BAiR Residency 2023 Group Exhibition, It’s Raining Somewhere

Wednesday, June 7

4:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Glyde Hall Studios and Project Space,
Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity

The exhibition, It’s Raining Somewhere represents the five weeks of intensive research and artistic explorations of the 2023 Spring BAIR Program. Throughout the residency artists have worked with themes such as; grief, desire, collaboration, labour, landscapes charged by human presence, and material experiments. Practices within the varied group range from using colour as a tool to create restorative spaces that bring joy to utilizing screen printing as a political gesture. The group contains artists that work in the fields of filmmaking, community organization and activism, sculpture, photography, printmaking, performance, ceramics, clay, collage and drawing and painting. The works included trace the conceptual and aesthetic concerns of the participating artists and converge at a meeting point of making and bonding as a group during times of disaster, grief and processing.

It’s Raining Somewhere combines these practices of sensual materiality, acts of protest, and investigations of identity. The exhibition includes ceramic figures and objects with layered and painterly surfaces that hint to an interest in the body, storytelling, and connection to the land. The exhibition will coincide with the Banff Centre for the Arts Open Studio Event on June 7th from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m.