Pat Doran Fellowship
The Pat Doran Fellowship, which was established by the will of Pat Doran and by matching gifts from Haystack, her friends and family, is awarded annually to a student or graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art.
Patricia Ann Doran (1948-1996) was a former Haystack student, and from 1992 to 1996 an active Haystack trustee. In addition to her career as Dean of Graduate and Continuing Education at Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, she was an accomplished ceramic artist. Kendra Conn, a friend who wrote about Pat’s life and work for Studio Potter in December, 1996, said:
“Pat Doran embraced life with the sure hands of a potter and heart wide open…She gave her love and encouragement to students and friends and to organizations she believed in…Each benefited from (her) expertise as she served on their boards or helped renew and realize their visions.”
William Wyman Fellowship
William Wyman was educated at the Massachusetts College of Art, Columbia University, and at Alfred University. In 1953, Wyman began operation of the Herring Run Pottery in East Weymouth, Massachusetts. As his sculptural vessels and painterly surfaces were widely exhibited, he was recognized as a New England pioneer in the post World War II ceramic renaissance. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he worked on a series of vigorous sculptures called “Black Power”. He continued to explore black clay bodies and glazes throughout the 70s in vessel forms, raku-fired, saggarware or stoneware. They were often manipulated, with pinched parts, marks, finger holes, etc. He continued to work on these while he developed his “Temple Series”. During the last few years of his life he focused more attention on these intimate architectural sculptures that implied both a spirituality and a more monumental scale.
Wyman taught at Mass Art and the Boston Museum School. From 1972-74, he established a Ceramics and Sculpture Department at Florida International University. From 1974 until his death in 1980, he produced the work at his Scituate, Massachusetts studio. Wyman was an instructor at Haystack during the early years, in its original location in Montville Maine, as well as in Deer Isle.
His work is in the collections of The Victoria and Albert Museum, The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, The Metropolitan Museum, The Museum of Art and Design, The Brooklyn Museum, The Philadelphia Museum, and many other public and private collections.
The William Wyman Fellowship was established through a bequest by longtime Haystack trustee and Massachusetts College of Art alumni, Charlie Gailis (1939 -2005), who had been Bill Wyman’s student in college.