SUMMER 2020 HAYSTACK MOUNTAIN SCHOOL OF CRAFTS Workshops Open Studio Residency Summer Conference Schedule at a Glance 4 SUMMER 2020 Life at Haystack 6 Open Studio Residency 8 Session One 10 Welcome Session Two This year will mark the 70th anniversary of the 14 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. The decision to start a school is a radical idea in and Session Three 18 of itself, and is also an act of profound generosity, which hinges on the belief that there exists something Session Four 22 so important it needs to be shared with others. When Haystack was founded in 1950, it was truly an experiment in education and community, with no News & Updates 26 permanent faculty or full-time students, a school that awarded no certificates or degrees. And while the school has grown in ways that could never have been Session Five 28 imagined, the core of our work and the ideas we adhere to have stayed very much the same. Session Six 32 You will notice that our long-running summer conference will take a pause this season, but please know that it will return again in 2021. In lieu of a Summer Workshop 36 public conference, this time will be used to hold Information a symposium for the Haystack board and staff, focusing on equity and racial justice. We believe this is vital Summer Workshop work for us to be involved with and hope it can help 39 make us a more inclusive organization while Application broadening access to the field. As we have looked back to the founding years of the Fellowships 41 school, together we are writing the next chapter in & Scholarships Haystack’s history. I hope you will join us in telling this story. Programs Spotlight 44 Fab Lab 46 Paul Sacaridiz Haystack Publications 48 Executive Director Workshops are open to all skill levels, beginners to advanced professionals, unless otherwise noted. 2 SESSION 3: JULY 15–27 WORKSHOP SESSION 4 SESSION 6 July 26–August 7 August 23–29 CERAMICS CERAMICS SCHEDULE Ian McDonald Chandra DeBuse Studio Alphabet Sketch & Stretch: A Playful Approach to Handbuilding and Surface Design FIBER Liz Collins FIBER Micro/Macro Brece Honeycutt OPEN STUDIO SESSION Flower Power RESIDENCY 2 GLASS June 21–July 3 Deborah Czeresko FLAMEWORKING #Reality Kim Fields May 24–June 5 BLACKSMITHING Nature in Glass: Sculptural Rachel Kedinger GRAPHICS Beadmaking Techniques in Soft Glass Investigating Tableware Hope Rovelto SESSION Screen Printing for Social Change GLASS CERAMICS Maria Bang Espersen Erin Furimsky METALS June 7–19 Can an Apple Explode Glass? 1 Luscious Layers: Form and Surface Lauren Kalman BLACKSMITHING So Many! Multiples for Installation, GRAPHICS FIBER Thomas Campbell Jewelry, and Objects Georgia Deal Cynthia Alberto Fabrication Fundamentals The Paper Monoprint Backstrap Weaving WOOD CERAMICS Keunho Peter Park + Beth Ireland WOOD GRAPHICS Mathew McConnell Making Sculptural Stringed Instruments Ellie Richards Radha Pandey Mold Making: Fast and Slow Call & Response Indo-Islamic Paper: Fiber, Color, Aesthetic VISITING ARTIST* FIBER Sara Clugage WRITING METALS LJ Roberts Jeffrey Thomson Boris Bally Embroidery, Composition, Endoskeleton vs. Exoskeleton Trigger to Talisman: Transforming and Collage Gun Culture One Object at a Time SESSION GRAPHICS WOOD Anna Hepler + Meghan Brady August 9–21 *Visiting artists augment the session with informal Matthew Hebert Breaking Form 5 activities and are not workshop leaders. Photo-Scanning and Digital Carving CERAMICS METALS Steven Rolf VISITING ARTIST* Marissa Saneholtz Consider This Martha McDonald Sentiment & Sediment: FIBER/WEAVING Narrative Enamel Jane Lackey WOOD Finding Focus Alicia Dietz SESSION GLASS Carving Out a Place July 12–24 3 Victoria Ahmadizadeh Play on Words CERAMICS METALS Matt Mitros + Keith Simpson Kathleen Kennedy GRAPHICS Digital Methods of Radical Jewelry Takeover! Matthew Shlian + Valpuri Remling APPLICATION Analog Workflows Rolling & Folding WOOD FIBER Norman Teague METALS DEADLINES SUMMER Pascale Gatzen Objects in Narrative Play Demitra Thomloudis friends of light Surface-Color-Solid VISITING ARTIST* CONFERENCE GLASS Wendy Jacob WOOD MARCH 1 The Haystack summer conference is on Jeremy Scidmore George Sawyer Open Studio Residency hold for this season and will return in 2021. The Hot Glass Amalgamate Please Be Seated— Scholarship Sessions 1–6 Building Chairs that Endure For full details please see Director’s welcome GRAPHICS letter, on previous page. Daniel Minter VISITING CURATOR* Solving for Intent Andres Payan Estrada APRIL 1 General Application Sessions 1–6 4 SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE LEARN MORE: HAYSTACK-MTN.ORG 5 LIFE AT HAYSTACK SCHEDULE LOCATION Plan to arrive between 2 pm and Haystack is located in Downeast 6 pm on the first Sunday of the Maine on Deer Isle, which is session, checking into the main connected to the mainland by a office when you arrive. Dinner will bridge over Eggemoggin Reach. It is be served at 6:30 pm and a general approximately 500 miles from New orientation will take place at 7:30 York City, 250 miles from Boston, 160 pm. The first