Visual Arts Residencies at Banff Centre: Summer 2023

Auður Ómarsdóttir in studio, Banff Centre 2018, photo by Rita Taylor

TWO IN-PERSON PROGRAMS OPEN FOR APPLICATION

Explore new directions in your work with faculty and artists from around the world. Be inspired by our studio spaces and facilities in an unrivalled natural environment.

Banff Artist in Residence – Summer 2023
In-person program
June 26 – July 28, 2023
Application deadline: March 22, 2023

Banff Artist in Residence (BAiR) is designed for visual artists to focus on their practice in a supportive learning environment. Participants are encouraged to self-direct their research and time, as well as cultivate new directions in their work. The experience of artists in residence is further supported through studio visits with faculty and dialogue amongst peers.

Led by Tékeniyáhsen Ohkwá:ri (Jackson Two Bears), Kitty Scott and Lynda Gammon with guest speaker ​Tanya Doody, Banff Artist in Residence – Summer 2023 offers artists the time and space to delve deeply into their practice while away from everyday life. Participants will be provided with a studio, accessible 24 hours a day, as well access to our extensive facilities. Facility access is based on availability of facilitators, and priority access is given to those requesting their use in their initial application. In addition, participants will have the opportunity to build connections, create networks, collaborate, and share their work with other artists-in-residence and the public.

This residency is for visual artists who have completed formal training at the post-secondary level, or who have equivalent experience and recognition from their peers.

Banff Centre invites applications from anywhere in the world, and artists of all ages (18+), backgrounds, gender identities, and expressions.

Please visit the program page for more information and to apply.

Visual Arts Residency: Meeting For Teas
In-person program
August 14 – September 15, 2023
Application deadline: April 19, 2023

It is widely accepted that after water, the most popular drink in the world is tea. Grown, harvested, brewed, and consumed for millennia by vast cultural groups around the globe, tea is both a material substance and immaterial concept. Rituals and practices around the preparation and drinking of tea are deeply imbedded within the social, political, spiritual, religious, and natural landscapes and histories of Asia, Europe, North America, of Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. Through systems of labour and commodification, tea production and trade are inextricably linked to the history and process of colonization, yet also have the potential to contribute to decolonizing actions through inter-cultural sharing, community building, and friendship.

Meeting For Teas is an invitation to visual artists, working in any discipline or medium, to engage in research, creation, and studio practice that considers tea, in all its material and/or immaterial forms, as a site or starting point, for social engagement, inter-cultural exchange, identity, relationship and community building, decolonization, material transformation, and conceptual exploration.

In this thematic residency, participants will engage in a far-reaching dialogue on the social, historical, and contemporary aesthetic associations of tea to gain access to and explore cultural processes and attitudes. Led by Wayne Baerwaldt and Jennifer Crane, with guest faculty Karen Tam and Adrian Stimson, Meeting For Teas offers the opportunity to consider side-by-side notions of new materialism, inclusivity, performativity, and other forms of representation related to tea. The residency will examine a complex making and sharing process that has been closely tied to lived experience and expand the limits of the current discussions of tea sharing to include tea’s chemical properties, medicinal qualities, and its potential as a community-building medium.

This residency is for visual artists at all stages of their careers who have completed formal training at the post-secondary level, or who have equivalent experience and recognition from their peers.

Banff Centre invites applications from anywhere in the world, and artists of all ages (18+), backgrounds, gender identities, and expressions.

Please visit the program page for more information or to apply.

ABOUT VISUAL ARTS PROGRAMS AT BANFF CENTRE

Visual Arts at Banff Centre offers exceptional programs for professional artists, curators, art critics, and researchers. Visual Arts also supports, develops, and presents contemporary art through the Walter Phillips Gallery.

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Office of the Registrar
Email: registrar_visualarts@banffcentre.ca
Phone: 403.762.6100
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