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Bring your canine friends for an afternoon of romping in the garden.
Events Calendar
March 15, 2025 - 11:00am - 4:00pm
Sessions:
Saturday, March 15, 2025 - 11 am-4 pm – Sharpening Strop (indoors)
Saturday, May 17, 2025 - 11 am-4 pm – Wood Fasteners
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 winter/spring 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.
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Spoon Carving – Sloyd Workshop
March 15, 2025 - 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Free
Exhibition on view: March 15 - June 1, 2025
In and then down became up, Sonja Thomsen continues to weave an intricate narrative across time and space, bringing together the legacies of pioneering women artists through a multidisciplinary exploration of balance, perspective, and maternal lineage. As she moves along "the spiral of time," Thomsen collects and builds with women across history, transforming their stories into a constellation of interconnected works as she locates her place among them.
In this first iteration of and then down became up, Thomsen deploys her research-based practice, and her own experiences as a mother, to illuminate previously unseen connections between Lucia Moholy (1894-1989) and Hazel Larsen Archer (1921-2001)—two visionary women who shaped the avant-garde movements at the Bauhaus and its descendant, Black Mountain College. Building on prior explorations of Moholy and her work, Thomsen embarks on an investigation of Milwaukee native Larsen Archer. Larsen Archer attended Milwaukee State Teachers College before embarking on graduate studies at Black Mountain College, where she served in many roles, including first full-time teacher of photography. Her portraits of the artists gathered there—particularly her photographs of Merce Cunningham in motion—have appeared regularly in exhibitions documenting the experimental school. She left the college in 1953 and, eschewing exhibition, devoted most of her long life to her work as an influential educator.
Thomsen's work is grounded in a central question: What happens when matriarchy becomes the gravitational center? Thus, and then down becomes up is constructed around the metaphor of physical reorientation—the body leaning back, swinging up and around—as an act of recovering balance. With each shift in perspective, what once felt down becomes up, challenging viewers to reconsider their own relationship to gravity and equilibrium, to history and the present. Similarly, her creative process for this exhibition involves evolution, metamorphosis, and repurposing. Her layered photographs and objects draw from personal family narratives, companion artist writings, model making, and light as a phenomenon.
Designed as a cumulative, touring investigation, and then down becomes up begins at Lynden with an outdoor sculpture commission. The new work, visible just beyond the gallery’s windows, is echoed in the interior space in small, light-modulating objects, large-scale mural prints and transparencies, and photographs. As Thomsen draws Moholy and Larsen Archer into her orbit, a new work will emerge at each subsequent venue.
March 15, 2025 - 7:00pm
A Walk with Claudia Orjuela
Sessions:
Snow Moon, Saturday, February 15, 2025, 6 pm
Worm Moon, Saturday, March 15, 2025, 7 pm
Pink Moon, Saturday, April 12, 2025, 7:30 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.
