Feb 21, 2025 | Artist Residencies, Uncategorized
Ajibola Tolase is a Nigerian poet and essayist. He graduated from the creative writing MFA program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His chapbook, Koola Lobitos, was published as a part of the New Generation African Poets Series, edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris...
Feb 13, 2025 | Community Programs, Uncategorized
Abby Burgess is a Piscataquis Community Secondary School senior living in Sangerville, Maine. She started her poem “Can you hear it in the silence?” while attending Monson Arts’ High School Program. While Abby was in Monson this week, we asked her a few...
Jan 28, 2025 | Artist Residencies, Uncategorized
As an autistic adult, my paintings and drawings illustrate my social range. On one end, there are the most abstract works where the brush strokes are aggressive, bold, and seemingly without reason. In these works, there is a dichotomy between my analytical...
Oct 17, 2024 | Artist Residencies, Uncategorized
Millee Tibbs’ work derives from her interest in photography’s ubiquity and the tension between its truth-value and inherent manipulation of reality. Tibbs is Professor of Photography at Wayne State University, Detroit. She holds an MFA in Photography from the Rhode...
Oct 14, 2024 | Artist Residencies, Uncategorized
Kieron Walquist [he/they] is a queer neurospicy poet + visual artist from mid-Missouri. Their work appears in Best New Poets, Gulf Coast, IHLR, The Missouri Review, Pleiades, Poet Lore, Third Coast, Waxwing, + elsewhere. Their chapbook, LOVE LOCKS, was selected by...
Oct 7, 2024 | Artist Residencies, Uncategorized
Franchell Mack Brown is an artist employing an amalgam of materials in her practice. From the pliancy of crocheted ribbon to industrial cordiing and the solidity of welding, she juxtaposes soft and hard, exploring the dualities of being. Undulating forms and dripping...
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.