FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 17, 2024

CONTACT: Kate Lochner, kate@haystack-mtn.org

Haystack Announces 2025 Summer Program Schedule: Studio Workshops, Open Studio Residency, and Square ONE

Deer Isle, Maine – Haystack Mountain School of Crafts has announced its program offerings for the 2025 summer season. New this year, Haystack offers Square ONE, a session format in early July created expressly for beginners.

Forty-three intensive workshops, led by forty-seven instructors, will be held from June through August in a variety of craft media, including blacksmithing, ceramics, fiber, glass, graphics, metals, wood, and writing. For 2025, Studio Assistant Fellow and Haystack Fellowship opportunities are available. In addition, the two-week Open Studio Residency will move to the fall, allowing accepted participants to work in glass rather than blacksmithing. Those selected for the highly competitive program attend for free.

Thanks to major support from the Windgate Foundation, application fees are waived for all 2025 summer programs, including summer workshops, Studio Assistant Fellows, Haystack Fellowships, Square ONE, and Open Studio Residency.

Executive Director Perry Price shares, “Haystack is excited to offer a robust roster of programs for the summer of next year, including new ways for everyone to join the school. In listening to our community, we hear the barriers that can limit opportunities for learning in craft workshops. With Square ONE we expect to introduce craft to an even wider cohort of students eager to pursue an educational experience at a place as unique as Haystack. And by removing application fees from the up-front costs of applying to all opportunities, including workshops, residencies, and fellowships, we hope that the possibility of finding a program that is the right fit for any artist is attainable—we are extremely grateful for the support and confidence in our work by the Windgate Foundation in helping to increase access to Haystack for everyone.”

Applications open on January 7. Deadlines for 2025 are January 17 for Studio Assistant Fellow and Haystack Fellowship applications, and January 31 for general summer workshop and Square ONE applications. Open Studio Residency applications open March 3 and close March 14. 

Haystack’s Visiting Artist Series extends our commitment to providing time and space for the development of new ideas in a variety of disciplines through these two-week residencies. Nehal El-Hadi, Robell Awake, Jen de los Reyes, and Wafa Ghnaim join us in 2025.

In each workshop session, two Fab Lab Residents, selected for their expertise in craft and digital fabrication, also undertake independent research and experimental projects aimed at advancing the field of craft through innovative techniques and materials. The 2025 cohort includes Fiona Bell and Kate Reed, Sophia Brueckner and Beth Ferguson, Orkan Telhan and Dietmar Offenhuber, Jennifer Jacobs and Ilan Moyer, Jiyoo Jye and Nathan Melenbrink, and Jake Horsey and Che-Wei Wang.     

Embedded as part of workshop sessions, both Visiting Artists and Fab Lab Residents augment the creative practices on campus through their own research, informal activities, presentations, and integration into the session community.

Read more about the School’s summer programs, including workshop and residency descriptions, on the Haystack website: haystack-mtn.org

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

Haystack connects people through craft. 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. Founded in 1950 as a research and studio program in the arts, Haystack is an international craft school located on the Atlantic Ocean in Deer Isle, Maine, offering one and two-week studio workshops to participants of all skill levels as well as the two-week Open Studio Residency program, tours, auctions, artist presentations, and shorter workshops for Maine residents and high school students. The award-winning campus was designed by noted American architect, Edward Larrabee Barnes, and opened in 1961 when the School relocated to Deer Isle from its original location in Montville, Maine.

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