Fee: $75/$70 Lynden Sculpture Garden/Historic Milwaukee Incorporated members

Combination rate for those attending the workshop and the talk on October 16: $100/$90 Lynden Sculpture Garden/Historic Milwaukee Incorporated members

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Nancy Hiller, a designer-builder of custom furniture and cabinetry for historic houses and author of the award-winning book A Home of Her Own (2011), offers a hands-on workshop featuring two versatile finishing techniques: a shellac-type finish for wood and milk paint. You will learn to make new furniture, cabinetry, and interior trim match original woodwork from 1895 or 1913 using simple materials and techniques, all by hand. As a bonus, learn to mix, apply, and topcoat milk paint, the original green finish, to achieve a variety of effects.

About Nancy Hiller
Nancy R. Hiller is a professional maker of custom furniture and cabinetry who specializes in work for old houses. Hiller earned a City & Guilds of London Certificate in Furniture Craft in 1980 after dropping out of Cambridge University. Following several years of employment in custom woodworking shops in England and the U.S., she returned to academe at Indiana University-Bloomington, where she earned a graduate degree in Religious Studies with a concentration in ethics. She opened NR Hiller Design in 1995. Hiller contributes to publications such as Fine Woodworking, Fine Homebuilding, and Old-House Interiors. She has authored two books, The Hoosier Cabinet in Kitchen History and A Home of Her Own, and is the editor of the soon-to-be published volume Historic Preservation in Indiana: Essays from the Field. Examples of Hiller's work may be found at www.nrhillerdesign.com.

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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.

   

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.

Presented in collaboration with Woodland Pattern Book Center.
Fee: $300/$275 for members of Lynden or Woodland Pattern (one discount only)

Lynden Sculpture Garden and the Woodland Pattern Book Center offer a weeklong-residency at Lynden with poets and writers-in-residence Lytle Shaw and Ed Friedman. In addition to the workshop, the writers will offer a reading at Woodland Pattern on June 2 at 7 pm. The workshop will culminate in a reading and reception at Lynden on Friday, June 7 at 7 pm.

Siting, Placement, and Flow is a writing workshop that will utilize the Lynden Sculpture Garden, as experienced from two vantages.

One
Most outdoor modern sculpture like that at Lynden at once casts attention to its siting, its placement in and interaction with a specific environment, and also displaces viewers from that environment through the associations evoked by its materials: specialized welding, architectural structures, the worlds of heavy industry and construction. This dual address, however, is not unique to sculpture: poetry, too, might be characterized as a constant oscillation between its gestures of pointing at specific things, and its inescapable processes of abstraction—its evocation of cultural, historical, linguistic associations that cannot be neatly contained in a single space.

Though only 40 or so years old, the language of mid-century abstract sculpture can feel as remote to us today as that of Egyptian hieroglyphics. This workshop will seek to convert our distance from sculptural modernism into an asset, inviting writers to reinvent its uses in the present as the point of departure for generating serial poetry.

What does such sculpture want? What might we want from it? How might we go about exacting it?

Two
In a sculpture garden, there are high-priority—usually high-density—forms set into and creating a wider ambience of thought and potential experience. Such elements as landscape, lighting, weather, and human occupancy suggest both open opportunities and constraints. In this workshop we’ll be writing works in poetry and prose that exist in the context of other works. We’ll be working in forms, some of which are established in advance of writing and others that evolve conceptually as we go. We’ll experiment with some very short, minimal forms and how they can be combined into larger works. We’ll collaborate and pool our resources. We’ll evolve complexities.

What is visuality in writing? How do we attain materiality in language? How do we release our sense of authority and then reappear in the work more surprisingly ourselves?

Lytle Shaw’s books include Cable Factory 20, The Lobe, and Frank O’Hara: The Poetics of Coterie. A contributing editor for Cabinet, he has recently published catalog essays on Robert Smithson and Zoe Leonard for DIA Center, on Gerard Byrne for Koenig Books, and on The Royal Art Lodge for the Drawing Center. Shaw is currently working on two books: one about the politics of time in depicted landscapes and another about the status of poetry in recent theoretical debates.

Ed Friedman is the author of nine books of poetry and prose, including The Telephone Book; Humans Work; Mao & Matisse; and Drive Through the Blue Cylinders. He has collaborated frequently with visual artists Robert Kushner (The New York Hat Line and Away) and Kim MacConnel (La Frontera and Lingomats). Friedman has given readings and performances in venues such as The Museum of Modern Art, The Kitchen, and The Public Theater. For 16 years (1987-2003) he was the artistic director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in NYC. He lives with his wife and 13-year-old son.

Dates at Lynden: June 3-June 7

Monday, June 3 2-7:30 pm
Tuesday, June 4 2-5 pm
Wednesday, June 5 2-5 pm
Thursday, June 6 2-5 pm
Friday, June 7 2-5 pm (reading to follow)

Related events:

Sunday, June 2
7 pm
$5-$8
Opening Reading: Lytle Shaw & Ed Friedman
This event takes place at Woodland Pattern Book Center, 720 E. Locust St., Milwaukee, WI 53212

Friday, June 7
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.

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.

   

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.

Tuesdays in the Garden takes place two Tuesdays in June, July and August, from 10:30-11:30 am. Each month has a different theme, but the activities for both sessions within a month are the same. Feel free to stay and picnic afterward.

Note: the summer sessions of Tuesdays in the Garden are now full. For fall sessions of Tuesdays in the garden, click here.

A Workshop with Kelly Lahl

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

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Fee: $15/$12 members – includes an autographed copy of How to Be Interesting (In 10 Simple Steps), refreshments and admission to the sculpture garden.

You want to leave a mark, not a blemish. Be a hero, not a spectator. You want to be interesting. (Who doesn’t?) But sometimes it takes a nudge, a wake-up call, an intervention!—and a little help. This is where Jessica Hagy comes in. A writer and illustrator of great economy, charm, and insight, she’s created How to Be Interesting, a uniquely inspirational how-to that combines fresh and pithy lessons with deceptively simple diagrams and charts.

Ms. Hagy started on Forbes.com, where she’s a weekly blogger, by creating a “How to Be Interesting” post that went viral, attracting 1.4 million viewers so far, with tens of thousands of them liking, linking, and tweeting the article. Now she’s deeply explored the ideas that resonated with so many readers to create this small and quirky book with a large and universal message. It’s a book about exploring: Talk to strangers. About taking chances: Expose yourself to ridicule, to risk, to wild ideas. About being childlike, not childish: Remember how amazing the world was before you learned to be cynical. About being open: Never take in the welcome mat. About breaking routine: Take daily vaca-tions . . . if only for a few minutes. About taking ownership: Whatever you’re doing, enjoy it, embrace it, master it as well as you can. And about growing a pair: If you’re not courageous, you’re going to be hanging around the water cooler, talking about the guy that actually is.

Jessica Hagy is known for her Webby Award–winning blog Indexed. Her cartoons regularly appear in The New York Times, and she writes a weekly blog for Smithsonian and an online column for Forbes. Ms. Hagy lives in Seattle, Washington.

Fee (noncredit): $170 until 1 June 2013; $200 thereafter. Advanced registration required. Register online now.