Windham student attends 2025 Student Craft Institute

Since 1983, the Student Craft Institute has brought high school juniors and seniors across the state of Maine to the Haystack campus in Deer Isle for an immersive three-day program. Students live on campus, share meals in the dining hall, and focus on one discipline for the duration of the weekend. In addition to long days in the studio, faculty lectures are presented each evening, providing insight into the professional and creative lives of working artists.

Maine students, from left, Moriah Doody of
Windham, Lee MacCorkle of Round Pond, 
Sofia Duncan of Kennebunk and Elliot
Larsen of Harpswell join instructor Sharon
Chandler Correnty of Groton, Massachusetts
in creating felted tapestries at a Fiber
workshop during the 2025 Student Craft
Institute at Deer Isle on May 18.
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This year, a total of 74 students from 64 schools across Maine participated in the Student Craft Institute from Friday, May 16 to Sunday, May 18 and one of those students was Moriah Doody of Windham.

The event provided a truly unique and memorable experience for students. Instructors included Sharon Chandler Correnty (Fiber), Funlola Coker (Metals), Aspen Golann (Wood), Angela Humes (Ceramics), Meghan Martin (Blacksmithing), Rangeley Morton (Fab Lab), and Pilar Nadal and Rachel Kobasa (Graphics).

Haystack’s Student Craft Institute was supported in part by Haystack’s Program Endowment with additional operational support from the Maine Arts Commission and The Windgate Foundation.

The Haystack Mountain School of Crafts connects people through crafts. Haystack provides the freedom to engage with materials and develop new ideas in a supportive and inclusive community. Serving an ever-changing group of makers and thinkers, it is dedicated to working and learning alongside one another, while exploring the intersections of craft, art, and design in broad and expansive ways.

Founded in 1950 as a research and studio program in the arts, Haystack is an international craft school located on the Atlantic Ocean in Deer Isle, Maine, offering one and two-week studio workshops to participants of all skill levels as well as the two-week Open Studio Residency program, tours, auctions, artist presentations, and shorter workshops for Maine residents and high school students. The award-winning campus was designed by noted American architect Edward Larrabee Barnes and opened in 1961 when the school relocated to Deer Isle from its original location in Montville, Maine.

To learn more about the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, visit haystack-mtn.org. <