The woman behind the arts - Elisabet Gunnarsdottir

Elisabet Gunnarsdottir is the director of the Fogo Island Arts Corporation.

Published on May 9, 2011; Published on May 10, 2011
Steve Bartlett

Topics :: Fogo Island Arts , Shorefast Foundation , Iceland , Norway , Fogo Island

Zita Cobb lauds the attitude and effort of the Fogo Island Arts Corporation's director.

"The way her head is wired is right on," says Cobb, co-founder of the Shorefast Foundation.

Elisabet Gunnarsdottir's wiring is, in part, the result of experiences in her native Iceland and in Norway.

A trained architect, she ran Iceland's first architectural and de-sign studio for years.

Based in a rural community, she did town planning, graphic de-sign and restoration work. The work taught her a huge lesson.

"I learned you never, ever copy the old. You do what you can to restore it and give it new life, and then contemporary architecture should never be a copy of the old and this we followed here (in Fogo Island), too.

"If you copy the old, it's a copy."

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