Haystack's Gateway Newsletter is published twice a year to offer updates on our summer workshops, Maine and community programs, community-based artists residencies, exhibitions, fellowship and scholarship funds, grant news, updates regarding our trustees, staff, faculty, and alumni, as well as other news and events.

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Cortiça (2005), recycled cork, 26” x 20” x 73”, by Daniel Michalik, who will be teaching a wood/mixed media workshop during Session 3, June 24–-July 6.

From the Director

After our programs at the campus are finished in mid-October, Haystack takes on a much quieter personality. Our stalwart maintenance and technical staff—Gene Koch, Kit Loekle, and Jonathan Doolan—can work around the campus with hardly an interruption. No one is lined up to eat in the dining room, and at night it’s a much darker world with no lights on in the studios. The rope for the bell tower sways in the wind, but it’s not calling anybody to meals or presentations. The crows caw to one another and the red squirrels get ready for winter.

What we are left with when everyone is gone are the spruce decks and cedar shingled buildings and the world that was here before the campus was built—spruce and fir trees, granite ledge, moss and lichen—telling an older story.

The fall and winter are also a time when we can work on larger facility projects, and in October our contractor, Walter Kumiega from Cedar Lane Construction, began the replacement of the walkway on our lower tier of cabins. This entails ripping out all of the decking and joists and replacing some of the concrete piers that support it as well.

I went to check on the progress of the construction last week, but arrived after the work crew had gone. I walked down the stairs alongside the dorm bathrooms and when I got to the bottom, the stairway was unattached and the walkway wasn’t there. The cabins stood on either side, but with only space between them, space and the forest floor—the dark soil, the granite ledge, small boulders. The ground was muddy that day, and it felt as if the glaciers that shaped this part of the coast hadn’t been gone that long.

What was most surprising to me with the walkway gone was seeing what a light footprint Haystack has. Take away a deck and you would hardly know anyone had been here. I’ve only known this particular landscape with our buildings on it, but seeing the empty space I could imagine that time when the straight grid of the campus was being laid out, and architect Edward Larrabee Barnes’s idea began to take physical shape, a brilliant design that over time has created an intuitive harmony with its surroundings.

While there is very little that makes up this campus—a little concrete and wooden framing, roofs that keep us mostly
dry—it’s that very simplicity that makes it all the more remarkable. In a world where better is all too often defined as bigger and possibly speedier too, the buildings themselves, and the discoveries that take place day and night inside the studios—are manifestations of a different way to look at things. Perhaps it’s taking what is most essential, and examining it as creatively and deeply as we can. We may realize we don’t need as much as we thought we did after all.

Stuart Kestenbaum

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Center for Community Programs

 

In the Gallery

Haystack’s season-long exhibition, Haystack’s Architecture: Vision & Legacy, at the school's Center for Community Programs in Deer Isle village ran from July 3 through October 15. The exhibition, organized as part of this year’s events commemorating the 50th anniversary of Haystack’s campus, was curated by Falmouth, Maine architect Carol A.Wilson, FAIA.

The show demonstrates the impact—through drawings, models, and writings by leading architects in the US—of
Haystack’s architecture and its architect, Edward Larrabee Barnes (1915–2004). Haystack’s Architecture: Vision & Legacy has become a traveling exhibition—on view at Portland, Maine’s storefront for architecture maine, November 4–December 10. Haystack’s Director, Stuart Kestenbaum, gave a gallery talk at the show’s opening. Visit
www.storefrontforarchitecture.org/haystack.php to read essays by the architects involved and for more information about the exhibition.

One of the cups available through the Artstream Ceramic Library is the one above, made by Julia Galloway. Photo by Alleghany Meadows.

Artstream Ceramic Library

From November 15–December 15 the Artstream Ceramic Library is at Haystack’s Center for Community Programs. Haystack trustee Alleghany Meadows helped develop this social-outreach project whose mission is to connect contemporary functional ceramics with ordinary people. Similar in structure to a literature-based library, the Artstream Ceramic Library loans out unique handmade cups made by thirteen nationally known potters, for a period of seven days. A vital component of the social exchange aspect of this venture is that the Artstream Ceramic Library asks that the borrower to take a digital photograph of the cup in use, and encourages including other art forms as well, such as music, video, and visual art. The photographs and art will then be posted online.

On Campus

Studio Based Learning

 

 

 

 

 

 

Haystack’s 17th annual Studio Based Learning program included seventy-six students from Deer Isle-Stonington High School, George Stevens Academy, and Blue Hill Harbor School.

