Maine Programs

Open Door, first offered at Haystack in 1982, has become an important event for the school and the Maine arts community. This intensive fall session for Maine residents allows the chance to retreat and devote extended time to one’s work. All levels of students take part, from beginners to advanced professionals, each working in their own art forms or investigating other media. Open Door is traditionally held on Columbus Day weekend, making it Haystack's annual season-ending program. This workshop, led by prominent New England craftmakers and visual artists, has become one of Maine's best known professional development opportunities for working artists. Please Contact Haystack if you would like to be added to our mailing list and/or our email list for future news and mailings.

For participants of all skill levels - from beginners to advanced professionals - this program offers Maine residents the opportunity for retreat and focus time.

2012 Open Door workshops and instructors:

	Blacksmithing	Doug Wilson
	Ceramics	Mark Shapiro
	Drawing/Painting	Colin Page
	Fiber	Rebecca Ringquist
	Metals	Claire Sanford
	Wood	Adam John Manley
	Writing	Adrian Blevins

Below are excerpts and images from Haystack's 2011 Open Door program:

Blacksmithing, Douglas E. Wilson: In the Beginning - a focus on basic hot forging techniques, designed for the beginning blacksmith, with functional work.

Clay, Linda Sormin: Survival Strategies - an exploration of material and metaphor through hands-on work in raw clay, fired ceramics, and mixed media.

Drawing, Nancy Manter: Following Line in Nature - a focus on work in the landscape with a series of individual drawings on a variety of surfaces and a group project.

Haystack provides opportunities to work both alone and with others.

Fiber, Adrienne Sloane: Knit Anything: Not Clothing - a process-oriented workshop with experimentation of knitting fundamentals to learn "think knit" and exploring the use of non-traditional materials while covering a range of dimensional techniques.

The exploration of traditional and new materials and techniques is encouraged.

Metals, Alan Perry: Little Boxes - a focus on surface imaging techniques to be used on small boxes made in the workshop.

Wood, Chris Becksvoort: Wood Waste, Wonderful Wood is a workshop in which saved or scrap wood is transformed into a variety of objects.

Writing, Christian Barter: Poetry Workshop - a focus mainly on works in progress, while generating new material as well, to explore possibilities and come away with new ways of seeing poetry, and as informed by one another.