Visual Arts – Sounding Like a Mountain

Eligibility

Individuals or duos (max two collaborators); formal visual arts training or equivalent experience required.

Visual Arts – Sounding Like a Mountain Deadline: 18 Nov 2026 Country: Canada This residency invites visual artists to apply with projects that consider how places sing, how memory persists in vibration and how listening to the land can re-orient ethical and political relations. Drawing on concepts inherent to acoustic ecology and taking the mountains of Banff as inspiration, participants are invited to explore how sound activates multiple temporalities – shaped by land use, migration, ecological disruption, colonial infrastructures, and so on. The Earth can be thought of as a field of relations in which biological, geological and social processes co-create one another. Participants will reflect on ecological and ethical listening and sounding as it informs thinking, art-making and presentation. Visual Arts residencies at Banff Centre are structured programs of faculty-led activity and mentorship, supporting project-based studio practice. This program supports: the development of theoretical concepts and artistic ideas through independent research alongside a structured program of faculty-led activities and workshops one-to-one faculty mentorship through studio visits and faculty meetings the development of technical skills through experimentation and skill-based learning assisted by staff technicians peer-to-peer informal learning related to studio and professional practice the development of a professional community towards developing and sustaining an artistic career. Artists are assigned individual studios with access to shared production facilities. Knowledgeable staff are available to provide technical assistance. Please take note of the program itinerary when planning your project proposal. Facility access is based on availability of facilitators and priority goes to those requesting access in their initial applications. Duration of residency 5 weeks Accommodation Private hotel room on campus. Disciplines, work equipment and assistance This residency is for individual artists or duos (no more than two collaborators) at any stage of their career. Applicants should be available to participate over the entire five-week period of the program have completed formal training in visual arts at the post-secondary level, or have equivalent experience and recognition from their peers acquired through traditional knowledge and practices. The program is designed to cater to visual artists working in, but not limited to, practices in ceramics digital media painting, drawing, printmaking, and papermaking performance art photography sculpture and installation. Participants will benefit most if they are competent in the production processes that they are proposing to undertake during the residency are comfortable working independently within a cohort environment have a clearly thought-out project with a focus on research and process have good time management skills to balance scheduled program activity alongside independent studio practice Please note that children are not permitted in visual arts studios or production areas.Studio / Workspace PrivateFees and support Total Program Fee: $10 033.70 Banff Centre Arts Scholarship: $5 556.87 Participant Cost *: $4 476.78 Application Fee $65 for individuals or groups, $35 for applicants who identify as Indigenous. This non-refundable fee covers the full cost of processing your application, including the SlideRoom fee. Expectations towards the artist Participate in open studios. Application information For more information and to apply: http://url.banffcentre.ca/bh0NzC

How to apply

Apply online via the linked application page (includes SlideRoom submission fee).