From September 13–15 students resided on campus and worked intensively together to investigate ideas, their own potential, and to connect fine arts and industrial arts instruction. Haystack’s studios were open until 10 pm, allowing ample time for students to explore and gain a different sense of learning and creating. The 2011 workshops were led by Dan Bouthot (printmaking), Eddie Dominguez (clay), Tucker Houlihan (lighting/mixed media), Marc Maiorana (blacksmithing), Chris Leith (textiles), and Ellen Wieske (metals). Haystack’s 2011 Studio Based Learning was supported by the Benwood Foundation, Parker Poe Charitable Trust, the Quimby Family Foundation, and by Haystack’s jackandharriet Endowment Fund.

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Campus 50th Anniversary Highlights

Three (2008), copper, patina, colored pencil, formed and fabricated, by Helen Shirk, who will be teaching a metals workshop during Session 2, June 10-22.

 

Haystack celebrated the 50th anniversary of its Deer Isle campus with a number of events this summer and fall commemorating the legacy of Edward Larrabee Barnes and this important milestone. In addition to the Haystack Architecture: Vision & Legacy exhibition, events included the publication of a new book, a fundraising campaign, and two conferences. Haystack published, with Brynmorgen Press, Vision & Legacy: Celebrating the Architecture of Haystack. Tim McCreight, former Haystack trustee and owner of Brynmorgen Press, designed the book and is also helping to distribute it through Amazon.com. A special thanks goes to Tim for donating his design services.

Launched in the spring, the Campaign for Haystack: Campus 50th Anniversary is nearing its $350,000 goal, with $335,000 raised so far. The campaign will provide support for facility projects and campus planning and ensure the long term stability of the school’s landmark buildings. Funds raised will be allocated towards projects that will preserve the past, and will also support studies on integrating new technologies for a more sustainable campus in order to create a ‘greener’ facility.

We are grateful to our donors, whose generosity will ensure Haystack’s leadership role in craft education. Visit www.haystack-mtn.org/campus.php to learn more about the campaign.

Haystack’s fifth annual Summer Conference, Design: Shaping the World and the World Shaping Us, focused on examining design in objects, architecture, art, and nature and the impact of Haystack’s campus. Sixty-nine people attended the five day program, held July 10–14. Vision and Legacy: The Haystack Campus at 50 was organized in collaboration with the Maine chapter of the American Institute of Architects. The event attracted forty participants.

Christian Barter (above, center) led much of his poetry workshop outside during Open Door, held October 7–10. Ninety Mainers attended this year’s program, which was supported by the Quimby Family Foundation and Haystack’s Program Endowment Fund. To read more about the 2011 program, visit www.haystack-mtn.org/opendoor.
Photo by Lis Janes.

 

Fall Conference & Symposia

 

Three invitational gatherings took place at Haystack this September. Haystack’s Creativity & Ingenuity Symposium, held September 8–11, convened an audience of sixty leaders from a range of creative fields—journalists, educational
researchers, craft makers, and scientists. The focus of the symposium was to examine how creativity and ingenuity inform a variety of media. Speakers for Haystack’s Creativity & Ingenuity Symposium included Liza Donnelly, essayist
and a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker; Lois Hetland, Professor of Art Education at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and Senior Research Affiliate at Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education; Theodore Zoli, a structural engineer who is leading the design of elegant and enduring bridges around the world; Ted Purves, Oakland based writer and artist, founder of the MFA concentration in Social Practice at California College of the Arts in 2005, and currently the Chair of their MFA Fine Arts Program; Eliot Coleman and Barbara Damrosch, who operate Four Season Farm in Cape Rosier, Maine—both are authors of books on farming and gardening; and Wayne Higby, the Robert C. Turner Chair of Ceramic Art at Alfred University, Vice President of the International Academy of Ceramics, Geneva, Switzerland, and a Life Trustee of Haystack.

 

As we have done with past symposia, ideas were addressed through lectures, informal discussions, and working in
Haystack’s studios. The studio component, through hands-on activities, provides another way–to explore the theme of the symposium. Studio activities and leaders for the Creativity & Ingenuity Symposium included a digital workshop with Joel Murphy, a self-taught engineer and instructor of electronics and programming at Parsons School of Design in New York; a drawing workshop with Michael Moore, who has been making drawings and teaching about drawing for many years—he teaches at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia; a textiles workshop with Carole Frances Lung aka Frau Fiber, an artist, activist, and itinerant textile worker, who is currently developing honorable garment production in Haiti, and is an Assistant Professor, Department of Art at California State University, Los Angeles; and a wood workshop with Rick and Laura Brown of Handshouse Studio, a not-for-profit innovative educational organization that initiates adventurous hands-on projects as a way to explore history, understand science, and perpetuate the arts.

