haystack mountain school of crafts

Board of Trustees, Haystack Mountain School of Craft

I am honored to serve on the board for this amazing organization.

Learn more here: Haystack Mountain School of Crafts

In addition to the Program, Nominations, and Personnel Committees, I served on the Ad Hoc Strategic Plan Committee.

Link: Equity Initiatives and Strategic Plan

Link: In the Vanguard: Haystack Mountain School of Crafts 1950-1969

Haystack Mountain School of Crafts

Haystack was founded in 1950 by a group of Maine craftspeople—primarily Edgar and Marjorie Sewell, Elizabeth Crawford, and William and Estelle Shevis—and made possible
through the extraordinary support and vision of Mary Beasom Bishop.

MISSION

Haystack connects people through craft. Located on the coast of Maine, Haystack provides the freedom to engage with materials and develop new ideas in a supportive and inclusive community. Serving an ever-changing group of makers and thinkers, we are dedicated to working and learning alongside one another, while exploring the intersections of craft, art, and design in broad and expansive ways.

STRATEGIC PLAN

Haystack recently completed a comprehensive, eighteen-month strategic planning process that sought to build upon the School's solid foundation, honoring our values and history while charting the course for our next chapter. The revised Mission Statement above is one of the outcomes of our work.

ABOUT HAYSTACK

The Haystack Mountain School of Crafts is an international craft school located on the Atlantic Ocean in Deer Isle, Maine. Founded in 1950 as a research and studio program in the arts, Haystack offers one and two-week studio workshops to participants of all skill levels as well as the two-week, Open Studio Residency program, exhibitions, tours, auctions, artist presentations, and shorter workshops for Maine residents and high school students.

We support visiting artists and scholars from a variety of fields including science, literature, music, and the visual arts who are invited to spend two weeks at the school focusing on their work. Haystack also functions as a ʻthink-tankʼ in looking at craft—publishing annual monographs and organizing a variety of conferences and symposia that examine craft in broader contexts. These include collaborations with other institutions such as the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution. The award-winning campus was designed by noted American architect, Edward Larrabee Barnes, and opened in 1961 when the school relocated to Deer Isle.