The Haystack Auction
August 23, 2024
Thank you for joining us for The Haystack Auction!
Join us for a celebration of Haystack and the inspiring artists who lead our summer sessions in a live auction of work by current and former faculty. Enjoy a coveted first look during the Preview Reception and don't miss your chance to obtain spectacular work only available at Haystack this summer during the Live Auction.
Tickets and auction proceeds support Haystack Mountain School of Crafts’ fellowship awards and ongoing School programming.
5:30-6:45 PM | PRIVATE PREVIEW & RECEPTION
$75 - Preview Reception + Live Auction
A first look at the Auction items, and enjoy Hors d’oeuvres and Beverages on the dining deck.
7:00 PM | LIVE AUCTION
$25 - Live Auction
Auction featuring work current and former faculty in the Gateway building.
AUCTION Items
Lynn Bennett-Carpenter + John Hitchcock
Bird, Star, Tree, 2023. Fiber and wood, 21” x 3.5”
Lynn Bennett Carpenter is an interdisciplinary fiber artist and educator. Bennett Carpenter’s works have been featured in Landscapes Real and Imagined (Site: Brooklyn), Extreme Fibers: Icons and the New Edge (Muskegon Art Museum), and The Social Fabric (Textile Society of America, Vancouver). Recent work includes a large-scale, site-specific installation for Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall. Lynn cofounded the Namtenga Weaving Studio in Burkina Faso, West Africa.
marcelynbennettcarpenter.com @lynnbennettcarpenter
John Hitchcock is a Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison, teaching Screen Printing, Relief Cut, and Installation Art. He received a BFA from Cameron University, OK and an MFA in Printmaking and Photography at Texas Tech University. Hitchcock received the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Artistic Innovation and Collaboration grant, Jerome Foundation Grant, the Creative Arts Award, and Emily Mead Baldwin Award in the Creative Arts at the University of Wisconsin. His work has been exhibited at numerous national and international venues—including solo exhibitions at the American Culture Center (Shanghai), Portland Art Museum (OR), Missoula Art Museum (MT), Mulvane Art Museum (KS), and Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (Santa Fe).
Susie Brandt
Red Dot Pile, 2024. Hand stitched wool and pompoms. 9” x 9”.
Susie Brandt’s textile-based work rummages through matters of utility, consumption, abundance, time, and devotion. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including a solo show at SPEEDWELL Contemporary in Portland, ME this summer. Brandt taught at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) for twenty-one years. During the pandemic, she organized and led an online quilt group of seventy-five MICA students, alumni, staff, faculty, and interested stitchers throughout the U.S. to complete a dozen quilts to raffle for scholarships. Brandt received a BFA from the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts) and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Richard Blanco + David Wolfe
On the Craft of My Loneliness, 2021. Framed broadside and monograph: Poetry by Richard Blanco; Broadside and monograph cover designed by David Wolfe. Broadside printed on Flurry Cotton Paper at Wolfe Editions. Monograph: 7 1/2” x 7 1/2”; Framed Broadside: 13 1/2” x 20 1/2”.
Selected by President Obama as the fifth Presidential Inaugural Poet in U.S. history, Richard Blanco was the youngest, the first Latinx, immigrant, and gay person to serve in that role. Born in Madrid to Cuban exile parents and raised in Miami in a working-class family, Blanco’s personal negotiation of cultural identity and the universal themes of place and belonging characterize his collections of poetry, including the recent, Homeland of My Body. Memoirs include For All of Us, One Today: An Inaugural Poet’s Journey and The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood. Awards include the National Humanities Medal by President Biden from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Agnes Starrett Poetry Prize, PEN American Beyond Margins Award, Patterson Prize, and a Lambda Prize for memoir. A Woodrow Wilson Fellow, Blanco also received honorary degrees, and is currently Education Ambassador for The Academy of American Poets and Associate Professor at Florida International University.
Master printer David Wolfe founded Wolfe Editions, a letterpress and fine art printing studio with educational programming in Portland, ME in 1997. Prior to opening his own studio, he worked for several well known printing establishments, including Stinehour Press in Lunenburg, VT and Anthoensen Press in ME. Wolfe’s work is in the collections at Bates College Museum of Art, Bowdoin College Museum of Art Special Collections, and Portland Museum of Art, and numerous private collections. He has led several workshops at Haystack and was Lead Printmaker in Residence at Penland School of Crafts in 2009. Wolfe studied printmaking at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Leckie Gassman
Uncle Leckie Loves Tomatoes, 2o23. Glass, 15" x 4" x 32".
Leckie Gassman specializes in glass and ceramics. After graduating from Alfred University, he gained valuable experience in a production studio in Asheville, North Carolina. Gassman explores diverse crafts and draws inspiration from his travels—through engraving glass with contour methods, he reflects on his identity and experiences. Challenging traditional craft, he expresses his artistic voice through imagery and pattern, forging connections with humanity and our planet. Currently based in Brooklyn, New York, Gassman balances his personal practice with commissioned work.
