Monson Arts’ Blog
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...
RESIDENT SHOWCASE: MILLEE TIBBS
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...
RESIDENT SHOWCASE: KIERON WALQUIST
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...
RESIDENT SHOWCASE: FRANCHELL MACK BROWN
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...
RESIDENT SHOWCASE: MITCHELL VILLA
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...
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. ...
Berenice Abbott Gallery Show @ Monson Arts
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...
RESIDENT SHOWCASE: CECILIA DANELL
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...
RESIDENT SHOWCASE: Naomi Cohn
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...
RESIDENT SHOWCASE: Clay Gonzalez
Clay Gonzalez is a composer and music director based in Southeast Michigan. He founded and developed Regenerate!, a project dedicated to producing site-specific “regenerative immersions” that welcome people of varying backgrounds to participate in communal...
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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.