Summer Workshops 2026
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Borestone Mountain Partnership
June 21 – 24 (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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Collagraph Workshop with Goody Pixley
$400.00June 21 – June 27
In this collagraph workshop we will explore the art of making prints with found materials and acrylic mediums. Collagraph (collaged plate making) live in the expressive space between the fun materials exploration of Monotype and the moody editioning potential of Etching, and dry point (batching multiples of the same print).
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Dreamscape Soundscape: A sound design workshop
$400.00June 21 – June 27 (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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Conference on Poetry and Learning 2026
$800.00July 5 – July 12, 2026
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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Mosaics in the Indirect Method with Cynthia Fisher
$400.00July 27 – Aug 1
My 25 years of experience in the mosaic medium have all been working in the Indirect Method. The workshop will introduce working on sticky mesh for first-timers and more practice for mosaic artists with some understanding of this method. Additionally all mosaic issues/questions about anything mosaic will be happily addressed.
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Writing Ourselves through Thoreau with Rochelle Johnson
$400.00July 27 – Aug 1
A Workshop in Place-Based Creative Nonfiction/Memoir
In this week-long workshop in creative nonfiction/memoir, we make writing our work, considering how attentiveness to landscape inspires and informs our expression of who we are, what we believe, and how we have been shaped by place, people, and story.





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.