Call for Submissions: Edge Conditions Photography for the Video Wall at Canada Council for the Arts

View from Lake Ontario, Kingston, Ontario.

Contribute to a Rotating Collection of Landscape Photographs in Ottawa

Submission Deadline: July 30, 2026

Join creators across Canada to celebrate the life that thrives in the spaces where land, water and all species meet. Contribute to a rotating collection of landscape photographs for the Canada Council for the Arts video wall at 150 Elgin Street, in Ottawa.

Until May 17, 2027, the Canada Council Âjagemô Exhibition Space is hosting the Edge Conditions | Inawendiwin exhibition, which includes close to 40 works of art from the Canada Council Art Bank collection.

Curated by Ottawa-based digital designer, writer and student of architecture Leah Snyder, the exhibition brings together works by artists who reflect on the dynamic threshold between water and land as sites of ecological vitality, cultural memory and evolving relationships to landscape.

Found across urban and remote regions alike, these edge conditions are rich in biodiversity and meaning, shaping how we relate to land, water and one another. To highlight these themes, we are inviting creators across the country to reflect on and explore these relationships together.

View of the Edge Conditions | Inawendiwin exhibition. Artists, from left to right: Claude Latour, Roland Poulin, Rita Letendre, Greg Staats, Gordon Rayner, Ruth Wainwright, Thomas Udjuk, Toni Onley and Takao Tanabe. Photo: Brandon Clarida Image Services.

The Art Bank invites submissions of photos that capture edge conditions from coast to coast to coast for the Canada Council for the Arts video wall. By gathering perspectives from across regions, this initiative aims to create a collective portrait of the spaces in-between, where new ways of seeing and relating emerge.

The call invites submissions that:

• document shoreline or transitional ecosystems (urban or remote)
• explore human and non-human presence within these environments
• reflect the cultural, historical or political dimensions of these spaces, and
• engage experimental, documentary or poetic photography approaches

Submission Requirements:

• 1 image per submission, high resolution (.jpeg). Dimension: 1920 x 1080 pixels. Aspect ratio: 16:9
• Completed submission form

The Canada Council Art Bank reserves the right to select images based on submission requirements, suitability for a public setting and the limited number of images needed for the initiative.

The selected images will be on view on the Canada Council video wall beginning fall of 2026.

How to Submit

• Fill out the submission form: Call for Contributions: Edge Conditions ǀ Inawendiwin
• Send your image to ajagemo@canadacouncil.ca

Submission Deadline: July 30, 2026

About the Âjagemô Exhibition Space

The Canada Council Âjagemô Exhibition Space is open daily from 7am to 9pm. Admission is free.

For more on the artists, the exhibition and the Art Bank, visit artbank.ca or find us on Instagram (@artbank_banquedart) and Facebook (@CCartbank).

Those interested in elevating their experience by listening and learning more about the works and artists featured in Edge Conditions ǀ Inawendiwin are encouraged to access the Art Bank web app.

About the Art Bank

The Canada Council Art Bank is the largest collection of contemporary Canadian art, with more than 17,000 works of art by 3,000 artists from across the country, including a significant number by Indigenous artists.

Through its art rental program, exhibitions and outreach activities, the Art Bank creates engaging workplaces, public spaces and communities that contribute to the visibility and vibrancy of contemporary art.

Canada Council for the Arts

The Canada Council’s offices are located in Ottawa, on the unceded, unsurrendered territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation, whose presence in the area reaches back to time immemorial. Read the full statement.

Âjagemô Exhibition Space
150 Elgin Street
Ottawa, ON K2P 1L4
canadacouncil.ca/about/ajagemo

Canada Council Art Bank
921 St-Laurent Boulevard
Ottawa, ON K1K 3B1
artbank.ca
artbank@canadacouncil.ca
613-566-4414, extension 4479

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Image Descriptions:
1. Sunlight sparkles across gently rippling water as small waves wash over dark shoreline rocks beneath a pale blue sky.
2. Bright, modern art gallery interior with polished light-colored floors and ceiling lighting. A large dark wood sculpture is displayed in front of framed photographs, paintings and a smaller sculpture installed along a dark green wall.