residencies

Fogo Island Arts’ international residency program provides opportunities for artists from a wide range of disciplines to live and work on Fogo Island. Now in its seventeenth year, the residency program enables artists, curators, and writers to think, create, and connect, promoting discovery across perspectives and disciplines. The geographic specificity of an island off an island in the North Atlantic is a foundational platform for engagement around issues of sustainability, ecology, economy, and belonging.

FIA residencies offer space and time to work and they are intended for professional contemporary artists with specialized training and recognition among their peers, and public presentation of their work in a professional context.

Artists-in-residence travel to the island and stay in a saltbox house located in Fogo Island’s communities. Individual studios are available to residents who require them. The studios are accessible 24 hours a day and situated in scenic walk-in locations.

Artists-in-residence are selected in multiple ways: through agreements with partners; by invitation; and through an open call process. To receive notifications of open calls and other updates, please join our mailing list by signing up below.