Category: Workshops
Monson Arts hosts intensive shorter workshops throughout the year in a variety of media and formats. These programs can range from traditional skills like canoe building and stone carving to addressing contemporary trends such as audio/podcast production, writing, and the crossover of science and art. See below for all of the latest news, and announcements about Monson Arts’ Workshops.
Preview our 2024 Residency Schedule
Monson Arts plans to welcome a total of 100 residents in 2023. Check out our complete lineup of residency dates for next year. Winter applications will be open August 1 – Sep 15.
Q&A WITH TEACHER ỌMỌLARÁ WILLIAMS MCCALLISTER ON UPCOMING WEAVING CLASS @ MONSON ARTS
Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, Ọmọlará Williams McCallister is based in Baltimore, where Ọmọlará earned a Masters of Fine Arts at the Maryland Institute College Of Art and co-founded the Baltimore Community Weaving Studio. Ọmọlará’s practice is to cultivate...
Q&A WITH TEACHER ROBERT SMITH ON UPCOMING STORY EDITING FOR AUDIO CLASS @ MONSON ARTS
Robert Smith is a Professor at Columbia Journalism School and a long-time host of NPR’s Planet Money where he tells stories about the global economy. With a microphone in hand, Robert has drilled for oil, harvested cotton, launched a satellite into space, and created...
Q&A WITH TEACHER Peggy Yocom ON UPCOMING FOLKLORE WRITING CLASS @ MONSON ARTS
For five decades, Peggy Yocom has been listening to the stories of people who live in the mountains of western Maine. In academia, she founded the Folklore Studies Program of George Mason University where she taught for 36 years and twice received the University...
Q&A WITH TEACHER ED NADEAU ON UPCOMING PAINTING CLASS @ MONSON ARTS
A native Mainer, Ed Nadeau is an Associate Professor at the University of Maine in Orono teaching advanced courses in painting and drawing. His area of research is the history, manufacture and use of traditional artists materials along with current advancements of new...
Q&A WITH TEACHER ROBERLEY BELL ON UPCOMING SCULPTURE CLASS @ MONSON ARTS
Roberley Bell is the recipient of numerous fellowships including awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, a Pollock Krasner Fellowship, and a Senior Scholar Fulbright to Turkey. Most recently she was a research fellow in the department of Urban Planning at...
Q&A With Teacher Lisa Houck On Upcoming Mosaic Class @ Monson Arts
Lisa Houck studied printmaking and graduated at the Rhode Island School of Design and shortly after joined the Experimental Etching Studio in Boston where she taught etching and monoprinting before going on to get an MFA in 1989 from Tufts University in painting....
Preview our 2023 Residency Schedule
Monson Arts plans to welcome a total of 100 residents in 2023. Check out our complete lineup of residency dates for next year. Winter applications will be open August 1 – Sep 15.
Preview our 2022 Residency Schedule
Monson Arts hopes to bring a total of 100 residents in 2022 making it our busiest year yet. Check out our complete lineup of residency dates for next year. Apply now for Spring sessions!
Summer 2019 Public Programs
See our lineup of fee public programs being offered this summer including evening talks by artist/ instructors, exhibits, demonstrations, and film screenings.