Haystack Mountain School of Crafts to Receive $30,000.00 Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts is pleased to announce a Grants for Arts Projects award of $30,000 by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). This grant will support The Downeast Maine Arts Residency, a program focused on empowering artists and strengthening the community through digital fabrication and STEAM. In total, the NEA will award 958 Grants for Arts Projects awards, totaling more than $27 million, which were announced as part of its first round of fiscal year 2024 grants.
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Which Craft Lives on the Haystack Shelves?
This is the question asked by Session 1 Haystack Visiting Artist Namita Gupta Wiggers (she/her) as she spent hours among the stacks in the Haystack Library. She is examining how libraries construct knowledge and reflect systems of power, and asks what the collection of books in the Haystack Library conveys about representation in craft. In this video, Wiggers details how she applies her research, and the Shelf Life Project rubric created by Related Tactics, to the Haystack Library.
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Visiting Artists Enhance Haystack
Haystack is renowned as a place for artists–teachers and students alike–to come together and dig deep into materials and methods through our intensive 1- and 2-week workshops. While this is at the forefront of our programming, the School also serves as a space for visionaries to come and explore ideas and practices that challenge and advance the field of craft. Haystack’s Visiting Artist Program extends our commitment to providing time and space for the development of in-progress projects and new ideas in a variety of creative disciplines…
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Haystack and Maine Sea Grant Receive Major Grant from NOAA's Marine Debris Program
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.
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Haystack Mountain School of Crafts Appoints Perry A. Price as Executive Director
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.
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Ellen Wieske named Interim Executive Director
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.
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Haystack Fab Lab PPE Project
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.
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Executive Director Paul Sacaridiz leaving Haystack to become the Director of Cranbrook Academy of Art
The Haystack Mountain School of Crafts Board of Trustees announced today that Paul Sacaridiz will be leaving his position as Executive Director at the end of April, to become the Maxine and Stuart Frankel Director of Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
“The past seven years have been some of the most rewarding ones of my career. It has been a profound joy to work alongside a remarkable staff as we made changes that will have a lasting impact on the field of craft. The strength of the School is truly reflected through the commitment and care the staff brings to this remarkable place. I am grateful to the Board of Trustees for their unwavering support and to our community, near and far, for believing so deeply in the mission of the School.
-Paul Sacaridiz
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Haystack named one of the 25 Most Significant Works of Postwar Architecture by The New York Times Style Magazine
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts is incredibly honored to be included in The New York Times Style Magazine’s August 2, 2021 article, “The Twenty-Five Most Significant Works of Postwar Architecture.”
Three architects, three journalists, and two designers gathered over Zoom to make a list of the most influential and lasting buildings that have been erected — or cleverly updated — since World War II.
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2021 Season - Online Programming
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts Announces a broad series of online programming for the 2021 season. Beginning in April and running through October, Haystack’s online programming will feature 70 presentations across 10 program threads led by an innovative group of artists, designers, writers, curators, and historians. Through our commitment to increasing access to the School, each of these online programs will be presented as free and open to the public.
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2021 Update from Haystack: Approaching our season in a new way
“After considering all of the options, it was clear that if we were to reopen the Haystack campus for in person programming, it would come with inherent risks for the safety and wellbeing of everyone involved. Rather than convening on campus as we have traditionally done in the past, we will be launching a new series of dynamic online workshops, lectures, and panel discussions – which feels like the most socially responsible step we can take at this time.”
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In Conversation with Haystack's Director
Episode 7: Talking with Paul Sacaridiz, Executive Director Haystack Mountain School of Crafts from the Podcast series developed by Island Health & Wellness Foundation: Just For The Health Of It Community Discussions by Anne West. The podcast is a series of conversations with local people who are making Deer Isle-Stonington a healthier place to live, work, and play.
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IN THE VANGUARD, 1950-1969
The exhibition, "In the Vanguard: Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, 1950–1969," curated by Rachael Arauz and Diana Greenwold and organized and first mounted by the Portland Museum of Art, Maine in May 2019 has re-opened at its second venue, Cranbrook Museum of Art. The show will be on view through March 8, 2020.
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Haystack receives historic endowment gift
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts is pleased, and incredibly honored, to announce a major gift of $4,000,000 from the Windgate Foundation to establish an endowment for campus preservation. This is the single largest gift in the history of the school.
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