes a practice of holding experience that cannot be fully expressed in language.
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After Leah with Leanne Nicholson

June’s Artist Speaker Series invites community reflection on grief, memory, mental wellness, healing, and contemporary northern creative expression.
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Known traditionally as kinnikinnick, this resilient groundcover provides critical early season sustenance for hungry native queen bumblebees. Later this summer, these delicate pink clusters will transform into bright red berries that feed local bears.
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Boreal Bells: Wild Bearberry

These hardy evergreen shrubs use urn shaped blossoms to protect their precious nectar from harsh northern elements.
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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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