Summer Workshops 2025
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Paper in 2 & 3 Dimensions: Print, Stitch & Weave
$500.00June 22 – 28, 2025
Enjoy a week of playing with ways to transform paper by printing, stitching, and weaving it. We will, in effect, adapt traditional textile methods to work with paper. We’ll print letterpress patterned papers using wood type letters and numbers, learn embroidery stitches that work beautifully on paper, and weave strips of paper to make textural 2-D and 3-D objects.
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Writing in the Wild
$500.00July 27 – Aug 2
Meredith McCarroll and Sarah Holman lead a week long 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!
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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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Thinking About Landscape
$500.00June 22 – 28, 2025
This workshop will be open to all painters and draftsmen at all levels of experience. We will work with any water based media you prefer as well as drawing. My primary medium is casein tempera but any water based medium is fine. The emphasis will be on the process of determining how an idea can ripen and change as it matures and evolves into an actual work of art.
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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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Maine North Woods Film Workshop
$500.00July 24 – July 27
Maine Woods Film Participants will collectively make a film over the course of three days in the Maine Woods: shooting, editing, and projecting 16mm film on location. We will learn how to make a film emulsion in the field, use handmade processes, and develop film with the cycles of the new moon. We will also discuss how writers and other artists with connections to the area have conceived of nature, and the possibilities for alternative ways of viewing and expanding landscape a century and a half after Thoureau’s writing of The Maine Woods.
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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.
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.