Tuesdays in the Garden takes place two Tuesdays, May through November, and one Tuesday, December through April, from 10:30-11:30 am. Each month has a different theme, but the activities for both sessions within a month are the same.

New (lower) Fee for 2014!

Member: $8/one adult and one child. Additional children are $4.
Non-member: $10/one adult and one child. Additional children are $4.

We limit the size of the group for Tuesdays in the Garden therefore payments are non-refundable. We understand that naps and illness can interfere with attendance, so if you contact us prior to 10 am on the morning of your scheduled session (you can leave a message at 414-446-8794), we will transfer your payment to another session, enrollment permitting.

Register online now.

About Tuesdays in the Garden

The 40 acres that house the Lynden collection of monumental outdoor sculpture are also home to many birds, insects, frogs, mammals and plants. Join naturalist Naomi Cobb on Tuesdays each month for hands-on, all-senses-engaged exploration of the natural world at Lynden. We’ll consider a new theme each month, taking into account the changing seasons. This group is designed for parents and children from birth through age 4. Please dress for outdoor play; even in the winter we will spend part of our time out in the garden.

Schedule of Tuesdays in the Garden

June 10 - Shapes in Art & Nature - Registration closed.
June 17 - Shapes in Art & Nature
July 1 - Flying
July 15 - Flying - Registration closed.
August 5 - World of Color - Registration closed.
August 19 - World of Color - Registration closed.
September 9 - Insects
September 23 - Insects
October 7 - Harvest
October 14 - Harvest
November 4 - Cozy Places
December 9 - Winter Fun

Chuck Stebelton, left, with fellow poet and birdwatcher Nathaniel Tarn

Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden.

Watch for late fall migrants and early wintering birds at the sculpture garden. Please wear appropriate footwear and bring your binoculars if you have them; no previous birding experience required. Chuck Stebelton will lead the bird walk. He is a birder, poet, and works as Program Director at Woodland Pattern Book Center.

Register online now.

Fee: $25/$20 members – includes an autographed copy of The Aviator's Wife, refreshments and admission to the sculpture garden.

Margy Stratton, founder and executive producer of Milwaukee Reads continues year three of her series featuring writers of particular interest to women. We are joined this year by series sponsor Bronze Optical and treats sponsor MKELocalicious.

Lynden Sculpture Garden's Women's Speaker Series, Boswell Books, and Bronze Optical welcome bestselling author Melanie Benjamin to the Lynden Sculpture Garden, Wednesday, December 4 to read from her latest book, The Aviator's Wife, a beautifully drawn, fictional portrait of Anne Spencer Morrow.

Many remember her as the shy, pretty bride of the most heroic man of his time. Some are aware of her child’s kidnapping and murder. Others recall her as an early feminist writer. But few know the entire story of Anne Spencer Morrow—an ambassador’s daughter and wife to Charles Lindbergh—including her major accomplishments as an aviator in her own right, charting and pioneering new air routes that still hold today. The Aviator's Wife is Benjamin’s intimate and arresting look at this determined woman and her grit to live her life, all while in the shadow of her legendary husband and the public’s unrelenting eyes, through every soaring high and deep low—ones read about in the daily headlines and heard over the radio waves and the quiet private ones held closest to her heart.

With stunning prose and rich historical detail, Melanie Benjamin pulls back the curtains on one of the country’s most fascinating couples and reveals the heart of a marriage—complicated, passionate, and dynamic—and what made it endure.

Kate Alcott, author of The Dressmaker, says "Vivid and mesmerizing, The Aviator's Wife takes us behind the scenes and into the heart of the woman who loved and married Charles Lindbergh. That was her destiny - a life that took her soaring into the skies and then plunged her to earth, a story of both triumph and pain that will take your breath away."

About the Author

Melanie Benjamin is a pseudonym for Melanie Hauser, who has written two contemporary novels. Her first work of historical fiction as Melanie Benjamin was Alice I Have Been, followed by The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb. Benjamin lives in Chicago where she is at work on her next historical novel. Visit her website at www.melaniebenjamin.com.

   

A Workshop with Kelly Lahl

Registration: Space is limited; advance registration required. To register, please call 414-446-8794.

Make an artful table runner with photographic effects.

In this workshop we'll experiment with Inkodye, a light sensitive dye used to create photographic prints on cloth, using the sun for exposure. This dye binds into the fibers, creating a permanent—and washable—bond. Participants may choose among photographic negatives or found objects gathered during a walk through the garden for contact printing to create their surface design. You will take home a 19 x 56-inch cotton table runner, ready to adorn your seasonal table.

You may also be interested in Kelly Lahl's Silk Scarf Painting and Japanese Earth Pigment Dyeing workshops.

A Workshop with Kelly Lahl

Image shown is organic cotton gauze; upgrade no longer available.

Fee: $50/ $45 members (all materials included).
Registration: Space is limited; advance registration required. Register online now.

Hand-dye your own beautiful cotton gauze scarf employing simple Japanese shibori techniques to create designs. Perfect for those who have been taking Kelly Lahl’s Silk Scarf Painting workshops or for those interested in exploring different hand-dyeing processes. (You may also be interested in our Sun Printing on Fabric workshop.)

