Bothy Project Design Residency
about Bothy Project Design Residency
In its inaugural year, Bothy Project, Fogo Island Arts and Fogo Island Workshops have partnered to produce Cross Currents, a residency and professional development project for craft-designer-makers based in Scotland and in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Cross Currents will explore the historical, artistic and social parallels between Scotland’s West Coast and Newfoundland and Labrador and Canada’s East Coast. These connections across the Atlantic include geology and landscape; fishing and seafaring, in their cultural and environmental guises; and connections of communities, Indigenous peoples, migrants, immigrants and settlers. Aspects of these parallels are present in Scotland and Newfoundland and Labrador, and offer a myriad of material for craft-designer-makers to explore, learn from and communicate through their practice.
The project has been generously funded through British Council Scotland and Creative Scotland’s Connect and Collaborate program, with additional support from Shorefast.