Fortunée Shugar is a professional visual artist and has spent a lifetime involved in the arts. She has taught art to children, to developmentally disabled adults, and to seniors with dementia. She earned diplomas in haute couture and animation. She returned to formal schooling to complete her Honours Degree in Fine Arts at the University of Ottawa. This achievement later in life, inspired her to explore her creativity in new directions, with inventiveness and determination. Motivation, self-discipline, inquisitiveness and life experience have propelled her to search for novel ways to express her creativity.