Banff Artist in Residence - Fall 2025
Banff Artist in Residence (BAiR) - Fall 2025 is designed for visual artists at any stage of their career to focus on their practice in a supportive learning environment.
Banff Artist in Residence (BAiR) - Fall 2025 is designed for visual artists at any stage of their career to focus on their practice in a supportive learning environment.
This self-directed writing residency supports new writers of young adult and children’s books at varying levels of accomplishment—from not-yet-published writers to those with one published book—to improve their writing skills and expand their practice, taking it to the next level.
Comics and Graphic Novels is a self-directed residency that considers how creatives use this unique media as a place for personal narrative, memoir, and exploration. The residency provides writers with the time and space to delve deep into their creative project away from the constraints of everyday life, take advantage of an artistic community of peers, and consult with experienced faculty.
The ATB Powering Possibility Through the Arts Award recognizes and supports small to mid-sized
organizations that are committed to enriching Calgary through arts programming that powers
possibility for the local creative community.
The Rozsa Foundation Emerging Arts Manager Award honours an emerging arts manager in the early stages of their career whose dedication and innovation in their field have elevated the work of the artists or arts organizations they work with.
We are looking for an energetic, flexible, adaptable, and organized person who can successfully navigate diverse responsibilities of our Guest Services and Gallery Shop Assistant within our unique organization.
The successful candidate should have a background in retail environments and customer service. As well, an interest in museum studies, art history, and/or fine art are definitely considered assets. The Centre is located in a rural location, so a reliable vehicle is required.
Part Time Seasonal Position:
The works in this exhibition find their origins in Leila Armstrong’s interest in the nature/cultural divide.
What is nature if not folk tales, Disney wildlife documentaries, and zoos? Subsequently, her understanding of nature matured.
TREX Southeast invites artists based in southeast Alberta (see map) to submit proposals for consideration for upcoming visual art exhibitions.
See the video of Iinisikimm, a nighttime lantern performance and homecoming for the buffalo of Banff National Park.
Iinisikimm is an immersive puppet-lantern performance that celebrates the reintegration of buffalo into the natural ecosystem of Banff National Park. Learn more about Iinisikimm here.
This past August, audiences in Banff and Calgary experienced outdoor performances featuring hand-made lantern puppets, drumming from Eya-Hey Nakoda, and performances by the Czapno Theatre Ensemble. The puppets shared the story of the buffalo, told by Blackfoot trickster God Napi.
The Iinisikimm group will also be producing a comic book, estimated to be released later in 2018.
If you missed the performances, fear not; you can experience a taste of Iinisikimm through the video below.
Iinisikimm was created with support from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Commemorative Art Projects funding. Stay tuned to our news feed for more videos from the other Commemorative Art Projects.
See the video of Iinisikimm, a nighttime lantern performance and homecoming for the buffalo of Banff National Park.
See the video of Iinisikimm, a nighttime lantern performance and homecoming for the buffalo of Banff National Park.