Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden.

Drop by the art studio between 12:30 pm and 2:30 pm and join our all ages T-shirt Tote Bag workshop. Bring in your favorite old t-shirt (we’ll also have a few for you to choose from) to recycle into a handmade tote bag. This no-sew project gives t-shirts a second life as a unique gift wrap, summer beach tote, or reusable alternative to a plastic shopping bag. You'll also have an opportunity to learn more about our Summer Art Camps.

A Workshop with Thea Kovac

Fee: $75/ $65 members

Registration: Space is limited; advance registration required. To register click here. You will receive additional information and a supply list once you register.

The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that's almost never the case. ― Chuck Close

It’s been awhile since you have made any art.
You seek a new direction in your creative work.
You are ready to try art-making for the first time.
You spend a lot of time helping others make art.
You are curious about creative process.

Experience specific methods designed to renew your artistic efforts. The emphasis will be on simple, playful hands-on exercises that Thea uses in her own artistic practice and in her classes to jumpstart drawings and paintings. Also included will be suggestions on how to make room for creative work in busy lives, research-based ideas on how the entire human brain contributes to creativity, and ways to shift consciousness to reach the state of “flow.”

No artistic experience required. Visual artists, writers, performers, and anyone interested in creativity will benefit from this workshop. Bring a bag lunch and beverages and dress for the outdoors—we’ll be making use of Lynden’s 40 beautiful acres.

About Thea Kovac

Thea Kovac, visual artist, art instructor, and private art coach, calls her artistic practice The Lost Playground Studio. She has taught watercolor, acrylic, mixed media, and drawing courses in Continuing Education Departments at several area colleges and universities including MIAD, UWM, Cardinal Stritch, Carroll, and Alverno.

She has led creative process workshops in many Wisconsin settings, such as the Weidner Center at UW- Green Bay, Woodland Pattern Book Center, the Girl Scout CyberCamp at Alverno College, and Riveredge Nature Center. She has held Artist Residencies at MPS schools and Brookfield Academy.

Currently she teaches watercolor courses through the UWM Sports and Recreation Dept. and the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center in Brookfield. She also holds private classes in the art studio at Danceworks and offers House Call Art Classes, private in-home art classes for individuals and small groups.

She paints vivid watercolor and acrylic paintings in her loft studio on the north side of Milwaukee. She has explored botanical subjects, landscapes, the human figure, and abstract imagery. You can learn more about Thea Kovac at http://www.theakovac.com.

Image credit: Eric Aho, Pass, 2010, oil on linen, 50 x 40 inches. © Eric Aho

Schedule:
Friday, August 3
     5 pm: Welcome and Artist Talk
     6:30 pm: Dinner
Saturday, August 4
     9 am-5 pm: Outdoor Painting
     6:30 pm: Dinner
Sunday, August 5
     9 am-3 pm: Outdoor Painting
     3-5 pm: Critique and Discussion
     6:30 pm: Dinner

Fee: $1000 (includes lunch on Saturday & Sunday; dinner on Friday, Saturday & Sunday). Materials not provided; a supply list will be available.

Lodging Package: A special three-night lodging package (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) is available at the Washington House Inn in historic Cedarburg, WI (www.washingtonhouseinn.com). Rooms range from $130.50-$166.50 per night; this includes a continental breakfast and an afternoon social hour with wine and cheese. Reserve lodging directly with Washington House Inn at 1-888-554-9545; specify Lynden Sculpture Garden Workshop package. Rooms must be booked no later than July 2, 2012.

Registration: Space is very limited; advance registration is required. To download a registration form, click here. If you have any questions, please contact Polly Morris at pmorris@lyndensculpturegarden.org or 414-446-8794.

Eric Aho’s paintings are a direct response to nature, whether they are images of the New England landscape that capture dramatic effects of weather and sunlight, or his more recent energetic, freely brushed abstract compositions. He invites professional and vocational artists to join him for a weekend outdoor intensive at the Lynden Sculpture Garden where, working among the sculptures, trees and plantings, participants will respond to the light and landscape of high summer. Step out of the studio and advance your skills in a collegial atmosphere under the supervision of a master artist known for his plein air painting.

