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Posts
2020 Winter Artist Residency
2022 Educational Workshops
- June 11: Lighting 3D Work for Photography with Bret Woodard
- May 20: Fiber Brushes and Brooms with Robert Sheckler
- June 18: Online Plaster Mold Making 101 with Keanne Petrie of Keap Ceramics
- April 26: Craft Show Booth Design + Planning with Sadie Bliss & Vicky Rodriguez
- May 10: Felted Sunflower Landscape with Isabel Stearns
- April 10: Wildcrafted Basketry with Rebecca May Verrill
- Pottery Wheel Introduction with Malley Weber @ Hallowell Clay Works
2026 Haystack Workshops
- CERAMICS – Push and Pull: Form and Surface with Candice Methe
- MIXED MEDIA – Marquetry Masks with Jim Macdonald
- METALS – Wearable Mementos with Shelby Goldsmith
- GRAPHICS – Hanky Panky: Screenprinting on Fabric Squares with Pilar Nadal
- FIBER – Resilient Systems: Experimental Textile Printing and Object Making with Karen Gelardi
- BLACKSMITHING – Tools for the Home with Anna Koplik
- WOOD – From Straight to Curvy: Create a Sculptural LED Lamp with Yuri Kobayashi
Cornerstone Institutions
- Woodhull is a team of award-winning architects, designers, and builders based in Maine.
- Hay Runner is a real estate service company dedicated to simplifying the sales and property improvement processes.
Down East Adventures
- Down East Adventures with MCA – Wild Clay with Malley Weber – September 28
- SOLD OUT – Down East Adventures with MCA – Bladesmithing: Paring Knives with Nick Rossi – September 28
- Down East Adventures with Maine Crafts Association
Essay Series
- What Maine Craft Means to Me by Jordan Carey
- What Maine Craft Means to Me by Nisa Smiley
- What Maine Craft Means to Me by Emmanuel Sogunle
- What Maine Craft Means to Me by Julie Richard
- What Maine Craft Means to Me by Susan Joy Sager
- What Maine Craft Means to Me by Chris Breedlove
- Kristan Vermeulen: What Maine Craft Means to Me
- Ayumi Horie: What Maine Craft Means to Me
- Christian Becksvoort: What Maine Craft Means to Me
- Carl Little: What Maine Craft Means to Me
- Tim Christensen: What Maine Craft Means to Me
- Daisy Desrosiers: What Maine Craft Means to Me
- John Baldacci: What Maine Craft Means to Me
- Lissa Hunter: What Maine Craft Means to Me
- Stuart Kestenbaum: What Maine Craft Means to Me
- Theresa Secord: What Maine Craft Means to Me
Exhibitions: Past
- Craft Apprentice Program Capstone Exhibition Open House: Friday, October 16th
- The Holy Grail: Miraculous Items of Power @ Maine Craft Portland
- HAVE A SEAT @ The Center for Maine Craft
- Peter Asselyn Wood Turned Bowls @ Maine Craft Portland
- Annual Holiday Ornament Showcase @ Center for Maine Craft Nov 21-Dec 31
- Doug Frati @ CENTER FOR MAINE CRAFT OCT 18-Nov 19
- Dark & Stormy: A Fiber Art Exhibition @ Maine Craft Portland
- Maine State Prison Outreach Program Exhibition @ Center for Maine Craft Sept 5-29
- Luthiers Members Invitational @ Center for Maine Craft Oct 1-16
- 2020 Bicentennial Exhibition of Craft @ Maine Craft Portland
- Nuptials: Adornment for a New Age @ Maine Craft Portland, Opens May 3, 2019
- March 1-April 28: The Clever Cup at Center for Maine Craft
- October 9-November 18: The Luthiers’ Craft @ Center for Maine Craft
- CAP Masters & Apprentices @ Maine Craft Portland
- September 7 – October 7: Winterstick Snowboards
- JANUARY 5-FEBRUARY 26, 2018: 6×6
