Summer Festival Of The Arts

Summer Festival Of The Arts Mailing Address: PO Box 58, Southwest Harbor, ME 04679 Artists, whose common goal is to inspire the imagination and have fun, teach the classes!

Summer Festival Of The Arts (SFOA) is an arts education nonprofit on Mount Desert Island, ME, featuring both summer and winter arts intensive experiences for youth ages 5-16. Established over forty years ago, Summer Festival of the Arts - SFOA - on Mount Desert Island offers a three-week arts experience for young people entering grades 1 through 11. SFOA is an all-arts intensive festival offering

classes in the visual arts, traditional crafts, music, dance, creative writing, theater, filmmaking and more. Most of our students live on Mount Desert Island year-round, but we also have many summer visitors from across the state of Maine and beyond. SFOA encourages community and cooperation among all of its students and their families, our teachers and staff, and the public. The three weeks culminate in a weekend-long Grand Finale that provides the participants an opportunity to perform, present or display their creativity. SFOA is a non-profit organization supported by tuition and donations from generous individuals, local businesses and foundations.

06/04/2026

ISO donations of standing, industrial, or box fans.

Weslea is phenomenal on so many levels!
04/26/2026

Weslea is phenomenal on so many levels!

For our final entry honoring National Poetry Month, we celebrate Weslea Sidon of Tremont and Christian Barter of Bar Harbor. Poems from each are posted in the comments.

Weslea Sidon is a poet and musician who lives on MDI in Seal Cove. Her poems have appeared in several anthologies and literary magazines, including "Paumonok, Poems and Pictures of Long Island," and "Still on the Island," as well as "Two With Water," "Wolf Moon," and "Off the Coast Food Issue: Tongue & Taste." She also wrote a regular column for Face Magazine. Weslea teaches guitar and has taught poetry and creative writing to children at Summer Festival of the Arts since 1989. She was awarded the Martin Dibner Fellowship in Poetry in 2002. "The Fool Sings," her first full-length book, was released by Rain Chain Press in 2014.

A familiar face on the trails of Mount Desert Island, Christian Barter is a trail crew supervisor and a former Poet Laureate of Acadia National Park. His work has earned honors like the Isabella Gardner Prize, Maine Literary Award for Poetry, and a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton. HIs poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, Georgia Review, The American Scholar, Epoch and other magazines. Whether he’s constructing hiking paths or crafting award-winning collections including "The Singers I Prefer," "In Someone Else’s House" and "Bye-bye Land" his poetry reflects the rugged, thoughtful beauty of the Maine landscape.

Reel Pizza Cinerama Thank-you for supporting the arts in our community!
03/07/2026

Reel Pizza Cinerama Thank-you for supporting the arts in our community!

Come on down to see us at Reel Pizza for a super fun sing-a-long, two choices of movies!
03/07/2026

Come on down to see us at Reel Pizza for a super fun sing-a-long, two choices of movies!

TOMORROW! Perfect rainy day activity for all ages!
03/06/2026

TOMORROW! Perfect rainy day activity for all ages!

Waiting lists are available on our website, sfoamaine.org
03/03/2026

Waiting lists are available on our website, sfoamaine.org

02/26/2026
We are extremely grateful to The Criterion Theatre for hosting us for our February Vacation Camp last week!
02/23/2026

We are extremely grateful to The Criterion Theatre for hosting us for our February Vacation Camp last week!

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337 Main Street
Southwest Harbor, ME
04679

Telephone

+12072443855

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