The Trinacria Festival Residency is a 3-week, community-centered program designed for professional artists whose work directly engages the Pezzolo community. The dates of the program are July 24 - August 13, 2026.

We will select five to six artists or small collectives (no more than 3 collaborators) whose practices engage with Pezzolo in thoughtful and meaningful ways—through collaboration, cultural exchange, site-responsive work, or processes shaped by dialogue with the village and its landscape.

Selected artists will develop individual projects (new or evolving) that culminate in a public presentation at the annual Trinacria Arts Festival. Community engagement and participation is at the core of this Festival. 

Artists will receive:

• A structured residency environment
• Regular group sharings and workshops
• Accommodation and meals
• Local transportation support
• Workspace
• A small materials budget
• Support in developing a public presentation for the festival

The experience offers artists the opportunity to create in a dynamic environment while fostering meaningful connections with the local community.  It is ideal for artists excited by community connection, interdisciplinary exchange, and the challenge of shaping a new or evolving work toward a shared public moment.

Our residency program is dedicated to supporting the artistic investigation and creative practice of interdisciplinary artists and cultural workers from Oaxaca, the United States, and around the world.  This program embodies our belief that creative inquiry and intercultural dialogue is essential for imagining new possibilities and expanding collective understanding, fostering a shared culture of learning where artists & cultural workers cross disciplines, challenge narratives, and take creative risks.

A five week program, we host a mix of local and international residents  who engage deeply in investigation, conversation, and community connection through presentations, public workshops and an open studio. 

The Echo Artist Residency Program invites two artists each quarter to experiment and create site-specific projects for our galleries and the greater Cleveland community. Each season, SPACES selects one local artist from Northeast Ohio—defined as Cuyahoga County and its contiguous counties: Lorain, Medina, Summit, Portage, Geauga, and Lake—and one artist from outside the region. These two artists form a peer cohort, fostering the exchange of ideas, techniques, and networks. While collaboration is not required, the selection committee seeks artists with complementary or intersecting themes to enhance dialogue and impact. SPACES encourages applicants to propose projects that push the boundaries of their artistic practice, and share an authentic connection to this region.

Benefits

• An artist honorarium and production budget
• Full use of SPACES’ production facilities and A/V equipment
• Access to offsite maker spaces at no cost
• Research support and curatorial guidance
• On-site lodging in the gallery
• A dedicated local artist ambassador to help foster genuine community connections
• Opportunities to engage in local cultural experiences
• Marketing and Press support, including a press release
• An exhibition preview night with community arts leaders
• A public exhibition opening reception

DEEP SPACE is a performance residency program for artists and groups who are experimenting and making new works along the fringes of the mainstream. We believe performance that pushes the envelope in form and content requires time and space beyond what is customary, in order to allow artists to dig deeply into the processes of creation and production. DEEP SPACE provides artists with use of the NACL performance hall and artist residence for a period of rehearsal and development (one week residencies are typical, April-November) culminating in a public sharing with an invited audience.<br>

Deep Space Performance Residencies support artists or ensembles creating new works at any stage in the development process, from concept through technical production. Each year we attempt to schedule a mix of early-phase, mid-phase, and late-phase projects for week-long residencies at our Cultural Laboratory and Artist Residence in New York’s southwestern Catskills. We accept applications throughout the year. There is a Jan 31 deadline for consideration for residencies offered in the following calendar year. Our Curation Council — made up of past Deep Space artists and NACL artistic staff — convenes in March and finalizes programming decisions by May.

Itinera Arte is an independent platform for contemporary art based in Rio de Janeiro, dedicated to the research, education, and dissemination of artistic practices.

Founded in 2019, it operates at the intersection of education, creation, and curatorship, promoting courses, artist residencies, exhibitions, study trips, and cultural mediation programs.

The Itinera Arte Artist Residency offers an immersive and experimental environment for artists from diverse contexts and disciplines, fostering dialogue between contemporary practices and the historical and urban landscape of Rio de Janeiro. The program combines curatorial mentorship, collective exchanges, studio visits with Brazilian artists, field activities, and public exhibitions, encouraging the development of critical and collaborative processes.

Guided by its own pedagogical project, Itinera Arte conceives the residency as a space for shared learning, where artistic practice becomes an exercise in listening, reflection, and research. The program seeks to integrate practice and thought, linking critical formation, aesthetic experience, and engagement with territory.

Acting autonomously and collaboratively, Itinera Arte reaffirms its commitment to the valorization of plural epistemologies and to art as a field of thinking, encounter, and transformation.

Mountain Culture at Banff Centre offers exceptional programs and an inspirational setting for writers and filmmakers. Our residency programs provide the time, studio space, facilities, feedback, and engagement with peers and faculty to hone your artistic development. 

Mountain Writers Intensive and Adventure Filmmakers take place during the Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival, where participants will have the opportunity to meet with fellow artists and industry insiders.

New this year are the Moonlighter Field Camps: four-day intensives — led by women filmmakers, for women filmmakers interested in building technical skills.

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After consulting with the cultural and creative sectors, Banff Centre is proud to launch a new slate of Cultural Leadership Programs, designed for those ready to lead with vision, courage, and creativity.

These short, six-day modules are accessible to a diverse group of aspiring and experienced cultural leaders, including Indigenous, Canadian, and international artists, administrators, policymakers, creative producers, education and engagement specialists, and community-based cultural workers in urban and rural settings. Uniquely balancing deep personal growth with practical organizational skills, our programs enable participants to navigate complexity and drive meaningful change in their practices, communities and institutions.

Rooted in the Seven Wise Practices and Right Relations, developed through 50 years of Indigenous Leadership programming at Banff Centre, our 2025–26 season launches with foundational Cultural Leadership programs, laying the groundwork for a broader suite of programs to follow.

Participants can earn the Banff Centre Certificate of Distinction in Cultural Leadership by successfully completing seven Cultural Leadership programs, selecting one from each of the seven Wise Practices Elements in our program model.