- November 22-December 31, 2017: Annual Holiday Ornament Showcase
- October 5-November 19, 2017: 30 Days at Sea – New Work by Tim Christensen
- August 4-October 1, 2017: New Work by Joe and Mary Devenney
- June 2-July 31, 2017: Floorcloths by Addie Peet
- FEB 17-MAR 28, 2017: LIZ HUNTER NORDIC RUGS
- DECEMBER 2016: ANNUAL ORNAMENT SHOW
Exhibitions: Upcoming
- Mentors + Apprentices: Work from the 2025 Craft Apprentice Program, Capstone Exhibition opens October 3rd
- Call for Submissions: Annual Holiday Ornament Showcase
- Call for Submissions: The Ruby Jubilee – Celebrating 40 Years of MCA
Featured Guild Member
- January 2024 Featured MCA Guild Member: Nick Rossi
- December 2023 Featured MCA Guild Member: Kreg McCune
- November 2023 Featured MCA Guild Member: Jon White
- October 2023 Featured MCA Guild Member: Jeffrey Lipton
- September 2023 Featured MCA Guild Member: Emily Shaffer
- August 2023 Featured MCA Guild Member: Autumn Cipala
- July 2023 Featured MCA Guild Member: Cathy Heinz
Featured Member Artist
- December 2024 Featured MCA Institutional Member: oUTSKIRT STUDIOS
- September 2024 Featured MCA Institutional Member: Mill Pond Ceramics Studio
- August 2024 Featured MCA Institutional Member: Schoodic Arts for All
- July 2024 Featured MCA Institutional Member: Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts
- June 2024 Featured MCA Member: Shelby Goldsmith
- May 2024 Featured MCA Member: Christine Peters
- April 2024 Featured MCA Member: Oyster River Joinery
- March 2024 Featured MCA Member: Lee Gordon
- January 2024 Featured MCA Member: Rebecca May Verrill
- December 2023 Featured MCA Member: Julie Cunningham
- November 2023 Featured MCA Member: Bryan Hansen
- October 2023 Featured MCA Member: Loveline Baskets
- September 2023 Featured MCA Member: Otis Baron
- August 2023 Featured MCA Member: Hannah Tarkinson
- July 2023 Featured MCA Member: Emma B Garcelon
- June 2023 Featured MCA Member: Bowerbird Studio
- May 2023 Featured MCA Member: Dahl & Company
- April 2023 Featured MCA Member: Wishbone Clay
- In Memory of Jo Diggs
- October Featured MCA Member: Jaime Wing
- September Featured MCA Member: Wicks Forge | Nicholas Wicks Moreau
- July Featured MCA Member: Kaela Brennan
- June Featured MCA Member: Leah Champagne
- May Featured MCA Member: Heather L. R. Fountain, Fountain Glass
- April Featured MCA Member: Jack Stepp
- March Featured MCA Member: Chuck Lakin
- February Featured MCA Member: Lynda Rasco
- December Featured MCA Member: Patti Dowse
- November Featured MCA Member: Cyndi Prince
- October Featured MCA Member: Peter Asselyn
- FEBRUARY FEATURED MCA MEMBER: JOSEPH WEBSTER GLASS
- December Featured MCA Member: Emily Chelate, Dole’s Orchard Box Shop
- November Featured MCA Member: Jean Flahive
- October Featured MCA Member: Hillary Hutton
- September Featured MCA Member: Boyd Johnson
- August Featured MCA Member: Guenola Lefeuvre
- July Featured MCA Member: Chelsea Van Voorhis
- June Featured MCA Member: Natalie Reed
- May Featured MCA Member: 33 By Hand
- April Featured MCA Member: Jason Morrissey
- March Featured MCA Member: Robert Brouillard, The Maine Saucery
- February Featured MCA Member: Jim Crampton, JHC Wood & Glass
- January Featured MCA Member: Michelle Byram, Soulshine Soap Company
- December Featured MCA Member: Michelle Provencal, Thirdlee & Co.
