A Workshop with Cary Suneja

Fee: $68/$60 members (all materials included)
Registration: Space is limited, advance registration required. Register by phone at 414-446-8794.

In this workshop, you will learn to create a book the old-fashioned way, by folding paper into signatures, sewing those signatures on a sewing frame, and making a case. You'll even get to try your hand at gold tooling. You will go home with your own handmade blank book, bound in cloth and marbled paper. All materials, including paper, book cloth, hand-marbled paper, sewing supplies and adhesive, are included. Tools are provided. Participants will receive a course book with pictures and a step-by-step description.

About Cary Suneja

Cary Suneja is a bookbinder and marble artist who learned her craft at the Book Restoration Co. in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where she trained with James Twomey. She opened the Tea Cup Bindery in Menomonee Falls in 2006.

In conjunction with artist-in-residence Chuck Stebelton’s Imprint project.
Fee: $15/ $10 members (includes a copy of the Oxeye Press edition made for this event)
Registration: Advance registration required. Register online or by phone at 414-446-8794.
Join Chuck Stebelton and Renato Umali for a birdwalk, earlier that morning, 8:30 am-10 am.

Led by Oxeye Press poets, including poet and teacher Richard Meier and publisher, printer and poet Jordan Dunn, participants will discuss walking and a poetics of presence at the place of inscription. We’ll explore the ways walking and writing participate in the Lynden Sculpture Garden as a natural space and a site for making. Following a discussion of poets and texts and artists associated with these ideas, participants will walk and write in the garden. Selections from the writings of participants will be combined into a single walk and printed in a limited edition by Oxeye Press.

Related Events
Poetry Reading:
Saturday, May 19, 7:00 pm
Richard Meier (February March April April)
Jordan Dunn (Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action)
Chuck Stebelton (An Apostle Island)
at the Woodland Pattern Book Center
720 E. Locust Street
Milwaukee WI, 53212
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About Oxeye Press
Based in Madison, WI, Oxeye Press publishes small editions of handmade books, chapbooks, and ephemera with a focus on experimental writing, letterpress printing, and friendship. The press grew out of the reading series Oscar Presents. Since 2014, they have made event-specific prints for over 50 poets and artists who have read or performed for the series. A complete archive of Oxeye Press materials is available in the Department of Special Collections at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Oxeye Press publications are printed and edited by Jordan Dunn. www.oxeyepress.org

A Workshop with Dana Christel

Fee: $45/$38 members (price includes a five-gallon bokashi bucket and inoculated material)
Registration: Advance registration required. Register by phone at 414-446-8794.

This series of workshops 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.

It can be challenging to do something useful and sustainable with your food scraps when you live in an apartment in the city.  Farming communities throughout Latin America and parts of Asia have been using bokashi, a method that turns waste into a fertilizer, that uses less time and space than traditional composting methods. Bokashi is a soil amendment produced by using particular microbes to ferment wastes such as food scraps. Though slow to catch on in the United States, some urban dwellers have turned to making bokashi with their food scraps rather than throwing them away or adding them to a compost pile. This workshop will show you how to transform food scraps into a “probiotic” for your garden using primarily your own food waste and a five-gallon bucket. Attendees will go home with a bucket retrofitted to make bokashi as well as inoculated material that can be used to make your first batch of bokashi.

About Dana Christel
Dana Christel is a soil scientist and farmworker from Northeast Wisconsin.  She holds a B.S. in Soil and Land Management from UW-Stevens Point, and an M.S. in Plant and Soil Science from the University of Vermont. There she researched how to make bokashi and its effects on soil quality and plant growth. She has been working on vegetable farms for a number of years and is currently the soil conservationist for Fond du Lac County Land and Water Conservation.

Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden.

Fee: $15/$10 members

A Workshop with Joel Hitchcock Tilton

Fee: $15/$10 members (Fee includes a jar of organic pesticide concentrate to take home.)
Registration: Registration is closed.

This series of workshops 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.

Controlling pests is part of every gardener’s life, and grower Joel Hitchcock Tilton encourages us to consider methods of pest control that are not inherently harmful to the earth and those that occupy it. Companion planting--encouraging plants to thrive by planting them in combinations that provide essential nutrients, deter pests, attract pollinators, or offer structural support—is one such technique. The workshop will include a brief overview of the theory and benefits of companion planting, as well as an introduction to the most widely used organic pest control methods and their proper implementation. Hitchcock Tilton will finish by demonstrating how to make your own organic pesticide for garden use.

About Joel Hitchcock Tilton
Joel Hitchcock Tilton is originally from Wisconsin. He has been living and growing in New Orleans for the past 12 years. He runs a network of urban gardens, grows produce, manages greenhouses, and raises sheep, goats, chickens, pigeons, and bees.

A Pre-Mother’s Day Workshop with Courtney Joy Stevens

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

This series of workshops 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.

Stroll Lynden’s grounds with herbalist Kyle Denton and discover the spring bounty of plants found in the wilds of southeast Wisconsin. Inside, we’ll prepare the healing herbs we forage, sample them, and discuss their taste and 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 local clinical herbal practice and medicine-making company.  Denton applies his knowledge of Ayurveda and traditional western herbalism by creating a variety of herbal medicine preparations from locally wildcrafted plants; teaching courses; and offering clinical consultations.

A Workshop with Courtney Joy Stevens

Fee: $30/$25 members - includes an autographed copy of Beauty in the Broken Places, refreshments from MKE Localicious, and admission to the sculpture garden. Registration for this event is closed.

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 Allison Pataki, author of Beauty in the Broken Places: A Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience, back to the Lynden Sculpture Garden, Monday, May 14, 7 pm.

About Beauty in the Broken Places

A deeply moving memoir about a young couple whose lives were changed in the blink of an eye, and the love that helped them rewrite their future

Five months pregnant, on a flight to their “babymoon,” Allison Pataki turned to her husband when he asked if his eye looked strange and watched him suddenly lose consciousness. After an emergency landing, she discovered that Dave—a healthy thirty-year-old athlete and surgical resident—had suffered a rare and life-threatening stroke. Next thing Allison knew, she was sitting alone in the ER in Fargo, North Dakota, waiting to hear if her husband would survive the night.

When Dave woke up, he could not carry memories from hour to hour, much less from one day to the next. Allison had lost the Dave she knew and loved when he lost consciousness on the plane. Within a few months, she found herself caring for both a newborn and a sick husband, struggling with the fear of what was to come.

As a way to make sense of the pain and chaos of their new reality, Allison started to write daily letters to Dave. Not only would she work to make sense of the unfathomable experiences unfolding around her, but her letters would provide Dave with the memories he could not make on his own. She was writing to preserve their past, protect their present, and fight for their future. Those letters became the foundation of this beautiful, intimate memoir. And in the process, she fell in love with her husband all over again.

This is a manifesto for living, an ultimately uplifting story about the transformative power of faith and resilience. It’s a tale of a man’s turbulent road to recovery, the shifting nature of marriage, and the struggle of loving through pain and finding joy in the broken places.

About the Author

Allison Pataki is the author of the bestselling novels Sisi, The Traitor’s Wife, and The Accidental Empress, as well as the co-author of Where the Light Falls, with her brother Owen Pataki, and two children’s books. Her novels have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Pataki and her husband, Dave Levy, are passionate about raising awareness of the difficulties of life after a stroke or traumatic brain injury. The daughter of former New York State governor George E. Pataki, Allison Pataki graduated cum laude from Yale University and lives in New York City with her family.