2025 Festival Gallery Hop
November 1 - 9
More information forthcoming on what our members will proudly present in the 2025 Fall/Winter season
Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival
Banff Centre
Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival & World Tour
1 to 9 November
CREDIT: Banff National Park, by Paul Zizka
Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
Opening November 1
Elise Rasmussen: An Alpine Trilogy
"Elise Rasmussen: An Alpine Trilogy" brings together three interconnected bodies of work that resonate deeply in Banff, where mountain culture converges with narratives of conquest, grandeur, and nostalgia. Through rigorous research and lens-based media, Rasmussen recasts traditional narratives of history and nature through an exploration of the French and Swiss Alps. In "Did You Know Blue Had No Name?," she interrogates the symbolism of “blueness,” revisiting Saussure’s cyanometer, the first ascent of Mont Blanc, and early photographic struggles with blue skies.
"The Year Without a Summer" links an 1816 climate anomaly to today’s environmental crises, weaving historical texts, folklore, and travel reflections into a meditation on cultural responses to ecological disruption. In "Nostalgia: A Return to the Alps in Five Vignettes," Rasmussen examines the Alps as symbols of healing and escape, from Romantic ideals to modern wellness tourism, questioning our complex longing for harmony with nature. Together, these works reflect on visibility, memory, and the evolving relationship between humans and mountain environments.
This exhibition is organized by The Whyte and curated by Christina Cuthbertson.
Willock & Sax Gallery
210 Bear Street
Daily 11:00 am – 4:00 pm.
Before It’s Gone
November 1 to 9
mixed media by Jeremy Mayne
opening reception Nov 1st, artist in attendance, 2 to 4 pm
An exhibition during the 50th Anniversary Banff Mountain Film & Book Festival
Cave and Basin
National Historic Site
311 Cave Ave
Thursday to Monday: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Cave and Basics Tour
Daily tour times: 1:30 p.m. and 2:30 pm
Looking for a quick introduction to all the highlights Cave and Basin National Historic Site has to offer? Join us for this accessible 30-minute indoor/outdoor tour of the 1914 Bathing Pavilion and its many hidden wonders—from Indigenous significance and historic architecture, to a mysterious cave and the beginnings of national parks in Canada, to the tiny and endangered Banff Springs Snail.
Free with admission or Discovery Pass
Bison Courtyard
Wild Flour Bakery
Juniper Hotel & Bistro
Gallery Hop Information TBA
Walter Phillips Gallery
@ The Banff Centre
Walter Phillips Gallery is currently closed for renovations and will reopen in February 2025. Visitors are invited to engage with the new long-term exhibition, Listening Devices, taking place outside of Walter Phillips Gallery. Comprised of audio and score-based works in Banff Centre’s Permanent Collection or on long-term loan that are informed by the relationship between sound, listener, and location, the works in the exhibition are variously intended to be experienced in the woods, amongst the pollinators, and mountainside in Banff, or alternatively online.
Information on the exhibition and accessing the works can be found at https://www.banffcentre.ca/listening-devices
Image credit: T’uy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss and Anne Riley, Soundtrack for the Radical Love of Butterflies, 2018. Sound work on cassette tape, Side A: 45 minutes; Side B: 38 minutes. Collection of Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity P18 0005 V
Are You Curious?
Buffalo Nations Museum
1 Birch Avenue log fort next to Nancy Pauw bridge
Museum guided tour
Medicine walk outdoor tour
Complimentary guided tours of Buffalo Nations Museum at 1 pm and 2 pm.
In conversation with a local guide and ethnobotanist, you magically become part of the ecosystem of plants, animals, and the home of the First Nations People of this land.
Town of Banff Community Art Committee
The Town of Banff has worked with various artists over time to create large-scale public artworks. You'll spot these works throughout the downtown area.
The Carter Ryan Gallery
229 Bear Street (Corner of Bear and Wolf)
MEET THE ARTIST JASON CARTER
Celebrated Cree Artist Jason Carter will be in the Banff gallery to talk about being an artist ‘outside the lens’ - once a prolific camera person working in Morning Television, Jason uses a different, more cinematic lens in which he creates his crafts. His ‘mediums’ are different as now they are stone and canvas but his POV has remained the same.
Mountain Galleries at the Fairmont Banff
405 Spray Ave
Artist’s In Residence
Located within the stunning Fairmont hotels across Whistler, Banff, and Jasper, Mountain Galleries is one of Canada's leading contemporary art galleries. Since 1992, it has showcased a curated selection of works from established and emerging Canadian artists, celebrating the beauty and diversity of artistic expression. The gallery is renowned for its impressive collection of paintings, sculpture, photography, and ceramics that reflect the unique landscapes and stories of the Canadian wilderness.
Whether you're an avid collector or simply exploring the world of art, Mountain Galleries offers a captivating space where creativity, culture, and nature intersect.