workshop session miles from Portland, and 60 miles will begin immediately following. from Bangor. There is transportation by both air and bus to Bangor, and Workshops meet from 9 am to 4 pm, taxi service from there to Deer Isle. Monday through Friday. Studios are open twenty-four hours a day, seven LIFE AT HAYSTACK days a week. Throughout the session WEATHER there are evening presentations Weather on the coast of Maine is by faculty, staff, and technical unpredictable and temperatures The human scale of Haystack is integral to the way we assistants, and presentations can range from a low of 40 on cool teach and learn, and rather than developing plans for by visiting artists and writers. evenings to a high of 90 on extremely warm days throughout the summer. expansion, we are committed to maintaining the intimacy We ask that all participants Layered clothing is suggested and leave Haystack by 11 am on to be best prepared bring clothing of the school and the delicate relationship it has to the All accommodations have twin the last day of the session. ranging from shorts and pants to beds and a lightweight blanket and surrounding landscape. sweaters, sweatshirts, and rain gear. END OF SESSION AUCTION pillow are provided. Please bring a sleeping bag or additional bedding. At the conclusion of each session FACILITIES Standing a celebratory auction of student Studios at Haystack are open MEALS and faculty work is held to twenty-four hours a day, seven days The dining hall at Haystack is benefit scholarships and studio a week. Additionally the school a central meeting place where improvements. While much of the maintains a library with a collection on the deck participants enjoy delicious meals work is made during the session, of books on craft, art, design, and overlooking Jericho Bay, Haystack American architect Edward Larrabee prepared in our kitchen by our head sometimes people bring their work architecture as well and a store that is a breathtakingly beautiful place that Barnes designed the Haystack chef and talented staff. We work with them to donate—participation sells materials and supplies. Haystack is hard to forget. The school began as campus on Deer Isle, which opened closely with many local farmers in the auction is entirely voluntary. is located in a remote setting and an experimental community of artists to the public in the summer of 1961. and food producers on the Blue Auctions are open to the public. both cell reception and internet and has come to be a highly influential The architectural plan encourages Hill Peninsula and surrounding access are limited. To maintain a research and studio program in the arts, community and interaction while CONTACT INFORMATION region, and vegetarian options are retreat setting we ask that you refrain attracting national and international seeming to float above the forest floor You can always call our office in available at each meal. The kitchen from cell phone use in the studios, audiences alike. From workshops for and in 1994 was awarded the coveted Deer Isle and talk with someone will try to accommodate dietary cabins, dining hall, and the deck, and participants of all skill levels to a 25-year award from the American about workshop descriptions, life restriction when possible—please limit usage to the upper portion of residency program, conferences, and Institute of Architects. As an at the school, what to bring, travel indicate this on your application the campus and public spaces. dedicated offerings for Maine residents, organization, we are stewards of this questions, or anything else you need and contact Haystack if you have any questions or concerns. we believe it is our responsibility to architectural treasure and the delicate to know about Haystack. We can be ACCOMMODATIONS create pathways for people to come landscape on which it sits, and believe reached between 8:30 am and 4:30 The cabins at Haystack are an integral Haystack is committed to a culture to this remarkable place and experience these to be defining characteristics pm EST, Monday through Friday, part of the campus design and we of diversity, equity, and inclusion. an educational model that is truly of the school. at (207) 348-2306. You can also have several options that range We do not discriminate against any find an extensive list of Frequently transformative. In writing about Haystack, Robert from dorms (that house up to eleven individual or group of individuals Asked Questions on our website. Time at Haystack is marked by long, Campbell, architecture critic for The people), triples, and doubles—all on the basis of age, color, disability, uninterrupted days in the studio Boston Globe, described Haystack as located near a central washroom; as gender identification, national surrounded by a community that cares “so perfectly fitted to its site and its well as a quad, doubles, and limited origin, race, religion, sexual deeply about what it means to explore purpose that you never afterwards singles with private bathroom orientation, economic status, or ideas and work with their hands.