Director's Note 10/1/12
Fall has brought not only spectacular color (and I know we’ve all worried about this after the summer drought) and some glorious late-blooming flowers (did you see the crocuses?) to our doorstep, but also French artist Colombe Marcasiano. Marcasiano is our first long-term artist-in-residence, spending the entire month here at Lynden as part of our residency program--designed to enable artists working at the intersection of art and nature to immerse themselves in Lynden’s sculpture collection, its landscape and the surrounding community as they make temporary outdoor work. Please stop by and say bonjour to Colombe as she works on her piece. We are grateful to the Cultural Services of the French Embassy for supporting this residency.
On October 28 we’ll hold an autumnal celebration from 3-5 pm to unveil Marcasiano’s new work and to launch Yevgeniya Kaganovich’s new project, grow. Kaganovich, who is based in Milwaukee, is taking part in the residency program through a participatory, durational project (clue: start saving up your plastic bags). The leaves will no doubt be gone by then, and we will have probably brought some of our summer sculptures indoors (Marta Pan’s Floating Sculpture, which has made such a lovely sunbathing base for turtles since it returned to the water in August; David Robbins’s Open Air Writing Desk; the madly popular swing by Swiss artists Kaspar Müller and Tobias Madison) but we intend to enjoy whatever the season brings us.
Eric Aho, who taught a wonderfully successful plein-air painting workshop at Lynden in August, returns to town for the opening of his show at Tory Folliard Gallery, 233 N. Milwaukee Street. If you can’t make it to the opening on October 18 from 5 to 7:30 pm, the exhibition remains on view through November 24. Stop in to see some of the oil sketches Eric made at Lynden this summer.
There’s still time to see Roy Staab’s new work, Chiral Formation, in the Little Lake, and to catch up on the latest Inside/Outside exhibition featuring Will Pergl and Shona Macdonald. The Women’s Speaker Series resumes on October 16 with a visit from Kyran Pittman, blogger and author of Planting Dandelions: Field Notes from a Semi-Domesticated Life. On October 19 we extend our outdoor dance season just a bit by co-presenting Ocean at UWM, and we invite educators to stop in on October 20 for our 3rd Annual Educators’ Open House. It’s a great opportunity to learn more about our field trips, tours, classes and workshops. Thea Kovac returns on October 21 to teach you how to Put Your Muse to Work, and on October 26 we offer our fall School’s Out Workshop, this one devoted to making solar-powered sculptures. You can arrive early on October 28 and participate in a Wool Felt Marbles Workshop prior to celebrating with our residency artists, too.
On the virtual front, many of you will be pleased to know that we are now accepting payment online via Paypal, and that our mobile web site is returning after a brief hiatus. Back here, on planet Earth, we've switched to fall hours (no more late Wednesdays) and, of course, we stay open through the winter.
The Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowship for Individual Artists program takes up quite a lot of our time in September and October, as the new application cycle opens and we prepare for the opening of the 2011 Nohl Fellows Exhibition. The exhibition opens Friday, October 5, with a reception from 5 to 8 pm, at Inova (2155 N. Prospect Ave.) and remains on view through December 9. More information on the artists and the many activities they will participate in during the course of the exhibition is available at http://arts.uwm.edu/inova, and there will be, as always, a catalogue. Please stop in to see the work of Nicolas Lampert, Brad Lichtenstein, Sonja Thomsen, American Fantasy Classics, Richard Galling, Hans Gindlesberger and Sarah Luther.
