Salt Institute for Documentary Studies at MECA&D

05/05/2026

Ireland is getting a little more Salty! We’re here for the ! We’ve already run into one Salt grad at the rental car counter!

01/27/2026

From Mailee OT, a new doc for The Guardian, about the influencer racing to save Thailand’s most endangered sea mammal.

Amateur conservationist and social media influencer Theerasak 'Pop' Saksritawee has a rare bond with Thailand’s critically endangered dugongs.Subscribe to Th...

12/02/2025

Our semester is coming to an end and we want to show you what we have been working on. Our two-night final showcase is coming up on December 10th and 11th! It will be held at the PMA and it’s free! Come watch and hear stories about giant pumpkins, a small town journalist, puppets, an optimistic climate scientist, and more. The links for both nights are in our bio.

11/26/2025

A visit from to ! Video by

03/18/2025

Congrats to Jo Strogatz (Salt ‘24) whose final Salt story is a finalist for the Student Podcast Challenge from !

03/05/2025

New from Tina Mullen (Salt Spring ‘22) — the story of how The Godfather movie almost didn’t get made! Produced for and

04/24/2024

Join us for an evening of short audio documentaries from the spring 2024 Salt grads! Stories include a community facing a make-or-break moment in the path of totality, one of the last video rental stores (!) in the state, inappropriate vanity license plates, a town torn apart by a toilet, kids talking about fear… and more!

Wednesday, May 1st, at SPACE! Doors 6:30pm, show 7:00pm. FREE!

Join us for an evening of short audio documentaries from the graduating class of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies at MECA&D. Stories include a…

04/03/2024

Due to impending inclement weather, we are postponing our Storytelling Night at SPACE until this coming Tuesday, April 9, when the temps will be in the 50s.

A night of live storytelling from students at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies at the Maine College of Art & Design

03/28/2024

Salt presents a night of live storytelling at SPACE! Join us as current students from the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies at Maine College of Art & Design share true personal stories, live, with (mostly!) no notes.

The evening will be hosted by guest artist Micaela Blei (2-time Moth GrandSLAM winner and former Director of Education at The Moth), who has spent several weeks working with Salt students on storytelling and performance.

Thursday April 4th! Doors 6:30pm, show 7:00pm. Free!

Salt presents a night of live storytelling at SPACE! Join us as current students from the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies at Maine College of…

03/20/2024

Come meet some Salt Faculty!

The Salt Institute for Documentary Studies will be hosting a Zoom Q&A session on Wednesday, March 27 at 6pm.

For those who aren’t familiar, Salt is a 15-week graduate certificate program in documentary studies that emphasizes fieldwork, production, and ethical approaches to storytelling.

This Fall we’ll be offering concentrations in Audio, Short Film and a new (!) track in Nonfiction Writing.

The priority application deadline for Salt’s Fall Semester is coming up on April 7th, and this is a great chance to meet the faculty, learn more about the program, and ask questions.

The event will feature:

Erin Murphy, Short Film Instructor
Peter Lang-Stanton, Radio & Podcasting Instructor
Zahir Janmohamed, Writing Instructor
Isaac Kestenbaum, Director of Salt

Register here https://apply.meca.edu/register/?id=f093eb2b-5327-4eea-bdf3-54952f12eaea

Photo: Christopher Dardaris