Walter Phillips Gallery, Contemporary art museum at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Canada
The Walter Phillips Gallery is an art museum at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity that displays paintings, sculptures, photographs, textiles, ceramics, and digital installations across multiple exhibition spaces. The collections change regularly to showcase different artistic approaches and media forms.
The museum was founded in 1976 as part of the Banff Centre and named after Walter J. Phillips, who shaped the visual arts program at Banff School of Fine Arts. This establishment reflected the centre's growing commitment to visual arts.
The gallery presents works by Canadian and international artists exploring current topics through painting, sculpture, photography, and installation art. You can see how contemporary creators respond to what matters to people today.
The museum is located on the grounds of Banff Centre in central Banff and is open Wednesday through Sunday. The interior spaces are easy to navigate, and exhibitions change with the seasons, so visiting at different times of year offers different experiences.
The adjacent Paul D. Fleck Library Archive stores an extensive collection of video art from past exhibitions that is open to the public to browse. This digital collection lets visitors explore artworks that are no longer on display in the current shows.
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