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Melgund Township, Northwestern Ontario
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Home / Northern Ontario Art

Northern Ontario Art

Northern Ontario art showcases the creativity, resilience, and cultural depth of communities across the region. Small towns and rural hubs, including Borups Corners, Dyment, and Dryden, are home to vibrant artistic activity that blends tradition, experimentation, and collaboration. Initiatives like Art Borups Corners are central to this ecosystem, supported by the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts, fostering interdisciplinary projects, digital arts, and community-based programming across Northwestern Ontario. Through workshops, exhibitions, and participatory projects, Art Borups Corners demonstrates how Northern Ontario art strengthens local identity, connects communities, and contributes to the province’s broader cultural landscape.

The Sovereign Stack redefines innovation for Northern Ontario’s arts sector—building creative capacity through local ownership and sustainable tools.
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From StartUP to SustainUP

A new approach to creative innovation in Northern Ontario Arts: empowering artists and collectives to own their digital future.
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Celebrating Northern Arts
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Celebrating Northern Arts

A grassroots arts incubator in Borups Corners empowers Northern Ontario artists with skills, mentorship, and opportunity.
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Working Together
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Working Together

Northern Ontario's arts scene thrives when boards and staff work together for capacity building.
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What Staff and Volunteers Do
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What Staff and Volunteers Do

Understanding how staff and volunteers can build nonprofit capacity is key to the Northern Ontario arts community.
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Understanding Northern Boards
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Understanding Northern Boards

Understanding Northern Boards: What They Do (and Don’t Do) This month, we’re exploring governance — what it really means, why it matters, and how it shapes the…
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We're having so much fun this week exploring how to convert and repurpose photos from our program that we thought we'd make a few colouring pages and templates!
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Colouring: From Photo to Palate

We're turning our favourite summer photos into custom coloring pages – ready for your creative touch!
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Latest Local News

  • Government of Canada announces beginning of proposed Nuclear Waste DGR Impact Assessment
  • Share Your Insights on Nuclear Waste, Diet and Land Use
  • Tiny Details, Big Possibilities
  • Colours to Dye For: Rob Franklin’s Tie-Dye T-Shirts Steal the Show
  • Summer Arts: Wild Clay Experiment Shows Promising Early Results

Nuclear Waste Management

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.

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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