Spring Homeschool Day: Metamorphosis

The Lynden Sculpture Garden offers Homeschool Days for children aged 6-15. Designed by art educator Jeremy Stepien and naturalist Naomi Cobb, these workshops integrate our collection of monumental outdoor sculpture with the natural ecology of 40 acres of park, ponds and woodland, creating a unique, hands-on, small-group experience of art and nature. Two workshop topics are offered each day, one focusing on three-dimensional artmaking and the other on the natural environment. Participants are divided by age, and switch between the appropriate two-hour workshops with a lunch break at midday. Parents are welcome to visit the grounds and house without charge.

Spring Homeschool Day
Metamorphosis
Thursday, May 23, 2013
9:30 am-2:30 pm
Ages: 6-15 $25/$20 members
Registration deadline: May 17, 2013. Space is limited, please register early.
Dress appropriately for the weather; much time will be spent outdoors.

The ponds at Lynden are where the very magical process of metamorphosis begins for insects, frogs and salamanders; the studio is where we use imagination to transform materials into works of art. Metamorphosis means that there are complete changes, which often occur in stages, in the form and structure of a creature after birth or hatching. In this two-part workshop we’ll explore the evidence of these changes by peering into the ponds, looking through magnifying lenses, and sampling water, and we’ll hatch an egg-shaped bundle of materials to form a creature of your imagination.

For more information and registration, click here.