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Additional Make + Take Workshops Added to Haystack’s Winter Programs Schedule

Deer Isle, Maine – Haystack Mountain School of Crafts extends its Winter Programs offered through the Fab Lab at Haystack’s Center for Community Programs in Deer Isle village (22 Church Street). Registration for five additional Make + Take workshops will open on Monday, February 23.

Haystack’s Winter Programs advance dynamic community-based education and collaboration in craft, making, and digital design. The School continues to partner with local artists and makers to lead Make + Take workshops, which offer an opportunity to experiment, learn something new, and leave with a finished piece.

MAKE + TAKE WORKSHOPS

The Make + Take workshop series invites the community into the Fab Lab for hands-on workshops that blend traditional craft with digital tools. Designed to be informal and social, these short workshops are led by local artists, educators, and makers, and are for participants ages 18+, unless otherwise indicated.

Mar 6, 5:30–7:30 p.m.
Maggie Haaland, The Value of Repair: A Visible Mending Workshop

Mar 27, 5:30–7:30 p.m.
Josh Guyot, Fun with Pulp

*Mar 28, 10 a.m.–12 p.m.
Lydia Burnet, Transforming Recycled Plastics

Apr 3, 5:30–7:30 p.m.
Julie Morringello, Radiant Remnants

*Apr 9, 5:30–7:30 p.m.
Jake Horsey, Mobile Building Workshop

*Family-friendly workshop open to all ages. Children are welcome to participate with the supervision of an adult—a great opportunity to make and learn together.

Advance registration and payment of a $5 fee per person are required to participate. Workshops are final sale; no refunds are available. Visit haystack-mtn.org/winter-programs for detailed descriptions and to register. 

Haystack’s Make + Takes are supported in part by Haystack’s Program Endowment, with additional funding provided by grants from NEA Our Town, Onion Foundation, and Windgate Foundation.

About Haystack Mountain School of Crafts | haystack-mtn.org

Haystack Mountain School of Crafts is an international craft school located on the Atlantic Ocean in Deer Isle, Maine. For 75 years, Haystack has connected people through craft, providing the freedom to engage with materials and develop new ideas in a supportive and inclusive community. When Haystack was founded in 1950, it was truly an experiment in education and community, with no permanent faculty or full-time students—a School that awarded no certificates or degrees. Haystack serves an ever-changing group of makers and thinkers of all skill levels—we are dedicated to working and learning alongside one another, while exploring the intersections of craft, art, and design in wide-ranging and expansive ways. 

For three-quarters of a century, Haystack has offered intensive studio workshops and has functioned as a think-tank to explore craft in broad contexts. The School’s award-winning campus, designed by noted American architect Edward Larrabee Barnes, opened in 1961 when the School relocated to Deer Isle from its original location in Montville, Maine. The buildings and secluded, natural setting have provided steadfast support for convening an intergenerational community of makers from around the world to share ideas, materials, and techniques, and make discoveries alongside one another in a creative and generative environment. While Haystack has grown in ways that could never have been imagined—offering residencies, programs for Maine youth and adults, conferences, publications, and more—the core of our work and the ideas we adhere to have stayed very much the same.

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