Handcrafted Broom with Poliana Danila

Saturday, April 5, 2025 11a–3p at the Headwaters Arts Center, 66 Main Street., Stamford NY

Learn to make handcrafted brooms with Poliana Danila on April 5, 2025, 11a–3p at Headwaters Art Center, located at 66 Main Street in Stamford, NY. A traditional symbol of good luck, it is said that brooms can sweep away bad fortune. Whether you use it in a sacred space, as an art piece or as an effective sweeper, a broom crafted by your own hands is a beautiful and functional one-of-a-kind object. Registration is now open for the Handcrafted Broom workshop and the pricing options, $30/$60/$80, reflect the Roxbury Arts Group commitment to tiered equity pricing. To learn more about what tiered equity pricing is and how to select the pricing tier that reflects your financial reality, please visit our website roxburyartsgroup.org.

In this workshop participants will make a 16 inch broom using an ancient technique and traditional materials. All materials and tools will be provided and at the end of the class participants will leave with a beautiful, handcrafted broom. Space is limited, so early registration is encouraged.

Poliana Danila is an educator, fiber artist and broom maker who loves working with whatever the plants give/gift us. Originally from Romania, Poliana watched her parents and grandparents working in the gardens, teaching in school and spinning and weaving with the wool from their sheep. She has bachelor's and master's degrees in landscape design and horticulture, and has had the privilege of expanding her knowledge of weaving, knotting, plant dyeing and broom making with well-known artists and makers at fiber studios such as Textile Art Center in Brooklyn/Manhattan, Fiber Craft Studio in Spring Valley and upstate NY.

This event is sponsored by Margaretville Telephone Company. All programs offered by the Roxbury Arts Group are supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the NYS Legislature, the A. Lindsay and Olive B. O’Connor Foundation, the Robinson Broadhurst Foundation, The Community Foundation for South Central New York, the Tianaderrah Foundation, The Delaware National Bank of Delhi, and individual supporters.

For more information about this broom making workshop with Poliana Danila on April 5, 2025, 11a–3p at Headwaters Art Center and all programs offered by the Roxbury Arts Group, please visit roxburyartsgroup.org or call 607.214.6040.