The Emerging Atlantic Artist Residency
From 2016 to 2018, the Emerging Atlantic Artist Residency provided one emerging visual artist from Atlantic Canada the opportunity to create new work within the inspiring surrounds of The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity over a period of eight weeks.
The vision of this residency program was to strengthen cultural connections between eastern and western Canada, and to assist in building the skills necessary for emerging Atlantic artists to be successful in their careers. The program was an initiative of The Hnatyshyn Foundation in collaboration with the Banff Centre and was made possible through the generous support of the Harrison McCain Foundation.
What did this program offer?
The residency provided opportunities for professional and artistic development through access to facilities to create new work, technical expertise, mentorship, studio visits, and opportunities to engage with artists-in-residence, visiting artists, faculty, curators, and speaking engagements at The Banff Centre and at two additional partner organizations.
Tuition fees, accommodation, meal plan, and travel to and from The Banff Centre to the participant’s residence in Canada were covered. Participants received a production allowance for material costs, production assistance and expertise, and project related incidentals incurred while at The Banff Centre.
Award Recipients
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Meagan Musseau
Meagan Musseau is an interdisciplinary visual artist of Mi'kmaq and French ancestry from the community of Curling in the Bay of Islands, Newfoundland and Labrador––Elamstukwek, Ktaqmkuk territory of Mi'kma'ki. She works with customary art practices and new media to explore the relationship between land and body, object and narrative. Musseau graduated with a BFA in Visual Art from Grenfell Campus Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. Her work has shown nationally and abroad, in venues such as FLUX Media Art Gallery, Victoria; Open Space Artist-Run Centre, Victoria; Campbell River Art Gallery, Campbell River; U of S Gallery Two, Saskatoon; Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John's; Grenfell Art Gallery, Corner Brook; and University of Brighton Gallery, England. Musseau was a member of the Indigenous Emerging Artist Program 2015-16 on unceded Coast Salish territory and has participated in artist residencies at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Alberta; Centre for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College Chicago, Illinois, United States; University of Brighton Fine Art Printmaking, Brighton, England; and the National Artist Program, 2011 Canada Games, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
“During the residency, I will create a new body of work titled Necklaces Were Broken,” explained Musseau. “This work is a response to a collection of Beothuk caribou bone pendants held in the vault at The Rooms provincial museum in St. John’s, NL. These belongings were customarily placed in burial grounds but have been taken from the territory and put into a museum. Necklaces Were Broken will symbolically reclaim these pendants and honour the dreams and strength of our relations through artistic creation.”
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Lou Sheppard
Lou Sheppard graduated from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 2006, then Mount Saint Vincent University's Bachelor of Education as an art teacher in 2013. Sheppard's work, which includes painting, performance, video and audio installation, has been exhibited in Canada and internationally. At the time of this Residency, Sheppard was preparing to be included in the 2017 Antarctic Biennale. Through shape, rhythm, and abstraction, Sheppard's work explores identity, faith, and wilderness, and the intersections between them.
“I am so honoured to receive the 2017 Emerging Atlantic Artist Residency award. This is an incredible opportunity for me to further my practice and complete a project that would not be possible without the resources and support of Banff Centre. I am grateful to The Hnatyshyn Foundation for investing in emerging art practices in the Atlantic region, bringing the work of young artists on the East coast to the rest of Canada.”
During the residency, Sheppard created a new work called Requiem for the Antarctic Coast for the Antarctic Biennale. This work is an aural exploration of the shifting ice masses of the Arctic and Antarctic regions. The project tracked daily changes in ice by analyzing available satellite imagery and then translated this data into musical notation. The resulting musical scores are playable on the internet and were made available for live performance.
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Anne Macmillan
Interested in how geographies relate to mental states and reflect modes of consciousness, Anne Macmillan’s work is inspired by research into the historical perception of mountains and the depths of caves.
Macmillan received a Fulbright Scholarship to pursue her studies in the graduate program of Art, Culture and Technology at MIT, and she was the 2014 first place winner of the Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts. Her practice has been supported by grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Nova Scotia Council on Communities, Culture and Heritage, and the Council for Arts at MIT.
“I am truly honoured to be selected for the Emerging Atlantic Artist Residency at the Banff Centre. I am ready to fully immerse myself in the creation of new work, while I reflect upon a geography so different from what I experienced growing up in Nova Scotia. This residency provides support for me at a crucial point in my art career as a new graduate, I look forward to the focused contact with other artists, and the excellent facilities that Banff has to offer. Here I am supported to use art as a means to process and understand my surrounding environment, as both a reflection of the world, and a projection of myself. Thank you so much, I am driven to make the most of this incredible opportunity.”
