2026 Fall Conference

Monson Workshops

Jennie Driscoll (she/her): Layered Light: Cyanotype Explorations (Monson)

Step into the light! In this hands-on workshop, you’ll discover the magic of the sun-exposed cyanotype process. Using plants, objects, and digital negatives, we will create classic Prussian blue prints and then transform them into layered, mixed-media masterpieces. We’ll explore the versatility of this alternative photo process by toning our prints and adding pops of color, pattern, and texture with various 2D media. Finally, you’ll learn to overlap and assemble your work using collage techniques, including both adhesives and stitching, to create a truly unique composition.


Materials

Facilitator will supply

  • Printer for transfers

  • Cyanotype chemicals

  • Cyanotype Paper

  • Plexiglass

  • Binding materials

  • Clips

  • Disposable gloves

Materials to bring

  • Objects you would like to use in your work

  • Cloth materials (aprons, swatches etc.) for printing on. 

Biography

Jennie Driscoll is a Maine-based artist and educator with 38 years of experience teaching art in both public and private sectors, as well as Adult Education. She holds a BFA in Painting and Art Education from Massachusetts College of Art and an MA in Studio Art from New York University. A National Board Certified Teacher (2014, 2024) and the daughter of a Maine elementary art educator, Jennie is deeply invested in arts education.

In her studio practice, Jennie works across a variety of media to explore the intersections of symbolism, femininity, and memory. Her abstract cold wax and oil paintings use gestural lines to examine visual movement, while her collage, mixed media and cyanotype works often utilize layering and patterns to evoke a sense of nostalgia and time. Her work often explores grace and linear gestures through her subject matter.

A passionate advocate for the arts, Jennie was an active leader in the Maine Arts Leadership Initiative (MALI) and presented at regional and state arts conferences. Her work has been exhibited at the Maine College of Art & Design, the Saco Museum, and at the Curtis Memorial Library. She is an alumna of the Maine Media Workshops, and her writing has been featured in the Maine Arts Journal.

Jemma Gascoine  (she/her): Workshop (Monson Pottery Ceramics Studio)

Join Jemma as she tries out some new techniques and media on ceramic surfaces. Throw on the wheel or handbuild functional pottery in beautiful Monson.

Materials

Facilitator will supply

  • 1 bag of clay

  • Some clay tools

  • Media for surface application

Materials to bring

  • Clay tools

  • Apron

  • Water bucket

  • Cardboard boxes and packing materials

Biography

Jemma Gascoine originally studied under the UK based Master Potter Barry Guppy. She has been teaching clay workshops through Adult Education programs and in schools for eighteen years.  She has been selling her functional and sculptural work in Maine and beyond for over twenty years.  At present she owns and runs Monson Pottery in Monson where she teaches and sells regionally made functional and sculptural ceramics.