- November Featured MCA Member: Molly Rose Oteri Hearn, Ellipsem Jewelry
- October Featured MCA Member: Jody Halliday
- September Featured MCA Member: Ned Merrick
- August Featured MCA Member: Rocky Mann
- July Featured MCA Member: Loveline Baskets
- June Featured MCA Member: Blue Butterfield Woodcuts
- May Featured MCA Member: Frenchies’ Natural Products
- Featured Member Artist — April: Pretty Flours
- FEATURED MEMBER ARTIST – MARCH: C&M CERAMICS
- FEATURED MEMBER ARTIST – FEBRUARY: NICK ROSSI
- FEATURED MEMBER ARTIST – JANUARY: JASMINE CLAYTON/KURIER
- FEATURED MEMBER ARTIST – NOVEMBER: DENNIS CURTIS
- Featured Member Artist – October: Kathleen Perelka
- Featured Member Artist – September: Paul Baines
- Featured Member Artist – August: Ryan Penney
- FEATURED MEMBER ARTIST – JULY: Dharwood Pottery
- FEATURED MEMBER ARTIST – JUNE: Shanna Wheelock
- FEATURED MEMBER ARTIST- APRIL: JACKIE HAINES
- FEATURED MEMBER ARTIST- MARCH: WORTHY GOODS
- FEATURED MEMBER ARTIST – FEBRUARY: BECKY WRIGHT
- FEATURED MEMBER ARTIST – JANUARY: Lonie Laffely Ellis
- FEATURED MEMBER ARTIST – DECEMBER: Amphitrite Studio
- FEATURED MEMBER ARTIST – NOVEMBER: RON KING
- FEATURED MEMBER ARTIST – OCTOBER: PURPLEBEAN BINDERY
- Featured Member Artist – September: Dot Hutchins
- Featured Member Artist – August 2016: Christine Peters
- Featured Member Artist – July 2016: Patricia Pasteur
- Featured Member Artist – June 2016: Dereck Glaser
- Featured Member Artist – May 2016: Rebecca May Verrill
- Featured Member Artist – April 2016: Herbert Gessner
- Featured Member Artist – March 2016: Kaitlyn Duggan Pottery
- Featured Member Artist – February 2016: Hickory Arms
- Featured Member Artist – January 2016: Naomi McNeill
Fundraising
- A Year in Review with Maine Crafts Association and Shop Maine Craft
- Give Bliss! Support Maine’s Working Artists.
- Craft Sustains Us.
general
- April 9 / April 10: Business Planning for Makers, Craft Artists, and Creative Entrepreneurs with CEI
- Seven Pairs Announced for the 2026 Craft Apprentice Program in Maine & New Hampshire
- FEB 12: Make + Take Night with MCA
- 2026 MCA Weekend Workshops @ Haystack Announced
- 2026 Co-op Advertising Opportunities Announced!
- You’re Invited! 2025 Maine Craft Artist Awards Reception
- 2025 Maine Craft Artist Award: Gabriel Frey
- 2025 Maine Craft Artist Award: Sarah Haskell
- Visit MCA Institutional Member, Running With Scissors Art Studios during Maine Craft Weekend for Open Studios on Saturday, October 4th!
- SAVE THE DATE! Maine Craft Weekend 2025
- Save the Date! STITCH Runway Show + Style Market Returns May 22, 2025
- STITCH 2025 Designer Profile: Kazeem Lawal (Portland Trading Co.)
- STITCH 2025 Designer Profile: Adele M. Ngoy (Adele Masengo Designs)
- STITCH 2025 Designer Profile: Kerry Goulder (Kid Giddy)
- STITCH 2025 Designer Profile: Katie Rose (Flowbot)
- STITCH 2025 Designer Profile: A.W.D. Textile Designs
- Jill McGowan – Keynote Speaker at STITCH 2025
- STITCH Style Market
- STITCH 2025 Designer Profile: Cece and the Seams
- STITCH 2025 Designer Profile: K. Becker Designs
- Call for Mentor Interest – Youth Craft Mentorship Pilot Program
- CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: 2025 Maine Craft Artist Awards
- Maine Crafts Association Impact Survey
- MCA Welcomes Betsy Scheintaub, Thanks Katie Capozza for Board Service
- Spring + Summer Co-op Advertising Opportunities
- radical emprints Video | Maine Craft Content Project
- MCA Announces Eight Craft Apprentice Program Pairs from Maine and New Hampshire
- Gabriel Frey Video | Maine Craft Content Project
- Bukola Koiki Photoshoot | Maine Craft Content Project
- 2024 Maine Craft Artist Award: Daniel Minter
- 2024 Maine Craft Artist Award: Karen Gelardi
- Join the Tour! Call for Artists + Events – Maine Craft Weekend 2024
- Ange Muhorakeye Photoshoot | Maine Craft Content Project
- Maine Crafts Association & Shop Maine Craft Announce New Board President
- APRIL 13: Coptic Binding: Eclectic Artist Sketchbooks with Anna Low
- 2024 Maine Craft Artist Award Nominations Now Open
- April 7: Wildcrafted Basketry with Rebecca May Verrill
- Giving Tuesday: Support the Craft Content Project
- 2023 Maine Craft Artist Award: Ellen Wieske
- 2023 Maine Craft Artist Award: Tim Christensen
- Grant Opportunity from SAC: Craft Innovation Jumpstarter
- A Special Announcement: Maine Craft Artist Award Reopens Nominations
- Pop-Ups at The Press: Call MCA to Members
- Maine Crafts Association and Shop Maine Craft announce the appointment of Whitney Gill as Executive Director
- Webinar: Advance Your Business by Harold Alfond Center for the Development of Maine’s Workforce
- Celebrating Maine Crafts Association, 1983 – 2023
- MCA, 2023 Governor’s Conference on Tourism Collaboration Award Winner!
