Eligibility

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 through informal, specialized training such as mentorships, self-study, and traditional knowledge and practices. Banff Centre invites applications from anywhere in the world, and artists of all ages (18+), backgrounds, gender identities, and expressions.

Number of Participants

This program offers a structured space where visual artists come together to create work and discuss the pertinent theme. Through peer interaction, discussion groups, studio work, formal lectures, and studio visits from world-renowned visiting faculty, participants gain new ideas and insights that can be applied to creative exploration and professional development of their work. 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.

Deadline

April 20, 2023 05:59 UTC

Selection Results (Announcement Dates)

May 22, 2023 06:00 UTC

Duration

August 14, 2023 - September 15, 2023

Costs

• CA$65.00 application fee
• CA$7,605.00 program fee (one-time)

Facilities

Alternative Processes Darkroom, Ceramic Facility, Fabrication Lab, Individual Studio, Installation Space, Large Format Printers, Library, Print Shop, Sculpture Facility

Housing

Private Room

Meals

Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch

Public Programs

Critique, Discussion, Group Dinners, Mentors, Open Studios, Retreat, Self-Directed, Visiting Professionals

Disciplines

Book Arts, Ceramics, Conceptual Art, Drawing, Fiber Arts, Illustration, Installation, Land Art, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture, Visual Arts

Program Description

Visual Arts Residency – 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, Visual Arts Residency – 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.