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...
Jul 30, 2024 | Artist Residencies, Uncategorized
Cecilia Danell is a Swedish artist based in Galway, Ireland. She is a painter with a multidisciplinary practice that also involves textiles and installation. Her work is in the collections of the Irish State, Trinity College, Dublin and the Irish Arts Council and she...
Jun 18, 2024 | Artist Residencies, Uncategorized
Naomi Cohn is a writer and artist whose work explores reclamation. Her forthcoming book, The Braille Encyclopedia: Brief Essays on Altered Sight (Rose Metal Press, October 2024), explores midlife vision loss, learning braille, and re-learning to read and write as an...
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.