CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: BANFF CENTRE THEMATIC RESIDENCIES

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02 Mountainstandardtimelab with Andrew King
Program dates: April 26 - May 7, 2010 | Application deadline: February 16, 2010

02 Master Class: AA Bronson’s School for Young Shamans
Program dates: May 10 - June 18, 2010 |  Application deadline: January 25, 2010

10 Beyond Former Heaven (or the Institute of Surrealist Ethnography) with Olivia Plender
Program dates: July 5 - August 13, 2010 |  Application deadline: March 5, 2010

11 The distance between our minds and thoughts equals the distance between our words and mouths with Jan Verwoert
Program dates: September 13 - October 29, 2010 | Application deadline: May 14, 2010

13 Revolution 2012 with Adrian Stimson
Program dates: January 5 - February 22, 2011 | Application deadline: August 31, 2010

14 What’s Love Got To Do With It? with Ashley Neese
Program dates: January 5 - February 22, 2011 | Application deadline: August 31, 2010

For more Information please contact:
1-403-762-6100 | arts_info@banffcentre.ca | www.banffcentre.ca/va

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SELF-DIRECTED CREATIVE RESIDENCES AT THE BANFF CENTRE

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Where: Banff, Alberta, Canada
When: throughout the year
Deadline: Jan 11, Mar 5, May 14, Jul 23, Nov. 1

Set amid the spectacular backdrop of the Canadian Rockies, The Banff Centre’s Leighton Artists’ Colony offers professional artists an opportunity for concentrated work in an exceptional environment. The quiet and secluded wooded setting of the studios, thoughtfully designed interiors, and serene forest views create an ideal space for creativity and intense productivity.

Self-directed residencies are self-guided opportunities where the artist is free to experiment and explore new directions in the production of their work.

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CALL FOR ARTISTS: CREATIVE BOOST, MONTREAL

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Emerging and established artists are invited to apply for artist residency at Creative Boost. Situated in downtown Montreal, Creative Boost is surrounded by a thriving cultural scene, offering artists a stimulating space in which to realize their artistic vision. The facility consists of both private and communal studios, a fully equipped clay studio, and an art gallery.

Creative Boost also offers a unique language immersion program where students improve their English or French through planned learning activities where art in all its forms plays an important role.

For all applications, please visit their website http://www.creativeboost.ca/res_eng.html .

Questions? Email art@creativeboost.ca or call 514. 844.7752

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BANFF CENTRE: SELF-DIRECTED RESIDENCIES FOR ABORIGINAL ARTISTS

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Residency dates: Flexible
Application deadline: Ongoing

Aboriginal Arts at The Banff Centre offers self-directed residencies for Aboriginal artists. We provide the time and space for focused work and offer artists the freedom to conceptualize, create, research, or complete a creative work at any stage of development.

Residencies are open to writers, composers, singer-songwriters, dancers, choreographers, filmmakers, visual artists, new media artists, screenwriters, playwrights, and curators. Individuals, companies, collectives, and groups of artists are invited to take advantage of our self-directed residencies in order to begin, develop, or complete a project.

Come interact with other artists. Attend a variety of performances and events at the foot of Buffalo Mountain in Blackfoot Territory and experience the beauty of Banff National Park. MORE >>

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BANFF CENTRE CERAMICS STUDIO

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The Ceramics Studio supports artists in the Visual Arts Creative Residencies program. Proposals for ceramics-based projects are accepted from artists applying for Creative Residencies.

The Ceramics Studio offers an exceptional opportunity to work in a generous studio environment, with access to a broad range of equipment designed to support most aspects of contemporary ceramic practice. We are in close proximity to other studio areas such as sculpture, painting, printmaking, photography, and the Digital Film and Media Production department. Access to these facilities is possible through consultation with relevant facility supervisors. Interaction and collaboration with artists in these areas and others is encouraged as part of a residency experience, and our expert staff will do their best to help facilitate your projects.

Please consult with the ceramics facilitator to determine the needs for your project at least two weeks prior to your arrival in Banff.

For more information contact:
Ed Bamiling, Ceramics Facilitator
Email: ed_bamiling@banffcentre.ca
Phone: 1.403.762.6211 | Fax: 1.403.762.6665

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RESIDENT ARTIST PROGRAM: THE LIVING ARTS CENTRE, MISSISSAUGA

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Deadline:  Ongoing

The Call for Submissions for the Living Arts Centre in Mississauga, Ontario is on-going. The Resident Artist Program has been created to provide opportunitiies for a blend of recent graduates of arts and design institutions, as well as mid-carreer artists, to create, explore, learn and exchange ideas and insights, within a multi-disciplinary environment.  there are eight professional studios, in wood, flameworking, glass, sculpture, textiles and fibre ares, photography, glass, sculpture, textiles and fibre arts, photography, painting and drawing, and ceramics.  Short and longterm residencies are available.  for more information about the selection criteria and application form, go to www.livingartscentre.ca or contact Cole Swanson, Exhibitions and Residency Coordinator at (905)306-6161 or email at cole.swanson@livingarts.on.ca or contact:

The Living Arts Centre
4141 Living Arts Drive
Mississauga, ON  L5B 4B8

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ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCY PROGRAMS, HARBOURFRONT CENTRE CRAFT DEPARTMENT, TORONTO

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Harbourfront Centre is an innovative, non-profit cultural organization which provides internationally renowned programming in the arts, culture, education and recreation, all within a collection of distinctive venues in the heart of Toronto’s downtown waterfront.

The Craft Studio is home to four working studios in metal, ceramics, glass and textiles on view to the public, as well as classes, lectures and exhibitions. Internationally renowned and recognized for its support of emerging craftspeople, The Craft Studio’s Artist-in-Residence programme is Canada’s foremost training centre for Canadian professional craftspeople offering a unique post graduate programme. (more…)

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LEIGHTON ARTISTS’ COLONY FOR INDEPENDENT RESIDENCIES

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These eight unique studios, each designed by a distinguished Canadian architect, are located in a secluded wooded area of The Banff Centre campus. The studios offer a concentrated, retreat environment to professional artists engaged in the creation of new work. Applications are accepted from artists of a variety of disciplines: writers, composers, singer-songwriters, visual artists, screenwriters, playwrights, literary translators, curators, art theorists, and professionals working in theatre, dance and film at the conceptualization or research stage of a project. Acceptance is based on an application/adjudication process. (more…)

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