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
Kyra Alex
Mark Bell
Bruce Bulger
Iana CraneWing
Sarah Doremus
Carole Ann Fer
Sihaya Hopkins
Chris Joyce
Christine Leith
Julie Morringello
Linda Perrin
Amelia Poole
Ellen Wieske
Susan Webster
Brooke Wentworth
Doug Wilson
Phoebe Zildjian
“The highlight for me was how I wasn’t ever limited. The information was presented in a way that let me explore it and when I asked ‘Is this possible?’ the answer was always ‘YES!’”
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