Adjudicators
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Jordan Bennett
Jordan Bennett's ongoing practice utilizes painting, sculpture, video, installation and sound to explore land, language, the act of visiting, familial histories and challenging colonial perceptions of indigenous histories, stereotypes and presence with a focus on exploring Mi’kmaq and Beothuk visual culture of Ktaqamkuk. Jordan has participated in over 50 group and solo exhibitions nationally and internationally in venues such as the National Museum of the American Indian, NYC; MAC-VAL, Paris; The Museum of Art and Design, NYC, NY; Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM; Project Space Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne, AUS; The Winnipeg Art Gallery, The Power Plant, Toronto, ON; Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC; Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France and was one of two artists to represent Newfoundland and Labrador in the 2015 Venice Biennial at Galleria Ca’Rezzonico, Venice, Italy as part of the official Collateral Events. He has been the recipient of several awards and honours most notably long listed for the 2016 and 2015 Sobey Art Award, a Hnatyshan Foundation REVEAL award, presented with the 2014 Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Councils Artist of the Year and named as one of the artists in the 2014 Blouin ARTINFO's Top 30 under 30 in Canada.
Ursula Johnson
Ursula Johnson is a multidisciplinary Mi’kmaq artist based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Her work combines the Mi’kmaq tradition of basket weaving with sculpture, installation, and performance art. In all its manifestations her work operates as didactic intervention, seeking to both confront and educate her viewers about issues of identity, colonial history, tradition, and cultural practice.
Eleanor King
Eleanor King is a Halifax based artist. She received her BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 2001, and is currently a Fulbright Fellow and MFA candidate at Purchase College in New York. She has participated in residencies at The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, SOMA Mexico, and The Banff Centre among others. King has received numerous grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and Arts Nova Scotia, and was short-listed for the 2012 Sobey Art Award. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, most notably at Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Nuit Blanche Toronto, and Galleri F15 in Norway. Her solo exhibition Dark Utopian at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (2015), was highlighted in a feature-length cover article for Canadian Art magazine. Previously, King was an instructor at NSCAD University, and a Director at Anna Leonowens Gallery in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is represented by Diaz Contemporary in Toronto.
Amish Morrell
Amish Morrell is Editor of C Magazine and Director of Programs at C The Visual Art Foundation. He has taught the History of Photography, Photo Theory and Criticism, and the History of Contemporary Art and Visual Culture at both the University of Toronto Mississauga and at Ryerson University. He currently teaches in the graduate Criticism & Curatorial Practice MFA program at OCAD University. He has curated numerous public projects and exhibitions in Atlantic Canada, including The Frontier is Here, Nightwalks with Teenagers and Doing Our Own Thing: Back-to-the-Land in Eastern Canada During the 1970s. He has also written for publications including Art Papers, Ciel Variable, Fuse Magazine, History of Photography and Prefix Photo and for various artist catalogues.
He is currently working on a curatorial project titled Outdoor School, which will feature contemporary artist projects that explore the landscape and natural areas surrounding the Scarborough campus of the University of Toronto. The exhibition will be presented at the Doris McCarthy Gallery in the fall of 2016.
Peta Rake
Peta Rake is the Curator of Walter Phillips Gallery and the Banff International Curatorial Institute. She has curated exhibitions at International Studio and Curatorial Program ISCP (New York), CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art (San Francisco), Oakland Museum of California (Oakland), Luggage Store Gallery (San Francisco), Playspace (San Francisco), and Live Worms Gallery (San Francisco). She had previously worked at institutions that include California College of the Arts (San Francisco) and Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane, Australia) as well as the former Archivist at Steven Leiber Basement, a Fluxus and artists’ book archive in San Francisco. She writes regularly for C Magazine and her texts have appeared in Canadian Art, Fillip, San Francisco Arts Quarterly, Rearviews, Institutions by Artists, On Apology and ElevenEleven Journal. She holds a Masters in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts and was the recipient of the 2014 Curator Award from ISCP in New York. Rake is the co-curator of the 2017 Alberta Biennial.
