MEDIA ALERTCONTACT: Kate Lochner

Issued: June 10, 2025kate@haystack-mtn.org

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Haystack Open House + Community Supper
Announced for Independence Day Weekend

Deer Isle, Maine – For the second year, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts hosts the Haystack Open House + Community Supper, a free event featuring artist-led activities in our studio spaces. 

On Saturday, July 5, the studios and campus will open to the public from 1-5 p.m., with artists from the wider community on hand offering demonstrations, answering questions, and leading opportunities for visitors of all ages. Participating artists include Mark Bell and Frank Pitcher (Ceramics), Robin Cust (Metals), and Doug Wilson (Blacksmithing), among others.

Haystack Executive Director Perry Price shares, “The Open House is an ideal way to explore the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, beyond our program of tours and artist presentations. You’ll be able to see and explore the award-winning architecture of the campus, meet practicing artists at work in the studios, and see what makes the school such a unique and special site for craft education. Oh, and enjoy a cookie or two.” Following the Open House, a ticketed Community Supper in the iconic Dining Hall will be served at 5:30 p.m.

Haystack’s Open House is free; a limited number of tickets for the Community Supper are $15 and will be available for purchase at the event on a first-come, first-served basis.

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Visitors arrive at the Haystack Open House, 2024. Image courtesy of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts.

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Visitors arrive at the Haystack Open House, 2024. Image courtesy of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts.

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Ceramics studio on the Haystack campus, 2023. Image courtesy of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts.

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Visitors watch Frank Pitcher demonstrate wheel throwing at the Haystack Open House, 2024. Image courtesy of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts.

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Visitors enjoy a blacksmithing demo with Doug Wilson at the Haystack Open House, 2024. Image courtesy of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts.

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Visitors watch a weaving demonstration on a floor loom with Chris Leith at the Haystack Open House, 2024. Image courtesy of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts.

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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