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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Creating a Business Plan: A Hands-On Session for Artists, Makers and Creative Entrepreneurs
Tuesday, May 6th, 6pm-8pm
Business planning can feel at odds with your passion and desire for creating works of art. But it doesn’t have to! In fact, it can support and sustain your passion.
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Camden Shakespeare Fest @Monson Arts: The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Saturday, July 26th 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 27th.
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Center Theatre Summer Drama Camp @ Monson Arts
Monday-Friday, July 7th through July 18th, 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.
Latest News > Community Programs at Monson Arts
2025 High School Gallery Exhibition
Our high school students did incredible work at Monson Arts during the 2024/25 school year. Six participating high schools in the area have students in our high school visual arts and writing program. Students come to Monson Arts two times a month to spend a day...
Abby Burgess Wins The Telling Room Prize for Piscataquis County
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 questions...
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...