Mar 14, 2024 | Artist Residencies, Uncategorized
Jeffery Renard Allen was a Monson Arts Resident in the Winter of 2023. He is a Chicago-based writer who has published six books of fiction and poetry. Among many other accomplishments, he is a recipient of the Chicago Tribune’s Heartland Prize for Fiction, the Ernest...
Feb 8, 2024 | Artist Residencies, Uncategorized
Ash Davidson is the author of the novel Damnation Spring. Her work has been supported by Monson Arts, MacDowell, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. What was the best part for you about being at Monson Arts? Being gifted the...
Jan 4, 2024 | Artist Residencies, Uncategorized
Neena Pathak is a writer, producer, and editor whose work has appeared in podcasts like Invisibilia (NPR), This American Life, Another Round (BuzzFeed), The Daily and Still Processing (The New York Times). Her work has been honored by the Pulitzer Prize Board,...
Dec 21, 2023 | Community Programs, 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 12, 2023 | Artist Residencies, Uncategorized
Damilola Onwah is a Nigerian writer and culture critic whose work explores identity and belonging, unconventional family structures, the struggles and triumphs of the underdog, and how faith is gained and lost. She moved from Nigeria to the United States in 2014, and...
Dec 8, 2023 | Community Programs, 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...
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.