Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden.
New time: 2:30 pm-4:30 pm

Early spring is when birds and mammals prepare their nests for the offspring soon to come. Using natural and found materials and a wide variety of weaving and packing methods, animals create safe places to raise their young. Drop into the studio to learn a variety of nest-making methods and create a small-scale nest of your own.

Fee: $15/$10 members. Bring along your lawn mower blade for a free sharpening by Lynden staff following the workshop. Those attending the pruning workshop in the morning are welcome to pack a lunch to eat at Lynden.
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Join Andy Yencha and Weston Wagner, Lynden’s land managers, for a hands-on workshop designed to get your lawn and garden tools in tip-top shape for the upcoming growing season. Garden tools are no strangers to abuse and generally do their jobs with minimal care, but top-performing tools are both easier and safer to use and sharp tools cut plants cleanly which promotes better plant health. Andy and Weston will discuss the many benefits of sharp tools and then demonstrate how they keep Lynden’s shovels, hoes, rakes, pruning tools, and lawn mower blades maintained, sharing tips on removing rust and on environmentally friendly lubricants and rust inhibitors They will discuss various sharpening methods and show you how to use a sharpening file, water stone, and electric grinding wheel on both digging and pruning tools. Following these demonstrations, participants will get a chance to practice on the personal tools they bring to the workshop or tools provided by Lynden.

A Workshop with Eddee Daniel and Max Yela

Fee: $50/$45 members. You will receive a list of materials to bring to the workshop via email.
Registration: Online registration closed. Register by phone at 414-446-8794.

Photographer and book artist Eddee Daniel and book-arts theorist Max Yela offer an introduction to the practical and theoretical approaches to working with the book form as art medium. These two workshops introduce participants to concepts and approaches for developing an artist's book project. Skills and techniques will be discussed, including the basics of self-publishing a digital, print-on-demand book. While each workshop may be attended independently, together they provide an overview of developing conceptual approaches to designing a book.

Part II: The Return
In this session, attendees will bring ideas, images, mock-ups, forms, etc. to discuss and critique as possible book projects. Images may be brought either in print or digital formats. Each participant in this session will present their concepts and materials for review and critique by the group.

A Workshop with Eddee Daniel and Max Yela

Fee: $50/$45 members. You will receive a list of materials to bring to the workshop via email.
Registration: Registration is now closed. Sign up for our e-list to receive updates on future programs.

Photographer and book artist Eddee Daniel and book-arts theorist Max Yela offer an introduction to the practical and theoretical approaches to working with the book form as art medium. These two workshops introduce participants to concepts and approaches for developing an artist's book project. Skills and techniques will be discussed, including the basics of self-publishing a digital, print-on-demand book. While each workshop may be attended independently, together they provide an overview of developing conceptual approaches to designing a book.

Part I: The Journey
Using hands-on exercises and examples of artist's books from Special Collections at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries and Eddee Daniel’s personal book samples, we will discuss basic book-arts concepts, including movement, pacing, and rhythm in book design; image editing for narrative sequence; form as meaning ("function follows form"); 2D and 3D composition in book design; "time" as a design element; the function of text as a visual component of design; color transformations; and the role of materials in conveying meaning and expression.

Participants may bring a digital or print portfolio of images for critique as a book project.

Fee: $22/$20 members (adults); $12/$10 members (children) - includes dinner.
Registration: Registration closes February 14, please register early. Register by phone at 414-446-8794.

Join naturalist Naomi Cobb for another after-hours adventure at Lynden. We'll set off for Lynden's back acres as the sun sets. Without flashlights, we'll listen for nocturnal animals, check out the night sky and smell the cold. Naomi will guide you safely through the grounds, introducing you to the mysteries and unique features of outdoor life after dark. We'll then stop indoors for dinner (vegetarian chili, macaroni and cheese) overlooking the garden, and complete the evening back outside making s'mores around the fire. Suitable for all those able to walk/be carried/pulled on sleds (weather permitting). Dress for the weather.

Photos by Erik Ljung

Free.

