Visual Arts programs

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

Residencies

Digital Promises
January 7–February 8, 2019
Application deadline: September 5
This program critically examines digital technology and asks how its presence has changed society, culture, and humankind. The residency invites artists utilizing and critiquing digital media to discuss ideas such as digital colonization, digital divides, post-humanism, net neutrality, open source information, language, surveillance, data, and more.

Arts Writer in Residence 2019
January 7–March 29, 2019
Application deadline: September 5
Mid-career arts writers will develop a critical writing project and conduct research during this program, while enjoying focused time and space, and engaging with artists-in-residence and programs in Visual Arts. The residency is suited to arts writers focused on the development of a substantial project resulting in an external publication.

Curator in Residence 2019
January 7–March 29, 2019
Application deadline: September 5
This residency provides time and space for mid-career curators to develop an exhibition or project and conduct research while engaging with artists-in-residence and programs in Visual Arts. The program is suited to curators focused on the development of a substantial project resulting in an external public exhibition or curatorial event.

Banff Artist in Residence Late Winter 2019
February 25–March 29, 2019
Application deadline: September 5
This program offers opportunities to work away from the constraints of everyday life. Participants are provided with a studio, accessible 24 hours a day, as well as access to our extensive facilities to further develop production techniques.

Distributed Identities
February 25–March 29, 2019
Application deadline: October 10
This program will explore transcultural aesthetics, autobiography, migration and displacement, hybridity and fluidity, as well as relationships between language, history, and identity. In addition, the residency will examine how artistic practice can change in relation to our shifting and evolving sense of self in today’s world.