Haystack will be publishing a monograph of the Creativity & Ingenuity Symposium proceedings next year.

The inclusion of hands-on studio activities is a key component of Haystack's symposium format--providing an additional way to explore the themes and ideas of the programs.

Haystack’s second symposium of the season, Vision and Legacy: The Haystack Campus at 50, was held September 19–20, in collaboration with the Maine chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Presenters included Philip Isaacson, a practicing attorney and an architectural fanatic, Art Critic of the Maine Sunday Telegram since 1966, and the recipient of the Maine Prize for Architecture 2010; Jack Lenor Larsen, internationally renowned textile artist and designer—his home, LongHouse in East Hampton, New York, was built as a case study exemplifying a creative
approach to contemporary lifestyle. He was one of the first teachers at Haystack and serves on the board as its honorary chair; Tod Mitchell and Billie Tsien, who presented Still Here. They are the founders of Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, known for residential and institutional projects which pay careful attention to context, detail, and the subtleties of materials.

Philip Isaacson was the first presenter for Vision & Legacy: Haystack Campus at 50, with his talk, Haystack: Modernism in a Forest.

Jamie Johnston, a furniture designer and Maine College of Art faculty member, directed the program’s studio-based design activities, in which attendees worked together on design projects in Haystack’s studios. Completed projects were displayed in advance of the closing discussion, which was facilitated by Matthew Elliott of Elliott + Elliott Architecture, Blue Hill, Maine and Haystack's Director, Stuart Kestenbaum.

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Haystack Art Schools Collaborative, a new Haystack initiated program, brought together eighty students and teachers from ten art schools in the Northeast. From September 22–25 participants engaged in discussions and studio activities with a focus on creative process. Kim Stafford, essayist, poet, and founding director of the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis & Clark College, and Pauline Oliveros, a composer, improviser, and founder of Deep Listening, gave talks and led workshops.

Haystack Art Schools Collaborative attendees engaged in discussions and creative activities--in Gateway Auditorium and campus studios--in addition to gathering for presentations by keynote speakers and participants.

Partners for the first Haystack Art Schools Collaborative included Maine College of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Penn State, Rhode Island School of Design, Rochester Institute of Technology, Skidmore College, Syracuse University, Teacher’s College, Columbia University, and University of the Arts. Chris Staley, Distinguished Professor in the School of Visual Arts of the Ceramic Arts at Penn State University and chair of Haystack’s Board of Trustees, who was one of the organizers for the event, said that one of the best features of the event was that it was student-centered. Helping to identify topics for discussion and the opportunity to collaborate with students from other schools was ‘inspiring’ and ‘empowering’ for them. Chris added that, on departure day, he also heard students saying: “The past few days have been amazing, I wish I didn’t have to leave. Somehow I know this Haystack experience will make me a better artist. Thank you Haystack!"

Kenny Cheung (seated), a fab lab technician from MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms, provided training to Haystack staff this summer, in addition to assisting session participants.

Fab Lab

The first season of Haystack’s fab lab coincided with our summer sessions—late May to early September. The
studio was staffed by MIT doctoral students and personnel, as well as other members of the fab lab network including individuals from AS220, Brown University, and Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Serving as technical assistants and
consultants to faculty and students who were enrolled in summer workshops, technicians assisted with a
wide range of projects—explorations and collaborations that complemented the studio practices. As intended, the
work among the lab technicians and Haystack’s staff, workshop students, and faculty, created a dialogue
between the craft/materials community and a leading institution in digital technology. The partnership is unique for a craft school enabling the school to remain a pioneering organization and leader in craft education. One Haystack student commented on facebook this summer: “I can think of no better place to bring new technologies to meet traditional crafts than Haystack.”

To read more about the Haystack fab lab and see images from this summer, visit www.haystack-mtn.org/FabLab.php.

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2012 Summer Lineup!

