Drop-in at this new workshop series for children and youth at Walter Phillips Gallery!

Join us on the second Saturday of every month for Family ARTventures—creative artmaking activities for all ages. The workshops are drop-in with materials provided. 

The Family ARTventures Program is generously supported by

In recognition of the fiftieth anniversary of Walter Phillips Gallery in August, postcards featuring an image of a rainbow appearing in the spray above the Bow River made on residence by Toronto-based artist, Steven Beckly titled Misty Bow River, 2022 will be mailed to as many past exhibiting artists as can be contacted. Each recipient will be invited to share a recollection from their experience and return the postcard to Walter Phillips Gallery and keep a second copy or mail it to someone whom they connected with in Banff. As responses arrive and are displayed throughout the year, visitors encounter a growing archive of firsthand recollections. After the exhibition, the postcards will enter the archives, forming a lasting social history and a resource for future research.

In A Clean Place to Swim, Diane Borsato presents new and past works that explore the liberating, intimate, and communal possibilities of being in the water. Acts of teaching and learning, encounters across backgrounds, as well as our shared right to clean, wild environments to swim in will be brought together under a title drawn from a phrase by Alexander Wilson from The Culture of Nature. 

Walter Phillips Gallery gratefully acknowledges the ongoing support of the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Province of Alberta through Alberta Foundation for the Arts.

Please join us for the opening reception of Diane Borsato: A Clean Place to Swim with the artist in attendance.

In A Clean Place to Swim, Diane Borsato presents new and past works that explore the liberating, intimate, and communal possibilities of being in the water. Acts of teaching and learning, encounters across backgrounds, as well as our shared right to clean, wild environments to swim in will be brought together under a title drawn from a phrase by Alexander Wilson from The Culture of Nature.

Walter Phillips Gallery gratefully acknowledges the ongoing support of the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Province of Alberta through Alberta Foundation for the Arts.

Please join us for a tour led by Walter Phillips Gallery staff of the exhibition, Diane Borsato: A Clean Place to Swim.

In A Clean Place to Swim, Diane Borsato presents new and past works that explore the liberating, intimate, and communal possibilities of being in the water. Acts of teaching and learning, encounters across backgrounds, as well as our shared right to clean, wild environments to swim in will be brought together under a title drawn from a phrase by Alexander Wilson from The Culture of Nature.

Enjoy this exhibition tour during the Open Studios event for Banff Artist in Residence– Summer 2026 program.

Walter Phillips Gallery gratefully acknowledges the ongoing support of the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Province of Alberta through Alberta Foundation for the Arts.

Drop-in at this new workshop series for children and youth at Walter Phillips Gallery!

Join us on the second Saturday of every month for Family ARTventures—creative artmaking activities for all ages. The workshops are drop-in with materials provided.

The Family ARTventures Program is generously supported by

Join us for a conversation with widely acclaimed Governor General’s Award-winning artist Jin-me Yoon. The artist will speak about her broader practice and returning to Banff National Park, the location of the production of her seminal work, Souvenirs of the Self, 1991, that originally took the form of postcards and was commissioned by Walter Phillips Gallery.

Join us for a gripping evening of suspense-filled storytelling at this Literary Cabaret, sharing works from the Crime Writing residency at Banff Centre. Across three nights, explore readings of razor-sharp mystery and crime writing by participants and faculty mentors.

Running for one-and-a-half weeks, this debut residency brings together writers working across crime fiction, mystery, noir, and crime-informed nonfiction, with room for hybrid forms that engage with criminal justice, investigation, and moral consequence.

This chapter is hosted by global crime writing phenomenon Nita Prose, the number-one New York Times and Canadian bestselling author of The Maid series, which has sold more than two million copies worldwide.

Enjoy a drink from the bar and immerse yourself in powerful explorations of justice, violence, and survival. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., with readings starting at 7 p.m. Afterward, mingle with the writers and faculty until 9:30 p.m.

Don’t miss this unique chance to discover the next bestseller and celebrate the artform of a great crime novel.

Literary Arts is generously supported by the Flanagan Foundation and Fondation David R. Graham.

Join us for a boundary-pushing evening of experimental poetry and prose at this Literary Cabaret, sharing works from the Computational Writing residency at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Across three nights, explore writing that is at once strangely familiar and radically new, created and performed by participants and faculty mentors.

This one-and-a-half-week residency unites writers and artists interrogating how technology, code, and artificial intelligence can be used as ethical, creative tools for producing new poetry and prose. The goal isn’t to replace human creativity, but to reimagine authorship, language, and form through collaboration with machines.

This chapter is hosted by Dr. Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, a groundbreaking poet and visual artist. They’re the author of Travesty Generator, a book of computational poetry longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for poetry.

Enjoy a drink from the bar and immerse yourself in a playful literary setting. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., with readings starting at 7 p.m. Afterward, mingle with the writers and faculty until 9:30 p.m.

Don’t miss this chance to discover poems generated by algorithms, stories shaped by code, and more.

Literary Arts is generously supported by the Flanagan Foundation and Fondation David R. Graham.

Join us for a boundary-pushing evening of experimental poetry and prose at this Literary Cabaret, sharing works from the Computational Writing residency at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Across three nights, explore writing that is at once strangely familiar and radically new, created and performed by participants and faculty mentors.

This one-and-a-half-week residency unites writers and artists interrogating how technology, code, and artificial intelligence can be used as ethical, creative tools for producing new poetry and prose. The goal isn’t to replace human creativity, but to reimagine authorship, language, and form through collaboration with machines.

This chapter is hosted by Kalen Iwamoto, an internationally recognized conceptual artist and pioneer of blockchain and NFT poetics. She is the co-founder of the digital poetry gallery and collective theVERSEverse.

Enjoy a drink from the bar and immerse yourself in a playful literary setting. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., with readings starting at 7 p.m. Afterward, mingle with the writers and faculty until 9:30 p.m.

Don’t miss this chance to discover poems generated by algorithms, stories shaped by code, and more.

Literary Arts is generously supported by the Flanagan Foundation and Fondation David R. Graham.