May 9, 2024 | Partnerships, Uncategorized
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 | Partnerships, Uncategorized
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...
Feb 23, 2024 | Partnerships, Uncategorized
Welcome back students! It was good to have the Monson Arts High School students back in action after winter break on January 9th. To re-engage our creatives we hosted noted outdoor writer, guide, journalist, and tv presenter Aislinn Sarnaki. Both student visual...
Dec 21, 2023 | Partnerships, Uncategorized
The last session before Christmas break saw both the Visual Arts and Writers come together to create hand-made books led by guest teacher Rebecca Goodale. Mixing it up, students took pre-made patterned paper as covers and layered in pages with both string and glue,...
Dec 8, 2023 | Partnerships, Uncategorized
The latest rounds of the Monson Arts High School Program saw students take the first steps in editing creative pieces through peer feedback and layered exercises, taking these focused moments and going back to the canvas and page to build more complicated works. In...
Nov 15, 2023 | Partnerships, Uncategorized
Over the last few weeks students in the Monson Arts High school Program have been settling into the sessions led by Alan Bray and Dawn Potter. And they’ve been busy, generating drawings and lines of words, listening to instruction but also jumping into the creative...
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.