Convening
For the past twenty years, Haystack has organized summer conferences, symposia, and special programs that explore ideas of craft, community, and the creative process.
2027 CONVENING
Haystack acts as a site for research and innovation in the fields of craft and design thinking—where creative voices may gather, share, and collaborate. Join us for a special program to explore ideas of craft, community, and the creative process.
Details about the 2027 Convening theme, schedule, and registration information will be available on January 20, 2027.
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PAST CONFERENCES
2022
Re/Union: Re-Editioning Black + Native Histories
Led by Indigo Arts Alliance
2019
Craft and Legacy: Writing a history, preserving a field
Alison Croney Moses
Amos Paul Kennedy Jr.
Anna Tshouhlarakis
Arisa White
Brian J. Evans
Chris Newell
Cecelia Bernice Bull Bear
Corrine Oquia Pi Povi Sanchez
Daniel Minter
Donna Decontie-Brown
Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall
Hawk Henries
Helena Jefferson
Imani Uzuri
Jami Powell
Jason K. Brown
Jessica B. Harris
Kathy Wan Povi Sanchez
Keitha A. Whitten-Foster
Dr. Martha Moreno Vega
Michele Washington
Myron Beasley
Scott Alves Barton
Sherri Mitchell
Sherry Pocknett
Sonya Clark
Tanya Wideman-Davis
Thaddeus Davis
Cindi Strauss
Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko
Cornelia Carey
Daniel Minter
Diana Greenwold
Douglas Heller
Elisabeth Agro
Elizabeth Hulings
Folayemi Wilson
Garth Johnson
Jim Grace
Kathleen Mangan
Katya Heller
Lee Eagle
Leslie Ferrin
Marilyn Zapf
Marisa Bartolucci
Mark Leach
Mary Savig
Meaghan Roddy
Nora Atkinson
Priya Khanchandani
Rachael Arauz
Rebecca Sive
Sarah Carter
Squeak Carnwath
Stephanie Moore
2018
Sustainability: Impulses, Models, and Practices
Abby Barrows
Dr. Darren J. Ranco
Meredith Brickell
Nanda Soderberg
Pam Longobardi
Pascale Gatzen
Pashon Murray
Sara Clugage
Susie Ganch
2017
The Thing That Makes the Thing
Allan Wexler
Ayumi Horie
Carole Frances Lung
Dr. Amon Millner
Neil Gershenfeld
Sarah K. Khan
Shannon Stratton
Sheila Pepe
2016
Craft Thinking: Ideas on Making, Materials, and Creative Process
Dan Beachy-Quick
Daniel Johnston
Faythe Levine
Jenni Sorkin
Michael O’Malley
Nora Atkinson
Ronald Rael
Tanya Aguiñiga
2015
Craft Thinking: Ideas on Making, Materials, and Creative Process
Amit Zoran
Andrea Dezsö
Diana Guerrero-Maciá
Glenn Adamson
Laura Brown
Michael J. Strand
Rick Brown
Saul Griffith
Susan S. Szenasy
Tim Ingold
2014
Craft Thinking: Ideas on Making, Materials, and Creative Process
Ezra Shales
Joshua G. Stein
Maira Kalman
Marianne Boruch
Namita Wiggers
Nancy Blum
Ole Jensen
Rowland Ricketts
Skylar Tibbits
2013
Crossover: Inderdisciplinary and Collaborative Work
Alison Chase
Brian Rotman
Erik Demaine
Laura Hosaluk
Lily Yeh
Martin Demaine
Matthew Crawford
Michael Hosaluk
Molly Hatch
Nathalie Miebach
Peter Houk
Pradeep Sharma
2012
Risk, Learning, and Creativity
Arturo O’Farrill
Christina Bertoni
Jacob Tonski
John Bielenberg
Judith Burton
Judith Schaechter
Liz Lerman
Meredith Hall
Sugata Mitra
2011
Shaping the World and
the World Shaping Us
Del Harrow
Ellen Lupton
Jack Lenor Larsen
James Carpenter
Kendall Buster
Niels Diffrient
Robert Campbell
Robert Krulwich
Rosanne Somerson
Siemon Allen
2010
The Hand
Anne Wilson
Frank Wilson
Jeanne Jaffe
Jeanne Quinn
Michael Moore
Polly Ulrich
Roberta Smith
Sandra Alfoldy
Tom Joyce
2009
Making: Past, Present, and Future
David Revere McFadden
Joe Wood
Lydia Matthews
Neil Gershenfeld
Sabrina Gschwandtner
Sonya Clark
Stephen Nachmanovitch
Walter McConnell
2008
The Language of Craft
Akiko Busch
Charles Garoian
Janet Koplos
John McQueen
Kim Stafford
Margo Mensing
Paulus Behrenson
Warren Seelig
2007
The Object and Making: Function and Meaning
Barry Katz
Chris Rose
Chris Staley
Ellen Dissanayake
Lewis Hyde
Lissa Hunter
Ron Forbes