Lou Sheppard
Lou Sheppard is an artist and educator working in video, audio, and installation practices. Of settler ancestry, Sheppard was raised on unceded Mi'Kmaq territory in Nova Scotia, and currently lives in K'jiputuk (Halifax). Sheppard graduated from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 2006, then Mount Saint Vincent University’s Bachelor of Education as an art teacher in 2013. Their work has been exhibited both in Canada and internationally, and was included in the first Antarctic Biennale and in the Antarctic Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennial. Sheppard was awarded the Emerging Atlantic Artist Residency Award in 2017 to complete a project that composes music based on shifting ice masses in the Arctic and Antarctic regions. In 2018 Sheppard will be an artist in residence at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and at the Khyber Centre for the Arts in Nova Scotia.
Stefan St-Laurent
Stefan St-Laurent, multidisciplinary artist and curator, was born in Moncton, New-Brunswick, lives and works in Ottawa. He was the invited curator for the Biennale d’art performatif de Rouyn-Noranda in 2008, and for the 28th and 29th Symposium international d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul in 2010 and 2011. From 2002 to 2011, he worked as Curator of Galerie SAW Gallery, and has been an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa since 2010. His performance and video work has been presented in numerous galleries and institutions, including the Centre national de la photographie in Paris, Edsvik Konst och Kultur in Sollentuna (Sweden), YYZ in Toronto, Western Front in Vancouver and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in Halifax. He has been a curator and programmer for a number of artistic organizations and festivals, including the Lux Centre in London, the Cinémathèque Québécoise in Montréal, Festival international du cinéma francophone in Acadie, Les Rencontres internationales Vidéo Arts Plastiques in Basse-Normandie (France), Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie (Moncton), as well as Pleasure Dome, Images Festival of Independent Film and Video and Vtape in Toronto. He is currently Director of the artist-run centre AXENÉO7 in Gatineau.
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Sarah Fillmore
Sarah Fillmore is Chief Curator of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. She has worked at the AGNS since 2005, overseeing the provincial art collection, as well as the Gallery’s acquisition, interpretation, education, conservation and exhibition programs, and Artist-in-Residence program. Fillmore is chair of the jury for the annual Sobey Art Award; Canada’s preeminent award for artists forty and under.
Fillmore has curated group and solo exhibitions including the retrospective exhibition of Canadian Abstract painter, Jacques Hurtubise, Skin: the seduction of surface, Forces of Nature, The Last Frontier, Open Tuning (WaveUp) by Stephen Kelly, Lisa Lipton: Stop@forever and, since 2008, the Sobey Art Award exhibition. Recent work includes an exhibition of Graeme Patterson, as well as co-curating a major retrospective and accompanying publication of Canadian realist painter Mary Pratt.
Eleanor King
Eleanor King is a Halifax based artist. She received her BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 2001, and is currently a Fulbright Fellow and MFA candidate at Purchase College in New York. She has participated in residencies at The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, SOMA Mexico, and The Banff Centre among others. King has received numerous grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and Arts Nova Scotia, and was short-listed for the 2012 Sobey Art Award. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, most notably at Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Nuit Blanche Toronto, and Galleri F15 in Norway. Her solo exhibition Dark Utopian at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (2015), was highlighted in a feature-length cover article for Canadian Art magazine. Previously, King was an instructor at NSCAD University, and a Director at Anna Leonowens Gallery in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is represented by Diaz Contemporary in Toronto.
Amish Morrell
Amish Morrell is Editor of C Magazine and Director of Programs at C The Visual Art Foundation. He has taught the History of Photography, Photo Theory and Criticism, and the History of Contemporary Art and Visual Culture at both the University of Toronto Mississauga and at Ryerson University. He currently teaches in the graduate Criticism & Curatorial Practice MFA program at OCAD University. He has curated numerous public projects and exhibitions in Atlantic Canada, including The Frontier is Here, Nightwalks with Teenagers and Doing Our Own Thing: Back-to-the-Land in Eastern Canada During the 1970s. He has also written for publications including Art Papers, Ciel Variable, Fuse Magazine, History of Photography and Prefix Photo and for various artist catalogues.
He is currently working on a curatorial project titled Outdoor School, which will feature contemporary artist projects that explore the landscape and natural areas surrounding the Scarborough campus of the University of Toronto. The exhibition will be presented at the Doris McCarthy Gallery in the fall of 2016.
