Apr 23, 2025 | Community Programs, Gallery, Partnerships
Our high school students did incredible work at Monson Arts during the 2024/25 school year. Six participating high schools in the area have students in our high school visual arts and writing program. Students come to Monson Arts two times a month to spend a day...
Jan 23, 2025 | Community Programs, Partnerships
Welcoming Our High School Students Back for the New Year! Our writing and visual art students dove right back into the work of creating! James Pullen braved the frigid temperatures and hand-cut ice discs out of Lake Hebron to demonstrate what you can create using one...
Oct 28, 2024 | Community Programs, Partnerships
Monson Arts High School students have now rolled up their sleeves and gotten down to the business of creating and making work. After a first class of meet-and-greet team activities, getting to know Monson Arts staff and, especially, their fellow students from 6 local...
Sep 27, 2024 | Community Programs, Partnerships
What a fantastic start to this year’s Monson Arts High School Program! We had 24 students from six local high schools join us in multiple creative team building exercises led again this year by Portland based improv artist, dancer, poet, and educator Gretchen...
May 9, 2024 | Community Programs, Partnerships
The Monson Arts High School program students got to enjoy an open reception for their end year of projects on May 3rd at the Monson Arts Gallery. There was an awesome turn-out of family, friends, teachers and administrators, as well as the student artists and writers...
Mar 22, 2024 | Community Programs, Partnerships
We’re getting down to crunch time in the Monson Arts High School Program. Students are honing in on their final projects, getting feedback, crossing out lines, rewriting, erasing, painting over, and starting fresh with more tools in their creative arsenal. Teachers...
Time and space to create.
Monson Arts is a new artists’ residency and arts center in Monson, Maine. Programs include residencies for artists and writers, intensive shorter workshops, and educational partnerships with area secondary schools.