Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle has hired a new executive director.

Perry Price, who comes to Maine from the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft in Texas, will start in January, the school announced Wednesday.

“Haystack is a singular institution, unique in its committed approach to the studio experience and occupying a niche unto itself in the ecosystem of contemporary craft,” Price said in a statement provided by the school. “That this human-scaled institution may continue to thrive while we continually work towards the promise of the field of craft will be the collective effort of each of us who value this school, and I look forward to working with the remarkable people who make it possible.”

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