Arts Learning Exchange - Hancock County
About this Event
Arts Learning Exchange Series: Connecting Classrooms, Connecting Communities
A half-day regional gathering for anyone who believes arts learning is stronger when schools and communities work together.
Register now and join us! Bring your ideas, curiosity, and hopes for arts learning—and meet educators, artists, organizations, and community leaders from across your region.
The Arts Learning Exchange Series brings people from across Maine’s arts learning ecosystem together for six dynamic half-day gatherings throughout the 2026–27 school year. Hosted by regional anchor organizations, each Exchange offers a welcoming, participatory space to share ideas, discover local resources, build relationships, and imagine what’s possible when we work across districts, disciplines, and sectors.
What to Expect
This is not a traditional conference. Come ready to participate, connect, and create!
- Youth Arts Showcase — Celebrate creative work by local students.
- Flashes of Inspiration — Hear short, energizing stories from educators, artists, and community partners.
- The Statewide Perspective — Discover current arts learning resources, initiatives, and opportunities from the Maine Department of Education and Maine Arts Commission.
- Hopes & Dreams — Envision what vibrant arts learning could look like in your school and community.
- Local Asset Mapping — Identify the people, organizations, resources, and ideas already at work in your area.
- Create Together — Make, move, listen, perform, or explore a creative experience together.
- Find a Partner — Make new connections and discover potential collaborators through facilitated networking.
Who Should Attend?
PK–12 educators • Teaching artists • School leaders • Arts and cultural organizations • Museums • Libraries • Higher education • PTAs and families • Municipal and community leaders
You don't need to be an arts specialist to participate. If you're curious about the role creativity can play in learning and community life, there's a place for you at the Exchange.
Connect. Imagine. Create. Collaborate.
Come meet people you might not otherwise encounter, discover what's already happening in your community, and find new possibilities for partnership.
Overview
A dynamic half-day regional gathering will bring together people from across the arts learning ecosystem.
A unique opportunity to visit one of Maine's premier arts venues and convene with arts educators, school administrators, teaching artists, community organizations and more.
Highlights:
- Youth Art Showcase
- Flashes of Inspiration – Ignite or Pecha Kucha style presentations
- Statewide Initiatives
- Group Creativity Experience
- Sharing Hopes and Dreams
- Local Partnership Building – Speed-Dating Style
Part of a dynamic series of six half-day regional gatherings around the state will bring together people from across the arts learning ecosystem—school arts educators, non-arts classroom teachers, school administrators and board members, teaching artists, community arts organizations, museums, PTAs, libraries, higher education, and municipal leaders. Held throughout the school year and hosted by regional anchor organizations, each convening will create a welcoming space for connection, collaboration, and shared purpose across districts, disciplines, and sectors.
Presenters include local teaching artists, arts educators, school administrators, museum educators, and representatives of the Maine Department of Education and the Maine Arts Commission.
This event is proudly hosted by the Maine Arts Commission, the Maine Department of Education and Educate Maine.
Registration Fee is $15 but if this is a barrier for participation by anyone interested, the fee can be waived. Your presence is most important! Please contact Martha Piscuskas: [email protected]
This event is proudly hosted by the Maine Arts Commission, the Maine Department of Education and Educate Maine.
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 15.00
