Haystack Mountain School of Crafts

Session 4 featured workshops taught by Ayumi Horie (clay) from New York; Jon Eric Riis (weaving) from Georgia; Amy Rueffert (glass) from Illionois; Sue Gosin and Mina Takahashi (papermaking) from New Jersey and New York; Susie Ganch (metals) from Virginia; and Matt Hutton (wood) from Maine. Also on hand was visiting artist Arturo O'Farrill, Afro Cuban Jazz musician from New York.

Ayumi Horie with a student in her clay workshop.

 

Work produced during Ayumi Horie's workshop.

 

Yuri Kobayashi, Matt Hutton's TA in the wood studio, assists a student in the class..

 

Tables by Matt Hutton. The one on the right was made during Session 4.

 

Mina Takahashi in the middle of a demo in the papermaking studio.

 

Sheets of paper made during the papermaking workshop taught by Sue Gosin and Mina Takahashi.

 

Students in the weaving workshop taught by Jon Eric Riis.

 

Visiting artist Arturo O'Farrill leads an afternoon workshop/ rehearsal for the opera he wrote about Haystack.

 

Haystack staff and students star in the production of Arturo O'Farrill's Haystack: The Opera