- MCA Participates in Cultural Heritage Week
- Yuri Kobayashi Photoshoot | Maine Craft Content Project
- Jennifer Lee Morrow Video | Maine Craft Content Project
- 2022 Maine Craft Artist Award: Ayumi Horie
- Jennifer Neptune Photoshoot | Maine Craft Content Project
- Choisie Nyemba Photoshoot | Maine Craft Content Project
- Ashley Page Video | Maine Craft Content Project
- Josiane Fashion House Photoshoot | Maine Craft Content Project
- Island Designs Video | Maine Craft Content Project
- Shannon Richards, MCA’s Board President, Recipient of the 2021 Leaders and Luminaries Awards
- #GivingTuesday 2021: Craft Content Raffle
- Choo 11 Video | Maine Craft Content Project
- 2021 Maine Craft Artist Award: Marian Baker
- 2021 Maine Craft Artist Award: Tim McCreight
- JAK Designs Photoshoot | Maine Craft Content Project
- Current + Curious Members: MCA (Zoom) Meetings Schedule
- Emi Ito Photoshoot | Maine Craft Content Project
- Sarah Sockbeson Podcast Episode | Maine Craft Content Project
- Avril Williams Video | Maine Craft Content Project
- Lana Plantae Video | Maine Craft Content Project
- Loquat Video Series | Maine Craft Content Project
- #makeitblue
- Maine Craft Interview: Naomi David Russo Interviews Heide Martin
- Maine Craft Interview: Kincaid Pearson Interviews Angela Adams
- Condominium Staging Project @ Verdante
- Humanizing Social Media Strategies with Nate Winter
- Register Now: Craft Your Commerce
- April 13: MCA Member Meeting
- Maine Craft Interview: Jordan Carey Interviews Owen Kelly
- In Memory of Maine Craft Artist: Katharine Cobey
- Maine Craft Interview: Aminata Conteh Interviews Rachel Gloria Adams
- #givingtuesday 2020: $2500 for Number 3
- MCA Curious? Info Sessions for Prospective + New MCA Members
- Get Ready with CERF+: How to Protect Your Career from Emergencies
- Maine Craft Portland News + Holiday Window Contest
- Virtual MCA Member Meeting
- Call for Emerging / Student Craft Artists
- Makers of Maine Podcast + Maine Craft Weekend
- Goodbye + Hello: MCA Board of Directors Welcomes New President
- 2020 Maine Craft Artist Awardee: Douglas E. Wilson
- 2020 Maine Craft Artist Award Announcement
- MCA RETAIL GALLERY MANAGERS RETURN TO WORK!
- Craft Classifieds
- Standing in solidarity against racial oppression, violence and injustice.
- SOURCE + BUY: Face Mask Edition!
- MCA COVID-19 Updates & Information
- Call for Entries: Source + Buy: Maine Craft from Home
- COVID-19 Resources for Craft Artists & Small Businesses
- Learn Sgraffito…FROM HOME! with Tim Christensen
- The Economy of Humanness
- Maine Crafts Association & Maine Crafts Guild Become One Maine Craft Organization
- New MCA Management Staff Portraits!