Image credit: Eric Aho, Cape Mansard, 2008, oil on linen, 12 x 24 inches. © Eric Aho

About Eric Aho
Eric Aho (American, b. 1966) studied at the Central School of Art and Design in London, England and received a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. In 1989 he participated in the first exchange of scholars in over thirty years between the U.S. and Cuba. He completed his graduate work at the Lahti Art Institute in Finland supported by a Fulbright Fellowship in 1991-92 and an American-Scandinavian Foundation grant in 1993.

Additional fellowships and grants from the Vermont Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Vermont Community Foundation and the Finlandia Foundation and the American Scandinavian Foundation in New York have facilitated many projects over the past twenty years.

Aho has taught painting at the Putney School in Putney, Vermont, the Theater Academy of Finland in Helsinki, Finland and the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland. He has been a visiting artist and critic at the Burren College of Art in County Clare, Ireland; the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in County Mayo Ireland; the Weir Farm National Historic Trust in Connecticut; Colgate University in Hamilton, New York; the National College of Art in Oslo, Norway; the University of Art and Design in Helsinki, Finland; the St. Paul’s School, Concord, New Hampshire and the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Aho’s exhibitions include the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine; the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut; the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College; the Fitchburg Art Museum in Fitchburg, Massachusetts; the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Maine; the McMullen Museum at Boston College; the Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Nagoya, Japan; the National Academy of Design and the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York City; the Oulu City Art Museum in Oulu, Finland; and the Fleming Museum at the University of Vermont. Upcoming exhibitions include a ten-year survey of Aho’s paintings at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire (June 2-September 9, 2012) and an exhibition at Tory Folliard Gallery in Milwaukee in October 2012.

Aho’s work has been presented in numerous gallery exhibitions and is represented in private and public collections throughout the country and abroad including the permanent collections of the Fleming Museum, the Oulu City Art Museum, the Ballinglen Arts Foundation, the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Eric Aho is represented by Tory Folliard Gallery in Milwaukee and DC Moore Gallery in New York. He lives and works in Saxtons River, Vermont. More information: http://ericaho.com/.

Come spend a magical evening with the fascinatingly
creative author Amy Krouse Rosenthal!

Admission: $45 – includes an autographed copy of Encyclopedia of An Ordinary Life, refreshments and admission to the sculpture garden (come early and stroll!).
Members: $35

Admission: $15 – includes refreshments and admission to the sculpture garden (come early and stroll!).
Members: $12
Although tickets will be available at the door, advance purchase is strongly encouraged. To purchase tickets, call 414-446-8794 or download this form and send it via email (staff@lyndensculpturegarden.org), fax (414-446-8492) or snail mail (Lynden Sculpture Garden, 2145 W. Brown Deer Rd., Milwaukee, WI 53217).

Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden, but space is limited. Please pre-register by contacting Jeremy Stepien at jstepien@lyndensculpturegarden.org or 414.446.8481.

Design a cast-plaster windowsill nursery for your spring greens. Make a mold from recycled juice boxes, foam core and duct tape, then fill it with Plaster of Paris to form a unique seedbed. Further embellish your planter by sanding or carving the plaster after it sets.

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.

Kite makers of all ages are invited to celebrate the arrival of spring with a drop-in workshop with our Summer Art Camp staff. We will be making and decorating simple, earth-friendly kites from recyclable materials beginning at noon, which will leave plenty of time for kite flying on the grounds (wind permitting). Meet our staff and learn about our camps at this informal workshop.

Horizon by Sally Duback

August 18-21, 2012
Saturday-Tuesday, 9 am-4 pm

Fees:
Four-day Option: $400/$360 members
Two-day Option: $210/$189 members

Registration: Space is limited; advance registration required. To register click here. You will receive additional information once you register.

Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden.

What better way to experience Lynden in the winter than by lantern light? Drop into the art studio beginning at 3 pm to make a lantern (or bring your own), and then join us for a lantern-lit walk, hot cider and cookies.

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.

The garden will open at noon as usual; the walk will begin around 4:42 pm (sunset).

Fees: Drop in for a single workshop or take the entire series.
Drop-in fee (pay at the admission desk): $15/general; $13/students & seniors (includes admission to the sculpture garden); $6/members