Haystack in Print

Initiated in 1991, Haystack's Monograph Series provides a forum for writers of varied perspectives to reflect on the idea of craft. Now totaling 23 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 (207) 348-2306 or haystack@haystack-mtn.org.

Monograph Listing

Please note that the latest monograph, The Ecology of Uncertainty, by Akiko Busch, is available only through our website and the Haystack Reader, an anthology of Haystack monographs,  #1-23, to be published later this spring by Haystack and the University of Maine Press. Ordering information for the Haystack Reader will be posted to this page at that time. To view and download Akiko Busch's monograph, click on the title link below.

2009

The Ecology of Uncertainty, by Akiko Busch

2008

A Crack In Everything: How We Know What’s Done Is Done, by David Jauss

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