- Maine Crafts Association: Ten Years of Master Craft Artists ESSAY
- Announcing: Patricia Daunis-Dunning, 2018 Master Craft Artist
- Master Craft Artist Award Ten-Year Anniversary Exhibition @ Fuller Craft Museum
- Center for Maine Craft SALE Jan 28 – Feb 3
- CAP 2017 APPRENTICESHIPS ANNOUNCED
- APPLY TO PORTLAND FINE CRAFT SHOW BY JAN 30
- Photography Project Artist Subjects
- Wholesale 101 Workshop January 7th: Free!
- 30 LOVELY THINGS
- Register: Seconds & Supplies Sale
- Apply to CAP 2017 by December 9, 2016
- December 10: Tandem Glass Holiday Event & MCA Fundraiser
Haystack Workshop Archive
- CERAMICS: Salt Fire + Sgraffito with Tim Christensen
- ADORNMENTS: Objects of Beauty, Status and Ideas with Lissa Hunter
- HOT SHOP – Let’s Weld! with Sophie Glenn
- WOOD: Narrative Bandsaw Boxes with Lin Elkins
- METALS: Tin – Cold Connections with Ellen Wieske
- FIBER: Handwoven Towels for the Home with Hilary Crowell
- GRAPHICS: Binding an Artists Notebook with Anna Low
- WOOD: Carving Impractical: Toying with Usefulness with Danielle Rose Byrd
- BLACKSMITHING: Forge Welding with Jennifer Petrila
- CERAMICS: Soda Firing with Tyler Gulden
- FIBER: Dye to Label with Jordan Carey
- METALS: Planar Constructions: Exploration in Surface and Volume with Kyle Patnaude
- FELTING: Sculptural Needle Felting with Erlynne Kitagawa
- PRINTMAKING: Hybrid Prints – Exploring Collagraphy and Xerox Lithography with Elizabeth Jabar
- FIBER: Improv Quilts with Rachel Gloria Adams
- BLACKSMITHING: Forging for Charcuterie with Beth Holmberg
- WOOD: Build, Weave, Sit with Heide Martin
- CREATIVE PRACTICE: Art Biz Basics with Kim Bernard
- BOOKBINDING: Playing Between the Lines, Exploring the Accordion Book with Evelyn Wong
- METALS: Cold Connections and the Power of Found Objects with Tim McCreight
- MIXED MEDIA/ FIBER: Introduction to Puppetry with Libby Marcus
- PRINT/ GRAPHICS: Rebel- Take Action with Kifah Abdulla
- WRITING: The Art Of Writing a Memoir with Abdi Nor Iftin
- BLACKSMITHING: Forging & Fabricating Utensils with Erica Moody- FULL with WAITLIST
- CERAMICS: Creating Covered Jars with Marian Baker
- JEWELRY: Repetition in Nature: An Enamel Workshop with Tanya Crane- FULL with WAITLIST
Maine Craft Content Project
Maine Craft Interviews
Maine Craft Weekend
MC Awards
- Announcing: David Wolfe, 2018 Master Craft Artist
- Announcing: Steve Cayard, 2018 Master Craft Artist
- Announcing: Anna Hepler, 2017 Master Craft Artist
- Master Craft Supporter Award 2016: Tammy Knight
- Master Craft Artist Award 2016: Elizabeth Busch
- Master Craft Artist Award 2015: Rebecca Goodale
- Master Craft Artist Award 2015: Sam Shaw
- Master Craft Artist Award 2014: Sharon Townshend
- Master Craft Artist Award 2013: Theresa Secord
MCA Educational Workshops
Member to Member Past Workshops
Member to Member Workshop Series
Patron Institutions
- Metalwerx is a non-profit school and studio for jewelry making and metal arts
- Walrus Oil Creates Natural Wood Care Products, Made in USA
- Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts is a nonprofit arts organization offering residencies, workshops & exhibitions
- The Haystack Mountain School of Crafts is an international craft school located on the Atlantic Ocean in Deer Isle, Maine
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Supporting Institutions
- Bespoke Branded Fit is an apparel development consultancy focused on providing services for apparel development
- Made and Assembled designs and manufactures distinctive gifts, souvenirs, and custom products in a solar-powered studio
- Running With Scissors Art Studios is a community studio with Clay, Print, and Wood departments