Events Calendar

Fee: $30/$25 members
Registration: This session is full. To be added to the waitlist, email emmanuel@lyndensculpturegarden.org

Begin your New Year with artist-in-residence Jenna Knapp and sound facilitator Sevan Arabajian-Ries as they continue their ongoing collaborative events indoors for the winter. This event will take place in the gallery, where participants will be surrounded by Asmaa Walton's Black Art Library.

Inspired by the cyclical nature of the labyrinth, Jenna will begin the evening with a short guided meditation to help us connect with our future selves before Sevan leads the sound bath. After the sound bath, guests are invited to write a letter to their future selves, envisioning what they want to create between January 2025 and January 2026. By collapsing time and inviting the future into the present moment, we can zoom out and witness our desires from a different angle.

Sound baths are an ancient form of healing and deep meditation; they include various ambient sounds and frequencies playing in a space where you can hear and experience their vibrations moving through you. Everyone’s experience will be different; unique as you are, and according to what is needed most at the time. Your sound facilitator for the evening will be Milwaukee’s own Sevan Arabajian-Ries, musician, ritualist, spiritual guide, and relational counselor.

The sound bath will last approximately 30 to 40 minutes. We recommend arriving 15 minutes early to give yourself time to set up and settle in. Please dress comfortably and bring something to lie on, as well as a cover for yourself if you think you might want one during the session. Instead of the labyrinth walk, we will think more metaphorically, going inward with the opportunity to write a letter to our future selves. You are welcome to arrive earlier if you would like to walk the labyrinth before the indoor sound bath begins.

Jenna will provide paper, pens, and envelopes as part of her "Dear Self With Love" project. If you prefer, you are welcome to bring your own materials as well. When you're finished sealing up your letter, you are invited to drop it into the mailbox with the promise that Jenna will mail it back to you in one year, in January 2026.

Fee: Free.
Registration: This discussion takes place via Zoom; advance registration required. Click here to register. Click here to see all individual dates.

The Lynden/HOME Refugee Steering Committee book discussion group, moderated by Lynden’s Kim Khaira, is for those interested in firsthand accounts of displacement. We consider works of non-fiction and fiction, including autobiographical and semi-autobiographical works, by writers who have faced or are facing forced displacement as refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants. Where stories of persecution, historical trauma, and loss of livelihood are effortlessly conveyed by storytellers, journalists, and humanitarians who search out or stumble upon the lives of refugees, we seek out the words of those to whom these stories belong: the narrators who are the closest to their own stories, and the stories of their people, friends, family and, of course, refugees. Newcomers always welcome!

October 2024-January 2025: My American Dream: A Journey from Fascism to Freedom by Barbara Sommer Feigin. Through the posthumous discovery of her father's secret journal, Feigin is able to begin her chronological story with her parents’ escape from Nazi Germany. Only a toddler at the time of their departure, Feigin pieces together her family’s early history. She then shifts to her own story, a tale of growing up in America and her subsequent struggles as she embarked on a corporate career in New York City in the 1960s, rising to become a top executive in the advertising field.

February 2025-April 2025: Aednan: An Epic, by Linnea Axelsson. This novel-in-verse by a Sámi-Swedish writer was originally published in Swedish and Northern Sámi in 2018, with the English translation following in 2024. Axelsson's “stories within stories” discuss the loss of land of Indigenous Sàmi people from northern Scandinavia and the cultural displacement that crosses generations and borders.

From January through March, we will be offering monthly drop-in workshops for families. Stop by for engaging, hands-on activities that bring art and nature to life. Whether you make a quick visit or stay the entire two hours, count on spending some quality creative time with family and friends.

Fee: $15/$10 members per session per family (all materials included). All ages are welcome; children younger than 12 should attend with an adult.
Registration: Click here to register online.

Sunday, January 19, 2025, 12:30-2:30 pm
Polymer Clay Creations: Craft Your Own Charms
Design and sculpt your own colorful charms using polymer clay. Learn simple techniques for shaping, texturing, and blending colors to craft unique pieces that can be used for jewelry, keychains and more.

Sunday, February 9, 2025, 12:30-2:30 pm
Upcycled Wind Chimes
Repurpose and assemble a variety of materials and found objects into a wind chime that will give your outdoor space its own voice. Consider bringing an object from home to add to your piece.

Sunday, March 9, 2025, 12:30-2:30 pm
Celebrate Spring: Seed Paper Workshop
In this eco-friendly workshop, participants will make seed paper using recycled materials and native flower seeds. Learn how to shape and press paper pulp into beautiful, plantable creations that will bloom when placed in soil.

Sunday, April 6, 2025, 12:30-2:30 pm
Stamp Carving
Turn your designs into functional stamps using carving tools and soft rubber blocks. During this session you will design your own stamp, learn stamp-carving and safety tips, carve and print with your stamp—and take your stamp home with you for future use.

Fall 2024 Session II: (7 weeks) Thursdays, October 31-December 19, 2024(no class 11/28) | 3:30pm – 5:30pm | $154/$112 members per 7-week session. Registration is closed.

Winter 2025 Session: (7 weeks) Thursdays, January 16-February 27, 2025 | 3:30pm – 5:30pm | $154/$112 members per 7-week session. Register here.

Spring 2025 Session: (7 weeks) Thursdays, March 6-April 24, 2025 (no class 3/27) | 3:30pm – 5:30pm | $154/$112 members per 7-week session. Register here.

Lynden’s Art + Nature Lab engages participants aged 7-11 in inquiry-based art and nature learning, problem solving, and creative making. Over the course of two seven-week sessions, art educator Jeremy Stepien will take you on a series of art challenges and studio projects. Art + Nature Lab will meet indoors in the studio at Lynden with occasional excursions in the garden.

To view our Safety Guidelines for Parent-and-Child, Youth Workshops, click here.

Registration: Group size is limited; advance registration required. Register online now.

2025 Winter/Spring Session (January 28-May 27) No class February 4th & 11th: Tuesdays, 10:30 am-11:30 am

Tuesdays in the Garden, designed for children aged 1-3, provides a nurturing environment where children’s curiosity and wonder are extended through play and exploration, and children and their caregivers learn and discover side-by-side. Join art educators Claudia Orjuela and Denice Niebuhr for hands-on art making and all-senses-engaged exploration of the outdoor world at Lynden. We’ll consider different themes, each designed to connect Lynden’s environment with children’s interests. We will encourage experimentation and the manipulation of art and natural materials to tell stories, solve problems, and develop relationships.

Fee: $16/$12 members for one adult and one child.
Registration: Group size is limited; advance registration is required. Register online now. In the event of inclement weather, sessions move indoors.

To view a list of the session themes, click here.