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Intro to Woodworking – Whirligig Workshop
$50.00Saturday, August 9, 10 am – 2 pm
We will be making your very own whirligig. You can customize your own design and then we will bring it to life while learning how to use some basic shop tools
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Dreamscape Soundscape: A sound design workshop
$250.00July 27 – Aug 2 (SALT Session)
In this weeklong workshop, students will record and sound design their own dreams, turning their interior experiences stories into immersive audio pieces. They will use field recordings, audio synthesis, foley, and recorded music for their dreamscapes. By the end of the week, students will have designed and scored a short audio documentary from scratch.
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Nature Journaling at Borestone Mountain
June 22 – 25 (at Borestone)
Would you like to deepen your creative engagement with the Maine woods? This special three-day retreat will immerse participants in the older forests and crystalline ponds of Borestone Mountain. With nature journaling as our foundation, this retreat is open to artists, writers, and creatives. This workshop is offered in partnership with Maine Audubon.
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Conference on Poetry and Learning
$800.00July 5 – July 12
The Conference on Poetry & Learning invites educators, teaching artists, and other poetry advocates to work intensely with their colleagues and a faculty of distinguished poets who are experts in both teaching poetry and creating community.
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Barn Quilt Painting with Cindy Pullyard
$50.00Tuesday Aug 5, 9am-4pm
Choose from ten quilt patterns, or bring your own. You will learn how to transfer the pattern onto your board, tape & paint and take home a beautiful piece of art suitable for hanging outside on your home, barn, shed or garages.
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Exploring Borestone’s Mountains, Ponds, and Old Growth Forests through nature journaling, storytelling, and artistic expression
June 16 – 19 (at Borestone)
Would you like to deepen your creative engagement with the Maine woods? This special three-day retreat will immerse participants in the older forests and crystalline ponds of Borestone Mountain. With nature journaling as our foundation, this retreat is open to artists, writers, and creatives. This workshop is offered in partnership with Maine Audubon.
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Building a Painting
$250.00June 21 – June 24
This painting workshop will deal with the progression of making a painting from the initial impulse to the final execution of the work. We will examine the process of thinking, editing, refining, and developing a strategy and process for building a painting. This will include clarification of the intent of the work, preliminary studies (thumb nail sketches) and the final execution of the painting.
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Foreground, Middle Ground, Background: Artist’s Books and the Monson Landscape
$250.00July 19 – July 22
We will explore the beauty around us and add to it our imaginations as we design and make star books, flags books, theater books and dioramas. These books will become a suite of keepsakes marking our time together at Monson Arts.
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Writing in the Wild
$250.00July 19 – July 22
Lewis Robinson and Sarah Holman lead a three-day generative workshop that celebrates the profound effect nature has on the creative process. Numerous studies point to evidence of improved focus, enhanced creativity, and more flexible thinking in people who spend a significant amount of time outside. Beautiful Monson, Maine, is the ideal place to practice this art and produce some wildly powerful new writing!
WELCOME
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.