Initiated in 1991, Haystack’s Monograph Series provides a forum for writers, as well as makers from a variety of disciplines, who have been artists in residence or conference or symposium presenters, to offer varied perspectives reflecting on the idea of craft. Now totaling thirty-three in the series, monographs cover a range of topics and are distributed to art schools and libraries throughout the US. They can be purchased through Haystack for $5.00 each.*
The Haystack Reader, an anthology of monographs #1–23 published by Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and the University of Maine Press, is available to purchase for $24.95 plus shipping and handling.* Discounts are available for large orders (10 or more). To order The Haystack Reader or individual monographs, contact the Haystack office at (207) 348-2306 or haystack@haystack-mtn.org.
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Order two or more of Haystack’s books and we’ll include a free copy of Discovery: Fifty Years of Craft Experience at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts –a collection of images and essays from former Haystack faculty and students– published in 2001 to celebrate the school’s 50th Anniversary.
Monograph Listing
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Year Written | Monograph Title
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| 2019
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2018 The Sacred is the Mundane: Notes on Some Categories,
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| 2018
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2017 Moving Forward, by Faythe Levine
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| 2017
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2016 In the Presence of Makers, by Lia Purpura
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| 2016
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2015 eight days, by Maira Kalman
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| 2015
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2014 Seeking a Needle in the Haystack, by Juhani Pallasmaa
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| 2014
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2013 Sixty by Sixty, by Bill Roorbach
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| 2013
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2012 Hiophany: The Sound of Humans Making Things, by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
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| 2012
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2011 Creativity & Ingenuity, Essays by presenters in an invitational symposium held at Haystack from September 8-11, 2011.
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| 2011
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2010 Approaching Haystack, by Bill Carpenter
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| 2010
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2009 Stone Songs, or Disagreeing with Dolphy: Two Weeks in Another Town, by Bill Harris
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| 2009
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2009 O Brave New World: Looking at Time, Making, and Creativity, essays and excerpts by presenters in an invitational symposium held at Haystack from September 24-27, 2009
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| 2009
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2008 The Ecology of Uncertainty by Akiko Busch — Please note that this title is published through our website and The Haystack Reader. To view and download Akiko Busch’s monograph, click on the title.
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| 2008
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2007 A Crack In Everything: How We Know What’s Done Is Done, by David Jauss
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| 2007
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2006 Field Notes on Hands, by Alison Hawthorne Deming
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| 2006
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2005 I Tinker Therefore I Am, by Mark Thomson
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| 2006
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2006 Craft and Community: Sustaining Place, essays and excerpts by participants in an invitational symposium held at Haystack from September 28-October 1, 2006
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| 2005
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2004 Making More than Sense, by Ralph Caplan
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| 2004
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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
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| 2004
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2003 Finding and Making: the Strange Attractor’s Contribution to Form, by Barbara Hurd
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| 2003
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2002 The Child, the Painter, and the Forgotten Life of Things, by David Abram
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| 2002
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2002 Digital Dialogues: Technology and the Hand, essays by artists and scientists who participated in Haystack’s Symposium
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| 2002
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2001 An Intricacy of Simple Means, by Kim Stafford
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| 2001
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2000 Whatever We Touch Is Touching Us: Craft Art and a Deeper Sense of Ecology, by Paulus Berensohn
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| 2000
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1999 If ‘Great’ Art is Dead, Who Cares? and Two Orphans and a Dog: Art and Transformation, by Ellen Dissanayake
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| 1999
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1989 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
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| 1998
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1997 Imagine an International Craft, by Kevin Murray
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| 1997
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1996 Single and Plural, by Marianne Boruch
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| 1996
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1995 Recycle and Reuse, by Margo Mensing
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| 1995
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1994 Words and Worth: An Anthropologist Interprets Function and Craft, by Margaret Mackenzie; and Paper or Plastic: The Form and Contents, by Nance O-Banion
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| 1994
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1993 The Craftsman as Yeoman: Myth and Cultural Identity in American Craft, by Mary Douglas
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| 1993
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1992 Crafting Truth with Consequence, by Gerhardt Knodel, with responses by Sarah Bodine and Michael Dunas
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| 1992
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1991 Considering Crafts Criticism, by Janet Koplos; and Craft and The Impulse to Abstract, by Warren Seelig
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| 1991
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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
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| 1991
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1990 Craft in the ’90s: A Return to Materials, by Nancy Corwin, Jonathan Fairbanks and Wayne Higby
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