Higgins Beach Sketchbook, 2007, by Rebecca Goodale. Artist's book, ink on paper, 14 x14 x 96".

Compound Artist's Books

A fresh approach to creating original structures. Beginning with single section books and accordions workshop participants quickly moved into designing unique compound bindings. Considering the endless possibilities when these two traditional structures are combined, students explored form and content with collage and direct marks on the pages. The workshop was for beginners as well as experienced book makers.

REBECCA GOODALE is the Faculty Director of the University of Southern Maine's Book Arts at Stone House program. She makes unique and limited edition books, many with sculptural components. Her current project, Threatened and Endangered, is inspired by Maine's rare plants and animals. Rebecca Goodale's work is in the collections of Bowdoin College Library, Maine; The Maine Women Writers Collection; New York Public Library; Herron Art Library, Indiana; Hawai'i State Art Museum; Portland Museum of Art, Maine; and the White House Ornament Collection. She is represented by the Turtle Gallery in Deer Isle, Maine.

In January 2011 Haystack introduced the Center Workshop program, created to provide engaging workshops during the winter for Maine residents, 18 years and older at the school's Center for Community Programs in Deer isle village.

Haystack's 2012 Center Workshop is supported by a grant from the Maine Community Foundation's Hancock County Fund and by Haystack's Maine Programs Endowment.

Below are scenes from this year's Center Workshops, Book Arts program:

The 2011 Center Workshops included a poetry with acclaimed writer and Maine's poet laureate, Wesley McNair, drawing/mixed media with Barbara Putnam, who heads the Arts Department at St. Mark’s School in Massachusetts. Her work explores the places where science and art meet and overlap - she lives on Deer Isle for part of the summer months; and artists's books with Rebecca Goodale, Faculty Director of the University of Southern Maine’s Book Arts at Stone House program. Each workshop leader gave a presentation that was free and open to the public.

Haystack's 2011 Center Workshops were supported by grants from the Maine Community Foundation’s Hancock County Fund, the Quimby Family Foundation, and by Haystack’s Maine Programs Endowment.