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Events Calendar
October 19, 2024 - 11:00am - 4:00pm
Sessions:
- Saturday, September 21, 2024, 11 am-4 pm – Wood Mallet
- Saturday, October 19, 2024, 11 am-4 pm – Tree Walk and Open Carving
- Saturday, November 23, 2024, 11am-4pm- Wood Bead Carving and Daniel Minter’s Muti
- Registration closed.
Fee: $15/$10 members. You are welcome to attend for the entire day, or for a portion, but registration is required. Add a Mora Knife for $35.
Registration: Space is limited; advance registration required. Register online or by phone at 414-446-8794.
Join us for the fall session of Lynden’s Greenwood Gathering, an open-ended carving event where both new and returning participants can bring their current or finished carving projects to share with fellow woodcarvers. Gather around the campfire to carve, exchange ideas, share techniques, and draw inspiration from each other’s work. The gatherings will include occasional themed demonstrations and relevant garden tours.
Enjoy a day in Lynden’s back acres to carve, share, and connect. We’ll take a break from carving to eat lunch (please pack your own) and make tea from foraged plants. Dress for the outdoors and consider bringing sunscreen and bug repellent. While we’ll provide some green wood for starting new projects, please bring your own carving tools (Mora knives will be available for purchase, or order yours, above). We have tree stumps around the fire for seating, but if you prefer something more comfortable seat, bring a camp chair. Suitable for ages 16 and up.
You might also be interested in:
• Spoon Carving: A Sloyd Intensive with Jeremy Stepien, October 12 & 13, 2024
October 19, 2024 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Fee: $45/$38 members
Registration: Space is limited; advance registration required. Click here to register online.
Chris Salas, intermittent guest of Lynden artists-in-residence Open Kitchen and part of their OK, Sss (Self-seasonsing Symposium) series, returns for Part 2 of his residency, a ceramics workshop. Pinch Pot Meditations focuses on growing connections between intuition and the making process. Participants will build pottery and sculptural forms using a single piece of clay. Participants are invited to join a pit-firing on Sunday, October 27, where they will learn about and take part in one of the earliest ceramic firing methods.
OK Sss is a seasonal residency + food-related programming. Part 1 of Salas’s residency aligned with OK’s Cultural Garden expansion at Lynden. This second residency coincides with the garden’s final harvest.
More about Part 1 of Chris Salas’s residency here: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/open-kitchen-ok-sss-chris-salas-pt-1
About the Artist
Chris Salas (they/them) is an artist and educator primarily working in ceramics. Their studio practice is a search for a particular mental state – the engaged and unconscious divergence and convergence of ideas that imbue themselves into objects. These objects become abstracted forms of personal experiences, relationships, conversations, research – all of which currently revolves around time, place, momentum, with a pervasive presence of the history of colonization of the Americas. Chris received a BA in Chemistry from Michigan State University and an MFA in Ceramics from Cranbrook Academy of Art. They have completed residencies at Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota; at Ceramics School in Hamtramck, Michigan; at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Newcastle, Maine; and at Starworks Ceramics in Star, North Carolina. In 2023, Chris will be attending a residency at Township10 in North Carolina. They are a Visiting Artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago through the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD) Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship.
About OK Sss
Self-seasoning symposium (Sss) is a conceptual framework for building sustainable and ethical land relationships. The framework entwines ideas of self-organizing, seasonality, and a collective effort to identify an individual’s “sense of seasoning” by way of cookery. It is a field of food-related correspondences between artists and their ecological entanglements. A conceptual stone soup made of meaningful ideas that perform as ingredients for guests to repurpose in their food excursion (upon their tasting/finding). This collective project aims to influence a critical organizing process that strategizes ecological reciprocity.
Project support provided by The Open Fund, through the Poor Farm with funding from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Ruth Foundation for the Arts and by the Lynden Sculpture Garden.
October 19, 2024 - 7:00pm
A Walk with Claudia Orjuela
Sessions:
Snow Moon, Saturday, February 24, 2024, 6 pm
Worm Moon, Sunday, March 24, 2024, 7 pm
Pink Moon, Friday, April 26, 2024, 7:30 pm
Flower Moon, Friday, May 24, 2024, 8 pm
Hunter's Moon, Saturday, October 19, 2024, 7 pm
Beaver Moon, Sunday, November 17, 2024, 5:30 pm
Fee: $10 per session/$5 per session for Lynden members. Children under 6 are free.
Registration: Space is limited; advance registration required. Register online or by phone at 414-446-8794. We will make a final decision about running each moon walk after checking the forecast on the morning of the walk. High winds, extreme temperatures, and precipitation beyond a light drizzle will lead to the cancellation of a walk. If we cancel a walk due to weather conditions, you will receive a full refund.
Come walk Lynden's grounds with art educator and naturalist Claudia Orjuela, who will introduce you to the mysteries and unique features of outdoor life after dark. Discover the sights and sounds of the night in Lynden’s back acres and observe our monumental sculptures beneath the light of the moon. A bonfire and treats await at the end.
