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...
Sep 27, 2024 | Artist Residencies, Uncategorized
Mitchell Villa is a self-taught artist residing on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Drawn by the endless offerings of painting as a medium, Villa’s work inhabits an area of hybridity invoking the contemporary by employing and reinterpreting the historical. His...
Sep 27, 2024 | Partnerships, Uncategorized
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...
Aug 7, 2024 | Gallery, Uncategorized
The Monson Arts Gallery, in collaboration with the Marlborough Gallery, New York, is pleased to announce its summer exhibition, Berenice Abbott’s Greenwich Village, featuring her original vintage photographs from the 1930’s and 1940’s. I’m not a nice girl. I’m a...
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.