A Workshop with Carey Watters

Fee: $65/$58 members (all materials included)

Registration: Registration for this workshop is now closed. You may also be interested in All Things Paper: The Marvels of Marbling with Carey Watters, August 16.

This introductory course will familiarize students with the basic materials (paper, cloth, board, and adhesives) and techniques (folding, sewing, gluing) used in making books. Students will make several different structures, including a pamphlet with complex variations, Japanese stab binding with variations, and a single needle coptic. Paper and tools will be provided, but students are welcome to bring papers and ephemera to use in their books.

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 Carey Watters

Carey Watters is a bookbinding, letterpress printer and graphic design professor living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She has been teaching workshops in bookbinding, letterpress, and paper marbling for over 10 years. This past summer she was in the beautiful village of Noepoli, in the Basilicata region of Italy, teaching paper marbling to people in the village. Watters enjoys the opportunity to share her love of all things paper.

A Workshop with Jane Moore

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Fee: $66/$60 members (fee includes all materials and a take-home kit with everything you need to continue making felt flowers at home).

Registration: Space is limited; advance registration required. You will receive additional information once you register. If you prefer to register by phone, give us a call at 414-446-8794.

Wet felting is an ancient and magical hands-on fiber art process. It is also an excellent medium for exploring texture, color, and design. In this workshop, you will transform colorful, fluffy wool and silk fibers into your own uniquely designed felt flower pins. We'll begin with an outdoor stroll to pick flowers for inspiration, then we will use our hands and our imaginations--and a little water and soap--to create two wearable flowers. At the end of the workshop, you will receive a kit that includes everything you need to make more flowers at home.

No experience required. We have aprons, but please wear clothes suitable for artmaking. Dress appropriately for outdoor walking, and consider packing a picnic lunch to enjoy after the workshop.

About Jane Moore

Jane Moore is a lifelong fiber artist. In 2004 she discovered the beauty and mystery of the wet felting process, and has passionately pursued felting in her own 2-D and 3-D work. Moore's work has been featured in many galleries in the Milwaukee area. She is an active teacher in the community and has taught wet felting to students of all ages and abilities.

A Workshop with Linda Wervey Vitamvas

Fee: Registration for this workshop is now closed. Sign up for our e-list for information on future workshops. $85/$75 members per session (all materials included). If you prefer to pay by phone, give us a call at 414-446-8794.

Working in clay is deeply satisfying, and making pottery allows one to explore aesthetics and function simultaneously. In Trays, Tiles, and Trivets we will continue to work with porcelain slabs. The focus will be on different surface decoration techniques such as stencils, image transfer, various carving methods, and adding underglazes for color. With changes in scale and minor additions our flat designs will magically turn into functional trays, tiles and trivets. Bring textures and objects to press into the clay as well as images and designs that you would like to see take form on your pieces. They will then be fired and finished with a clear glaze to protect the surface and make them functional. Those attending more than one workshop will find plenty to do each time.

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 is currently an artist-in-residence at the Lynden Sculpture Garden; you may read more about her residency here.

Presented in collaboration with Woodland Pattern Book Center.

Photograph taken during a performance for "Ban" in Pratt Institute's Rose Garden, April 2013.

Fee: $250/$225 for members of Lynden or Woodland Pattern (one discount only). Register online now.

Lynden Sculpture Garden and the Woodland Pattern Book Center offer a weeklong-residency at Lynden with poet and writer-in-residence Bhanu Kapil. In addition to the workshop, Kapil will offer a reading at Woodland Pattern on June 1 at 2 pm. The workshop will culminate in a reading by participants, followed by a reception, at Lynden on Thursday, June 5 at 7 pm.

We will create posture-gesture sets in the energetic domain of the sculptures we encounter. How can we link our writing-to-be to the garden we are in? How might the sculptures support our work in powerful, non-verbal ways? The dream of the workshop is to extend the somatic and contemplative gestures already present in our writing, and to transform them into postures, movement practices, sensorimotor sequences and bodily progressions of different kinds. How can we create another kind of space to work out the questions we have for writing, and then return them to writing, by the end of our time together? How are our gestures in relation to the other members of the group? How might we return witness notes to each other, and gather together on this different kind of grass?

