Visual + Digital 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

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.

Indigenous Kids Finding Their Own Voice With Storyweaver Angela Loft

Multidisciplinary artist Angela Loft held a workshop at Banff Centre to help Indigenous youth find their unique way of expressing themselves.

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.

Ghana ThinkTank

On this episode Sue Bell Yank talks to artist Christopher Robbins, co-founder of the art collective Ghana ThinkTank, about blending art with international devel

Developing the First World: Exploring the Other Side of Good Intentions

The public art and activism collective Ghana ThinkTank blends art with international development to challenge the dynamic between the "first" and "third" worlds

Kotama Bouabane, Winner of the Post-Residency Award

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

Anne Macmillan, still from "Surface Scratches"

Anne Macmillan awarded inaugural Emerging Atlantic Canada Artist Residency

Together with The Hnatyshyn Foundation, The Banff Centre is pleased to award Atlantic Canadian visual artist Anne Macmillan (Halifax, Nova Scotia) the inaugural

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."

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

Don't Believe Anything Kay Burns Tells You

Kay Burns will lie to you. She'll mislead you. And, if you pay close attention, she'll show you the truth. The Newfoundland-based artist talks about mixing fact

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