A Workshop with Courtney Joy Stevens

Fee: $80/ $70 members (all materials included)
Registration: Advance registration required. Register by phone at 414-446-8794.

This workshop is part of Lynden's Garden Series, a series of workshops that takes a broad view of what it means to garden. Whether you consider yourself a backyard gardener, a forager, a farmer, or a steward of the land, the Garden Series will have something for you. From formal garden design to identifying and learning to use wild growing plants, we span a range of techniques and philosophies. Because of the range of subjects covered, these classes can be enjoyed by new and experienced gardeners alike.

Courtney Stevens of Courtney Joy Floral will teach you how to create a stunning centerpiece with seasonal flowers in a loose and organic style. She will teach you the design elements you can use to create arrangements with movement, texture, and visual appeal. Participants will have the opportunity to work with an assortment of flowers from Courtney’s own flower farm and blooms harvested form the grounds of Lynden to create original, wild works of art. Walk away with a fresh fall arrangement to grace your table. All materials provided; each participant will take home an arrangement and vase.

About Courtney Joy Stevens
Courtney Joy Stevens enjoys creating with flowers to bring people a heightened awareness of the natural world. Through her business, Courtney Joy Floral, she grows flowers and makes flower designs. She lives and works from Three Brothers Farm, which she owns and operates with her husband, Michael Gutschenritter, in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. Together they grow flowers and vegetables, raise Shetland sheep for wool, and have too many chickens, a livestock guardian dog named Freja, and two cats.

Fee: $15/ $10 members (all materials included)
Registration: Advance registration required. Register by phone at 414-446-8794.

This workshop is part of Lynden's Garden Series, a series of workshops that takes a broad view of what it means to garden. Whether you consider yourself a backyard gardener, a forager, a farmer, or a steward of the land, the Garden Series will have something for you. From formal garden design to identifying and learning to use wild growing plants, we span a range of techniques and philosophies. Because of the range of subjects covered, these classes can be enjoyed by new and experienced gardeners alike.

As fall prepares us for winter, so does the medicine found in the natural world. Stroll Lynden’s grounds with herbalist Kyle Denton, foraging the healing plants found in the wilds of southeast Wisconsin. Inside, we’ll prepare these herbs, sample them, and discuss their energetic qualities. Drawing on folklore, ancient wisdom, plant identification, and science, Denton will expand your understanding of our relationship to the natural world.

About Kyle Denton

Kyle Denton is an herbalist and owner of Tippecanoe Herbs and Apothecary, a Milwaukee clinical herbal practice and medicine-making company. Denton applies his knowledge of Ayurveda and traditional Western herbalism by creating herbal medicine preparations from locally wildcrafted plants; teaching courses; and offering clinical consultations.

Fee: $110/ $99 members (all materials included)
Registration: Advance registration required. Advance registration required. Register by phone at 414-446-8794.

Enameling is a timeless art form that involves sifting colored glass onto a copper base and fusing it in a kiln to create shiny, colorful works of art. In this workshop, Leslie Perrino teaches the basics of enameling, covering a variety of techniques including stencils, sgraffito, threads, silver foil, screens, and decals. She will also be covering new techniques for returning students. You will complete sample pieces for practice, and can then choose from a variety of projects. No experience required, and all materials supplied.

About Leslie Perrino

Leslie Perrino is an artist and "art evangelist" who loves to share the power of art and creativity with people, particularly in her beloved areas of metals and enameling. Her artwork is a quirky mix of traditional and found objects, most recently combining computer/electrical components with enamels. She is a charismatic and effective teacher who encourages skill building and exploration of the medium.

Fee: $24/$19 members - includes an autographed copy of The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women, refreshments from MKE Localicious, and admission to the sculpture garden. Come early to stroll the grounds. Registration is closed. For info on future events, sign up for our e-list.

Margy Stratton, founder and executive producer of Milwaukee Reads produces this series of events featuring writers of particular interest to women.

Lynden Sculpture Garden's Women's Speaker Series and Boswell Books welcome Kate Moore, author of The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women, to the Lynden Sculpture Garden, Thursday, October 11, 7 pm. For more information on upcoming Women's Speaker Series Events, click here.

About The Radium Girls

The First World War rages across the globe, and hundreds of young women toil amidst the glowing dust of the radium-dial factories. With such a coveted job, these “shining girls” are the luckiest alive—until they begin to fall mysteriously ill.

