A Workshop with Corey Smith

Fee: $45/$40 members (all materials included)
Registration: Registration is closed. For information on future sessions, sign up for our e-list.

Handmade boxes are not only a joy to build, they also add a wonderful layer to any project. From a custom box for your jewelry, to a themed place for your ticket stubs and memorabilia, to a heartfelt container for a gift, the handmade box is a great tool to have in your box. We will work with bookbinder's board and decorative papers to create our own special boxes.

About the Artist

Corey Smith is an emerging Milwaukee artist in his final semester in the Peck School of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he studies sculpture, and printmaking and narrative forms. He has travelled to Mexico and South Korea to study lithography, book arts, and paper craft.

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Fee: $110/ $99 members (all materials included)
Registration: Space is limited; advance registration is required. Register online or 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. You will complete sample pieces for practice, and can then choose from a variety of projects ranging from wearable items to small bowls. No experience required, and all materials supplied. Please dress for art-making (including footwear -- no open toed shoes!) and bring a bag lunch and beverages.

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 Leslie Perrino

Fee: $85/ $75 members (all materials included)

Registration: Registration for this workshop is now closed. Sign up for our e-list for information on future sessions.

Grab your mother and bring her along for this daylong workshop that 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 (or mother) 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 Linda Wervey Vitamvas

Fee: $85/$75 members (all materials included).
Registration: Space is limited; advance registration required. Registration is closed. You may also be interested in Ceramic Handbuilding: Porcelain Vases with Linda Wervey Vitamvas, Saturday, June 27, 2015.

Working in clay is deeply satisfying, and making pottery allows one to explore aesthetics and function simultaneously. In this workshop we will take the bowl from start to finish, using porcelain as our clay material. We will learn three simple techniques: coiling, pinching, and using a slump mold. To finish, we will embellish our three bowl forms with surface decoration using texturing techniques and brushwork. The pots will then be fired with a clear glaze to protect the surface and make them functional.

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

You will need to return at a later date to pick up your pots.

About Linda Wervey Vitamvas

Linda Wervey Vitamvas earned her B.S. in Nursing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and practiced psychiatric, obstetrical and surgical nursing before returning to UWM for her M.F.A. Vitamvas has won awards in the 2009 Wisconsin Biennial, Forward: A Survey of Wisconsin Art Now, and the 2005 and 2010 Kohler Eight Counties exhibitions. Her work has been featured in the 2010 Wisconsin Triennial at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and in solo exhibitions at the Museum of Wisconsin Art in West Bend and at the Wisconsin Academy’s James Watrous Gallery in Madison. She has also exhibited at the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Villa Terrace Decorative Art Museum as well as in ceramic arts exhibitions nationally. Linda Wervey Vitamvas has been an artist-in-residence at the Lynden Sculpture Garden; you may read more about her residency here.

Handbuilding I: Bowls from Lynden Sculpture Garden on Vimeo.

A Workshop with Linda Wervey Vitamvas

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

Working in clay is deeply satisfying, and making pottery allows one to explore aesthetics and function simultaneously. In this workshop we will make two vases from start to finish, using porcelain as our clay material. We will use the handbuilding technique of slabs, piecing them together to form our vases. We may even add a handle to transform a vase into a mug or small pitcher! To finish, we will embellish our work with surface decoration using texturing techniques and brushwork. The vessels will then be fired with a clear glaze to protect the surface and make them functional.

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

You will need to return at a later date to pick up your pieces.

About Linda Wervey Vitamvas

Linda Wervey Vitamvas earned her B.S. in Nursing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and practiced psychiatric, obstetrical and surgical nursing before returning to UWM for her M.F.A. Vitamvas has won awards in the 2009 Wisconsin Biennial, Forward: A Survey of Wisconsin Art Now, and the 2005 and 2010 Kohler Eight Counties exhibitions. Her work has been featured in the 2010 Wisconsin Triennial at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and in solo exhibitions at the Museum of Wisconsin Art in West Bend and at the Wisconsin Academy’s James Watrous Gallery in Madison. She has also exhibited at the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Villa Terrace Decorative Art Museum as well as in ceramic arts exhibitions nationally. Linda Wervey Vitamvas has been an artist-in-residence at the Lynden Sculpture Garden; you may read more about her residency here.

Handbuilding I: Bowls from Lynden Sculpture Garden on Vimeo.

Fee: $22/$18 members - includes an autographed copy of The Book of Unknown Americans, refreshments by MKELocalicious and admission to the sculpture garden -- come early for a stroll around the grounds! Online registration is now closed. To register, call 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 Cristina Henríquez, author of The Book of Unknown Americans, to the Lynden Sculpture Garden, Wednesday, April 8, 7-9 pm.

A boy and a girl who fall in love. Two families whose hopes collide with destiny. An extraordinary novel that offers a resonant new definition of what it means to be American.

Arturo and Alma Rivera have lived their whole lives in Mexico. One day, their beautiful fifteen-year-old daughter, Maribel, sustains a terrible injury, one that casts doubt on whether she’ll ever be the same. And so, leaving all they have behind, the Riveras come to America with a single dream: that in this country of great opportunity and resources, Maribel can get better.

When Mayor Toro, whose family is from Panama, sees Maribel in a Dollar Tree store, it is love at first sight. It’s also the beginning of a friendship between the Rivera and Toro families, whose web of guilt and love and responsibility is at this novel’s core.

Woven into their stories are the testimonials of men and women who have come to the United States from all over Latin America. Their journeys and their voices will inspire you, surprise you, and break your heart.

Suspenseful, wry and immediate, rich in spirit and humanity, The Book of Unknown Americans is a work of rare force and originality.

“Timely . . . powerful . . . genuinely moving . . . a chronicle of a beautiful Mexican teenager named Maribel Rivera and her admiring friend and neighbor, Mayor Toro. Maribel and Mayor’s star-crossed love lends this novel an emotional urgency; the story of their families gives us a visceral sense of the magnetic allure of America, and the gaps so many immigrants find here between expectations and reality. In slowly revealing the back stories behind [their] arrival in America and what they have at stake in remaining here, Henríquez gives us an intimate understanding of the sense of dislocation they experience almost daily, belonging neither here nor there, caught on the margins of the past and the future. She conveys the homesickness they feel—missing not just family and friends but also the heat and light and rhythms of the places they left behind—and their awareness of the fragility of even their most ordinary dreams of safety. The story encapsulate[s] the promises and perils of the American dream . . . Henríquez’s myriad gifts as a writer shine.” — Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

About the Author

Cristina Henríquez is the author of The Book of Unknown Americans, which was a New York Times Notable Book of 2014, as well as the novel The World in Half and the story collection Come Together, Fall Apart. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and elsewhere, as well as in various anthologies. She lives in Illinois.

   

   

Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden.

Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden.
Registration: Pre-registration is not required, but it helps us to plan if we know you are coming (email us at info@lyndensculpturegarden.org.)

1-2 pm: Tree Walk on the Lynden Grounds
Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden. No advance registration required.

2-3:15 pm: Make Your Own Four-Legged Foot Stool with Joseph La Macchia
Fee: $30/$25 members (includes all materials to make one stool; no charge for additional helpers). Space is limited; advance registration required. To register, call 414-446-8794.

Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden. Younger children should work with an adult.

Drop by the art studio between 12:30 and 2:30 for this all-ages workshop. Using natural wool from Hillspring Eco-Farm, a local organic farm, we will wind wisps of fibers into natural felt marbles. This simple process creates marbles that can be used for games, threaded into a necklace, or massed in a handmade garland.