Aerial view of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts at dusk
A man works in Haystack's blacksmithing studio
A building at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
A wooden footbridge on the campus of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
Close-up of a person's hands creating an art piece out of wood shavings
Studio buildings at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
People mingle on the deck at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
Applications for Summer 2023 are Closed - General applicants will be notified by email of their status by April 5.
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and Maine Sea Grant are pleased to announce the awarding of a significant grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Marine Debris Program. This grant will fund the Maine Marine Debris Community Action Coalition, a community education and research development initiative aimed at developing new materials and uses from ghost traps in the Gulf of Maine.
The Board of Trustees of the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts is pleased to announce the appointment of Perry Price as its new Executive Director, the School’s fifth in its seventy-two-year history.
The Haystack Mountain School of Crafts’ board of trustees and staff are delighted to announce Ellen Wieske as our Interim Executive Director at Haystack—the first woman to hold this position in the School’s seventy-two year history. She began her new role effective April 16, 2022. We are thrilled that she will be in the lead role during this pivotal time for our organization as we navigate both a leadership transition and the reopening of the School following two years without a full season of programming, impacted by the global Coronavirus pandemic.
Watch the video documentation of Haystack’s work in response to the pandemic. Beginning in 2020 and continuing over an eighteen-month period, the Haystack Fab Lab produced 6,000 individual items of personal protective equipment (PPE) which were donated to over 100 organizations in Hancock County (Maine) and the surrounding region.
This project began in response to the pandemic and sought to bring local resources and expertise to the shortage of available PPE in our community. This was made possible thanks to partnerships with community members and local organizations and through the remarkable leadership of Haystack’s Technology Director, James Rutter.
Special thanks to the amazing Galen Koch (@galenkoch), Founder + Lead Producer of The First Coast (@thefirstcoast), and Photojournalist, Greta Rybus (@gretarybus) for their work in documenting this project.
