The Rooms We Make: a Guided Poetry Workshop
June 28 @ 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Free
The Rooms We Make: a Guided Poetry Workshop with Dagmawe Berhanu | Sun. June 28, 2026 | 12:00 – 3:00 pm ET | In-person
Join us for an exploratory writing workshop inspired by the Museum’s current exhibitions, led by Artist Dagmawe Berhanu. Berhanu will guide participants through writing prompts that reflect on the spaces, objects, rituals, and relationships that make room for their own creative lives. The day will begin with a tour of the exhibitions BA Harrington: Suite Américaine, Viola Bordon: Muliebrity, and A Room of Their Own: Still-Life Sculpture and the Creative Interior. The research library, where A Room of Their Own is on view, will be the workshop’s main focus. The exhibition is inspired by Virginia Woolf’s feminist classic, A Room of One’s Own (1928), and invites us to consider how we pursue contemplative and creative work. Space is limited. Please join us for this enlightening writing workshop.
ABOUT DAGMAWE BERHANU
Dagmawe Berhanu (they/them) is an Ethiopian-American poet and organizer whose work explores memory and grief, across both emotional and physical landscapes. Drawing from personal narrative and community-centered practice, their work often engages questions of care, identity, and resilience.
As a facilitator, Dagmawe is committed to creating thoughtful, accessible spaces that invite participants to reflect, share, and connect through creative practice. Born and raised in Philly, they currently reside in Ann Arbor, where they are pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Michigan.
This event is free to the public. The Museum for Art in Wood interprets, nurtures, and champions creative engagement and expansion of art, craft, and design in wood to enhance the public’s understanding and appreciation of it. A suggested donation of $5 per person enables us to provide programs and exhibitions throughout the year.
Questions? Please contact Katie Sorenson, Director of Outreach and Communications at katie@museumforartinwood.org.
Artists:
Teresa Audet, Humaira Abid, Kate Davidson and Charlotte Holt, Marceil DeLacy, BA Harrington, Michelle Holzapfel, Daphne Osolnik and Rude Osolnik, Merryll Saylan
A Room of Their Own is generously supported by the Cambium Giving Society of the Museum for Art in Wood, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Bresler Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Philadelphia Cultural Fund, William Penn Foundation, and Windgate Foundation.