Hewnoaks Workshops
Hewnoaks will host a selection of workshops in summer 2025 organized by outside partners, with a particular focus on supporting alumni-led workshops. If you want to initiate something to take place at Hewnoaks please read our workshop/retreat leader info sheet and email Executive Director Marc Mewshaw with your inquiry at info@hewnoaks.org.
Upcoming workshops
We currently have no upcoming workshops scheduled.
Past workshops
Hewnoaks + Birds & Muses Residency for Women-Identifying and Nonbinary Writers
Saturday, June 1 – Saturday, June 8, 2024
at Hewnoaks on Kezar Lake, off Route 5, Lovell
Hewnoaks and acclaimed writer & mentor Kate Moses of Birds & Muses are excited to announce a week-long residency for women, femme, trans and nonbinary writers, to be held June 1-8, 2024 at Hewnoaks’ historic artists’ retreat on Kezar Lake in Lovell, Maine. Sharing Hewnoaks’ mission to provide artists with unencumbered time to think, work, and experiment, and Birds & Muses’ purpose of providing women writers with experienced guidance and sanctuary for their work, this writing-intensive residency is designed for those embarked on literary narrative projects – fiction, memoir, creative nonfiction, and hybrid works (also including poetry, drama, or images) – at any stage of the writing process, whether in an advanced draft of a long-form manuscript, in the early phase of exploring a nascent literary idea, or anywhere in between. All participants will receive individualized conferencing with Kate and can choose from the daily group craft & process sessions appropriate to their current needs.
Connecting to the Local Ecology through Cyanotype Image-Making Workshop
Friday, August 25, 2023, 12:00 – 1:30 pm
at Hewnoaks on Kezar Lake, off Route 5, Lovell
Participants will observe the landscape and collect elements that can be used to create unique blue and white images using sunlight. Collaborate with nature to create stand-alone prints, or turn into collages, cards, etc. No experience necessary. Join us to learn this skill and be stunned by the unique piece of artwork that captures the essence of the land around you.
This event is co-sponsored by Greater Lovell Land Trust and Hewnoaks Artist Residency and will be led by artist and Hewnoaks residency manager, Brian Smith.
SALT: Creative Sound Design for Podcasts (and other things)
July 21-23, 2023
at Hewnoaks on Kezar Lake, off Route 5, Lovell
Come take a MECA&D CS SALT documentary studies class at Hewnoaks!
Salt invites you to an immersive weekend of deep listening, field recording, and audio editing, led by Steven Jackson. This three-day class is ideal for aspiring or early career audio producers and sound designers who want to expand their craft, pick up some new techniques, and shake up the way they listen. Students can expect sound journaling, low-stakes quick-turn projects, feedback in a workshop setting, lecture, lots of listening.
For more information, click here.
Haiku at Hewnoaks
Tuesday, August 20, 2019, 2:30 – 5:00 pm
at Hewnoaks on Kezar Lake, off Route 5, Lovell
As part of a wellness series, the will offer an indoor/outdoor haiku workshop with poet Kristen Lindquist. Ms. Lindquist will talk about the history of the form, which evolved as a nature poem, and how it’s written today in the US. Participants will then venture outdoors for a ginko, which is a haiku walk during which we will write and share haiku.
A Hewnoaks and Nature Inspired Artist Sketchbook Workshop
Friday, July 26, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
at Hewnoaks on Kezar Lake, off Route 5, Lovell
As part of a wellness series, Pamela Moulton, visual artist and Hewnoaks Summer Manager, will lead an indoor/outdoor sketchbook journaling workshop that will offer a peek into Hewnoaks’ secret places. We will explore nature and Hewnoaks’ hidden corners through observation, intentional curiosity, and focused awareness. We will look at inspiring artist sketchbooks and experiment with mark making using traditional and scavenged drawing materials, so be prepared to forage and get creative. This workshop is open to all ages and no experience necessary. This walk is limited to 15 participants.
Degree of Difficulty: Easy/Moderate
Connect to Our Natural World Through Poems and Short Prose with Judy Steinbergh
As part of a wellness series, we’ll explore and reflect on our personal connections to the environment through the elements, seasons, birds and other wildlife. With inspiration from our surroundings, and short pieces in various styles and forms by poets and naturalists, we will draft our writing and share with the group. Adults and teens welcome. This poetry workshop is sponsored by the Greater Lovell Land Trust, Charlotte Hobbs Memorial Library, and Hewnoaks Artist Colony.
Tuesday, July 16, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
at Hewnoaks Artist Colony on Kezar Lake, off Route 5, Lovell
Connecting to the Landscape Through Poetry Workshop
July 17, 2018 Tuesday: 10:00 am – noon
at Hewnoaks on Kezar Lake, off Route 5, Lovell
The Greater Lovell Land Trust, Charlotte Hobbs Library and Hewnoaks Artist Colony invite you to join us at HewnOaks to explore and reflect on our personal connections to the landscape, elements, seasons, birds, and other wildlife. Under the guidance of Poet Judith Steinbergh, and with inspiration from our surroundings, plus short pieces by poets and naturalists, we will draft our writing and share with the group. Adults and teens are welcome. Limit: 20 participants.