Peta Rake
Peta Rake is the Curator of Walter Phillips Gallery and the Banff International Curatorial Institute. She has curated exhibitions at International Studio and Curatorial Program ISCP (New York), CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art (San Francisco), Oakland Museum of California (Oakland), Luggage Store Gallery (San Francisco), Playspace (San Francisco), and Live Worms Gallery (San Francisco). She had previously worked at institutions that include California College of the Arts (San Francisco) and Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane, Australia) as well as the former Archivist at Steven Leiber Basement, a Fluxus and artists’ book archive in San Francisco. She writes regularly for C Magazine and her texts have appeared in Canadian Art, Fillip, San Francisco Arts Quarterly, Rearviews, Institutions by Artists, On Apology and ElevenEleven Journal. She holds a Masters in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts and was the recipient of the 2014 Curator Award from ISCP in New York. Rake is the co-curator of the 2017 Alberta Biennial.
Jeffrey Spalding
Jeffrey Spalding is an artist, writer and curator. His art works are in the principal national public collections including the National Gallery of Canada, Vancouver Art Gallery, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, The Canadian Embassy, Washington, Art Gallery of Alberta, Glenbow, Mendel Art Gallery and Mackenzie Art Gallery. He has served as Director at major art museums, including Glenbow Museum, University of Lethbridge, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Appleton Museum of Art, Florida and Artistic Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Calgary. Spalding organized Canada’s art exhibition for Expo 93 Korea and is author of numerous books and exhibition catalogues for museums such as the Tate Gallery and Russia’s Hermitage Museum. Spalding was President Royal Canadian Academy of Arts 2007-2010, recipient of the Alberta College of Art and Design Board of Governors Award of Excellence (1992) awarded the Order of Canada (2007) and the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (2012). He was named Adjunct Professor, University of Calgary, is a regular contributor to Galleries West magazine and was recently appointed Senior Curator, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick.
Stefan St-Laurent
Multidisciplinary artist and curator Stefan St-Laurent was born in Moncton, New-Brunswick, and lives and works in Ottawa. He was the invited curator for the Biennale d’art performatif de Rouyn-Noranda in 2008, and for the 28th and 29th Symposium international d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul in 2010 and 2011. From 2002 to 2011, he worked as Curator of Galerie SAW Gallery, and has been an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa since 2010. His performance and video work has been presented in numerous galleries and institutions, including the Centre national de la photographie in Paris, Edsvik Konst och Kultur in Sollentuna (Sweden), YYZ in Toronto, Western Front in Vancouver and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in Halifax. He has been a curator and programmer for a number of artistic organizations and festivals, including the Lux Centre in London, the Cinémathèque Québécoise in Montréal, Festival international du cinéma francophone in Acadie, Les Rencontres internationales Vidéo Arts Plastiques in Basse-Normandie (France), Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie (Moncton), as well as Pleasure Dome, Images Festival of Independent Film and Video and Vtape in Toronto. He is currently Director of the artist-run centre AXENÉO7 in Gatineau.
Anne Macmillan
Anne Macmillan is a Canadian artist from Nova Scotia. Her drawing, video, and animation works investigate arrays of objects through such means as tracking, tracing, describing, and circling. Anne holds a BFA from NSCAD University, and is currently a Fulbright scholar completing her masters degree at MIT. She is the inaugural awardee of the Banff Centre and Hynatyshyn Foundation Emerging Atlantic Artist Award (2016), and a recipient of the Canada Council International Residency Program at La Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris.
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Eleanor King
Eleanor King is a Halifax based artist. She received her BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 2001, and is currently a Fulbright Fellow and MFA candidate at Purchase College in New York. She has participated in residencies at The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, SOMA Mexico, and The Banff Centre among others. King has received numerous grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and Arts Nova Scotia, and was short-listed for the 2012 Sobey Art Award. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, most notably at Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Nuit Blanche Toronto, and Galleri F15 in Norway. Her solo exhibition Dark Utopian at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (2015), was highlighted in a feature-length cover article for Canadian Art magazine. Previously, King was an instructor at NSCAD University, and a Director at Anna Leonowens Gallery in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is represented by Diaz Contemporary in Toronto.
Jen Mizuik
Jen Mizuik is the Director of Visual + Digital Arts, The Banff Centre. Prior to joining the Banff Centre, Jen was the Director of Experimenta in Melbourne (2009-2014). She has held posts at institutions such as the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne and the Art Gallery of Calgary. She has directed and curated exhibitions of artists such as AES+F (Russia); Cao Fei (China); Hans-Peter Feldmann (Germany); Shilpa Gupta (India); Christian Jankowski (Germany); William Kentridge (South Africa); David OReilly (Ireland); Kuang-Yu Tsui (Taiwan); Kit Wise (Australia); Ryoko Aoki & Zon Ito (Japan); Sylvie Blocher (France); Natalie Bookchin (USA); Johan Grimonprez (Belgium); Shih Chieh Huang (Taiwan); Hiroshi Ishiguro (Japan); and YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY NDUSTRIES (South Korea). She holds a BFA from the Alberta College of Art and Design and is currently a MA Art History candidate at the University of Adelaide.
