Clatskanie Food Hub | 80 NE Art Steele St. Clatskanie

$80 per person
Limited to 15 Participants
Light locally sourced snacks included with registration

Join the Clatskanie Farmer Collective's 3rd Annual Winter Folk School, where we will learn the art of broom-making from Dan Hawkins.

Perfect for all manner of small cleaning and sweeping tasks, brooms, in the form of fiber bundled in the round, are made and have been made in almost every culture globally. In this 3-hour workshop, participants will make a shaker-style turkey wing broom, while exploring multiple fibers and techniques common to broom-making today.

The turkey wing broom is remarkably simple. While it’s beautiful as an object, it was conceived as a functional (and disposable) everyday broom. That said, the techniques you’ll learn and the brooms you will make can really flex the boundary between art and craft, form and function, etc. There are lots of fiber alternatives, wrapping materials, and ways of incorporating more spiritual objects into the brooms as well. We’ll talk about all of these and more!

Participants will leave the workshop with at least one completed broom and, hopefully, the energy to make many more!