Eligibility

This residency is for individual artists or duos (no more than two collaborators) at any stage of their career. Applicants should be available to participate over the entire five-week period of the program have completed formal training in visual arts at the post-secondary level, or have equivalent experience and recognition from their peers acquired through traditional knowledge and practices. The program is designed to cater to visual artists working in, but not limited to, practices in ceramics digital media painting, drawing, printmaking, and papermaking performance art photography sculpture and installation. Participants will benefit most if they are competent in the production processes they are proposing to undertake are comfortable working independently within a cohort environment have a clearly thought-out project with a focus on research and process have good time management skills to balance program activity alongside independent studio practice

Number of Participants

17

Deadline

November 18, 2026 07:00 UTC

Selection Results (Announcement Dates)

January 20, 2027 07:00 UTC

Duration

May 17, 2027 - June 18, 2027

Costs

• CA$65.00 application fee
• CA$4,476.00 program fee (one-time)

Facilities

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

Housing

Hotel

Meals

Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch

Public Programs

Discussion, Mentors, Open Studios, Self-Directed, Workshops

Disciplines

Ceramics, Drawing, Fiber Arts, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, Sound Art, Visual Arts

Languages

English

Program Description

This residency invites visual artists to apply with projects that consider how places sing, how memory persists in vibration and how listening to the land can re-orient ethical and political relations. Drawing on concepts inherent to acoustic ecology and taking the mountains of Banff as inspiration, participants are invited to explore how sound activates multiple temporalities – shaped by land use, migration, ecological disruption, colonial infrastructures, and so on. The Earth can be thought of as a field of relations in which biological, geological and social processes co-create one another. Participants will reflect on ecological and ethical listening and sounding as it informs thinking, art-making and presentation. Visual Arts residencies at Banff Centre are structured programs of faculty-led activity and mentorship, supporting project-based studio practice.