Maine Programs

Island Workshop Day brings together sixty or more participants for day-long workshops in Haystack’s studios. The program is in collaboration with the Healthy Island Project (HIP), Deer Isle. Haystack and HIP are working to foster participation in Island Workshop Day among individuals who are from Deer Isle/Stonington and Blue Hill Peninsula. We reserve slots for people who have not taken a workshop at Haystack's fall or summer programs. Because of increased demand for this program, and to make it fair to all applicants, we now use a lottery system to select participants.

All skill levels, from beginner to professional, are welcome.

2011 Island Workshop Day — Saturday, May 7

8:30 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. (lunch & dinner included); $35 Registration Fee

Application Deadline: Thursday, April 14

2011 Island Workshop Day Application Form

2011 Island Workshop Day Application Form

2011 workshops include:

• Blacksmithing: Lost Art of the Letter Opener with Farrell Ruppert - Learn basic forging and assembling techniques to create a letter opener with a decorative twist.

• Drawing with Vaino Kola - Draw using pencils, charcoal, erasers, and other drawing tools based on a still life and/or landscape if the weather allows.

• Jewelry: The Sum of Its Parts with Robin Cust - Learn light forging and linking techniques using various gauges of wire to create a wearable piece of jewelry.

• Ribbed Basketry with Joli Greene - Using colorfully dyed flat and round reeds, learn to make a melon ‘gathering’ basket with a vine handle.

• Rustic Foot Stools with Alan Bradstreet - Create a foot stool from maple saplings with mortise and tenon construction incorporating salvaged materials for a personalized look.

• Silk Scarves/Shibori with Chris Leith - Learn to make patterns (shibori), dye colors, and take away color (discharge) using black and white scarves as a starting point.

• Writing Workshop: Words Close to Home with Candice Stover - Using simple writing exercises for inspiration, we will explore where we come from, where we live, and how memory and a sense of place can surprise us when we bring them to the page in a fresh way.

At work in the woodworking studio, 2010.

Display of student work from the Illuminated Collage/Lamps workshop, 2010.