Community Programs
Monson Arts is dedicated to being a vibrant resource for art and creativity in the local community. In addition to programming community workshops and events, we are actively developing educational partnerships with area secondary schools under the belief that intensive programs in a professional art center can be a catalyst for how students perceive themselves as creative people.
2024 Community Programs
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From the Kennebec to Katahdin: Exploring Maine’s A.T.
$0.00Aug 31, 2024, 7pm
From the Kennebec to Katahdin: Exploring Maine’s A.T.
Join Wendy Weiger on a virtual hike along the Appalachian Trail from the Kennebec to Katahdin.
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Foraging and Tasting Experience: A Culinary Adventure in Nature, Aug. 4th
$25.00Sunday, Aug 4th @ 9am
Take a walk in the woods with Rachel Alexandrou and learn about the plants around us. You will forage for material that can be used in various ways. At the end of the walk, there will be a foraged feast!
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Camden Shakespeare Fest @Monson Arts: Comedy of Errors
Saturday, July 27th with a 2pm curtain behind the Monson Arts Tenney House building, 47 Tenney Hill Rd.
Pull up a chair in the lawn at Monson Arts for this amazing theatre program in partnership with Camden Shakespeare Festival. Tickets on sale May 15th.
Rain date, Sunday, July 28th.
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Center Theatre Summer Drama Camp @ Monson Arts
Monday-Friday, July 8th through July 19th, 8am-2pm
This 2-week kids camp for 1st – 8th graders, is designed to build up, foster, and inspire kids in the performing arts as they work on producing a play using teamwork and creative problem solving.
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Side X Side: Project M.A.I.N.E. Workshop @ Monson Arts
Friday, June 28th, 8:30am-4pm
Choose one of three workshops offered for this free, all day event, which ranges from theater to poetry to bookmaking to paperwork. These integrated creative art workshops are for all ages and abilities.
Latest News > Community Programs at Monson Arts
Monson Arts High School Program: 1/15/2025
Welcoming Our High School Students Back for the New Year! Our writing and visual art students dove right back into the work of creating! James Pullen braved the frigid temperatures and hand-cut ice discs out of Lake Hebron to demonstrate what you can create using one...
MONSON ARTS HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAM: Off We Go!
Monson Arts High School students have now rolled up their sleeves and gotten down to the business of creating and making work. After a first class of meet-and-greet team activities, getting to know Monson Arts staff and, especially, their fellow students from 6 local...
Monson Arts High School Program 2024/25 First Session
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 Berg. ...
HIGH SCHOOL BLOG POST #7: End of Year Wrap-Up!
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...
HIGH SCHOOL BLOG POST #6: BUILDING CREATIVE TOOLS
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...
HIGH SCHOOL BLOG POST #5: WELCOME BACK!
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...
High School Blog Post #4: Making Books!
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,...
HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAM BLOG POST #3: Delving Deeper
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...
HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAM BLOG POST #2: Generating Work
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...
High School Program Blog Post #1: Creative Space To Learn And Grow
The Monson Arts High School Program is underway for the 2023/24 school year! This year we have 7 participating schools , including Greenville, Piscataquis Community, Foxcroft Academy, Penquis Valley, Nokomis, Dexter, and, our newest addition, Corinth Central High. ...