Molly Haynes
Copper Formation, 2024. Kenaf fiber, silk and bamboo yarn, 10” x 14” x 1 1/2”.
Molly Haynes is a Los Angeles-based artist who's sculptural weavings explore structure and materiality. Her work blurs the line between humans and the natural world, often appearing both organic and industrial. Haynes received a BFA in Textiles at the Rhode Island School of Design and went on to design for the interior textiles industry before committing to her art practice. In 2023, she exhibited with La Beast Gallery, Arden + White Gallery, and lectured at Craft In America.
Chris Joyce
Turned Platter, 2024. Maple and milk paint.
Chris Joyce is a Deer Isle, Maine native and self-taught wood turner. His wooden works are a melding of fascinating design and expert craftsmanship. From self-made toy boats for the seashore to a high school shop program, Joyce worked his way toward formal training under the instruction of his first mentor, Dennis Saindon. After graduation, he pursued an education in the electrical field while continuing his fascination with woodworking as a hobby. Joyce discovered Fine Woodworking Magazine and became acquainted with the American Association of Woodturners. With more than forty years woodworking experience, Joyce has made and sold thousands of small boxes, his work has been in numerous exhibitions, and is in collections from Maine to Japan.
Tikva Lantigua
Haystack Historical Shingle, 2023. Framed shingle print, Framed: 13 3/8" x 16 1/2".
Tikva Lantigua is a visual artist with a writing practice, forever obsessed with print. She combines language and experimental silkscreen to interpret relational dissonance, through an auto/biographical lens. Lantigua was born to Dominican parents and brought up in the American South, moving from one army base to another. She received an MFA in Print Media from Cranbrook Academy of Art, and presented her first solo exhibition at Day & Night Projects, Atlanta, GA, in 2020. She is living and making in Atlanta, GA, her adopted hometown.
Roberto Lugo + Winnie Owens Hart
Untitled, 2023. Ceramic and Luster
Roberto Lugo is an artist, ceramicist, social activist, poet, and educator. Lugo’s works uses traditional European and Asian ceramic techniques reimagined with a 21st-century street sensibility. Lugo received a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from Penn State. Awards include a Heinz Award, Philadelphia’s Cultural Treasures award, Pew Fellowship, Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize, and US Artist Award and his work has been in numerous exhibitions and in permanent collections including Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Brooklyn Museum, and Walters Art Museum.
www.robertolugostudio.com @robertolugowithoutwax
Winnie Owens-Hart, cultural researcher, author, ceramic artist, and documentary filmmaker, is founder of the ILE AMO Research Center, dedicated to world aboriginal ceramics, and the Women’s Pottery House, dedicated to improving the lives of traditional female potters and their children through their clay work. Owens-Hart is a Professor Emeritus, Department of Art, Howard University, Washington, D.C. and honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Craftsmen Fellowship; Renwick Fellow, Smithsonian American Art Museum; and Faculty Research Fellow, Smithsonian American Art Museum, with work widely exhibited and in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, and in public and private collections.
Dante Marioni
Basket, 2023. Glass, 15” x 4” x 32”.
Dante Marioni is an American artist based in Seattle, WA. His blown glass vessels are inspired by Minimalist painting, Finnish design, Etruscan vases, and historic Venetian silhouettes. The son of Studio Glass pioneer Paul Marioni, Marioni was fortunate to learn under the greats—Lino Tagliapietra, Benjamin Moore, and Richard Marquis. Within his practice, he continues to revisit the use of canework, reticello, and patterning, with explorations in color, light, and scale. For Marioni, making objects is all about the process rather than the resulting sculpture.
Scott McGlasson
Finney Stool, 2023. Walnut with blue lacquer, 14.5” x 14.5”.
Scott McGlasson has been designing and making furniture in Minnesota for the past twenty-five years. Under the name WOODSPORT, his work has been exhibited at the Architectural Digest Design Show, ICFF, the Smithsonian Craft Show, and the Walker Art Center and has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, American Craft, Fine Woodworking, and Interior Design. His work has been sold to private, corporate, government, and hospitality clients worldwide, including Canadian embassies in Africa, Asia, and Europe.McGlasson received a degree in English Literature from the University of Minnesota and was trained in cabinet making at Minneapolis Technical College. He lives in South Minneapolis, MN, with his rescue pit bull, Sophie.
Sarah “Spee” Parker
Smoosh #2, 2023. Recycled sterling silver, recycled 14k yellow gold, antique plastic & glass gems, 3” x 3/4” on 19” chain.
Sarah “Spee” Parker is a Richmond, VA-based sculptor and jeweler. She received an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Parker’s sculptures, installations, and jewelry focus heavily on Americana, punk, DIY, anti-containment, and questioning authorship through the lens of craft. She is part of the Radical Jewelry Makeover (RJM) Artist Project. Recent works have been included in exhibitions at the Metal Museum, Bario Neal during the 2022 NYCJW, and she recently curated the RJM Rejewelry Competition exhibited during NYCJW 2023.