In this workshop we'll experiment with Japanese dyes made from iron oxide derived from the soil. The iron oxide is baked to create a range of different colored "mud" dyeing pigments. The dyes create beautifully subdued, earthy colors. This simple and fun hands-on process is very gentle on the environment and humans, so it's a great way to begin dyeing your own fabric at home. It's child-friendly, too. Please note: these dyes contain latex.

An After Hours Nature Walk with Naomi Cobb
Fee: Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden.
Registration: Pre-registration is required, please email us at info@lyndensculpturegarden.org.

When was the last time you walked outside without a flashlight? What nocturnal animals can be heard or even seen in the evening? How is our sensory experience altered by the loss of daylight vision? Naturalist Naomi Cobb invites you to explore the Lynden Sculpture Garden as it turns from dusk to dark. She will guide you safely through the back acres, introducing you to the mysteries and unique features of outdoor life after dark.

Fee: 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.)

The Lynden Sculpture Garden is recognized for its art and landscaped beauty, and most visitors confine their walks to the lawns and formal gardens. However, the 40 acres that make up Lynden include meadows with native plants and trees, ponds that support a huge array of aquatic life, and thickets filled with nesting activity and shelter. Numerous birds, insects and mammals are sighted each day.

Come explore the hidden natural treasures of this unique sanctuary with naturalist Naomi Cobb. Each month we will visit the back acres, observing what the seasons bring, and locating evidence of the abundant life that is there. Wear good hiking shoes, dress for the weather, and bring your curiosity and wonder.

Don't miss Lynden by Night, our after hours nature walk with Naomi Cobb.

A Presentation by Bruno R. Follador, Biodynamic Researcher and Consultant and Angela L. Curtes, Land Preservation Consultant

Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden.

This presentation is designed for home gardeners of all ages who are ready to take composting to the next level. Lynden began working with the presenters during the development of Emilie Clark’s Sweet Corruptions. When it came time to work with Urban Underground to plant the pilot garden next to Clark’s Research Station, we hauled in some of the compost made in East Troy, and Clark has included information on the compost in her station.

As home growers know, good soil is critical to the success of a backyard garden. But quality of soil is also a crucial foundation for healthy ecosystems, food systems and quality of life conditions for the future of humanity. This presentation will explore how to create or improve and enhance your existing compost, while also further exploring the deeper meaning and context of soil fertility and garden ecology.
We will also introduce a relatively new method of composting that can be implemented on a backyard garden scale that uses a hot controlled fermentation process that rapidly transforms materials into a high quality compost that promotes and builds soil structure and fertility.

About the Presenters

Bruno R. Follador, Biodynamic Researcher and Consultant
Bruno R. Follador was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil where he studied geography at the University of Sao Paulo (USP). He received his training in biodynamic gardening and beekeeping at the Pfeiffer Center, NY. For the last three years he was one of the researchers and consultants at the Ludolf Andreas Lab for Soil Fertility at Andreashof, a biodynamic farm in Germany, where he worked with compost and chromatography. Currently, he divides his time between Brazil and the U.S.A where he is consulting at different farms.

Angela Curtes, Land Preservation Consultant
For over 20 years, Curtes has worked in the fields of environmental and wilderness education, and natural area and farmland preservation. She graduated from Prescott College, Arizona in 1992 with two BA’s in Environmental Studies and Alternative Education. She co-founded and for eight years co-directed Common Earth: Educational Adventures of the Earth and Mind in Marin, California, leading women and girls of diverse economic and cultural backgrounds into wilderness settings to build leadership and personal skills, and awareness of cultural and natural history. During this time she also worked full-time as the Education Director of the Pacific Environment and Resources Center (PERC), an international non-profit, directing and teaching K-12 global environmental education programs to schools in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2000, she moved back home to her family’s farm in southeast Wisconsin and worked for over seven years for the Ozaukee Washington Land Trust as their lands specialist and assistant director, guiding natural area and farmland preservation efforts. From 2008 to 2012, she was the acting executive director of the Yggdrasil Land Foundation, a national land trust working to preserve organic and biodynamic farms. Since early 2012, she has worked for Skylark, Inc. as its lands director to develop and implement a land preservation strategy to protect over 800 acres for sustainable, non-chemical agriculture. Her interest in biodynamic agriculture led to a two-month intensive study in Germany, under mentors Roland Ulrich and Bruno Follador, where she learned a hot controlled fermentation compost method and chromatography. In June 2012 she implemented a farm-scale compost pilot project in East Troy, Wisconsin and set up a chromatography lab to test base farm soils and compost qualities.

A Workshop with Linda Wervey Vitamvas

Fee: $85/$75 members. Registration is now closed. For information on upcoming ceramics 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 take the bowl from start to finish, using porcelain as our material. We will familiarize ourselves with this versatile material and 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 is currently an artist-in-residence at the Lynden Sculpture Garden; you may read more about her residency here.

A Workshop with Linda Wervey Vitamvas

Fee: $85/$75 members. Register online now. We're offering another session of this workshop on November 23. For information and registration for that session, click here.

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 material. We will familiarize ourselves with this versatile material and 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 is currently an artist-in-residence at the Lynden Sculpture Garden; you may read more about her residency here.