Roots in the Community
Roots in the Community
Branches to the Wider World
Branches to the Wider World
Encouraging Creative Thinking
Encouraging Creative Thinking
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Building Community through the Arts
Building Community through the Arts
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"Creatively is not about creating a product, but living a life fully present and open to things as they are.
Living creatively is also filled with the thrill of possibility and the gratitude of this miracle of being alive.
As the self emerges in these new ways with integration, being generous and kind is a natural outcome, towards others and with ourselves.”
Dan Siegel 2012
Sweet Tree School
Sweet Tree School
An innovative, progressive, K-8 independent school, integrating the arts and centering each learner for the betterment of the community
MISSION
Cultivating community and learning together through
curiosity, compassion, creativity, and critical thinking.
Core Community values: Kind, Safe, Creative, Courageous
Sweet Tree Arts and School also values:
Multiple intelligences theory.
The creative process and imagination.
Engaging deeply in discussion, asking questions and learning from one another.
The wellbeing of each individual, embodied, accessible, positive education and holistic learning opportunities for all.
2026 Sweet Tree Summer Camp
2026 Sweet Tree Summer Camp
CURIOSITY CAMP 2026: Age 5 - 10
Sweet Tree Arts will offer 6 weeks of summer camp for 5-10 year olds.
Children must be 5 by the time they begin camp.
Camp will run Monday through Thursday each week 9am to 3pm.
Each week a variety of arts will be offered both outdoors and in small groups indoors. Using the weekly themes, the young artists will explore different creative art forms throughout the week .
For example while exploring color, we may encourage acting out colorful words, wearing colorful costumes and exploring ideas through a variety of color ideas, these will emerge from the children.
Weeks and weekly themes
Week 1, June 29th - July 2rd: Color
Week 2, July 6th - July 9th: Drama
Week 3, July 13th - July 16th: Fiber Arts
Week 4, July 20st - July 23th: 3D/Tinker
Week 5, July 27th - July 30th: Puppets/story
Week 6, August 3rd - August 6th: Bookmaking
For more information and to register please follow the link to the google form below.
Registration Form for Curiosity Camp 5-10s:
PRINT & TEXTILE Summer Camp: Age 10 -13 with Kelsey Knight Mohr and Chip Barchilon
CAMP WEEK 1, July 6th - July 9th : high contrast in black and white
Checkerboards, pandas, dice, dominos, mimes, penguins, Oreos, old movies, zebras, pianos, puffins, skunks, soccer balls, yin-yangs, badgers: we’re coming for you.
Join us for a week of material exploration in contrast through printmaking and fiber arts.
CAMP WEEK 2, July 13th - July 16th: color studies
Paisley, plaid, ikat, Andy Warhol, color theory, Josef Albers, Ellsworth Kelly: all color is relative!
We will explore color, patterns and texture through printmaking and textile processes.
Please fill out the registration form below for 10-13s print and textile weeks.
Registration form Textile Print:
Sweet Tree School
Sweet Tree School
Enjoy our 5 minute film about our K-8 arts integrated program.
To schedule a visit and learn more about the school and to Visit
email lstewart@sweettreearts.org
or call 207 542 8008
To register email lstewart@sweettreearts.org
Educational Leadership Opportunities and Employment
Are you interested in sharing your passion for teaching (and learning) at Sweet Tree Arts & School.
Employment opportunities vary each year. We work to collect information from interested educators and creative artist practitioners. Through this process we create unique and relevant teams keeping the needs of the community at the heart of our decision making process.
Tell us about your general interest of employment at Sweet Tree Arts & School.
True Heart Sangha
True Heart Sangha
Meditation meets at Sweet Tree Arts
Every Sunday 9am
drop ins welcome
Contact Rob Wall at robwall2015@gmail.com to learn more about weekly meditation practice in person or by zoom.
Photo: "Breathe, you are at school"
Inside sweet tree
Inside sweet tree
There are so many ways we reach into the Sweet Tree community. Browse the website to find out about all that we do.
But first... take a moment to view this short documentary film, "Inside Sweet Tree", by local film maker Alex Forcillo.
SWEET SUSTAINABILITY
Sweet Tree Arts is committed to sustainability and lowering our impact on the planet.
*Both buildings are currently powered by solar power.
*Our greenhouse, donated in 2019, offers lessons and experiences to encourage our learners to put their hands in the earth, meet master gardeners and learn about gardening and worm composting.
*In 2019 we created a student run Sustainability festival encouraging sustainable practices and using the power of the imagination and the arts to bring people together, inviting local organizations to spark social responsibility inline with the UN sustainability goals.
*Our two goats enrich children's experiences. Children care for and love the goats
*Many of our students either ride their bikes and carpool with their peers.
*Many of our lessons take place in the outdoors allowing experiences to lead to stewardship.
*In 2021, 2022, 2023,2024 Sweet Tree Arts received a grant from S.E.A and is now a gear site for the annual Maine Big Night - Amphibian count for Knox county each spring.
*We have had programs with Hope's Edge Farm, Guini Ridge Farm, Chewonki, Erickson Fields and Tanglewood.
"The arts, it has been said, cannot change the world, but they may change human beings who might change the world."
Maxine Greene
Donate today or buy a beautiful T-shirt or sweet shirt
Donate today or buy a beautiful T-shirt or sweet shirt
Donate today and give creative arts experiences. Every gift directly benefits families in our community through joyful connections through the arts.
If you’d like to make a one time or recurring monthly gift, Philantro makes the process quick, easy and secure. Simply click on the donate button below and you will be given the choice for a one time or monthly donation. A recurring gift of your choice is popular, much appreciated and a great way of supporting us long term.
Any gift is directly tax deductible as Sweet Tree Arts is a registered non profit 501(c)(3).
Tax Id no. 81-4333795
Thanks for your consideration and generosity!
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