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Barbara Spohr, Untitled (Toronto), 1978, C-print on paper. Collection of Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
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Barbara Spohr Memorial Award for Photography 2025

Created by the friends and family of the late artist Barbara Spohr, this award aims to encourage Canadian contemporary photography.
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Artist Laura Jean Foster is seated in a studio in Glyde Hall, surrounded by her art
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Banff Artist in Residence: Early Career 2025

This program is for early career visual artists exploring self-directed themes and interested in cultivating new directions in their work. 
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2022. The Steam Junk Treaties. Howie Tsui & Shary Boyle. Ink and gouache on paper. 76cm x 94cm
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Visual Arts Thematic Residency - The System and Other Universes

This thematic residency is an opportunity to unplug and reflect, and to reimagine and explore new worlds of artistic practice.
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the lowest bar, Whess Harman, 2021
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Visual Arts Thematic Residency - Get LIT! Language, Image, Text

Get Lit! offers visual artists working with words, numbers, and language the space and time to create, research, experiment and explore new creative directions.
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Zachari Logan, Levitate
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Visual Arts Thematic Residency - Rewilding the Body Eclectic

Exploring figuration and representations of the body and the possibilities that lie within with renowned Canadian artist Zachari Logan
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Jenna Reid "Affinity"
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Banff Artist in Residence Spring 2023

This program is designed for visual artists exploring self-directed research themes and cultivating new directions in their work. 
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Julianna Zwierciadlowska-Rhymer, Banff Centre 2023, photo by Rita Taylor.
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Banff Artist in Residence: Early Career 2024

This program is for early career visual artists exploring self-directed research themes and interested in cultivating new directions in their work.
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BAiR Spring Intensive

The Banff Artist in Residence (BAiR) Spring Intensive is a four week self-directed program providing the time and space for artists, curators, and arts professi
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