Endowed Fellowships & Scholarships

Fellowships provide tuition, room and board, plus a stipend for students to attend a Haystack workshop. Haystack has generous supporters who make it possible for us to award full fellowships by creating named endowments and current-year fellowship funds, annually supporting more than 25% of students attending the School.

In 2022—our most recent year of programming—these fellowships supported more than 165 students (recent high school and college graduates, retirees, parents, emerging artists, and more) from as near as Deer Isle to as far away as Uganda, New Zealand, and Norway. Fellowships are created by foundations and individual donors through Haystack’s annual and endowment fund contributions, end-of-session auctions, annual summer gala, and grants.

Foundations and individual donors create endowment funds to establish long-term support. Currently, an endowed fellowship fund can be created for $65,000 and includes tuition, room, and board, plus a stipend. Haystack also works with donors to establish Current Year Fellowships (CYF), which support students’ tuition, room, and board, and a stipend, to attend a workshop at the School and in any given year. The gift amount for a CYF is updated annually and is based on the current year's rates.

Haystack is firmly committed to diversity, inclusion, and equity. This will remain one of our most critical goals, ensuring the school supports all students, with no bias in regard to age, color, disability, gender identification, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, economic status, or veteran status.

To find out more about creating a Current Year Fellowship or establishing a fully endowed fund, contact Development Director, Ginger Aldrich, at development@haystack-mtn.org.

FELLOWSHIPS

 

Allison Cooke Brown Maine College of Art & Design Fellowship
Established by Allison Cooke Brown ’01
(Awarded by Maine College of Art & Design)

Arizona State University Fellowship
Established by Joanne and James Rapp
(Awarded by Arizona State University)

Edward Larrabee Barnes Architectural Fellowship

Harris Barron Fellowship
Established by Ros Barron
(Awarded by Massachusetts College of Art and Design, MassArt Alumni Relations) 

Mary Blakley Fellowship

The Brown University Fellowship
Established by Joan and Pablo Sorensen
(Awarded by Brown University)

David Cheever Fellowship
(Awarded to an architecture student)

Elizabeth Crawford Fellowship 
Established by M. Rachael Arauz
with additional lead support from
the Gersen/Hemphill Family
(Awarded by Wellesley College)

William F. Daley Fellowship
(Awarded by the University of the Arts)

Pat Doran Fellowship
(Awarded by Massachusetts College of Art & Design)

Jane Weiss Garrett Fellowship

Cait Giunta Fellowship

Grignol-Rapp Fellowship
Established by Joanne and James Rapp
(Awarded by Edinboro University)

Howard Kestenbaum and Vijay Paramsothy International Fellowship
(Awarded to two international students)

Roberto Lugo Minority Fellowship

Richard Allen Merritt Fellowship
(Awarded to a student from Japan)

Mad Crow Fellowship
(Awarded by the Waring School)

Marcianne Mapel Miller Fellowship
(Awarded by Alfred University)

Marlin Miller International Fellowship
(Coordinated with the Luys Foundation, Armenia)

Quimby Family Fund Fellowship
(Awarded by Maine Art Education Association)

Rhode Island School of Design Fellowship
(Awarded by Rhode Island School of Design)

Arline Fisch San Diego State University Fellowship
Established by Arline Fisch
(Awarded by San Diego State University)

Allan Gordon Sanford Fellowship
(Awarded by Pu’uhonua Society)

Michael Simon Studio Pottery Fellowship
Established in memory of Michael Simon by family and friends

Lenore G. Tawney Fellowship

University of Texas at San Antonio
Established in honor of Paula Owen by Johnny Clay Johnson,
Southwest School of Art
(Awarded by the University of Texas at San Antonio)

Stewart W. Thomson Cranbrook Academy of Arts Fellowship
(Awarded by Cranbrook)

Stark Mid-Career Fellowship

University of Wisconsin-Madison Fellowship
(Awarded by the University of Wisconsin-Madison)

William Wyman Fellowship
(Awarded by Massachusetts College of Art & Design)

SCHOLARSHIPS

 

Naomi I. Becker Scholarship

Andrew and Martha Bergman Scholarship

Bingham Scholarship Fund for Maine Students

Mary Beasom Bishop and Francis Sumner Merritt Scholarship

Bill Brown Scholarship

Judith Burton Scholarship

Steven Byrne Scholarship

Catto Family Scholarship

Kate Cheney Chappell Scholarship

Thomas Chappell Scholarship

Elizabeth F. Cheney Scholarship

Ethel Skeans Clifford Scholarship

David Ferranti Scholarship

Golden Rule Scholarship

Gary “Griff” Griffith Scholarship

Candy Haskell Scholarship

Harriet Hemenway Scholarship

Priscilla Henderson Scholarship

Richard and Mary Howe Scholarship

Mary Alice Huemoeller Scholarship

Stuart Kestenbaum Scholarship

Jody Klein Scholarship

Nanette Laitman Scholarship

Jack Lenor Larsen Scholarship

Michael Lax Scholarship

Dave and Jean Lincoln Scholarship*

Jean and Dave Lincoln Scholarship

Ingrid Menken Scholarship

Priscilla Merritt Scholarship

William H. Muir Scholarship

Samuel Newbury Scholarship

Mary Nyburg Scholarship

Betty Oliver Scholarship

Ronald Hayes Pearson Scholarship

Peninsula Area Scholarship

Parker Poe Scholarship

Elena Prentice Scholarship

Francis William Rawle Scholarship

Barbara Rockefeller Scholarship

Samuel and Eleanor Rosenfeld Scholarship in Fiber

Samuel and Eleanor Rosenfeld Scholarship in Wood

Lois Rosenthal Scholarship

Florence Samuels Scholarship

Kay Sekimachi Scholarship

Heikki Seppa Scholarship

Margaret (Peggy) Swart Sewall Scholarship

Irving B. Sherman Island Scholarship

Bunzy Sherman Scholarship

Mathias Lloyd Spiegel Scholarship

Carolyn J. Springborn Scholarship in Fiber

Carolyn J. Springborn Scholarship in Graphics

Carolyn J. Springborn Scholarship in Wood

Lenore Thomas Straus Scholarship

Taylor-Zwickey Scholarship

Molly Upton Scholarship

George VanOstrand Scholarship

Beverly Warner Scholarship

Frans Wildenhain Scholarship

J. Fred Woell Scholarship