Visual Arts

Jason Baerg "Red Tail Hawk Configuration of Nomadic Bounce" Photo by Scott Lee

Program Dates June 02, 2025 - July 04, 2025

Visual Arts - Kapishkum: Métis Gathering

This residency will facilitate discussion and artistic expression within the context of Métis resilience, reclamation, revitalization, and transcendence.

Application Deadline

January 29, 2025

Thao Nguyen, Get LIT! Language, Image, Text, Banff Centre 2024. Photo by Rita Taylor.

Program Dates July 21, 2025 - August 22, 2025

Early Career Banff Artist in Residence - Summer 2025

Banff Artist in Residence (BAiR): Early Career 2025 is an immersive program of studio practice, creative exploration, critical feedback and mentorship.

Application Deadline

February 26, 2025

Material Transformations, Ceramics, Raku firing.

Program Dates August 14, 2023 - September 15, 2023

Visual Arts Residency: Meeting for Teas

Welcoming applications from visual artists in any discipline or medium, engaging in research, creation and studio practice, that considers tea, in all its mater

Application deadline has passed

‘I sing of the sea I am mermaid of the trees,’ Ayesha Hameed, 2021 (detail) courtesy the artist.

Program Dates November 07, 2022 - December 09, 2022

Visual Arts Thematic: The Weapon of Theory as a Conference of Birds

Welcoming applications from visual artists who are interested in exploring music, language and rhythm as it affects the geological and bio-political.

Application deadline has passed

Auður Ómarsdóttir working with clay in the studio

Program Dates June 26, 2023 - July 28, 2023

Visual Arts: Banff Artist in Residence - Summer 2023

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

Application deadline has passed

Preliminary work for To Save/ To Make by Jasmine Cardenas. Photo by Biliana Panic.

Program Dates January 10, 2022 - February 11, 2022

Banff Artist in Residence - Winter 2022

For visual artists exploring self-directed research themes, experimenting with production techniques, and cultivating new directions in their work.

Application deadline has passed

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