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Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity
Apply for a five-week residency to develop performance art, images, and objects through embodied experimentation, studio practice, and faculty mentorship.
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Get matched →This five-week residency program at Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity invites visual artists to explore performance art through embodied experimentation. Artists investigate how performance, materiality, images, and forms intersect, working within an extraordinary landscape that becomes a collaborator in the creative process. The program supports individual studio practice combined with faculty-led activities, mentorship, workshops, and peer-to-peer learning.
Individual artists or duos (maximum two collaborators) at any stage of career. Applicants must have completed formal training in visual arts at the post-secondary level, or have equivalent experience and recognition acquired through traditional knowledge and practices. Artists from anywhere in the world are welcome.
Applicants must be available to participate over the entire five-week period and have a clearly thought-out project with focus on research and process. Participants should be competent in proposed production processes, comfortable working independently within a cohort environment, and have good time management skills to balance scheduled program activity alongside independent studio practice. Children are not permitted in visual arts studios or production areas.
The program serves artists working in ceramics, digital media, painting, drawing, printmaking, papermaking, performance art, photography, sculpture, installation, and related practices including book arts, fiber arts, environmental arts, sound art, and interdisciplinary work.
Artists receive private studios with access to extensive shared production facilities including ceramics workspace (multiple kiln types), dedicated metal shop, darkroom (B&W and color), painting workspace, printmaking studios, papermaking studio, textile workspace, and dedicated wood shop. Technical assistance provided by full-time staff. Participants benefit from one-to-one faculty mentorship, skill-based learning workshops, and peer-to-peer informal learning.
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Private bedroom in shared housing facility on campus. Some meals provided (at least 2 meals daily). Facilities are partially accessible (50% or more). Accessibility information and medical support available at https://www.banffcentre.ca/medical-information.
Submit application through http://url.banffcentre.ca/bh22EW. Include a clearly thought-out project proposal with focus on research and process. Facility access is based on staff availability; priority given to those requesting specific access in initial applications.