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Northwestern Ontario Art Collective
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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.
After a two-week delay from chilly spring weather, our raspberry canes are finally sprouting fresh green leaves. Cold weather held them back, but the community raspberry project at the land lab is officially underway.
Food Security and Innovation

Raspberry Canes Are Finally Sprouting

Help us monitor plant health and growth rates by following our community-led agricultural research updates all summer.
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This summer, our community garden is blending hands-on arts programming with real-world climate action and scientific research. Native milkweed takes years to bloom, so we planted fast-growing Blood Flower for some immediate summer color.
Community Garden

Watching the Milkweed Sprout

We are squinting at the dirt in Melgund Township, watching the first fragile milkweed sprouts break through.
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The young apple trees have officially cleared the winter hurdle, breaking dormancy with intense maroon growth.
Community Garden

Apple Seedlings Meet the Spring Sun

Planted last season, these resilient plants are now showing steady, measurable progress as year two begins.
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The land lab is officially waking up as these bright, resilient blooms finally break through the winter drab.
Community Garden

Daffodils Return

Seeing that brilliant pop of color against the fresh green leaves brings an instant wave of pure relief.
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Raw, sticky, and full of potential, these heavy blocks of wild earth came straight from the ground.
Borups Corners

Clay: Getting Our Hands Dirty

Hidden right beneath our feet, this ancient pocket of lacustrine silt reveals the deep history of Melgund.
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The Punctual Patron Under the Woodshed
Photos and Short Stories

The Punctual Patron Under the Woodshed

A look at the daily routines and peanut-eating habits of a local woodchuck living beneath a backyard woodshed in the Canadian suburbs.
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Discover paintings, ceramics, photography, textiles, and handmade works all priced under $100 in Winnipeg. One weekend only, August 13–16, experience an affordable art show celebrating creativity and local talent.
Winnipeg

Winnipeg Under $100 Art Show: Tickets on sale now!

Winnipeg’s Under $100 Art Show features 100 artists across 20,000 square feet of exhibition space.
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Beautiful red leaves are finally emerging on young apple saplings after a slow start this May.
Photos and Short Stories

Apple Tree Seedlings Take Root

Second-year apple trees started from seed indoors are successfully adapting to their first outdoor spring season.
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Fresh buds on raspberry canes signal that the backyard growing season is officially underway this May.
Food Security and Innovation

Waiting on the Green: Raspberries

Budding raspberry canes bring the first signs of life to grow boxes after a slow spring start.
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Nature’s Hidden Architecture
Photos and Short Stories

Nature’s Hidden Architecture

This close-up view reveals a gorgeous, almost alien structure of splintered fibers and hollowed-out chambers.
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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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