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Fogo Island Arts is a residency-based contemporary art and ideas organization that supports research, production, and exchange for artists, filmmakers, writers, musicians, curators, designers and thinkers from around the world. Fogo Island Arts is a residency-based contemporary art venue on Fogo Island, Newfoundland, Canada, for artists, filmmakers, writers, musicians, curators, designers, and thinkers from around the world.

06/19/2026

Fogo Island Arts Call for Applications: Fall 2026 Residencies

Fogo Island Arts invites artists, writers, and curators to apply for its Fall 2026 Program. Three residencies will take place from October 7 to November 18, 2026, each running for six weeks.

The application deadline is July 10, 2026.

Fogo Island offers space and distance from the pressures of ordinary life. Participants live in a saltbox house and have 24-hour access to a dedicated studio space. The studios, designed by Norwegian-Canadian architect Todd Saunders, are bold contemporary structures set in the rocky landscape.

FIA residencies are for professional practitioners with specialized training, recognition among their peers, and a history of public presentation of their work. Applications are welcome from artists working across a wide range of disciplines, including visual art, film, critical writing, sound, curating, design, and theory.

Participants are responsible for the cost of their travel to and from Fogo Island, food and gas, as well as any other expenses related to travel visas and medical insurance.

For full application guidelines, visit link in bio.

📸 Alex Fradkin

06/18/2026

Artist talk and conversation with Kathleen Elliott

June 23, 5:30 pm at the Orange Lodge

Kathleen Elliott will give a short talk on her approach to making, followed by a discussion about knitwear traditions. invites fellow makers to bring in their oldest knitwear to share and will facilitate a discussion on their patterns and personal connections to knitwear. While in residence Elliott has been working on a large rug-hooked work based on traditional gansey (or gurnsey) patterns.

Through the use of non-mechanized processes, Kathleen Elliott investigates the histories and lived experiences of rural women. Handmade textile work grounds her practice in material traditions that reflect labour, care, and endurance.

Elliott is the recipient of our second annual FIA Newfoundland and Labrador Artist Residency, generously supported by anonymous donors.

06/12/2026

Shore Time 2026 Speaker: Glenn Pushelburg

Glenn Pushelberg understands that the culture, heritage, and story of a place can and should influence design, an approach that is close to the heart of the questions we will ask at Shore Time.

Glenn Pushelberg is co-founder of the global creative design studio Yabu Pushelberg. He met business partner George Yabu on a chance encounter years after graduating from the School of Interior Design at Toronto Metropolitan University, formerly the Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, in 1976. Their meeting led to them sharing a studio space, where they discovered their shared philosophy and aesthetics in design, which eventually led to the inception of Yabu Pushelberg.

Since the founding of their studio, the duo has established client relationships with some of the biggest names in hospitality and fashion, including Aman, EDITION Hotels, Four Seasons, Park Hyatt, LVMH, Printemps, Bergdorf Goodman, and Tiffany & Co. They recently unveiled the interiors of Aman's first standalone residential project, Aman Residences Tokyo; Bruno Mars' lounge and jazz bar at Bellagio Las Vegas, The Pinky Ring; the Raffles Sentosa Singapore all-villa resort, which opened in March 2025; as well as the JW Marriott Hotel Tokyo, The Chancery Rosewood Asaya Spa in London, and The Palace Muli in Beijing.

The studio approaches each project holistically, shaping environments through interior design, architectural lighting, art consultancy, styling, branding, and wayfinding, ensuring a cohesive vision across every scale. This integrated approach extends to bespoke furniture and lighting for individual projects, alongside collections designed for global partners such as Molteni&C, B&B Italia, Glas Italia, Tribu, Salvatori, HC28 maison, and more.

Visit our website for further details: https://shoretime.fogoislandarts.ca/

06/10/2026

Jean-François Bélisle, Director of the National Gallery of Canada, in conversation with Zita Cobb and Kitty Scott

5PM on Friday, June 26 at the cinema in the

Join Jean-François Bélisle, Director, , Zita Cobb, , Founder and CEO, and Kitty Scott, Director, Fogo Island Arts, for a discussion of the NGC’s National Engagement strategy and the significance of place in contemporary Canadian culture.

