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From a stunning coastal Maine campus, Haystack provides time and space to engage with materials, to develop new ideas and to work in a creative and supportive community.

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OUR HISTORY

When Haystack was founded in 1950, it was truly an experiment in education and community, with no permanent faculty or full-time students, a school that awarded no certificates or degrees. And while the school has grown in ways that could never have been imagined, the core of our work and the ideas we adhere to have stayed very much the same. 

HAYSTACK AT 75 | PAST FACULTY

 
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Haystack At 75: Celebrating 75 Years of Programming

Haystack Mountain School of Crafts announces Haystack at 75, a special year of programming in 2026 celebrating 75 years since the School’s founding.

Announcing First Artist Grant Initiative Cohort

In alignment with Haystack's mission to connect people through craft, the Artist Grant Initiative (AGI) is a 3-year program intended to provide financial support and mentorship for three annual cohorts of emerging and early-career artists.

Haystack Mountain School of Crafts to Receive $30,000.00 Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts

Haystack Mountain School of Crafts is pleased to announce a Grants for Arts Projects award of $30,000 by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). This grant will support The Downeast Maine Arts Residency, a program focused on empowering artists and strengthening the community through digital fabrication and STEAM. In total, the NEA will award 958 Grants for Arts Projects awards, totaling more than $27 million, which were announced as part of its first round of fiscal year 2024 grants.

Which Craft Lives on the Haystack Shelves?

This is the question asked by Session 1 Haystack Visiting Artist Namita Gupta Wiggers (she/her) as she spent hours among the stacks in the Haystack Library. She is examining how libraries construct knowledge and reflect systems of power, and asks what the collection of books in the Haystack Library conveys about representation in craft. In this video, Wiggers details how she applies her research, and the Shelf Life Project rubric created by Related Tactics, to the Haystack Library.

 
Thank you for helping shape Haystack’s next 75 years! 💙 We are overwhelmed with gratitude for our Haystack community! Thanks to your generosity, we successfully kicked off our Annual Fund Campaign in our 75th year. The Annual Fund supports c