Spend time in community with hands-on learning. We'll delve into the history of broom making, explore locally grown broomcorn material, and learn how to make a traditional hand broom, also known as a whisk. We are sourcing from Montana for this workshop, including material from Rodi Farm in Billings, MT.
Course details:
This workshop will take place October 11th. Please expect to arrive at 10am to Kithship in Livingston and stay until 2:30-3. We will have a small break for lunch.
Tuition: $145
Materials fee (due upon arrival to class): $50
About the Instructor:
Grace Brogan is an artist and broom maker practicing at the intersection of traditional craft and contemporary design. She has spent over 15 years learning technique from craftspeople in the mediums of fiber, ceramics, and wood. She studied with broom makers in 2009 and 2019 at North House and John C Campbell Folk Schools, respectively, and was selected for a professional broom making mentorship at John C Campbell in 2023. Grace participated in a winter residency at Penland School of Craft in 2020 and in 2022 she was in residence with Montana’s Open AIR. In recent years, she has been selected to participate in American Craft Council and Smithsonian Craft marketplaces.
She works with wood, broomcorn, woodfired ceramics, horsehair and other fibers to create functional brooms and sculptures of alternative utility. She plays in the space of mindful and mundane, labor and ritual, ordinary and extraordinary. Her work speaks to the viewer through familiar domestic objects - and their wild cousins - about what is lost in a culture of disconnection, and the joys of the alternative. She holds BAs in art and English and an MS in interdisciplinary environmental studies. She lives in Missoula.
To see more of Grace’s incredible work, you can follow her Instagram or visit her website.
Spend time in community with hands-on learning. We'll delve into the history of broom making, explore locally grown broomcorn material, and learn how to make a traditional hand broom, also known as a whisk. We are sourcing from Montana for this workshop, including material from Rodi Farm in Billings, MT.
Course details:
This workshop will take place October 11th. Please expect to arrive at 10am to Kithship in Livingston and stay until 2:30-3. We will have a small break for lunch.
Tuition: $145
Materials fee (due upon arrival to class): $50
About the Instructor:
Grace Brogan is an artist and broom maker practicing at the intersection of traditional craft and contemporary design. She has spent over 15 years learning technique from craftspeople in the mediums of fiber, ceramics, and wood. She studied with broom makers in 2009 and 2019 at North House and John C Campbell Folk Schools, respectively, and was selected for a professional broom making mentorship at John C Campbell in 2023. Grace participated in a winter residency at Penland School of Craft in 2020 and in 2022 she was in residence with Montana’s Open AIR. In recent years, she has been selected to participate in American Craft Council and Smithsonian Craft marketplaces.
She works with wood, broomcorn, woodfired ceramics, horsehair and other fibers to create functional brooms and sculptures of alternative utility. She plays in the space of mindful and mundane, labor and ritual, ordinary and extraordinary. Her work speaks to the viewer through familiar domestic objects - and their wild cousins - about what is lost in a culture of disconnection, and the joys of the alternative. She holds BAs in art and English and an MS in interdisciplinary environmental studies. She lives in Missoula.
To see more of Grace’s incredible work, you can follow her Instagram or visit her website.
