CAAF Artist Residencies
CAAF offers studio residencies with the aim to support emerging artists to reach their full potential. By providing space and funding, the CAAF Studio Residency enables emerging artists to further explore their creative practice and take advantage of opportunities that CAAF can provide. Artists are also encouraged to share their process and engage with the community during their residencies.
THE CAAF STUDIOS
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CAAF’s cSPACE Studio
Suite #435, 1721 – 29th Avenue SW, Calgary, AB
The studio is located on the fourth floor of cSPACE Marda Loop, a multi-disciplinary creative hub and arts incubator.
280 square feet
Natural light (with room darkening blinds) and adjustable LED lighting
High speed Wifi and fibre connectivity
Elevator
Fully accessibleCAAF’s 500 Collective Studio
#500 – 321 50the Avenue SE , Calgary, ABThe studio is located at 500 Collective, a collective of working spaces for creatives.
85 square feet
Natural light
Wifi
Fully accessible
Current Resident - cSPACE Studio
Sacha Michaud - March to May 2026
As a stop motion animator and social worker, my art is a way to process and reflect on the complexities of my work. In 2023, I completed my first film,Camping, which was a community-driven project about the realities of being unhoused. People with lived experience played a vital role in writing and directing the film, ensuring authenticity and depth in the storytelling. Seeing this project resonate with audiences and earn multiple awards reinforced my belief in the power of animation to amplify voices and spark meaningful conversations.
My creative practice is deeply connected to my work in social services, where I witness resilience, struggle, and hope every day. Stop motion allows me to translate these emotions into tactile, moving narratives that engage and challenge viewers. I also integrate teaching into my practice, sharing the craft of animation as a tool for self-expression and storytelling.
Current Resident - 500 Collective Studio
Alex Carreon (they/she)- April to May 2026
My work explores the intersections of memory, migration, and identity through collage, photography, digital art, and personal archiving. As someone raised in the Middle East within a Filipino migrant family and now living in Canada, I am drawn to the ways displacement and adaptation shape how we see ourselves and each other.
I approach art-making as a process of assembling fragments—visual, emotional, and historical—to reconstruct narratives that are often overlooked or fragmented by migration. By layering analog textures with digital interventions, I examine how belonging is formed and reformed across cultural and geographic boundaries.
My practice is both introspective and communal: an act of documenting my own experience while creating visual spaces for others in the diaspora to recognize themselves. Through this work, I hope to preserve the quiet, in-between moments that define the migrant condition and turn them into collective memory.
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