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Beyond Growth: Art and Storytelling

Our Living Lab transforms overlooked plants into art. Storytelling, photography, and nature discovery thrive here.
Art Borups Corners June 27, 2025
Vibrant orange and yellow hawkweed blossoms dot the fields at the Living Lab, providing a striking subject for this year's photography and plant documentation focus.

Vibrant orange and yellow hawkweed blossoms dot the fields at the Living Lab, providing a striking subject for this year's photography and plant documentation focus.

Capturing the Stories and Colors of Everyday Plants Through Art

This year at the Living Lab, our lenses are turning towards the plants that quietly surround us every day, those we often overlook. While much of our summer’s work focuses on sustainable agriculture, relationship development, community engagement and building food security, our underlying mission is always the vibrant integration of art, life-long learning, and traditional knowledge. This season, as part of our summer storytelling program and building on last year’s pilot programming, we’re keenly aware of the diverse plant life beyond our cultivated beds.

We’ve certainly discovered a lot of plants we didn’t know about, or had never truly paid attention to before.

One of our main photography focus points this summer is exactly these kinds of plants – those “all around us.” Take the beautiful hawkweed, for instance, seen dotting our fields in June. These seemingly common plants create a stunning view of bright orange and yellow colors, a perfect subject for our cameras. The way they cluster and pop with intensity makes for truly captivating images, pushing our artists to see familiar landscapes with fresh eyes. This visual plant documentation is vital to our artistic practice here.

Through photography workshops and shared observations, we’re collecting images, but also information and stories about these often-unnoticed species. Each close-up shot becomes a narrative about nature connection, highlighting the intricate details and ecological roles of even the most humble flora. This deep dive into the natural world, whether through our community garden work or simply observing what grows wild, enriches our environmental education efforts and weaves a broader narrative of understanding about the land we inhabit. The hawkweed, with its unassuming beauty, has become a wonderful symbol of this year’s artistic discoveries.

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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 AI-powered exhibitions, our seasonal programs and artist residencies foster connection, skill-building, and self-determined expression—all grounded in place, culture, and care.

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NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO ARTS PROGRAMS

This platform, our Northwestern Ontario hub and programs have been made possible with support from the Ontario Arts Council Multi and Inter-Arts Projects Program. We gratefully acknowledge their funding and support in making the work we do possible.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Arts Incubator and Art Borups Corners Collective was seeded with strategic arts innovation funding from the Canada Council for the Arts Digital Greenhouse and the Local Services Board of Melgund. We thank them for their investment, support and bringing the arts to life.

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Borups Corners Arts and Recreation supports arts and recreation in Melgund Township, Northwestern Ontario as volunteer-driven Arts Collective.

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