Michael Simon
Pitcher with Jumping Fish, circa 1994. Salt-fired stoneware and underglaze; decorated large pitcher, 10 1/2”.
Michael Simon (1947 – 2021) was a studio potter who lived in Athens, Georgia. His works were typically fired in salt kilns with motifs of nature and animals. Simon was a student of Warren MacKenzie, who was, in turn, a student of Bernard Leach. Though their influence is felt, Simon’s work is unique; every pot emerges with an integrity and attitude all its own. He received a BFA. from the University of Minnesota and an MFA from the University of Georgia. In 2011, Michael Simon had a major exhibition at The Northern Clay Center entitled Michael Simon: A Life in Pots featuring thirty years of his pottery. He published Michael Simon: Evolution the same year. In 2013, he exhibited at the Georgia Museum of Art and showcased his best pots from the past several decades. The exhibition was called Pick of the Kiln: The Work of Michael Simon.
Keith Simpson
Haystack Centerpiece, 2024. Porcelain; 3D printed on Wasp printer. Tall - 11” x 11” x 5”.
Keith Simpson is a US based artist / designer whose work investigates traditional craft processes and the integration of new methods with industrial/emerging technologies. Designing systems of making. He has a background in the rapid prototyping industry and studied ceramic art at the Kansas City Art Institute and The Ohio State University. He was 10 years of combined studio art teaching experience between OSU, Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and Alfred State University. Simpson is known as an early practitioner of clay 3d printing and his practice is divided between design and production of ceramic wares with his bespoke process and sculptural art practice. Both sides of the studio are heavily engaged in research and are dedicated to the evolution of new ways of making, sensing, and seeing.
Chris Staley
Bowl, 2021. Porcelain, 8" x 7" x 3 1/2".
Chris Staley is a retired Distinguished Professor of Art of Penn State University and was selected to be the Penn State Laureate for 2012-13. Awards include the University's Milton Eisenhower Distinguished Teaching Award, an NCECA Excellence in Teaching Award, and two National Endowment of the Arts Grants. Staley received an MFA from Alfred University, has traveled extensively as a visiting artist—from Bezalel Academy in Israel to Haystack in Deer Isle, ME. His work is included in collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, as well as friends' cupboards. Staley served on the Board of Directors at the Archie Bray Foundation and the Board of Trustees at Haystack, and served as President for NCECA, the National Council of Education for the Ceramic Arts.
jina valentine
Ghost District: NC13, 2024. Sanded paper, 22” x 30”.
jina valentine is a visual artist, educator, and mother. Her practice is informed by traditional craft techniques and interweaves histories latent within found texts, objects, narratives, and spaces. valentine’s work involves language translation, mining content from material and digital archives, and experimental strategies for humanizing data-visualization. She is also co-founder of Black Lunch Table, an oral-history archiving project. Her work has received recognition and support from the Graham Foundation, Joan Mitchell Foundation, and Art Matters, among others. Valentine received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon and an MFA from Stanford University, and is an Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Christine Wong Yap
Leap of Faith, 2024. 3-color reduction linoleum print, edition of 20. Framed: 14 7/8" x 18"; Unframed: 9” x 12”.
Christine Wong Yap is a San Francisco Bay Area-based visual artist and social practitioner. She gathers and amplifies grassroots perspectives on belonging, resilience, and mental wellbeing through drawing, lettering, printmaking, publishing, textiles, and public art. She has developed projects with the California College of the Arts, Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, For Freedoms, Times Square Arts, and the Wellcome Trust. Yap received a BFA and an MFA in Printmaking from the California College of the Arts.
Haley Woodward
Candle Holder, 2024. Iron & brass, 5” x 4”x 5".
Haley Woodward is a blacksmith and educator. He started working with metal as an undergraduate before moving to Austin, TX, focusing his time on learning blacksmithing at Austin Community College (ACC). While in Austin and attending ACC, he worked in residential construction as a welder and helped found the metalworking collective, The Austin Metal Authority. In 2014, Woodward finished his graduate degree from SIU Carbondale and returned to Austin, where he now runs the blacksmithing program at ACC, and maintains his own studio practice, focusing on forged sculpture and utilitarian objects.
April Wood
Lace Leaf Brooch, 2024. Mild steel, silver, stainless - soldered & oxidized, 4 1/2” x 2” x 1/2”.
April Wood is a metalsmith and jeweler based in Baltimore, MD. She is co-founder of the Baltimore Jewelry Center, where she served as Studio and Programs Manager and Exhibitions Director. She received a BFA in Metals/Jewelry from Texas State University San Marcos and an MFA from Towson University. Wood has taught at the Maryland Institute College of Art, the Corcoran College of Art and Design, Penland School of Crafts, Towson University, Idyllwild Arts Academy, Metalwerx, Silvera Jewelry School, and Pocosin Arts School of Fine Craft. Her work has been featured in Metalsmith, Surface Design Journal, and Sculpture. She exhibits her work nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions at Ombré Gallery and the Austin Museum of Art.