Summer Art & Nature 2015 CAMPS AT A GLANCE Camps Dates Time Camp Ages Summer June 15-17 9 am-4 pm Bird House 6-11 June 18-19 9 am-4 pm Across the Pond 6-11 Art & Join us for a summer of art and nature! June 22-24 9-11 am Trees, Toads & Treasures 20 mos.-4 June 22-24 1-4 pm Garden Animals 4-6 Lynden’s art and nature camps for children aged 20 months June 25-26 9 am-4 pm Grow Your Own 6-11 Nature to 13 years integrate our collection of monumental outdoor June 29-July 2 9 am-4 pm Art Elements 6-11 sculpture with the natural ecology of park, pond, and woodland. July 6-7 9 am-4 pm Spirals 6-11 Led by artists, naturalists, and art educators, the camps July 8-10 9 am-4 pm Tree House 6-11 Camps explore the intersection of art and nature through collaborative July 13-17 9 am-12 pm Movement & Migration 6-11 discovery and hands-on artmaking, using all of Lynden’s July 13-15 1-4 pm Sea & Sky 4-6 40 acres to create a joyful outdoor experience. Each camp July 20-24 9 am-12 pm Imaginary Creatures 7-11 concludes with an informal showing for family and friends. July 20-24 9 am-12 pm Flower World 6-8 July 20-24 1-4 pm Four Corners 6-11 July 27-31 9 am-4 pm Lost Civilization 6-11 REGISTRATION POLICIES August 3-7 9 am-4 pm Idea to Object 6-11 August 10-14 9 am-12 pm Into the Air 8-10 Enrollment is limited, please register early. Camps are filled on a August 10-14 9 am-4 pm Instrument/Art Camp 6-11 first-come, first-served basis. Once you register, you will receive August 17-18 9 am-4 pm Giant Inflatables 9-13 a confirmation via email with additional information. August 17-21 9-11:30 am Les Artistes 5-7 Cancellation: If a camp is filled to capacity, or cancelled due August 24-28 9 am-12 pm Secret Garden 4-6 to low enrollment (this will be determined 14 days prior to the first day of a camp), your registration fee will be refunded in full. Refunds: There is a $35 administrative fee for all refunds COLLABORATIVE CAMPS issued up to 14 days prior to the first day of a camp. No refunds are made after that period. Instrument and Art Exploration Camp In collaboration with the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music Sibling/Buddy Discount: Register for a camp with a sibling or To register, visit wcmusic.org or call 414-276-5760. with a friend who is new to Lynden Sculpture Garden and you 5 DAYS August 10-14 | 9 am-4 pm each receive a $10 discount. Registrations must be submitted Ages: entering 3rd-5th grades • $329 together; campers do not need to register for the same camp to Explore the world of music, art, and nature. Each morning at the Wisconsin June 15-August 28, 2015 receive the discount. Conservatory of Music‘s Audubon Court location (333 W. Brown Deer Rd.) we will try various instruments, movement activities, and stories that will help us Extended Care Options: Cost is $5 per day for either option. become better musicians while learning how we use music in our world. In the afternoons we will look for music on Lynden’s grounds and discover the • If you need to pick your child up after 4 pm, we offer extended connections between art and music in small-group activities. In the studio, care from 4-5:30 pm for all full-day (9 am-4 pm) camps. we’ll investigate sound production as we build sculptures that will make an • If you are registering your child for a morning camp and an appearance in the exhibition/performance on the final day. afternoon camp, and would like them to stay over the lunch hour, we offer supervised lunch (bring your own) and games. Les Artistes In collaboration with the Alliance Française de Milwaukee QUESTIONS? Register at afmilwaukee.org or call 414-964-3855. 