Art Borups Corners
Meet the Art Borups Corners Collective
Our community arts collective, originally supported by the Canada Council for the Arts Digital Greenhouse and the Manitoba Arts Council, fosters creativity and connection through a diverse range of participatory and arts-based programs. From empowering Indigenous youth with digital storytelling and AI tools to hosting immersive workshops that blend traditional and modern techniques, we focus on building skills, sharing stories, and strengthening community bonds.
Bridging cultures and generations, our projects amplify voices, celebrate identity, and nurture innovation, making the arts a catalyst for positive change and resilience.
Art Borups Corners is a youth and community-led program aimed at building organizational capacity through creative leadership and arts-based climate entrepreneurship. Projects have been presented at venues ranging from world class institutions like Qaumajuq and the Winnipeg Art Gallery, to the Arctic Congress in Bodø, Norway.
TONY EETAK
Tony Eetak is an emerging Inuk youth artist and culture connector originally from Arviat, Nunavut and a founding member of the Art Borups Corners collective. Tony’s current participatory arts and research activities supported by the OpenAI Researcher Access Program.
With a growing interest in photography, music and visual arts, Tony has been a dedicated volunteer for participatory arts events in his community, working for more than five years with organizations and projects including the Arviat Film Society, Global Dignity Canada, Inclusion in Northern Research, Our People, Our Climate and Niriqatiginnga. Tony’s art projects have been funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, Manitoba Agriculture and Manitoba Arts Council.
In 2021 he completed his first Creativity for Entrepreneurship online college course through University of Minnesota Duluth Continuing Education and with support from the UMD Cultural Entrepreneurship program. In June 2022 Tony presented some of his creative photography and experiences for the Auviqsaqtut Inuit Studies Conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba with the Our People, Our Climate project and support from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. In 2023 Tony was named a National Role Model by the non-profit organization Global Dignity Canada. Tony was a founding member of the Niriqatiginnga food security pilot program, a in 2023-2024 that explored arts-based and participatory approaches to addressing food security.
ETHAN TASSIUK
Ethan Tassiuk is an artist and filmmaker from Arviat, NU, who graduated from John Arnalukjuak High School in 2017. He has previously studied sports and recreation management at St. Clair College in Windsor, Ontario. He does many jobs behind the camera, including casting, filming and production editing. His interests are in recreation and community development.
Ethan has been involved in film since the age of twelve, when he attended his first meeting as one of the founding members of the Arviat Film Society. He frequently uses his camera to advocate for the health of his community. Tassiuk also shaped an Arviat Youth Art and Film Group in the summer of 2015, which culminated in a safe-sex PSA-style video series in which he starred. Ethan is also a long time volunteer with Global Dignity Canada. He earned a gold medal for Video Production at the Nunavut Territorial Skills Competition in 2017, and competed at the National Skills competition as part of Team Nunavut. His work was on the importance of hope in child development and resilience, was featured in TIME Magazine’s The Science of Our Childhood in September 2017.
Later that year, Tassiuk co-authored a paper which was presented at the Pathways to Resilience IV international summit in South Africa. He travelled to Venice, Italy, in 2019 with Isuma TV at the Canada Pavilion during the Venice Biennale. His work has been funded by the Canada Council for the Arts Digital Greenhouse program. In June 2022 Tony presented some of his creative photography and experiences for the Auviqsaqtut Inuit Studies Conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba with the Our People, Our Climate project and support from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. In 2022 he was awarded the Sovereign's Medal for Volunteers by the Rt. Hon. Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada.
JAMIE BELL
A long-time advocate for community-based arts and research, Jamie’s work has focused on fostering stronger relationships through outreach and engagement. Jamie has worked with arts, media and communications for almost three decades across multiple sectors. His current arts and research is supported by the OpenAI Researcher Access Program.
Jamie is a founding member of the Art Borups Corners Collective. He was also a founding member of the highly-successful Arviat Film Society and Arviat Television with support from Isuma TV’s Digital Indigenous Democracy Project. His previous work includes the ArcticNet-supported Inclusion in Northern Research project. His work has been featured in books and media ranging from TIME, CPAC, the Globe and Mail, Nunatsiaq News, CBC Igalaaq and CBC Radio North among many others. His work has been funded by the Canada Council for the Arts and Manitoba Arts Council. His work ranges from participatory arts to food security, community capacity building and climate change adaptation. He is a long time mentor to Inuit youth.
Projects, presentations and workshops have been convened and delivered by Jamie for Global Dignity Day 2020, 2021 and 2022; National Kindness Week 2022 and 2023; Arctic Change 2020, the 2021 ArcticNet Annual Scientific Meetings; Arctic Science Summit Week 2021 in Lisbon, Portugal, the 2022 Auviqsaqtut Inuit Studies Conference and Arctic Science Summit Week 2023 in Vienna, Austria. Jamie has also been a board member for Global Dignity Canada.
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Arts and Participatory Research
Supporting arts-based and participatory programs, Art Borups Corners was created with funding from the Canada Council for the Arts Digital Greenhouse
Dyment Recreation Hall
The Dyment Recreation Hall is one of the key spaces supporting recreation programming for the township's two communities of Dyment and Borups Corners.
The Cook Shack
The Cook Shack restaurant and food stand is part of our central hub for the community, supporting food security and community events throughout the year.
Visit Our Community Arts and Climate Entrepreneurship Collectives
Our community and regional programs and project have been made possible through support and funding from a number of institutions in the United States and Canada.
