Fee: $15/$10 members. Bring along your lawn mower blade for a free sharpening by Lynden staff following the workshop.
Registration Registration for this session is closed. Due to popular demand, we've added a second session, Saturday, March 5 at 1 pm. To register for that session, click here.

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.

Fee: $30/$25 members - includes an autographed copy of The Forgetting Time, refreshments by MKELocalicious and admission to the sculpture garden. Bronze Optical invites you to arrive early to browse a diverse, vibrant selection of frames--mirror provided, of course!--while they clean and tighten the screws in your current eyewear. Register online or by phone at 414-446-8794.

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

Lynden Sculpture Garden's Women's Speaker Series, Bronze Optical, and Boswell Books welcome Sharon Guskin, author of The Forgetting Time, to the Lynden Sculpture Garden, Thursday, February 11, 7-9 pm.

A mother gets a call from school that she needs to come in to discuss her young son’s behavior—he is saying inappropriate things, dark things that concern his teacher. A professor of psychology gets a diagnosis of aphasia and, before his body fully betrays him, sets his sights on a case-study that will repair his reputation in his field. A mother’s young son has been missing for eight years when three strangers show up on her doorstop and change everything.

The Forgetting Time is a captivating, thought-provoking novel that explores what we regret in the end of our lives and hope for in the beginning, and everything in between. In equal parts a mystery and a testament to the profound connection between a child and parent, The Forgetting Time marks the debut of a major new talent.

"Provocative, evocative, and fresh, Guskin’s book is an explosive debut.”
— Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Leaving Time

About the Author

Sharon Guskin is the author of the debut novel, The Forgetting Time. In addition to writing fiction, she has worked as a writer and producer of award-winning documentary films, including Stolen and On Meditation. She began exploring the ideas examined in The Forgetting Time when she worked at a refugee camp in Thailand as a young woman and, later, served as a hospice volunteer soon after the birth of her first child. She’s been a fellow at Yaddo, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Blue Mountain Center, and Ragdale, and has degrees from Yale University and the Columbia University School of the Arts. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two sons.

Fee: $8/$6 members (all materials included).
Regstration: Register by phone at 414-446-8794.

Naturalist Naomi Cobb will introduce you to the wonderful array of birds that spend the winter in Wisconsin (and that we are observing as part of Cornell's FeederWatch program). Taking their preferred winter diet into account, you will assemble a variety of birdseed feeders that your neighborhood birds will appreciate. That done, we will hike to Lynden's feeders where we will use binoculars to spot the birds currently in the garden, and scatter a few of our feeders for the resident birds.

All ages welcome; children younger than 12 should attend with an adult. Dress appropriately for the weather so you can enjoy the hike. Seeds and nuts will be used in this workshop.

A Workshop with Jamie Lea Berstch

Fee: $110/$99 members (all materials included and you receive a complete weaving kit, including a loom, to take home)
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Fee: $110/$99 members (all materials included)
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Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden.

Dioramas are three-dimensional scenes constructed within a small space. We’ll explore the wonder of these miniatures by creating our own tiny winter scenes inspired by the frosty landscape of Lynden. We will have many different materials on hand to help you build and enhance your diorama.

Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden.

   

Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden.

April 24 is International Sculpture Day! Celebrate with an afternoon of sculpture making.

Yevgeniya Kaganovich and her student assistants will take up residence in the studio all afternoon to make the next “planting” of grow, Kaganovich’s durational installation. grow is a system of interconnected plant-like forms simulating a self-propagating organism in multiple stages of development. Created from a singular material, recycled plastic bags, the system grows over time, its growth rate determined by the number of bags accumulated in our official recycling bin. Drop in to watch or participate as Kaganovich fuses the layers of plastic to create a surface similar to leather or skin, molds the skin into plant-like volumes, stuffs the volumes with more bags, and connects the forms with plastic bag “thread.” Tasks include cutting sheets and strips; fusing sheets and tubes; sewing bulb forms and connecting them to bases; crocheting tubes and necks; stuffing stalks; and assembling the plants.

A Workshop with Jeremy Stepien

Fee: $25/$20 members (all materials included)
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Cure your cabin fever by designing a candle mold that can be used to transform candle stubs and wax drippings into an attractive new candle. Using simple slab-building techniques, we will design a low-relief pillar candle in clay, make plaster candle molds from these forms, and cast new candles using recycled wax. Take home a candle of your own design and a mold that can be reused to recycle spent candles. No previous experience needed. We'll supply you with an apron, but please wear clothes suitable for art making.

Bring a bag lunch and beverages and dress for the outdoors. We’ll be taking a lunch break while the plaster dries and making use of Lynden’s 40 beautiful acres during our breaks, weather permitting.

Fee: Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden.
Registration: Registration for the lantern making workshop is now closed. You are welcome to bring your own lantern and join us for the walk at 5 pm. Advance registration required; email us at staff@lyndensculpturegarden.org to let us know you're attending and how many there will be in your party.