Saturday / October 4th / 11-3pm
Lunch Served

We'd like to welcome Poliana Danilo to Ravenwood as instructor for our workshop on handcrafted brooms. Poliana is a landscape designer, fiber artist, and educator who loves working with what the natural world gifts us. Originally from Romania, she grew up watching her parents and grandparents work in gardens, teach in schools, and spin/weave with wool from their sheep. Poliana’s exquisite hand-woven brooms were inspired by her grandmother, Ioana, who was an avid weaver who used a large floor loom to make unique tapestries. She has a bachelors and masters degree in Landscape Design & Horticulture and has studied weaving, knotting, plant dyeing, and handcrafted broom making with well-known artists at fiber studios in the Textile Art Center in Brooklyn/Manhattan, Fiber Craft Studio in Spring Valley and Upstate NY. She has taught her workshops at the New York Botanical Garden, the Roxbury Arts Group, and Mohonk Mountain House to name a few venues.

We are so pleased to invite you all to this offering that we hope will inspire a greater connection to nature and each other. Through the act of broom making side-by-side, Poliana's workshop participants share stories, laugh, cry and remind us all of how communities sustain life and always have.

Of course it wouldn't be a Ravenwood event without the addition of a delicious meal. Guests will break for lunch selections from our cafe menu including:

~ Coffee & Tea
~ Iced Beverages
~ Farm Stand Salad
~ Savory Pastry
~ Sweet Treat

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Workshop Policies

Students can receive a full refund if cancellation takes place within 1 week of the workshop date. After this time, there can be no refunds but students are welcome to sell their tickets privately or pass along to a friend. Please notify us via info@ravenwoodny.com regarding new name on the reservation.