Programs

Program Notice

Online programs coming soon.

We will be offering 14 programs online from September to December 2020, featuring two programs per discipline in Literary Arts, Visual Arts, Music, Performing Arts, Indigenous Arts, and Indigenous Leadership. Details about these programs, including information about applications and admissions, will be available soon.

If you would like to be among the first to know about or new programs, please subscribe to our newsletter. In the meantime, you can browse a sampling of previous programs to learn more about our offerings.

Banff Centre’s facilities and spaces remain closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic; we look forward to reopening as soon as it is safe to do so.  If you have any questions about specific programs, please contact registrars_office@banffcentre.ca.

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Elizabeth Burden in her studio during the Trainings for the Not-Yet residency.
Residency

Banff Artist in Residence Winter 2021

This program is designed for visual artists exploring self-directed research themes, experimenting with production techniques, and cultivating new directions in their work.

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Preparatorial Practicum, Banff Centre
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Preparatorial Practicum

The Walter Phillips Gallery Preparatorial Practicum program enables the participant to engage in hands-on opportunities working alongside the gallery’s curator and preparator.

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Curatorial Research Practicum

This year-long program encompasses research, independent learning, mentorship, and real world experience through assisting in the delivery of Visual Arts and Walter Phillips Gallery programming....

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Earthed

Earthed explores visual art practices that shed light on planetary processes and concerns. This program will seek to raise cultural and political awareness of urgent environmental issues.

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Ceramics Studio Practicum

Studio Practicum programs are opportunities that expand and enhance participants technical skills in mediums supported by Banff Centre’s Visual Arts production facilities. 

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Craft as Contemporary Art

Contemporary art continues to embrace and popularize ceramics, textiles, hand-making, decoration, and materiality. Investigate how these disciplines and approaches are being activated, and...

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Practicum

Printmaking Studio Practicum

Studio Practicum programs are opportunities that expand and enhance participants technical skills in mediums supported by Banff Centre’s Visual Arts production facilities. 

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Visual Arts studio practicum programs at Banff Centre
Practicum

Sculpture Studio Practicum

Studio Practicum programs are opportunities that expand and enhance participants technical skills in mediums supported by Banff Centre’s Visual Arts production facilities. 

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Residency

Banff Artist in Residence Late Winter 2020

This program is designed for visual artists exploring self-directed research themes, experimenting with production techniques, and cultivating new directions in their work.

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Practicum

Computational Arts Studio Practicum

This program offers practical experience supporting Visual Arts residency programs and artists in residence as  you expand and enhance your technical skills in our Digital Media facilities.

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Kinship Medicines

Kinship Medicines is a thematic residency for queer, trans, and two-spirited Indigenous writers and visual artists who are enacting kinship ethics in their practices.

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Object as Catalyst

This residency will explore sculpture, ceramics, and other object-based practices within a methodology of reciprocity, care, and performative and participatory process.  

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