The conversation will highlight two key artworks, Sharon Lockhart’s WINDWARD (2025) and Liam Gillick’s A Variability Quantifier (The Fogo Island Red Weather Station) (2022), which emerged from deep engagements with the island’s landscape, community, and climate.

These works connect art, place and ecological thinking in exemplary manners while embodying the National Gallery’s mission to create visual-arts experiences that deepen our understanding of art and expand how we see the world and our shared place in it.

📸 (1); Sharon Lockhart, still from WINDWARD, 2025. Co-commissioned and co-produced by Fogo Island Arts, The Vega Foundation, and the National Gallery of Canada, with the support of The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery. Courtesy the artist and neugerriemschneider, Berlin. © Sharon Lockhart, 2025.

05/19/2026

This month we welcome Kathleen Elliott, the recipient of our second annual Newfoundland and Labrador Artist Residency.

Elliott is an interdisciplinary textile and community artist with Mi’kmaq and settler heritage. She studied Visual Arts and Art History at Memorial University, Grenfell Campus. In 2024, she completed her Master of Arts at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh, Scotland. 

Through the use of non-mechanized processes, Elliott investigates the histories and lived experiences of rural women. Handmade textile work grounds her practice in material traditions that reflect labour, care, and endurance. Elliott’s artistic practice pulls traditional domestic craft through contemporary materials, giving histories of quiet strength a public space. 

This residency is generously supported by anonymous donors.

05/18/2026

Shore Time 2026 Speaker: Tommy Smythe

Tommy Smythe joins us in conversation to offer a perspective on design grounded in everyday living, where beauty, function, and home are tightly connected.mythe joins us in conversation to offer a perspective on design grounded in everyday living, where beauty, function, and home are tightly connected.

Tommy Smythe’s contagious enthusiasm and fun-loving approach to decorating has made him a household name in design. For more than 25 years, he has shared the message of practical yet beautiful living with wide audiences through television, print, social media, and speaking engagements.

Renowned for his masterful mix of fine art, vintage and antique finds, and modern furnishings united by exceptional colour sense, Tommy has built a reputation for timeless, personal interiors full of character. In 2020, Tommy joined longtime collaborators Lindsay Mens and Kate Stuart to cofound TOM Design Collective. Rather than launching independent studios, they envisioned bringing together top design talent under a shared banner committed to uncompromising quality, transparency, and deep respect for clients. TOM has grown into a studio of more than twenty designers and technicians delivering full-service residential design across North America. Guided by the ethos Traditional Or Modern, the collective creates homes that are layered, personal, and enduring.

Visit our website for further details: https://shoretime.fogoislandarts.ca/

05/11/2026

Shore Time 2026 Speaker: R. H. Quaytman

R. H. Quaytman brings her considered approach to painting as a way of engaging with history, context, and the specificity of place.

R.H. Quaytman is a visual artist and occasional author. She is best known for an ongoing series of painting exhibitions, which she conceives as one ongoing project, like chapters in a book. This method began in 2001 and includes a variety of historic and contemporary subjects pertaining to both the place where the paintings are first shown and the history of painting. They will continue to the end. Quaytman’s work has been exhibited widely and written about in the Americas, Europe, and most recently China.

Visit our website for further details: https://shoretime.fogoislandarts.ca/

05/05/2026

Shore Time 2026 Speaker: Tom McDonough

Tom McDonough invites us to consider how art and architecture shape, and are shaped by, the social and political world around us.

Tom McDonough is a U.S.-based art historian, critic, and professor specializing in modern and contemporary art. He teaches in the Art History Department at Binghamton University - SUNY and has held visiting posts at Harvard and UC Berkeley.

McDonough has authored and edited influential books on postwar European avant-gardes and the Situationist International and written widely on art, politics, and culture for journals like Artforum and October.

Visit our website for further details: https://shoretime.fogoislandarts.ca/

04/30/2026

Fogo Island Arts is thrilled to congratulate Daisy Desrosiers on her exciting new appointment as the Britton Family Curator-at-Large, North American Art, at Tate. This is a well-deserved recognition. We are proud to have Daisy on our Program Advisory Council and look forward to seeing her in this new role.

📸 Tariq Tarey

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Tuesday	12pm - 5pm
Thursday	12pm - 5pm

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1 (709) 266-1248

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http://www.fogoislandarts.ca/

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