COMMUNITY PROGRAMS

MENTOR PROGRAM

For more than twenty years, the Mentor Program has provided high school students with the opportunity to learn from professional artists and makers in their community. We see the program as an ideal follow-up to Studio Based Learning and it provides a special insight into the creative lives and studios of working artists. 

Taking place each winter, students participate in small cohorts and work with their mentors over an extended period of time, while forging connections with their peers that often extend far beyond the program itself. From late January through mid-March students work with artist mentors in mediums including: blacksmithing, fiber, glass, graphics, metals, and wood. The Mentor Program is open to students from Deer Isle and across the Blue Hill Peninsula that attend public and private high schools, as well as those who are homeschooled. 

Selected Past Faculty

2025 Mentor Program Instructors:

Blacksmithing

Jeff Toman

Fiber

Alyssa Radcliffe

Glass

Linda Perrin

Graphics | Book Arts

Kristy Cunnane

Graphics | Painting

Jenny Brillhart

Sculpture

Sara Doremus