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 2025—our most recent year of programming—these fellowships supported more than 100 students, from as near as Deer Isle to as far away as Colombia, Sweden, and Japan. 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.

HAYSTACK PARTNER 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)

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

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

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)

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)

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)

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

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

HAYSTACK FELLOWSHIPS

 

Edward Larrabee Barnes Architectural Fellowship

Naomi I. Becker Fellowship

Andrew and Martha Bergman Fellowship

Bingham Fellowship Fund for Maine Students

Mary Beasom Bishop and Francis Sumner Merritt Fellowship

Mary Blakley Fellowship

Bill Brown Fellowship

Judith Burton Fellowship

Steven Byrne Fellowship

Catto Family Fellowship

Kate Cheney Chappell Fellowship

Thomas Chappell Fellowship

David Cheever Fellowship
(Awarded to an architecture student)

Elizabeth F. Cheney Fellowship

Ethel Skeans Clifford Scholarship

David Ferranti Fellowship

Jane Weiss Garrett Fellowship

Golden Rule Fellowship

Gary “Griff” Griffith Fellowship

Cait Giunta Fellowship

Candy Haskell Fellowship

Harriet Hemenway Fellowship

Priscilla Henderson Fellowship

Richard and Mary Howe Fellowship

Mary Alice Huemoeller Fellowship

Stuart Kestenbaum Fellowship

Jody Klein Fellowship

Nanette Laitman Fellowship

Jack Lenor Larsen Fellowship

Michael Lax Fellowship

Dave and Jean Lincoln Fellowship*

Jean and Dave Lincoln Fellowship

Ingrid Menken Fellowship

Priscilla Merritt Fellowship

William H. Muir Fellowship

Samuel Newbury Fellowship

Mary Nyburg Fellowship

Betty Oliver Fellowship

Ronald Hayes Pearson Fellowship

Peninsula Area Fellowship

Parker Poe Fellowship

Elena Prentice Fellowship

Francis William Rawle Fellowship

Barbara Rockefeller Fellowship

Samuel and Eleanor Rosenfeld Fellowship in Fiber

Samuel and Eleanor Rosenfeld Fellowship in Wood

Lois Rosenthal Fellowship

Florence Samuels Fellowship

Kay Sekimachi Fellowship

Heikki Seppa Fellowship

Margaret (Peggy) Swart Sewall Fellowship

Irving B. Sherman Island Fellowship

Bunzy Sherman Fellowship

Michael Simon Studio Pottery Fellowship

Mathias Lloyd Spiegel Fellowship

Carolyn J. Springborn Fellowship in Fiber

Carolyn J. Springborn Fellowship in Graphics

Carolyn J. Springborn Fellowship in Wood

Stark Mid-Career Fellowship

Lenore G. Tawney Fellowship

Lenore Thomas Straus Fellowship

Taylor-Zwickey Fellowship

Molly Upton Fellowship

George VanOstrand Fellowship

Beverly Warner Fellowship

Frans Wildenhain Fellowship

J. Fred Woell Fellowship