About Bhanu Kapil

Bhanu Kapil teaches at Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado, as well as Goddard College in Vermont. Recent workshops have engaged architecture, animal studies, performance art, and memory as ways to approach contemporary writing. Bhanu maintains a blog, Was Jack Kerouac A Punjabi?, documenting daily and creative practices of all kinds. She also has a long-term private practice as a palmist and bodyworker, with an interest in somatic trauma therapies and Ayurvedic energetics. For several years, she has been incubating her works through performances in India, England and throughout the U.S. Bhanu Kapil is interested in books that break then become.

Dates at Lynden: June 2-June 5

Monday, June 2, 2-7:30 pm (docent-led tour 6-7:30 pm)
Tuesday, June 3, 2-5 pm
Wednesday, June 4, 2-5 pm
Thursday, June 5, 2-5 pm (reading and reception to follow)

Related events:

Sunday, June 1
2 pm
$5-$8
Opening Reading: Bhanu Kapil
This event takes place at Woodland Pattern Book Center, 720 E. Locust St., Milwaukee, WI 53212

Thursday, June 5
7 pm
Workshop Reading & Celebration
Free
This event takes place at the Lynden Sculpture Garden.
Participants in the workshop offer a reading of work produced during the week followed by a reception.

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

Drop in to the art studio to create a handmade accordion book using a variety of paper materials. Build up the layers with cut paper collage and try different folding techniques to make your own book or journal--then use it to illustrate a story, map and document your time at Lynden, or take it home to fill later.

Wednesdays, May 21, June 18, July 16 & August 27

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.)

Take advantage of Lynden's extended summer hours and drop in for a picnic (pack your own) followed by a walk through Lynden's less-explored areas. 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.

A Workshop with Sally Duback

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

Registration: Registration for this workshop is now closed.

Explore the capabilities of pastel in the idyllic setting of the Lynden Sculpture Garden. During this one-day workshop we will create colorful drawings on a variety of papers and custom prepared surfaces. The landscape of Lynden will be ours to roam and record in pastel, as well as opulent and colorful still life and figurative subjects in the studio.

Bring a bag lunch and beverages and dress for the outdoors. We’ll be making use of Lynden’s 40 beautiful acres as much as possible.

About Sally Duback

Sally Duback has been making art since she was a child and teaching art since 1969. Her work hangs in the Milwaukee Art Museum and in many private and corporate collections. Sally has studied at Vassar, the University of Michigan, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Fine Arts and the Vermont Studio Center. To bring art to disadvantaged children, she cofounded Artists Working in Education in 1998, which received a 2002 Wisconsin Governor's Award for the Arts. You can see more of her work at www.sallyduback.com.

A Workshop with Sally Duback

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

Registration: Registration is now closed. We're offering another session of this workshop Saturday, July 12. For more information and registration for that session, click here.

A Workshop with Leslie Perrino

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

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

Registration: Space is limited; advance registration required. If you prefer not to pay online, give us a call at 414-446-8794 to register by phone.

Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden.

Kite makers, flyers, artists and art lovers of all ages are invited to celebrate the arrival of spring with an afternoon of events and activities. Drop into the studio to make and decorate simple, earth-friendly kites using recycled plastic bag kite material provided by Yevgeniya Kaganovich and the grow crew, or pick up a DIY plein air painting box and head outside for some artmaking. A great opportunity to get to know our Summer Camp staff.

Alka Bhargava will offer an Ikebana (Japanese flower arranging) demonstration at 2 pm. Bhargava, an associate master of the Ichiyo School of Ikebana, creates flower arrangements that give the viewer an experience with nature that is unexpected, stimulating, and profound. The Ichiyo School encourages personal interpretation: imagination is considered as essential to creative design as materials and containers. Many of you may know Bhargava from the Milwaukee Art Museum's Art in Bloom, where she won the Iron Design Competition (2014), the top award (2013), and Best Creative Design (2008 and 2009).