Join us for FREE in-person visual and performing arts integration workshops at CMCA. Enjoy a full day (8:30am–4pm) of art making and real-time connections to classroom content and student experience. Maine educators can register here. Registration closes June 1st.

Workshop 1
Environmental Stewardship & Creating Wearable Art: Zostera Marina’s Mad Hatter Gala Beneath the Sea!
Come learn the history and art of hat making with teaching artist Posey Moulton, who among other things, apprenticed with a French artist famous for her wearable art. Posey will be bringing her signature recycled materials, nets, ropes, textiles, and beads, as well as shells, lace, sisal, felt, and wires to make gala-worthy hats inspired by Zostera, Maine’s rapidly declining eelgrass. Join her to learn how to weave any content into art making as you create your own wearable art piece for an imaginary ball beneath the sea for Marina, an environmental superhero!
Workshop Leader: Pamela Moulton (aka: Posey!), Side x Side teaching artist

Workshop 2
MOVING WORDS: Making theater/Making poems
In this action-packed workshop, participants will create new collaborative performance pieces and poetry. We’ll use elements such as collage and music to move us back and forth between creating theater and poetry: text will launch us into action, and action will lead us into new writing experiments. This fun, hands-on, generative workshop is designed for all and is applicable to all kinds of teaching.
Workshop Leaders:
Gretchen Berg, Side x Side teaching artist
Dawn Potter, author or editor of nine books of prose and poetry, most recently the poetry collection “Accidental Hymn.” She is the director of the Conference on Poetry and Learning at Monson Arts, leads the high school studio writing program at Monson Arts, has worked as a teaching artist in classrooms around New England, and now and again plays fiddle and sings.

Workshop 3
Curating and Creating Miniature Museums
Join Center for Maine Contemporary Art’s (CMCA) teaching artist Tara Morin for an exploration into the curatorial process through the creation, selection, and exhibition of miniature works of art. This workshop will focus on a collaborative, participant-made miniature museum project. Learn tips and tricks specific to the making, curating and displaying of miniature works in various classroom and community arts settings.
Workshop Leader: Tara Morin, a mixed media artist, miniaturist, and art educator. She has over 12 years of experience working with artists of all ages in a multitude of media and in a variety of settings. Her passion is helping support other makers in their journey to discover their unique creative path.