Jeffrey Spalding
Jeffrey Spalding is an artist, writer and curator. His art works are in the principal national public collections including the National Gallery of Canada, Vancouver Art Gallery, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, The Canadian Embassy, Washington, Art Gallery of Alberta, Glenbow, Mendel Art Gallery and Mackenzie Art Gallery. He has served as Director at major art museums, including Glenbow Museum, University of Lethbridge, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Appleton Museum of Art, Florida and Artistic Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Calgary. Spalding organized Canada’s art exhibition for Expo 93 Korea and is author of numerous books and exhibition catalogues for museums such as the Tate Gallery and Russia’s Hermitage Museum. Spalding was President Royal Canadian Academy of Arts 2007-2010, recipient of the Alberta College of Art and Design Board of Governors Award of Excellence (1992) awarded the Order of Canada (2007) and the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (2012). He was named Adjunct Professor, University of Calgary, is a regular contributor to Galleries West magazine and was recently appointed Senior Curator, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick. - See more at: https://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/emerging-atlantic-artist-residency/201606#sthash.SR6ByoMT.dpuf
Stefan St-Laurent
Multidisciplinary artist and curator Stefan St-Laurent was born in Moncton, New-Brunswick, and lives and works in Ottawa. He was the invited curator for the Biennale d’art performatif de Rouyn-Noranda in 2008, and for the 28th and 29th Symposium international d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul in 2010 and 2011. From 2002 to 2011, he worked as Curator of Galerie SAW Gallery, and has been an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa since 2010. His performance and video work has been presented in numerous galleries and institutions, including the Centre national de la photographie in Paris, Edsvik Konst och Kultur in Sollentuna (Sweden), YYZ in Toronto, Western Front in Vancouver and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in Halifax. He has been a curator and programmer for a number of artistic organizations and festivals, including the Lux Centre in London, the Cinémathèque Québécoise in Montréal, Festival international du cinéma francophone in Acadie, Les Rencontres internationales Vidéo Arts Plastiques in Basse-Normandie (France), Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie (Moncton), as well as Pleasure Dome, Images Festival of Independent Film and Video and Vtape in Toronto. He is currently Director of the artist-run centre AXENÉO7 in Gatineau.
Guidelines
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This program is no longer offered.
To be eligible for consideration, applicants had to:
Be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident;
Be under the age of 35 at the time of application;
Demonstrate a strong personal and artistic connection to the east coast provinces of Canada (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador);
Have completed formal training in visual arts
Demonstrate commitment to the career of a professional visual artist by having:
Have practiced professionally in their field for a minimum of two years;
Have produced a body of work;
Have held at least two public exhibitions of work in a professional context.
Demonstrate they are able to work independently;
Be able to communicate effectively in English (the working language at The Banff Centre is English).
Application Requirements
Applicants were asked to submit the following documents:
Cover Letter (500 words): Applicants were asked to describe their connection to Atlantic Canada and how this region influences them and their work. Applicants were asked to describe their career goals, plans for future development and learning, why they wish to be considered for this program, and what impact it could have on their artistic practice.
Artist Statement (500 words): Applicants were asked to describe the conceptual basis of their artistic practice and frame their work within a larger context.
Bio/project summary (100 words each): On a single page, applicants were asked to provide a brief biography and a summary of their proposed project. These summaries were used as a narrative for administrative and public use.
Detailed project proposal and timeline (500 words): Applicants were asked to outline their execution plan for the proposed project including a week to week timeline, description of medium(s) used, explanation of their specialized field of knowledge of these mediums, any specific processes, equipment and assistance required.
Resource requests: Applicants were asked to list all requests for equipment, software, facilities, or technical support related to their project execution/completion in the Resource Request Form section of the online application.
Portfolio: Applicants were asked to upload 5 samples of their artistic work.
Resumé: Applicants were asked to upload a resumé outlining their education and related experience
References: Applicants were asked to provide the name, occupation/title, and contact information of two references who each submitted a letter of support on their behalf should they be shortlisted for the program.
