Snow Farm featured in Yankee Travel Magazine’s 2026 Guide to New England
Snow Farm was recently featured in an article 12 New England Learning Vacations, a great list of places where you can get away while picking up a new skill. The article encourages readers to “Go way beyond lanyards at a fine-crafts camp,” which we thought was quite apt. It goes on: “Repeat visitors call Snow Farm: The New England Craft Program their happy place, and for good reason: With four dorms and a kitchen serving farm-to-table meals situated on a bucolic, 50-acre refurbished dairy farm in Williamsburg, Massachusetts, it’s the ideal setting to unleash your creative spirit. And whatever you’re into, this crafty retreat likely has a course for it, from metalsmithing and paper marbling to ceramics and mobile-making.”
If you’ve made it here before you know it’s true, thanks for helping put Snow Farm on the map. If you haven’t visited us, take Yankee Magazine’s word for it, Snow Farm is a great getaway for “students at heart”.
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Snow Farm’s First Annual Instructor Recognition Dinner
Snow Farm: The New England Craft Program recently held its first annual Instructor Recognition Dinner recognizing legacy instructors Alexandra Sheldon in 2D Mixed Media, Rick Angus in Woodworking, and Alan Burton Thompson in Metalsmithing & Jewelry. Each of these amazing artists has over 20 years of experience sharing their art and craft with students at Snow Farm.
10-Year Tenure of Transformational Leadership; a Beloved Residential Craft School Transformed
Snow Farm – The New England Craft Program, a non-profit residential craft school, celebrates the ten year anniversary of Mary Jo Murphy’s appointment as Executive Director. In the past decade, through her leadership, Mary Jo has accomplished transformational change through a unified vision, inspiration, and a call to action. Snow Farm has blossomed into a vibrant and thriving residential craft school – the only one in Massachusetts and one of just nine in the United States.
Bread and Roses
Monte Belmonte & Kaliis Smith from NEPM’s Fabulous 413 Podcast visited Snow Farm in the midst of the Seconds Sale and take you on a tour of the amazing grounds and ‘anachronistically impeccable wares’. Hear how you and maybe that art loving teen in your life can learn some craft skills in our studios.
Turkey Land Cove Foundation Merges with Snow Farm
We are pleased to announce the merger of Turkey Land Cove Foundation of Edgartown, MA on Martha’s Vineyard with Snow Farm, where we will continue the legacy of Turkey Land Cove Foundation’s visionary founder Kitty Burke through our craft education opportunities and residency programs.
Vacationing with a Purpose: New England ‘summer camps’ for adults
Snow Farm’s mission is to provide exceptional studio craft and fine art instruction for people of all ages in an inspiring residential setting. This Harvard Magazine profile showcases what a special place this is to spend some time and how the peaceful, bucolic farmland Snow Farm occupies is an ideal setting indeed to immerse oneself in the rejuvenating experience of craft and art making.
‘A great antidote to the sadness’ at Snow Farm craft school
Inspired by the exhibit at the Fuller Craft Museum, a reporter from the Globe came out to visit Snow Farm. She discovered that a craft school serves a special need after a year of living in a pandemic. Snow Farm has been around for nearly 40 years, but unlike bigger programs such as Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine, it has flown under the radar.
At Fuller Craft, ‘Makers & Mentors’ Showcases Artisans of New England Craft School
An exhibit at the Fuller Museum of Craft inspires a deeper look into the workings of Snow Farm. Three hundred years ago, a weaver, potter or glassblower might have learned their trade from a family member. . . . Today, for better or worse, it doesn’t work that way.
Crafting Optimism: Snow Farm raises hope for an artistic community
The My Local MA campaign was developed to support small business in MA during the pandemic. A profile of Snow Farm talks about the challenges Snow Farm faced and the future outlook. We were worried, for sure, but since we reopened in August and saw the positive response from our students and faculty, we are confident. . . .
Summer Workshops for the Aspiring Artisan
A review of the top nine residential craft schools in the US. Classes and workshops are offered all over the country these days in everything from boat-building to glass blowing and knife making. But no one has offered a guide to the best of them—until now . . .