SESSION 1 (two weeks)		SESSION 4 (two weeks)
May 27-June 8		July 15-27
Blacksmithing	Jim Wallace	Beginning Glass	Megan Biddle
Clay	Gay Smith & Scott Goldberg	Clay	Takeshi Yasuda
Fiber	Sarah Wagner	Enameling	Jamie Bennett
Metals	Nicole Jacquard	Papermaking	Jiyoung Chung
Painting/Drawing	Fred Lynch	Shibori	Yoshiko Wada
Wood	Cory Robinson	Wood	Andy Buck
Writing	Jen Bervin	Visiting Writer	Stephen Dunn
SESSION 2 (two weeks)		SESSION 5 (two weeks)
June 10-June 22		July 29-August 10
Baskets	Lissa Hunter	Clay	Andréa Keys Connell
Book Arts	Charles Hobson	Glass	Jin Hongo
Clay	Holly Walker	Metals	Michael Good
Glass	Danté Marioni	Mixed Media	Anna Hepler
Metals	Helen Shirk	Printmaking	Frances Valesco
Mixed Media	Mark Hartung	Weaving	Marcel Marois
Visiting Writer	Elisabeth Tova Bailey	Visiting Musician	Roy Nathanson
SESSION 3 (two weeks)		SESSION 6 (two weeks)
June 24-July 6		August 12-24
Clay	Paul Sacaridiz	Clay	Anton Reijnders
Fiber	Marian Bijlenga	Forging	Vivian Beer
Glass	Katherine Gray	Eresco	Barbara Sullivan
Metals	Heidi Schwegler	Metals	Joe Wood
Printmaking	Marc St. Pierre	Mixed Media	Kai Chan
Wood/Mixed Media	Daniel Michalik	Quilts	Elizabeth Busch

SUMMER CONFERENCE:		SESSION 7 (one week)
Risk, Learning,	and Creativity	August 26-September 1
Presenters:	Christina Bertoni	Beadmaking	Kristina Logan
	John Bielenberg	Blacksmithing	Hoss Haley
	Judith Burton	Book Arts	Colette Fu
	Meredith Hall	Clay	Sarah Jaeger
	Liz Lerman	Fiber	Joyce Scott
	Arturo O'Farrill	Wood	Stefanie Rocknak
	Sugata Mitra	Writing	Monica Wood
	Judith Schaechter
	Jacob Tonski
		Schedule subject to	change

 

 

 

 

 

Recent Grant Awards American Scandinavian Foundation - $14,000 fellowship for two students from Norway and two students from Iceland to attend a 2011 summer workshop Broad Reach Foundation- $5,000 to support Liz Lerman’s spring 2012 residency Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation - $2,500 to support our 2011 visiting writer, Bill Carpenter and monograph LEF Foundation - $2,000 for operating support Maine Arts Commission, Schools Make Arts Relevant Program - $10,000 to support our 2011 Studio Based Learning Program and our 2012 Student Mentor Program Maine Arts Commission, Innovative Production Program - $2,000 to support the pilot year of the Haystack Fab Lab, the school’s new digital fabrication studio Maine Community Foundation - $3,000 ($1,500 from Hancock County Fund and $1,500 from a donor advised fund) to expand our Center Workshops, based in our Center for Community Programs, in 2012. Maine Arts Commission/Maine Humanities Council - $500 to support our 2011 visiting Writer, Bill Carpenter Meet the Composer - $250 to support our 2011 visiting musician, Matthew Shipp Parker Poe Charitable Trust - $7,000 in support of 2011 Studio Based Learning Westcliff Foundation - $5,000 for general support

 

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White Reticello Urn (2010), glass, by Danté Marioni, who will be teaching a glass workshop during Session 2, June 10-22. Photo by Russell Johnson.

Haystack People, News & Notes

 

HAYSTACK TRUSTEES have elected two new members. LINDA SIKORA is a studio artist and professor of Ceramic Art at Alfred University. She is active in Alfred’s joint program with Central Academy of Art—City Design School in Bejing, China. Linda is a member of the International Academy of Ceramics (IAC) and her work is widely exhibited and in numerous public collections. Linda lives in Alfred Station, New York.

JOAN W. SORENSEN has worked in higher education administration for most of her career. She has held various positions in the offices of admissions, registrar, alumni relations and development. For the past twenty-five years, she has been involved in raising money for numerous non-profits in Providence, Rhode Island and Deer Isle. She serves on the Corporation at Brown University, her alma mater, and was a founding member of the Women’s Fund of Rhode Island and a founding board member of Opera House Arts in Stonington, where she is now a Trustee Emeritus. Since the early eighties Joan has lived on Deer Isle, where she and her husband Pablo now spend six
months of the year.

