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Northwestern Ontario Art Collective
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Northwestern Ontario

Northwestern Ontario is a region defined by its vast landscapes, resilient communities, and growing creative movement. Projects like Art Borups Corners and The Arts Incubator are helping shape a new era of collaboration and artistic innovation across the North. Supported by the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts, these initiatives foster interdisciplinary creation, digital arts, and community-based projects that reflect the unique spirit of Northern Ontario. From Melgund Township to Borups Corners and Dyment, Northwestern Ontario is emerging as a vibrant hub where artists and residents work together to strengthen cultural identity and expand opportunities for creative growth across the region.

Canada’s Nuclear Strategy Contradicts Waste Repository Scope, Indigenous Government Warns
Community Lens

Canada’s Nuclear Strategy Contradicts Waste Repository Scope, Indigenous Government Warns

First Nations accuse regulators of breaching the Honour of the Crown by excluding them from nuclear DGR impact assessment process.
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Working outdoors continues to shape beautiful community spaces as we prepare for more summer garden programming.
Community Garden

Watching the Gardens Fill In

Our donated flowers have filled out beautifully, bringing colour, community pride, and new life to Dyment Recreation Park.
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More than 35 pounds of locally harvested grey, red, and varved wild clay drying after being slaked and processed. Every batch has helped us learn more about the natural materials beneath our feet.
Northern Ontario Arts

More Than 35 Pounds of Wild Clay, One Handful at a Time

Forest fires delayed our pit firing, but our wild clay journey continues with beautiful grey, red, and varved native clays.
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A beautiful cluster of native highbush cranberry blossoms blooming along the trails surrounding our land lab.
Community Garden

Highbush Cranberries

A surprising native shrub adds another species to the growing list of plants we love documenting each summer.
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Tomatoes Coming Along
Community Garden

Tomatoes Coming Along

Checking in on the land lab where this year’s tomato crop is coming along nicely.
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Canada’s Nuclear Waste Repository Models Face Critical Data Gaps, Reviewers Warn
Community Lens

Canada’s Nuclear Waste Repository Models Face Critical Data Gaps, Reviewers Warn

Release of South Bruce geoscientific work would build confidence in Revell Site selection, reviewers argue
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Community members came together in Borups Corners this Saturday for the first Everyone Outdoors Together event.
Recreation

Everyone Outdoors Together: A New Outdoor Tradition Begins

Melgund residents gathered outdoors for Canada's first Everyone Outdoors Together event, celebrating connection, active living and community.
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Clusters of winged rhubarb seeds hang heavy on their stalks in early July, slowly transitioning from a pale green to a warm, papery rose. Harvesting these pods right as they begin to dry ensures a high yield of viable seeds before summer winds scatter them across the garden. Saving them now guarantees a brand-new generation of hardy, tart perennials for future spring plantings.
Food Security and Innovation

Beyond the Pie: Why You Should Save Your Rhubarb Seeds

Don't throw away bolted rhubarb stalks. Learn how to easily harvest, dry, and store rhubarb seeds for next spring.
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After the Storm
Borups Corners

After the Storm

It feels like magic, but it’s actually a beautiful mix of physics and atmospheric timing.
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Birch bark is a highly responsive firing material that burns quickly in low oxygen conditions, producing intense carbon black that transfers directly onto clay surfaces during pit firing.
Northern Ontario Arts

Birch for Pit Firing: Exploring Wild Clay and Bark Effects

Summer birch harvest supports both firewood storage and upcoming ceramic pit firing work.
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Latest Local News

  • Canada’s Nuclear Strategy Contradicts Waste Repository Scope, Indigenous Government Warns
  • Watching the Gardens Fill In
  • More Than 35 Pounds of Wild Clay, One Handful at a Time
  • Highbush Cranberries
  • Tomatoes Coming Along
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.


BN: 790519573RC0001

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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