Maine Programs

Island Workshop Day brings together sixty or more participants for day-long workshops in Haystack’s studios. The program is in collaboration with the Healthy Island Project (HIP), Deer Isle. Haystack and HIP are working to foster participation in Island Workshop Day among individuals who are from Deer Isle/Stonington and Blue Hill Peninsula. We reserve slots for people who have not taken a workshop at Haystack's fall or summer programs. Because of increased demand for this program, and to make it fair to all applicants, we now use a lottery system to select participants.

All skill levels, from beginner to professional, are welcome.

This year's Island Workshop Day was held Saturday, May 8, 2010. Workshops included:

• Blacksmithing with Eric Ziner - Learn basic forging and assembling techniques to create a tool or object.

• Illuminated Collage/Lamps with Jennifer Lee Morrow - Make a unique accent lamp with backlit translucent collage. Participants will use a variety of decorative paper techniques to create an image or pattern and learn to wire a standard light fixture for that aha! moment.

• Jewelry: Art by Accident/Lockets with Fred Woell - Make one or two pendants using Altoid boxes and found objects.  Participants will learn “cold connection” techniques.

• Mixed Media: Drawing/Painting with Pat Wheeler - Learn how to use a variety of materials including: acrylic paint, stencils, pencils, nails, cold wax, and Xerox copies of your photographs to create three 8” x 8” mixed media paintings on board.

• Ribbed Basketry with Joli Greene - Using colorfully dyed flat and round reeds, learn to make a melon ‘gathering’ basket with a vine handle.

• Silk Scarves/Shibori with Chris Leith - Learn to make patterns (shibori), dye colors, and take away color (discharge) to create pattern on silk scarves.

• Writing Workshop: Seeing and Saying with Betsy Sholl - We will use simple writing exercises as a way to help us be more attentive to the world around us and within.