FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 20, 2025
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Maine Students from Sixty-Four High Schools Attend 2025 Student Craft Institute

Deer Isle, Maine – Since 1983, the Student Craft Institute has brought high school juniors and seniors across the state of Maine to the Haystack campus for an immersive three-day program. Students live on campus, share meals in the dining hall, and focus on one discipline for the duration of the weekend. In addition to long days in the studio, faculty lectures are presented each evening, providing insight into the professional and creative lives of working artists.
Student Craft Institute took place from Friday, May 16–Sunday, May 18, 2025, and provided a truly unique and memorable experience to area youth. Instructors included Sharon Chandler Correnty (Fiber), Funlola Coker (Metals), Aspen Golann (Wood), Angela Humes (Ceramics), Meghan Martin (Blacksmithing), Rangeley Morton (Fab Lab), and Pilar Nadal & Rachel Kobasa (Graphics). Haystack’s Student Craft Institute was supported in part by Haystack’s Program Endowment with additional operational support from the Maine Arts Commission and the Windgate Foundation.

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SCI-1.JPG Participants in the 2025 Student Craft Institute pose on the deck stairs at the Haystack campus, including faculty, chaperones, and 74 students from across the state of Maine.

SCI-2.JPG Left to right Moriah Doody (Windham, Maine), Lee MacCorkle (Round Pond, Maine), Sofia Duncan (Kennebunk, Maine), Elliot Larsen (Harpswell, Maine), and instructor Sharon Chandler Correnty (Groton, Massachusetts) create felted tapestries in a Fiber workshop during Student Craft Institute.

SCI-3.JPG Caleb Longbottom (Georgetown, Maine) at work in the Fiber workshop, “Single Needle Felt Tapestry,” during Student Craft Institute.

SCI-4.JPG Students and faculty respond to a writing prompt in the Graphics workshop, “Get the Word Out!” during Student Craft Institute.

SCI-5.JPG Left to right Ben Corriveau (Westbrook, Maine), Adrian Swalla (Scarborough, Maine), and Everett Dietlin (Portland, Maine) stain various wooden broom components in the Wood workshop, “Reimagining the Everyday: Brushes, Brooms + Woodworking Techniques,” during Student Craft Institute.

SCI-6.JPG Lucy Chase (Harborside, Maine) uses the decorative technique, sgraffito, in the Ceramics workshop, “Wall Plate / Surface Design,” during Student Craft Institute.

SCI-7.JPG Abby Terreri (Turner, Maine) uses sgraffito in the Ceramics workshop, “Wall Plate / Surface Design,” during Student Craft Institute.

SCI-8.JPG Students use sgraffito in the Ceramics workshop, “Wall Plate / Surface Design,” during Student Craft Institute.

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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