Haystack in Print
Monograph Series
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Initiated in 1991, Haystack's Monograph Series provides a forum for writers of varied perspectives to reflect on the idea of craft. Now totaling 18 in the series, monographs cover a range of topics. They can be purchased through the school for $4.00 each, including postage and handling. To order, contact the Haystack office at haystack@haystack-mtn.org or (207) 348-2306.
Monograph Listing
2007
Field Notes on Hands, by Alison Hawthorne Deming
2006
I Tinker Therefore I Am, by Mark Thomson
Craft and Community: Sustaining Place, essays and excerpts by participants in an invitational symposium held at Haystack from September 28-October 1, 2006
2005
Making More than Sense, by Ralph Caplan
2004
Craft and Design: Hand, Mind and the Creative Process, essays by participants in Haystack's invitational symposium retreat with Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution
2004
Finding and Making: the Strange Attractor's Contribution to Form, by Barbara Hurd
2003
The Child, the Painter, and the Forgotten Life of Things, by David Abram
2002
Digital Dialogues: Technology and the Hand, essays by artists and scientists who participated in Haystack's Symposium
2002
An Intricacy of Simple Means, by Kim Stafford
2001
Whatever We Touch Is Touching Us: Craft Art and a Deeper Sense of Ecology, by Paulus Berensohn
2000
If 'Great' Art is Dead, Who Cares? and Two Orphans and a Dog: Art and Transformation, by Ellen Dissanayake
1999
Materials and the Embodiment of Meaning, by Judith Burton; Expanding Art Education's Horizons: The Landscape of Design, by Paul Sproll; The Cultural Dimensions of Craft Education, by Jo-Anna Moore; and, Education as the Discovery of Self: The Role of the Artist as a Creative Person, by Gerry Williams
1998
Imagine an International Craft, by Kevin Murray
1997
Single and Plural, by Marianne Boruch
1996
Recycle and Reuse, by Margo Mensing
1995
Words and Worth: An Anthropologist Interprets Function and Craft, by Margaret Mackenzie; and Paper or Plastic: The Form and Contents, by Nance O-Banion
1994
The Craftsman as Yeoman: Myth and Cultural Identity in American Craft, by Mary Douglas
1993
Crafting Truth with Consequence, by Gerhardt Knodel, with responses by Sarah Bodine and Michael Dunas
1992
Considering Crafts Criticism, by Janet Koplos; and Craft and the Impulse to Abstract, by Warren Seelig
1991
Craft and Learning, by William Daley; Reflections on Twelve Days at Haystack, by Audrey Walker; and Reflections on Learning: Faculty Interviews, by Jo-Anna Moore
1991
Craft in the ’90s: A Return to Materials, by Nancy Corwin, Jonathan Fairbanks and Wayne Higby