Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden. 
Younger children should be accompanied by an adult. One project per person, please.

Give the gift of the sculpture garden--or at least a tiny bit of it. Holiday season is upon us and we will be making terrariums—miniature environments—that can be worn on a string, ribbon or chain. Choose among small glass bottles and vials and an assortment of natural materials to create your own unique, hand-made gift. Select dried materials that require no attention or construct a living pendant that will grow with your care. (Note that living pendants require water 3-5 times a week and at least 8 hours of indirect sunlight.) At 2 pm we’ll learn to fold an origami box to wrap the gift. Package your pendant with a Lynden membership for a gift that lasts all year long.

A Workshop with Jeremy Stepien

Fee: $20/ $16 members (all materials included)
Registration: Registration is now closed. Sign up for our e-list for information on upcoming workshops.

Lynden is offering a series of holiday giftmaking workshops between November 22 and December 12. They range from simple activities suitable for families with smaller children to more advanced workshops for adults. To enhance the celebratory spirit, we will have light refreshments available for participants. Whether you are making a gift for yourself or another, these workshops should provide a cheerful atmosphere for art making as we head into winter. To see a complete list of holiday giftmaking workshops, visit our Workshops page.

Lynden's Jeremy Stepien guides you through the process of making a garlic basket--perfect for your own home or as a gift. Learn a traditional twining weave using a combination of willow from the sculpture garden and basket-weaving reed. We'll use raffia to add color and texture to the basic weave. No prior weaving experience required.

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

A Workshop with Leslie Perrino

Fee: $85/ $75 members (all materials included)
Registration: Registration is now closed. For information on upcoming workshops, sign up for our e-list.

Lynden is offering a series of holiday giftmaking workshops between November 22 and December 12. They range from simple activities suitable for families with smaller children to more advanced workshops for adults. To enhance the celebratory spirit, we will have light refreshments available for participants. Whether you are making a gift for yourself or another, these workshops should provide a cheerful atmosphere for art making as we head into winter. To see a complete list of holiday giftmaking workshops, visit our Workshops page.

This daylong workshop will explore easy and artful ways to apply dye to pre-hemmed silk scarves. From simple techniques such as tie-dyeing, resist and salt, to interesting ways to make marks, we’ll let ourselves be inspired by the wonderful art and nature surrounding us at Lynden.

Each student will create three wearable and uniquely painted scarves using this centuries-old painting form. No experience required, and all materials supplied. Remember: using dyes can be messy. We'll supply you with an apron, but please wear clothes that you don't mind getting stained.

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

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.

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)
Registration: Space is limited, advanced registration required. Register by phone at 414-446-8794.

Lynden is offering a series of holiday giftmaking workshops between November 22 and December 12. They range from simple activities suitable for families with smaller children to more advanced workshops for adults. To enhance the celebratory spirit, we will have light refreshments available for participants. Whether you are making a gift for yourself or another, these workshops should provide a cheerful atmosphere for art making as we head into winter. To see a complete list of holiday giftmaking workshops, visit our Workshops page.

Learn the basics of weaving on a frame loom. We will build an understanding of weaving fundamentals, and then explore techniques to achieve texture and pattern as you embark on your own original piece--and begin your weaving adventures.

The weaving process is a labor of love, and it is likely that your tapestry will not be finished during the workshop. Rest assured, you will be able to take your new loom home with you, along with enough yarn and material to complete your first piece, an instruction booklet, a new weaving vocabulary, and a knowledge of the basic stitches of woven tapestry.

Bring a bag lunch and beverages.

About Jamie Lea Bertsch

Jamie Lea Bertsch is a maker. Whether itʼs creating pattern, knitting, arranging flowers, or experimenting with natural dyes—making by hand is her favorite thing to do. She swoons over combinations of color, texture and pattern. Bertsch received her MFA in Fibers from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a BFA in Graphic Design and Printmaking from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. She has traveled abroad, teaching art in Mae Sai, Thailand. Her design work has been featured in Domino Magazine and Wisconsin Bride, and she has shown her work at Lillstreet Gallery in Chicago and the Textile Arts Center in Brooklyn, New York.

Fee: $25/$20 members (all materials included)
Registration: Registration is closed. Sign up for our e-mail newsletter for information on upcoming programs.

Celebrate autumn by learning a traditional twining weave to make a wicker basket. Lynden's Jeremy Stepien will show you how to use willow from the sculpture garden, basket weaving reed, and raffia to add color and texture to the basic weave. No experience required.