STEPHEN YUSKO was re-elected for a second three-year term and HELENA HERNMARCK, CHRIS STALEY, and
JACK WAX were re-elected for a third three-year term. STEWART THOMSON was elected as Treasurer.

A fond farewell to outgoing trustees DUNCAN RALPH, trustee since 2004; JOHN GARRETT, trustee since 2002; and BEBE PRITAM JOHNSON, trustee since 2007, and W. ARNIE YASINSKI, trustee and board treasurer since 2008.

HAYSTACK STAFF
This fall, Haystack board members and staff celebrated Haystack Registrar, CANDY HASKELL’s thirty-five years and Haystack Facilities Manager, GENE KOCH’s twenty years with the school.

DAN BOUTHOT, Haystack Development Assistant, has recently been appointed the coordinator for Haystack’s Student Mentor Program, after SUSAN WEBSTER stepped down in order to focus more time on her studio work. Susan will remain Haystack’s Community Programs Coordinator.

Haystack Administrative Assistant, CAROLE ANN FER, participated in this summer’s session 6 ceramics workshop; and was elected to the Studio Potter board of trustees.

Haystack Director STUART KESTENBAUM was the guest speaker for The Tenth Annual Renée May Lecture: Our
Lives in Common at The Walters Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, in September; and recently wrote an article
about Haystack for Ceramics Art and Perception: TECHNICAL.

SUSAN WEBSTER, Haystack Community Programs Coordinator, had a solo show, Connections, at the Elizabeth A. Beland Gallery, Essex Art Center in Lawrence, Massachusetts, October 21–December 2.

This June STUART KESTENBAUM and SUSAN WEBSTER were recognized by The Maine Alliance for Arts Education (MAAE)—Stu received MAAE’s 2011 Outstanding Administrator Advocate for Arts Education Award and Susan was awarded MAAE’s Bill Bonyun Artist/Educator Award.

With appreciation to Center for Community Programs staff and volunteers—Island residents SOPHIE KUMIEGA and SARAH WILSON, who served as the Gallery Assistants for the 2011 summer season; JOAN SCHLOSSTEIN for supervising volunteers during pre-session and maintaining the gardens and grounds; and HUB WHITE for volunteering at the gallery.

SUMMER ASSISTANTS NEEDED
May–August 2012. Applicants must have attended a Haystack workshop, preferably during a summer session. Compensation, meals, and housing on campus are provided. Deadline: January 31, 2012.

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Summer Gala Dinner & Private Auction Supports Scholarships and Community Programs

 

Gala attendees gathered for a reception before dinner.

On July 15, Haystack hosted its annual Gala Dinner & Private Auction, which featured the work of Haystack faculty, staff, and board members. Ninety people attended the catered reception and dinner, on the campus’ main deck and in the dining hall. Twenty-five items, generously contributed from artists and donors, were auctioned off after dinner to the gathering of local and summer residents. More than $26,000 was raised to benefit the school’s community programs and scholarships.

Support for these programs is an investment in creativity—ensuring that students from Maine and around the world will benefit from Haystack’s award-winning programs. A student in a recent Studio Based Learning program wrote in her evaluation that, “The Haystack programs are exceptional and have expanded my horizons right in my own back yard… Where else but at Haystack could a student like me get trained from world-class teachers in an incredible array of media from ink and acrylic to wood, clay, and metal? It may sound cliché, but those things I learned in my sessions at Haystack, the friendships I made, and the soulful experiences I had, I will remember for the rest of my life.”

Haystack is grateful to the many patrons, underwriters, and supporters of our Gala Dinner, as well as local individuals and businesses for their contributions or donations of goods and services, and for our hard working staff and board members—all of whom made this event a huge success!

