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.

The Mentoring Artist Residency was the core program at our founding, and it has served over 3,500 emerging and mid-career artists from many disciplines. The residency is unique in that it is a mentoring program that couples prominent Mentoring Artists with selected Associate Artists for three-week periods. Since residencies are process-based, and not product-driven, time can be spent on previously existing projects, on new experiments, or on collaborations. The residency is also unique in that it focuses on creating conversations and the sharing of ideas between three disciplines per program, which can include visual artists, writers, dancers, and musicians as well as many other types of art. ACA believes that the spirit and challenges of being an artist are shared by all disciplines and that we can learn much from coming together, sharing our work and ideas, and collaborating on projects. 

The three mentoring artists for this residency are: 
• Megan Conley- Consummate muscician/harpist, Megan would love to work with fellow musicians as well as artists from other mediums who want to use their unique skillset to help inspire action for our planet.
• Greg Corbino- is an OBIE Award-winning designer with a focus in puppetry, sustainable large-scale installation, and environmental performance in public space.
• John Heginbotham is an award-winning, Brooklyn-based choreographer and performer.

Rest Retreats at the Respite Roundhouse grant nature-infused rejuvenation and healing for those in need of rest.  Open for booking April - July 2025. Retreatants will choose their own self-directed retreat during seasonal, available dates. $40/per weekday night. Weekend bookings available at reduced, market-rate if can stay for minimum of three nights. your choice : self-cleaning or paid cleaning.

Retreatants get access to:

• gaia herb products donated by compassion access project
• Soaking tub, wood burning stove, rooms encased in windows for open air, forest trail, river medicine, wood for camp fires, vast library of movement, poetry and naturalist / buddhist books.
• All the emergent discoveries you will find here.

Retreats will be granted according to solidarity scale, what folks can afford to pay, with a minimum non-refundable contribution of $80 for two nights / three days.

Read and See Reviews of past retreatants.

This is a live/work residency that is embedded in a small (9-room) hospitality business called Travelers New Orleans. New Orleans, like most cities, has become increasingly unaffordable for artists and others who seek to live creatively. At Travelers New Orleans, artists are provided housing on the third (top) level of a light-filled three-bedroom, two-bath apartment in the Lower Garden District neighborhood. A fourth room is available for office/limited studio space. Artists help run the hospitality business by committing to work about 15 (paid) hours per week, and the hospitality business, in turn, funds the residency. Hours may vary depending on season, but 15 is a solid average. Artists are encouraged to create onsite (there are some space limitations) and there are opportunities to showcase work in the lobby gallery, which looks on out world-famous Magazine Street. The goal of this residency is to provide an affordable, creative, supportive environment for artists at any stage of their careers. 

The Steel Yard’s Micro-residency program can assist you in growing and strengthening your creative industrial art practice with flexible time commitments. Micro-residencies are an ideal opportunity for you to complete a specific project, commission, or prototype within a limited amount of time. Micro-residencies are available with a one-month minimum commitment, and a three-month maximum commitment.

The Steel Yard supports emerging and mid-career artists working in the industrial-arts: ceramics, welding, blacksmithing, or jewelry. We host one ceramics and one metals micro-resident at a time. Micro-residents receive an all-access pass to our 10,000 square foot studio, tools, resources, and community.

Accepted residents are invited to take, or teach, courses, attend critiques, participate in exhibitions, vend at art markets, be paid to design and fabricate public art work, and be part of a vibrant community of makers.

Please read the Residency Program Handbook for complete guidelines and expectations.

Residents will be required to sign a contract detailing responsibilities, privileges, studio access, and safety procedures. Residents will also be expected to contribute at least 5 hours of work time to the department monthly, and to participate in organizational fundraisers and departmental clean ups. Upon completion of their term, residents should expect to provide the Steel Yard with 5 images of the work created during their term, or as a direct result of their time at the Yard.