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

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

Drop in the art studio to make a selection of coin-sized sculptural magnets for your refrigerator art gallery. Choose from a variety of materials and methods: sculpt air-dry clay, arrange small mosaic tiles, make a bottle cap collage, or construct wooden mini-stick sculptures.

Fee: $22/$18 members - includes an autographed copy of White Collar Girl, 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 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 Renée Rosen, author of White Collar Girl, to the Lynden Sculpture Garden, Monday, November 16, 7-9 pm. Daniel Goldin and Jane Glaser of Boswell Books will start off the evening with a run-down of their recommendations for book clubs--a quick introduction to the new and noteworthy books available this fall.

In her novels author Renée Rosen expertly combines Chicago’s rich history with remarkable storytelling. Her first book, Dollface, was set in a 1920’s Chicago filled with flappers and gangsters like Al Capone. Her follow-up, What the Lady Wants, imagined the Gilded Age rise of the department store magnate Marshall Field. Now in White Collar Girl, Rosen transports readers back to The Windy City, exploring The Chicago Tribune newsroom in the 1950’s.

Based on Rosen’s extensive research and hours of interviews with former Chicago Tribune employees, White Collar Girl is set in the boisterous world of 1950’s Chicago where Jordan Walsh, a woman from a family of esteemed reporters and with connections to luminaries like Mike Royko, Nelson Algren, and Ernest Hemingway, struggles to be taken seriously when she’s hired as a society reporter at The Chicago Tribune. Like the other women at the Tribune, Jordan is labeled a ‘sob sister’ – a nickname given to them by their male colleagues who believe women are too emotional to be successful.

Every second of every day, something is happening. There’s a story out there buried in the muck, and Jordan Walsh wants to be the one to dig it up. But it’s 1955, and the men who dominate the city room of the Chicago Tribune have no interest in making room for a female cub reporter. Instead Jordan is relegated to society news, reporting on Marilyn Monroe sightings at the Pump Room and interviewing secretaries for the White Collar Girl column.

Even with her journalistic legacy and connections to local luminaries, Jordan struggles to be taken seriously. Of course, that all changes the moment she establishes a secret source inside Mayor Daley’s office and gets her hands on some confidential information. Now careers and lives are hanging on Jordan’s every word. But if she succeeds in landing her stories on the front page, there’s no guarantee she’ll remain above the fold.

"White Collar Girl is an unforgettable novel about an ambitious woman’s struggle to break into the male dominated newspaper world of the 1950s."
-- Sara Gruen, New York Times Bestselling Author of Water for Elephants and At the Water’s Edge

About the Author

As clichéd as it sounds, Renée is a former advertising copywriter who always had a novel in her desk drawer. When she saw the chance to make the leap from writing ad copy to fiction, she jumped at it. A confirmed history and book nerd, Renée loves all things old, all things Chicago and all things written.

A graduate of American University in D.C., Renée has contributed to many magazines and newspapers, including Chicago Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, Complete Woman, DAME, Publisher’s Weekly and several other now sadly defunct publications. She is the bestselling author of What The Lady Wants: A Novel of Marshall Field and the Gilded Age, Dollface: A Novel of the Roaring Twenties and Every Crooked Pot. She lives in Chicago where she is currently working on a new novel about the Chicago blues and Chess Records coming from Penguin/Berkley fall 2016.

   

Presented in collaboration with Woodland Pattern Book Center.

Register online now.

Fee: $65/$60 for members of Lynden or Woodland Pattern (one discount only).

Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden.

Andy Yencha, Lynden's new land manager, launches a series of workshops on environmentally friendly landscape practices for homeowners and backyard gardeners.

Like other urban areas in the United States, the cities and villages that make up the greater Milwaukee area are largely covered by residential properties. Depending on how they are managed, their lawns and other landscape features can have a tremendous impact--both positive and negative--on our local environment, especially the water in local streams, rivers and Lake Michigan. This program will look at a variety of landscape practices and management strategies, many currently in use at the Lynden Sculpture Garden, designed to make our lawns and planting beds look good while reducing storm water runoff as well as the need for pesticides and fertilizer applications. Topics will include tips on designing, siting and building rain gardens; low input lawn care techniques; rain water harvesting tips with rain barrels and larger cisterns; and the use of water permeable materials, like brick pavers and porous masonry blocks, for patios and walkways. The two hour session will include a tour of the lawn, prairie and rain garden at Lynden.

Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden.
Native Americans of the Eastern Forests used many types of plants to make toys for their children. Drop by the studio to learn a simple way to make a doll from cattail reeds harvested from the ponds at Lynden.