Artists/Donors	Underwriters
Angela Adams	Stephen & Stephanie Alpert
Steve Alpert	Cynthia & Al Boyer
Mark Bell	Susan Haas Bralove & Steven Bralove
Sonja Blomdahl (donated by Pat Montee)	John Buzbee
John Bullard	Alden Cox
Cleonice Catering	Solveig Cox
Ethel Clifford (from the collection of Bunzy & Irving Sherman)	Deborah Cummins
Hoss Haley (from the estate of Ingrid Menken)	Lynn Duryea
George Hardy (donated by Jane Weiss Garrett)	Bryan Fuermann
Chuck & Annie Holland	George & Jan Hartman
Matt Hutton	Bente Hartmann
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston	Jack Hemenway
Chris Joyce	Helena Hernmarck & Niels Diffrient
International House of Blues Foundation	Chuck & Annie Holland
Dick Marquis (from the estate of Charlie Gailis)	Richard & Mary Howe
Ingrid Menken (from the estate of Ingrid Menken)	J. Richard Klein & Marcia
Francis Merritt (from the estate of Ingrid Menken)	Rayanne & Eduard Kleiner
Matthew Metz	Sam & Kathleen Kriegman
David McFadden	Roger & Belle Kuhn
Dick Polsky	Macy & Robert Lasky
Claire Sanford	Stephanie Lee
Mark Shapiro	Margaret R. Lonergan
Cynthia Schira	Alfred & Nancy Merritt II
Josh Simpson (from the estate of Ingrid Menken)	Tim Nagler & Nancy Coffey
Deb Stoner (from the estate of Ingrid Menken)	John Ollman
Doug Wilson (from the estate of Charlie Gailis)	Katherine Page & Alan Hein
Sponsor	Andrew & Jane Palmer
Bar Harbor Banking & Trust Co.	Rosanne & Ed Raab
Patrons	Duncan Ralph & Edward Whitehead
E. John Bullard	Eleanor Rosenfeld
Martin & Deborah Hale	Robert A. Roth
Marlin & Ginger Miller	Ruth & Rick Snyderman
Claire Sanford & Charles Crowley	Robert & Carolyn Springborn
Joan & Paul Sorensen	Frances Merritt Thompson & Eric Benke
Supporters	Jim Vogle
Darwin & Jacqueline Davidson	Julian & Elsa Waller
Ann E. Grasso	Jack Wax
Jack Lenor Larsen	Sue Wilmot—Blue Heron Gallery
Roger Moss & Gail Winkler	Additional Support
Charlotte Podolsky	Bill Harris
Barbara & Charles Putnam	Provisions
Christopher & Kate Staley	Blue Hill Wine Shop
Gary & Rebecca Stevens	Carole Ann Fer, Dowstudio
Tradewinds Marketplace	Cleonice Catering
Arthur & Lillian Weiss	Dan’s Flower Farm
Event Coordinator	D.L. Geary Brewing Company
Ginger Aldrich	Ann Rioux
Auctioneer	Tradewinds
Stuart Kestenbaum	Wallace Tent & Party Rentals
Ringman
Dan Bouthot

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Dedicated Volunteers Help Prepare the Campus for Summer Workshops

Pre-session volunteers are essential in helping us prepare the campus in Sunshine and our Center for Community Programs in the village for each summer season. Forty hard working folks helped us out during two weeks in May—they cleaned debris, scraped and painted, sharpened tools, readied equipment, checked inventory, prepared
studios and cabins, split firewood, hauled brush, and organized our flower boxes. We are grateful for their assistance and invite you to join us next season. Haystack provides accommodations and meals. For more information, or to be added to the pre-session mailing list, please contact Haystack.

 

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Online Auction

Haystack will hold its third online auction January 29–February 3, 2012. These auctions are developed in partnership with eBay Giving Works and provide a venue for sharing a wide selection of items, which are created by members of Haystack's internationally renowned faculty, with proceeds benefitting the school’ scholarship fund and improvements to our award winning facility. Therefore, your bids have a big impact on students by providing access to our programs since nearly 25% who attend Haystack receive financial aid. As the online auction approaches, more updates and details will be posted.

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Annual Appeal—Thank You Donors!

Thank you to all who contributed in 2011. Your gifts help provide critical support for essential functions at the school—
maintaining our award-winning facilities, offering innovative programs that can be life-changing experiences for participants, and keeping the cost of attending Haystack affordable.

Haystack’s 2011 annual appeal has raised $221,624 from 975 donors (110 from first time donors to the annual fund) donors as of October 31, 2011. The lists below include donations received since the Spring 2011 issue of Gateway. Please contact us if you find a correction is in order.

The 2012 annual appeal is currently underway. If you have already made a gift to the 2012 annual fund, thank you. To make a gift now please contact us at (207) 248-2306, haystack@haystack-mtn.org, or donate securely online.

For a complete list of donations to any of Haystack's funds, received since the Spring 2011 issue of Gateway, please download the Winter 2011 Gateway Newsletter. You can also view and download previous Gateway Newsletters (2004 to 2011).

The Pursuit of Hercules (detail) (2011), by Andréa Keys Connell, who will be teaching a clay workshop during Session 5, July 29-August 10.