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.

Fee: This session is free and open to the public. Please RSVP at http://creative-capital.org/pages/infosessions or grants@creative-capital.org

Creative Capital Foundation will be leading an information session on their upcoming grant round at the Lynden Sculpture Garden. Lisa Dent, Director of Grants & Services at Creative Capital and a 2012 Nohl juror, will be present to answer questions regarding Creative Capital’s upcoming grant rounds. Creative Capital supports artists creating adventurous and imaginative work in the performing and visual arts, film/video, innovative literature, and emerging fields.

In 2014, Creative Capital will be considering proposals in Film/Video and Visual Arts. In 2015, the grant round will re-open for Emerging Fields, Innovative Literature and Performing Arts proposals. Far from a traditional funder, Creative Capital is committed to working in long-term partnership with the bold and groundbreaking artists that they fund by making a multi-year financial commitment while providing advisory and professional development services. Creative Capital has a special interest in projects that transcend discipline boundaries and reveal something new about the moment in which we live.

For in-depth information on the foundation, past recipients and current work, please visit www.creative-capital.org.

“I see Creative Capital taking great risks by investing in people's art projects and careers… The money is a huge help, but the services are irreplaceable and completely unique-genuinely and thoroughly transformative.”
 – Jake Mahaffey, 2005 Film/Video Grantee

A Workshop with Kelly Lahl

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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. We're offering this workshop again in December. To register for that session, click here.

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. 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.

Photo: Kendall Reeves, Spectrum Studio.

Admission: $35/$30 Lynden Sculpture Garden/Historic Milwaukee Incorporated members – includes an autographed copy of A Home of Her Own, refreshments by MKELocalicious, and admission to the sculpture garden (come early and stroll!). Hiller’s other books will be available for purchase.

Combination rate for those attending the talk on October 16 and the Finishing Techniques workshop on October 17: $100/$90 Lynden Sculpture Garden/Historic Milwaukee Incorporated members

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Margy Stratton, founder and executive producer of Milwaukee Reads is back with 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.

For our first event of the 2013-2014 season, we join Historic Milwaukee in welcoming Nancy Hiller for an illustrated presentation and, on Thursday, a hands-on workshop on turn-of-the-century finishing techniques.

For Nancy Hiller, restoration can be a self-revelatory process: we learn as much about what we’re made of as we do about the structure on which we’re working, and we ourselves emerge transformed. She has observed that many of us, while restoring our home, form a relationship with the place that can rival the intimacy and satisfactions of relationships with human partners. Hiller traces her admiration for old houses to her teenage years in England, where she helped her mother and stepfather rehabilitate a couple of turn-of-the-century rowhouses. A designer-builder of custom furniture and cabinetry for historic houses, Hiller is the author of the award-winning book A Home of Her Own (2011), a collection of stories about women who have found a compelling kind of partnership in homes they have restored. The book is lavishly illustrated with photographs by Kendall Reeves. Patricia Poore, longtime editor of Old-House Journal and founder/editor of Old-House Interiors, wrote the book’s foreword, and the late Jane Powell, author of Bungalow Kitchens along with five other books related to restoration, appears in a chapter about her love affair with her “Bunga-Mansion.”

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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Our next Women's Speaker Series event is with Melanie Benjamin, author of The Aviator's Wife. For more information, click here.

       

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.

Register online now.