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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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

04/27/2026

Shore Time 2026 Speaker: Hella Jongerius

With a practice that bridges craft and industry, Hella Jongerius brings a deeply human perspective to the role of colour, material, and the maker’s hand.

Hella Jongerius is one of the world’s leading designers, known for her research-driven approach and vigorous work on uniting craftsmanship and industrial production, infusing mass-produced objects with imperfection, sensibility, and character.

She founded Jongeriuslab design studio in 1993 and has worked on commissioned projects for Vitra, Maharam, the interior design of the Delegates’ Lounge at United Nations Headquarters, and the cabin interiors for the Dutch airline KLM. She has initiated independent projects, with exhibitions at the Design Museum London (2017), Die Neue Sammlung at Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich (2017), the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm (2018), Lafayette Anticipations in Paris (2019), Gropius Bau in Berlin (2021), and Salon94 in New York (2024). Jongerius’s work is in permanent collections at MoMA, Centre Pompidou, Die Neue Sammlung, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, and Victoria and Albert Museum. In 2024, the Vitra Design Museum acquired her archive. She lives and works in both Berlin (Germany) and Arnhem (Netherlands).

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04/23/2026

In March, Fogo Island Arts welcomed back Winsome Dumalagan Wong.

During ’s 2024 residency, she met Filipino workers from the Fogo Island Co-operative Society’s fish processing plants and spent time with them learning their stories. As a Filipina-Hong Konger, Wong felt an instant kinship to this community, which reframed a place that was unfamiliar.

These encounters are at the heart of Wong’s upcoming solo exhibition in Hong Kong this fall. “The Drifts, the Lingerings” tells stories of the Filipino diaspora through collaborative storytelling, collected materials, video and text.

Wong was the first recipient of the Fog & Mist residency, a landmark partnership between Fogo Island Arts, .hk, and . Her residency was generously supported by Eleanor Shen.

04/20/2026

Shore Time 2026 Speaker: Sebastian Herkner

Sebastian Herkner joins us in conversation, offering a perspective on human-centred making shaped by an unconditional love for traditional craftsmanship and an understanding of new technologies.

Sebastian Herkner (born 1981) studied Product Design at HfG Offenbach University of Art and Design. In 2006, Sebastian Herkner founded his own studio. Since that time, he has designed furniture, lamps and smaller items for manufacturers such as And Tradition, Cappellini, ClassiCon, Dedon, Duravit, Fritz Hansen, Janus et Cie, Man of Parts, Poltrona Frau or Thonet.

His works have won numerous accolades – among others the IF Award, the Iconic Award and the Elle Deco International Design Award (EDIDA). As Guest of Honor to imm cologne 2016, Sebastian Herkner provided the design for “Das Haus”. He was elected the 2019 “Designer of the Year” by Maison&Objet. In 2021, Herkner won the most prestigious design award in Milan: the EDIDA award for Best Designer of the Year. In 2022, he was one of the curators at Homo Faber, along with Robert Wilson, Judith Clarke, Michele de Lucchi, and Naoto Fukasawa commissioned by the Michelangelo Foundation in Venice.

The most important design museums (including Die Neue Sammlung, Munich or the Vitra Design Museum) have included his work in their collections.

Visit our website for more information: https://shoretime.fogoislandarts.ca/

04/13/2026

Shore Time 2026 Artist: Leonor Antunes

We are excited that Leonor Antunes will be joining us for Shore Time on Fogo Island.

Leonor Antunes studied Sculpture at the Fine Arts University of Lisbon and the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Karlsruhe.

Her recent exhibitions include “on the persistent inequality of leonor’s days*,” CAM - Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian, Lisbon (2024); “Leonor Antunes: the apparent length of a floor area,” Fruitmarket Gallery (2023); “medir, cuidar, enlaçar,” Serralves Collection, Forum Arte Braga, Braga, Portugal (2022); “discrepancies,” La Loge, Brussels, Belgium (2022); and “the homemaker and her domain,” Festival D’Automne, Paris, France (2021). Antunes represented Portugal at the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, Venice, Italy (2019).

Her work has been included in Aichi Triennale, Aichi, Japan (2022), Gwangju Biennial, Gwanju, South Korea (2018), 57th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Italy (2017); Sharjah Biennial 12, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (2015); Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach 2013, Fellbach, Germany; 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany (2014); 3rd Singapore Biennale, Singapore (2011). Antunes currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

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04/01/2026

Thank you to our sponsors.

Shore Time: Art Design Place is grateful for the support of Andrew Grimes of Grimes Handscomb Asset Management, RBC Dominion Securities, for this year's programming.

For more information or to register, visit Shore Time: https://shoretime.fogoislandarts.ca/

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Fogo, NL

Opening Hours

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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