5 DAYS August 17-21 | 9-11:30 am Jeremy Stepien, Director of Education Ages 5-7 • $185 (414) 446-8481 Immerse your child in the world of art and the French language, taught by a native French speaker. Enjoy creating art projects inspired by French songs 2145 W. Brown Deer Rd. | Milwaukee, WI 53217 [email protected] and stories while making new friends and acquiring new concepts of the world through language. No French experience necessary; all levels welcome. lyndensculpturegarden.org Financial aid is available; awards are based on need. Movement & Migration Lost Civilization REGISTRATION FORM 5 DAYS July 13-17 | 9 am-12 pm 5 DAYS July 27-31 | 9am-4pm* ENROLL ONLINE AT: lyndensculpturegarden.org Ages 6-11 • $135/$113 members Ages 6-11 • $315/$263 members At Lynden, birds migrate, and bodies— Linda Wervey Vitamvas’s shoreline Name: ______human and animal—move across the Feast suggests a story: Who used these (for children) Date of Birth: ___/___/___ Grade as of 9/15: ______landscape. We will explore migration dishes? What did they eat? Where through site-specific outdoor artmak- have they gone? Using storytelling, School: ______Colombe Marcasiano MORE CAMPS ON REVERSE ing, nature activities, and movement, observation, and invention, we’ll Parent(s)/Guardian(s): ______crossing paths with choreographer imagine a lost civilization that lived Address: ______and artist-in-residence Reggie Wilson here long before the sculptures arrived, City, State, Zip: ______Bird House Grow Your Own on the final day. Migration is a central and we’ll reconstruct their habitats and Email: ______Phone: ______3 DAYS June 15-17 | 9 am-4 pm* 2 DAYS June 25-26 | 9 am-4 pm* theme in Moses(es), the work he and artifacts in Lynden’s back acres. Ages 6-11 • $189/$158 members Ages 6-11 • $126/$105 members his company will perform on July 18. Lynden Sculpture Garden Membership No.: ______During her residency at Lynden, artist Planters can be made from many Idea to Object Colombe Marcasiano made a series things: quail eggs and corks to hold 5 DAYS August 3-7 | 9 am-4 pm* SUMMER CAMPS Sea & Sky of whimsical birdhouses and hung a single specimen; cement and clay 3 DAYS July 13-15 | 1-4 pm Ages 6-11 • $315/$263 members June 15-17 Bird House ($189/$158 members) $____ them in one of our trees. While these formed in or around found objects for Ages 4-6 • $81/$68 members How does an artist move from an idea June 18-19 Across the Pond ($126/$105 members) $____ diminutive structures look like they a collection. We will fill our planters Fly above the sculptures and swim to a finished work of art? We’ll learn June 22-24 Trees, Toads & Treasures could almost be homes for birds, with succulents and herbs for a garden beneath the water lilies in a series of about materials and techniques used ($80/$67 members; add’l child $45) $____ they are really temporary outdoor you’ll enjoy all summer long. games, stories, and hands-on projects by artists in the Lynden Sculpture sculptures—and that’s what we’ll be with clay, collage and paint. Garden and investigate artistic June 22-24 Garden Animals ($81/$68 members) $____ making (and exhibiting in trees). Art Elements processes through hands-on projects. June 25-26 Grow Your Own ($126/$105 members) $____ 4 DAYS June 29-July 2 | 9 am-4 pm* Imaginary Creatures Discover your own creative process June 29-July 2 Art Elements ($252/$210 members) $____ Across the Pond Ages 6-11 • $252/$210 members 5 DAYS July 20-24 | 9 am-12 pm as you unlock your ideas. July 6-7 Spirals ($126/$105 members) $____ 2 DAYS June 18-19 | 9 am-4 pm* Earth, fire, wind, and water: how can Ages 7-11 • $135/$113 members July 8-10 Tree House ($189/$158 members) $____ Ages 6-11 • $126/$105 members we interpret these elements in art Create your own world from recycled Into the Air Starting with Marta Pan’s Floating and nature? With a special focus materials, scraps of metal and wood, 5 DAYS August 10-14 | 9 am-12 pm July 13-17 Movement & Migration ($135/$113 members) $____ Sculpture No.3 (1971), we’ll investigate on sustainability, we will integrate modeling clay—and your imagination. Ages 8-10 • $135/$113 members July 13-15 Sea & Sky ($81/$68 members) $____ how sculpture responds to the environ- scientific inquiry and artmaking, Follow Sally Duback into the back There are many airborne creatures July 20-24 Imaginary Creatures ($135/$113 members) $____ ment in which it is placed. Working in building a lifelong love of nature acres to forage for interesting flying about