Visual Arts

Banff Centre Artists Build Interactive Spaceship at Beakerhead

Beama Visuals, an art and production collective, were the first participants in our Big Bang Residency—where art meets science and engineering. They created a g

What It's Like Being a Visual Arts Practicum

Practicum positions offer hands-on experience with tools, techniques and our world-renowned faculty at the Walter Phillips Gallery. Read on to learn about the V

Elise Rasmussen

Elise Rasmussen receives Barbara Spohr Memorial Award

Former Banff Artist in Residence (BAiR), Elise Rasmussen, has been awarded the 2016 Barbara Spohr Memorial Award.

Creative Voices: 1991 - Rebecca Belmore Gave the Voiceless a Megaphone

Indigenous artist Rebecca Belmore built a giant wooden megaphone as a vessel for conversation between Indigenous people, the land, and the government.

Sara Cwynar, "Contemporary Floral Arrangement 2 (Plate 24. Color Changes and natural colors are combined effectively in

Our Things Will Outlast Us: On Sara Cwynar and Permanence

Britt Gallpen explores Sara Cwynar’s object-laden photographs.

The Seer's Catalogue

Emergence Lab: Past Projects

Learn more about multi-platform storytelling projects created by Elisabeth Rull and Sean Michaels during the 2015 Lab Emergence/ Emergence Lab.

Kotama Bouabane, Winner of the Post-Residency Award

Kotama Bouabane is the winner of the second Post-Residency Award!

We Have VR — Now How Do We Use it to Tell Stories?

What is the future of virtual reality storytelling? Filmmakers, researcher and enthusiasts from across North America gathered at the Banff Centre this month to

Who Owns Collaborative Art: Credit in the World of Comics

Former editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics talks credit in the world of comics and collaborative art.

Virginia Lee Montgomery, still from “Innovation Porthole”, 2014. HD video, 1:27 seconds on loop. Courtesy the artist

It's Okay To Be Many Things at Once: A conversation with Virginia Lee Montgomery

Jacqueline Bell in conversation with artist Virginia Lee Montgomery on her video work "Innovation Porthole."

Emergence Lab Video, Video Laboratoire Emergence

Video: Emergence Lab at The Banff Centre

Lab Emergence was created by the French Embassy of Canada, The Banff Centre and the Institut Français. The goal is to nourish and support any French-Canadian co

Yellow helium balloons with an eye symbol are spread out across an open landscape

Postcommodity's "Repellent Fence" Binds Two Fractured Cities Together

This October, a group of Indigenous artists in the southern United States completed their ambitious goal: using massive balloons to tie together two towns split

Phone (Main Switchboard)
403.762.6100

Address
107 Tunnel Mountain Drive
PO Box 1020
Banff, Alberta
Canada
T1L 1H5

Find us on Google Maps

Banff Centre is supported by

Follow Us

We recognize, with deep respect and gratitude, our home on the side of Sacred Buffalo Guardian Mountain. In the spirit of respect and truth, we honour and acknowledge the Banff area, known as “Minihrpa” (translated in Stoney Nakoda as “the waterfalls”) and the Treaty 7 territory and oral practices of the Îyârhe Nakoda (Stoney Nakoda) – comprised of the Bearspaw, Chiniki, and Goodstoney Nations – as well as the Tsuut’ina First Nation and the Blackfoot Confederacy comprised of the Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai. We acknowledge that this territory is home to the Shuswap Nations, Ktunaxa Nations, and Metis Nation of Alberta, Rockyview District 4. We acknowledge all Nations who live, work, and play here, help us steward this land, and honour and celebrate this place.