Artist Presentation: Interdisciplinary Artist Grace Brogan at Moon-Randolph Homestead

Join us for a captivating presentation by Grace Borgen, Open AIR Artist-in-Residence with the Moon-Randolph Homestead. The presentation will be followed by refreshments and a chance to mingle and meet the artist. This event is free and open to the public.

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About the Artist: Grace Brogan is an interdisciplinary artist, currently focusing her work on broom making at the intersection of traditional craft and contemporary design. Her practice cultivates connections between people, humans, and the beyond human world. Grace explores the life of raw materials and the processes that bring those items to a state of service in our current culture, with eyes open to the social, economic, and environmental impacts of that journey. She studied art as an undergraduate before embarking on over a decade of study with craftspeople in ceramics, wood, and textiles, including broom makers in 2009 and 2018. During that time, she also worked closely with farmers and other rural entrepreneurs to encourage the growth of values based economies, and completed an interdisciplinary MS in environmental studies attempting pulling all of these threads together in 2012. Because a broom is a ubiquitous, functional object, people have a sense of familiarity and – sometimes – dismissiveness toward it. But a broom is an object open to material and design interpretation, while still remaining identifiable as a broom. In broom making, the agricultural skills of growing broom corn can be married with the arts of weaving, natural dyeing, wood working, and ceramics. Grace aims to explore history, culture, function, beauty, and connection through broom making.