A Workshop with Linda Wervey Vitamvas

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

Registration: Registration for this session is now closed. You may also be interested in Ceramic Handbuilding: Trays, Tiles and Trivets with Linda Wervey Vitamvas, March 14, 10 am-4 pm.

A Workshop with Linda Wervey Vitamvas

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

A Workshop with Jamie Lea Bertsch

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Fee: $85/$75 members (all materials included)
Registration: Space is limited; advance registration required. If you'd prefer to register by phone, give us a call at 414-446-8794.

Learn the technique of marbling to decorate textile surfaces with swirling patterns, reminiscent of that found in natural marble stone. Create completely unique prints, and let the organic process guide your artistic decision-making. This workshop will provide you with all you need to create your own marbled tea towel set and silk scarf. A great opportunity for those who would like opportunities to extend the techniques they have learned in Leslie Perrino's silk scarf painting workshops. Feel free to bring along some high quality paper (such as watercolor paper) for additional marbling experiments.

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. We have aprons, but please wear clothes suitable for artmaking.

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.

A Workshop with Jamie Lea Bertsch

Fee: $85/$75 members (all materials included)
Registration: Registration for this workshop is now closed. You may be interested in Textile Marbling: A Workshop with Jamie Lea Berstch, Saturday, March 7 or Tapestry Weaving: A Workshop with Jamie Lea Bertsch, Saturday, March 21.

Shibori is an ancient Japanese resist-dye technique that involves creasing, folding, binding, and knotting to create beautiful patterns. In this workshop, you'll begin by making the dyes (some of them sourced from your own kitchen or garden), and will then learn the basics of Shibori to make a scarf or set of striking tea towels.

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. We have aprons, but please wear clothes suitable for artmaking.

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: $22/$18 members - includes an autographed copy of Lydia's Party, refreshments by MKELocalicious and admission to the sculpture garden -- come early for a stroll around the grounds! Register online now. You may also be interested in Women's Speaker Series: Cristina Henríquez, author of The Book of Unknown Americans, April 8 at Lynden.

Lynden Sculpture Garden's Women's Speaker Series, Bronze Optical, and Boswell Books welcome Margaret Hawkins, author of Lydia's Party, to the Lynden Sculpture Garden, Wednesday, January 28, 7-9 pm.

Lydia is having a party. It’s the party that she hosts every year for a group of six women friends who have come to value the annual midwinter fête as a cherished ritual in their lives. Over a table laden with Lydia’s famous spicy chicken stew, a sumptuous spread of potluck dishes, at least one case of wine, and a decadent number of desserts, the women revel in sharing newsy updates, simmering secrets, and raucous laughter. Twenty years ago, these friends bonded over their budding careers, their love of art and food, their romances, their dogs, and now they think they know all there is to know about one another. On this particular evening, however, Lydia prepares to make a shattering announcement.

As we follow these women through their party preparations, we meet an unforgettable cast of characters, each of whom is navigating their everyday chores while also meditating in stolen moments on their greatest regrets, their complicated relationships, and their deepest desires. Having reached middle-age, all are pondering the states of their lives, wondering “what’s next?” now that the thought of a new romance or a new job no longer seems life-altering. But when Lydia delivers her news, she shocks them all, and they rediscover the enduring bonds of friendship and find their lives changing again in new and unexpected ways.

This exquisitely written novel delivers a funny and tender portrait of friendship, love, aging, romance, grief, and unexpected happiness. It is a story that will warm your heart—even in the middle of winter.

“Hawkins’s smart, crackling novel is a snowy, midwestern Mrs. Dalloway, with Elizabeth Berg-ish charm and Hawkins’s own edgy, artfully particularized humor. . . . As Lydia and her circle pull together in her time of need, Hawkins considers the profound gift of friendship and the ways art and life converge to forge meaning and preserve truth and memories.”
—Booklist

About the Author

Margaret Hawkins is a Senior Lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the author of two previous novels, A Year of Cats and Dogs and How to Survive a Natural Disaster, and a memoir about her sister, After Schizophrenia: The Story of My Sister’s Reawakening.

   

A workshop with Ariel Applebeck

Fee: $20/$16 members (all materials and patterns included)
Registration: Registration now closed. Sign up for our email newsletter for information on future sessions.

Lynden is offering a series of holiday giftmaking workshops between November 22 and December 14. 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 a simple single crochet stitch, then see how it can be repeated and manipulated into different shapes to build your own collection of small toys. Choose among hacky-sacks, small animals, and flowers to take home with you or to give as gifts for the holiday season. Suitable for ages 12 and up.

About Ariel Applebeck

Ariel Applebeck grew up in a home full of talented artists and was constantly inspired by the people around her. As an adult, she has tried her hand at many mediums, eventually falling in love with yarns and fabrics. Over the last few years she has learned to crochet, has written patterns, and has even started a small business around it. Her newest journey: to share the joy of crochet and get others hooked!

Fee: $6/$5 members (all materials included).
Registration: Online registration is now closed, but walk-in registrations are welcome.

Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden.

Naturalist Naomi Cobb and Lynden Graduate Fellow Anna Grosch introduce Lynden's new Discovery Kits, designed to provide visitors with lively, hands-on ways to engage with art and nature when they visit Lynden. The kits are available for checkout from the front desk, and each contains a booklet filled with activities and supplies ranging from pencils and crayons to magnifying glasses, bug boxes and strainers for catching critters in the pond. Naomi and Anna will demonstrate ways to get the most out of your Discovery Kit, and will introduce you to some of the other equipment--butterfly and pond nets, specimen containers, drawing boards, plein air painting boxes--available for checkout.

A workshop with Jenna Knapp

Registration closed.

Lynden is offering a series of holiday giftmaking workshops between November 22 and December 14. 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.

Fee: $20/$16 members (all materials included). Please note that handmade paper will need to dry overnight, so you will need to make arrangements to pick it up later.
Registration: Space is limited, advanced registration required.

Take a break from the digital life of emails, smartphones, and automated signatures to spend a few hours creating handmade , paper, cards, envelopes, stencils and stamps--everything you need to send beautiful, personal, handwritten letters. Learn to make paper, cut stencils and carve your own address stamp from a rubber block. At the end of the workshop you will have a new set of stationery for yourself or to give as a gift.

A Workshop with Jeremy Stepien

Fee: $20/$16 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 14. 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.