As the fatal poison of the radium takes hold, their hopes and dreams crumble in one of the biggest scandals of America’s twentieth century, and a groundbreaking battle for worker’s rights. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore is a rich, historical narrative of the young women exposed to the “wonder” substance of radium and their brave struggle for justice.

Their courage and tenacity saved many others, led to world-changing regulations, and even prevented nuclear war. Written with a sparkling voice and galloping pace, The Radium Girls is the first book that fully explores these women’s strength in the face of almost impossible circumstances and the incredible legacy they left behind.

About the Author

Kate Moore is a Sunday Times bestselling author with more than a decade’s experience writing and ghostwriting across varying genres, including memoir, biography, and history. In 2015, she directed a critically acclaimed play about the Radium Girls called These Shining Lives. She lives in the UK. Visit her at Kate-Moore.com.

Fee: $30/$25 members - includes an autographed copy of Undiscovered Country, refreshments from MKE Localicious, and admission to the sculpture garden. Come early to stroll the grounds. Register by phone at 414-446-8794.

Margy Stratton, founder and executive producer of Milwaukee Reads produces this series of events featuring writers of particular interest to women.

Lynden Sculpture Garden's Women's Speaker Series and Boswell Books welcome Kelly O'Connor McNees, author of Undiscovered Country, to the Lynden Sculpture Garden, Monday, September 24, 7 pm. For more information on upcoming Women's Speaker Series Events, click here.

About Undiscovered Country

In 1932, New York City, top reporter Lorena “Hick” Hickok starts each day with a front page byline—and finishes it swigging bourbon and planning her next big scoop.
But an assignment to cover FDR’s campaign—and write a feature on his wife, Eleanor—turns Hick’s hard-won independent life on its ear. Soon her work, and the secret entanglement with the new first lady, will take her from New York and Washington to Scotts Run, West Virginia, where impoverished coal miners’ families wait in fear that the New Deal’s promised hope will pass them by. Together, Eleanor and Hick imagine how the new town of Arthurdale could change the fate of hundreds of lives. But doing what is right does not come cheap, and Hick will pay in ways she never could have imagined.

Undiscovered Country artfully mixes fact and fiction to portray the intense relationship between this unlikely pair. Inspired by the historical record, including the more than three thousand letters Hick and Eleanor exchanged over a span of thirty years, McNees tells this story through Hick’s tough, tender, and unforgettable voice. A remarkable portrait of Depression-era America, this novel tells the poignant story of how a love that was forced to remain hidden nevertheless changed history.

About the Author

Kelly O’Connor McNees is the author of Undiscovered Country, The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott, The Island of Doves, and In Need of a Good Wife, a finalist for the 2013 Willa Award. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Toast, and in Rust Belt Chicago: An Anthology. Born and raised in Michigan, Kelly lives in Chicago with her family. Learn more at https://www.kellyoconnormcnees.com/.

Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden. Drop in anytime between 2 and 4 pm.

Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden. Drop in anytime between 2 and 4 pm.

August 26 with Chuck Stebelton & Eddee Daniel
September 30 with Chuck Stebelton & Gina Litherland

Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden.

Poet/birder Chuck Stebelton continues his series of bird walks at Lynden this fall, and he's bringing friends! Please wear appropriate footwear and bring your binoculars if you have them; no previous birding experience required.

Chuck Stebelton is author of An Apostle Island (Oxeye Press, forthcoming) and two previous full-length collections of poetry, most recently The Platformist (Cultural Society, 2012). His first book, Circulation Flowers (Tougher Disguises, 2005), was winner of the inaugural Jack Spicer Award. As a birder and Wisconsin Master Naturalist volunteer he has offered interpretive hikes for organizations including Lynden Sculpture Garden, Friends of Lorine Niedecker, Woodland Pattern Book Center, and Interfaith Older Adult Programs. He currently serves as Program Coordinator for Interfaith Older Adult Programs in Milwaukee and is a participant in Lynden's residency program.

Rise, Arianne King Comer

Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden. Younger children should be accompanied by an adult.

Join artist-in-residence Arianne King Comer around the dye vat as she shares traditional batik, adire (Yoruba) and shibori (Japanese) techniques of designing on cloth. Bring a clean piece of cotton clothing along to transform. T-shirts work well; remember that any new clothing must be washed first. This is a Call & Response event.