Lynden: birds, dragonflies, July 20-24 Flower World ($135/$113 members) $____ groups, we’ll build sculptures that float and the world we live in. ingredients, then build dioramas and butterflies, and bees—to name a few. July 20-24 Four Corners ($135/$113 members) $____ across Lynden’s small pond. habitats for the elves, trolls, fairies We will observe how they get around Spirals and other new creatures you make. in order to find ways to create our own July 27-31 Lost Civilization ($315/$263 members) $____ Trees, Toads and 2 DAYS July 6-7 | 9 am-4 pm* Finish by telling a story about your airborne experiences and art projects. August 3-7 Idea to Object ($315/$263 members) $____ Treasures: A Camp Ages 6-11 • $126/$105 members imaginary world. August 10-14 Into the Air ($135/$113 members) $____ for Very Small Children What do Robert Smithson’s famous Giant Inflatables August 17-18 Giant Inflatables ($126/$105 members) $____ (and Their Adults) earthwork, choreographer Martha Flower World 2 DAYS August 17-18 | 9 am-4 pm* August 24-28 Secret Garden ($135/$113 members) $____ 3 DAYS June 22-24 | 9-11 am Graham, and sunflowers have in 5 DAYS July 20-24 | 9 am-12 pm Ages 9-13 • $126/$105 members Extended Care List Dates ($5/day): Ages 20 months-4 years. No limit common? They all employ the Ages 6-8 • $135/$113 members Standing beneath Mark di Suvero’s ____Total days x $5 = $____ on adult age! • $80/$67 members wondrous, beautiful, functional spiral. The formal garden and the natural large, red Lover is not unlike looking (one adult and one child). We will scavenge the sculpture prairie at Lynden are bursting with up at a skyscraper from the sidewalk Sibling/Buddy Discount - $____ Additional child: $45. garden for natural examples and flowers in July. We will use all of our below. We will explore the sensations Deduct $10 for each child if you are registering with a sibling or a friend who is new to Lynden. Join your grandchild—or child—for make some spirals of our own senses to explore this beautiful world created by monumental sculpture SUBTOTAL hands-on nature exploration and using art and movement. of flowers—the shapes, colors, struc- by making our own large-scale Add a membership and save! (Family membership is $60) $____ artmaking among Lynden’s trees, tures, and many visitors to them— inflatables—and debuting them at For full membership benefits, visit:lyndensculpturegarden.org/membership toads and treasures. Tree House and we will create flowers of our own. Lynden’s annual barbecue. TOTAL $____ 3 DAYS July 8-10 | 9 am-4 pm* Garden Animals Ages 6-11 • $189/$158 members Four Corners Secret Garden PAYMENT 3 DAYS June 22-24 | 1-4 pm Imagine a tree house…then use 5 DAYS July 20-24 | 1-4 pm 5 DAYS August 24-28 | 9 am-12 pm ____ Cash ____ Check (payable to: Bradley Family Foundation) Ages 4-6 • $81/$68 members wood, paper and clay to construct Ages 6-11 • $135/$113 members Ages 4-6 • $135/$113 members ____ MasterCard ____ Visa ____ Discover Explore the role that animals play one of your own. With a focus on Travel to the far edges of the sculpture Collect pebbles, twigs, mosses, and in art as we uncover Lynden’s creative invention, we’ll help you Credit Card Number: ______garden to discover hidden landscapes feathers from Lynden’s sleepy hollows collection of animal sculpture, design a miniature hideaway for and unique habitats. Re-imagine to create miniature environments for Expiration Date: ______CVV: ______discover how animals are viewed your imagination. Lynden’s four corners in collaborative gnomes, elves, and sprites. On the final Signature: ______in other cultures, and create projects combining art, nature, day, we’ll lead our families and friends sculptures of our favorite animals. and performance. into the secret garden to discover these RETURN REGISTRATION AND PAYMENT TO: magical works of art. Lynden Sculpture Garden 2145 W. Brown Deer Rd., Milwaukee, WI 53217 * Extended care option available. Lunchtime care is also available for children attending morning and afternoon sessions in the same week.