This event is free to educators. Please be sure to identify yourself as an educator when you arrive at Lynden.

The Lynden Sculpture Garden offers a unique experience of art in nature through its collection of more than 50 monumental sculptures sited across 40 acres of park, lake and woodland. Our educational programs focus on connecting students and teachers with art and nature.

At the Open House you will:
• Meet our educators
• Learn about our new tour program, Art as an Avenue to EcoAwareness
• Learn about our year-round educational opportunities
• Visit our art studio, outdoor learning center and picnic area
• Enjoy light refreshments

2013-2014 Education Programs

• Docent-led tours. Available late April through mid-October (sign up for a tour now).
• Year-round Field Trips at Lynden. Field trips combine a mini-tour and a hands-on workshop. Themes include Observation, Sculpture Construction Techniques, Animals, Symbols & Sculpture, Springing Out, Big Changes in the Garden, and Winter in the Trees.
• Customized programs that bring the sculpture garden to your classroom or integrate your curricular needs into a visit to Lynden.
• Weekly classes, School’s Out workshops, and Summer Art & Nature camps.

Fee: $15/$10 members (all materials included)

Registration: Space is limited, advanced registration encouraged. Registration for this workshop is now closed. For information on future workshops, sign up for our e-list.

Celebrate autumn by learning a traditional twining weave to make a garlic basket. We will use willow from the sculpture garden, basket weaving reed, and raffia to add color and texture to the basic weave. No experience required; this workshop is for ages 12 and up.

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 will recall warmer seasons when displayed on your windowsill. Choose among small glass bottles and vials to create your own unique, hand-made gift. Select dried materials that require no attention or construct a living terrarium that will grow with your care. (Note that living terrariums require at least 8 hours of indirect sunlight and water 3-5 times a week.) Package your windowsill garden with a Lynden membership for a gift that lasts all year long.

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.

Meet our education staff and learn more about the upcoming winter class session.

Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden.

Drop by the art studio between 12:30 and 2:30 and join in this all ages workshop (best for ages 7 and up). We’ll wind natural wool from Hillspring Eco-Farm, a local organic grower, into felt vessels. This simple process creates felt forms that are both decorative and functional. Embellish your finished vessel with colorful embroidery. No experience required.

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

In this all ages workshop, we’ll collage colorful patterned paper circles into a pocket sculpture set. Slotted to easily connect to each other, they become a creative, open-ended activity everyone will enjoy. Finish by making an origami box so that you can carry your set with you on the next long car ride or while you wait for a table at your favorite restaurant.

Meet our education staff and learn more about the upcoming fall class session.

Fee: Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden.
Registration: Registration for this event is now closed. Sign up for our e-list to receive updates on future events like this.

What better way to experience Lynden in the winter than by lantern light? Join Jeremy Stepien in the art studio beginning at 3 pm for this popular annual family workshop to make a lantern (or bring your own). Visitors of all ages can enjoy designing and decorating lanterns made from recycled jars and tea light candles. Embellishments include tissue paper collage, punched-tin lids, and reeds and wires (for handles). Make your own or work together to create a lantern for your group.

At 5 pm we embark on a lantern-lit walk through the garden, led by naturalist Naomi Cobb. She will guide you safely through Lynden's back acres, introducing you to the mysteries and unique features of outdoor life after dark. We'll end with a bonfire and hot cider.

The garden will open at noon as usual; the walk will begin at 5 pm.

Registration for this workshop is now CLOSED. Sign up for our e-list for information on future workshops.

Fee: $425/$399 Lynden and All Hands BoatWorks members. This is the fee for a team of two. All materials are included and you keep the boat you make.

Registration: This workshop is ideally suited for one adult and one child (ages 10-17) or two adults. Space is limited to four teams. Advance registration and payment in full is required.

Have you ever dreamed of building your own boat, but didn’t know where to start? Have you ever wished that you could build something with your partner, child or grandchild that would make a lasting memory? Enroll in this introduction to boatbuilding workshop and learn new craft skills as you and your teammate build a handsome, 15-foot plywood canoe that will be ready to launch when the ice melts in the spring. We’ll use common tools and materials and discover a new uncommon language as we cut and assemble the frames, gussets, gunwales, and chines. No previous experience necessary.

As the boat’s designer says, “Nothing, absolutely nothing, conveys the joy of being afloat quite so purely as a light paddling boat.”

About All Hands BoatWorks
All Hands BoatWorks is a Milwaukee nonprofit organization that uses wooden boatbuilding as a means to support positive youth development, education, and workforce preparation.

A Workshop with Kelly Lahl

Registration for this class is now closed. To keep up to date on future workshops, sign up for our e-list. You may also be interested in Silk Scarf Painting: Silk/Wool Blend, January 25, or Basic Silk Scarf Painting with Kelly Lahl, February 22.

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

Registration: Space is limited; advance registration required. If you prefer not to pay online, download a registration form here. You will receive additional information once you register.

This daylong workshop will explore easy and artful ways to apply dye to scarves. From simple techniques such as tie-dyeing, resist and salt, to interesting mark-making techniques, we will modernize this ancient art form. We will look at examples of mid-century textile designers and we’ll also be inspired by the wonderful art and nature surrounding us at Lynden.

Each student will create three wearable and uniquely painted scarves. We will also make some hand painted silk ribbon, in case you want to make a gift of one of your scarves. 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 Kelly Lahl

Kelly Lahl is a multi-faceted print and surface designer working from her studio in Milwaukee, WI. She has recently taken to putting pigment down on silk, and has been experimenting with alternative approaches to surface design. She's a colorist and draws inspiration from the likes of Vera Neumann and various mid-century modernist designers and painters.

   

Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden.

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.