Join us for a Postscript event following last summer's residency with Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group. The event focuses on the impact of Zora Neale Hurston, author of Moses, Man of the Mountain--one of the original inspirations for Wilson's Moses(es)--on artists across generations and disciplines. Participants include Fo Wilson, Jessica Lynne, Shelleen Greene, and Portia Cobb.

What we are reading and watching:
Zora Neale Hurston, Moses, Man of the Mountain
Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography
Zora Neale Hurston, "Fieldwork," 1928
Susan Manning, "Reggie Wilson and the Traditions of American Dance" and related
articles in TDR: A Journal of Performance Studies, Spring 2015, Vol. 59, No. 1.
Richard Iton, In Search of the Black Fantastic
Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mother's Gardens
Movement Research Performance Journal 47, October 2015: Portfolio devoted to Reggie Wilson offering "multiple framings and perceptions of Reggie's work."

More about Movement and Migration, our project with Reggie Wilson: http://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/movement-and-migration

This event is supported in part by the Herzfeld Foundation.

About the Participants

Fo Wilson uses constructed space and furniture forms to create experiences that reposition historical objects and/or aesthetics in a contemporary context and offers audiences new ways of thinking about and interacting with history. Wilson earned a MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and is an Associate Professor at Columbia College Chicago. A grant recipient of Creative Time, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Propeller Fund, her design work is included in the collection of The Cooper Hewitt National Museum of Design. Wilson has been awarded residencies or fellowships at ACRE, Haystack Mountain Center for Craft, Purchase College, and the Anderson Ranch Arts Center. Her solo exhibition, "Eliza's Peculiar Cabinet of Curiosities," opens at the Lynden Sculpture Garden in Milwaukee in 2016 and includes an outdoor installation as well as work in the gallery. She leads a team that has been awarded a public art commission for the Burnham Wildlife Corridor, a project of the Chicago Parks District and The Field Museum, and was a 2015 3Arts Award awardee.

Jessica Lynne is a Brooklyn based writer and arts administrator. She received her BA in Africana Studies from NYU and has been awarded residencies and fellowships from The Sarah Lawrence College Summer Writers Seminar, Callaloo, and The Center for Book Arts. Jessica contributes to publications such as Art in America, The Art Newspaper, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, and Pelican Bomb. She's co-editor of ARTS.BLACK, a journal of art criticism from Black perspectives, and a founding editor of the now defunct (but still special) Zora Magazine. Currently, Jessica is a development officer at The Museum of Arts and Design. Find her on Twitter and Instagram at @lynne_bias.

Shelleen Greene is an associate professor in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She received her doctorate from the Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her research interests include Italian cinema, race and representation, and globalization and visual culture.

Portia Cobb is a multi-media media artist whose time-based work moves between auto-ethnographic video and digital documentary photographic essay. She is deeply interested in the complexity of rooted identity, and the genealogy of place--drawn from her family’s Gullah Ogeechee cultural heritage in the Charleston region of South Carolina. She is developing an installation exploring the theme of “grace” as a response to tragic events that took place in Charleston, South Carolina in 2015. Portia Cobb is an associate professor in the Department of Film, Video, Animation and New Genres at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Fee: $45/$25 UW-Extension Master Gardener Volunteers. Includes refreshments.
Registration: Pre-registration required. To register: click here or contact Ann Wied at awied@waukeshacounty.gov.

Lynden is pleased to host UW-Extension’s annual spring pruning workshop designed for those who want to learn to take better care of their trees and shrubs. Ann Wied, Waukesha County UW-Extension Consumer Horticulture Educator, and Sharon Morrisey, Milwaukee County UW-Extension Consumer Horticulture Agent, will begin with an indoor presentation on proper pruning tools and techniques followed by an outdoor, hands-on, pruning session on Lynden’s grounds where participants can practice their new skills. Bring your own hand pruning tools and dress for the weather, including warm shoes and gloves. In case of extreme weather on the day of the workshop, call 414-256-4660 two hours before the scheduled time to confirm that the workshop will be held.