Saturday / August 17th / 12-4pm
Rain Date: Sunday 
Lunch Served

We're very excited to announce the first of a series of creative workshops we'll be hosting at Ravenwood this season. Since our very first barn dinners back in 2015, the barn has always been a space that inspires creative exchange. Through the vehicles of food + art, our aim has been to bring people together in ways that celebrate the heightened seasonality of our region as well as the artists and artisans within it. With these workshops, we hope to explore the magic and connection that unfolds when community comes together around the act of making.

First up, we'd like to welcome Poliana Danilo to Ravenwood as instructor for our first 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 first workshop 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

We are so excited for this first creative workshop offering at Ravenwood and we hope you'll join us and help spread the word!