2018 Camps at a Glance

2018 CAMPS AT A GLANCE Dates Time Camp Ages June 11-15 9 am-4 pm Fields of View 6-11 June 18-22 9 am-4 pm Pond Metropolis 6-11 June 25-27 9-11 am Flower Garden 20 mos.-4 June 25-27 9 am-4 pm Whittlers 10-15 SUMMER CAMPS July 9-13 9 am-1:30 pm Writers in the Garden 10-15 July 16-20 9 am-4 pm Pond Voyage 6-11 AT THE INTERSECTION July 30-August 1 9 am-12 pm Hara’s Home 4-6 July 30-August 3 1-4 pm Symbiotic Relationships 10-15 August 6-10 9 am-4 pm Four Corners 6-11 OF ART AND NATURE August 13-15 9-11 am Roots & Feet 20 mos.-4 August 13-15 9 am-12 pm Story River 4-6 SUMMER CAMPS August 20-24 9-11:30 am Les Artistes 5-7 Lynden’s art and nature camps for children aged 20 months AT THE INTERSECTION to 15 years integrate our collection of monumental outdoor sculpture with the natural ecology of our hidden landscapes REGISTRATION POLICIES and unique habitats. Led by artists, naturalists, and art OF ART AND NATURE educators, the camps explore the intersection of art and nature Enrollment is limited, please register early. Camps are filled on a first-come, first-served basis. through collaborative inquiry and hands-on artmaking, using June 11-August 24, 2018 all of Lynden’s 40 acres to create a joyful, all-senses-engaged Cancellation outdoor experience. Most camps conclude with an informal If a camp is filled to capacity, or cancelled due to low enrollment showing for family and friends. (this will be determined 14 days prior to the first day of a camp), your registration fee will be refunded in full. QUESTIONS? Refunds Jeremy Stepien, Director of Education There is a $35 administrative fee for all refunds issued up to 14 days prior to the first day of a camp. No refunds are made after (414) 446-8481 that period. [email protected] Sibling/Buddy Discount Register for a camp with a sibling or with a friend who is new to Lynden Sculpture Garden and you each receive a $10 discount. Registrations must be submitted together; campers do not need to register for the same camp to receive the discount. You must register by phone or mail to receive the discount. Lynden is committed to making its programs Extended Care Options available to all. Need-based tuition waivers If you need to pick your child up after 4 pm, we offer extended care are available. Contact Jeremy Stepien for an from 4-5:30 pm for most full-day camps. The cost is $7 per day and LEARN MORE & REGISTER AT application form. pre-registration is required. lyndensculpturegarden.org 2145 W. Brown Deer Rd. | Milwaukee, WI 414.446.8794 Flower Garden: Roots & Feet: These camps are organized around themes—from pond habitats to A Camp for Very Small Children A Camp for Very Small Children 2018 REGISTRATION FORM narrating space—and introduce a range of imaginative experiences, (and Their Adults) (and Their Adults) 3 DAYS 3 DAYS ENROLL ONLINE AT: lyndensculpturegarden.org materials, and tools. Working on projects individually and as a June 25-27 | 9-11 am August 13-15 | 9-11 am Ages 20 months-4 years • Ages 20 months-4 years • YOUNG FOR THE YOUNG & VERY Name: ___________________________________________________ team, we’ll be hatching and raising chickens, building rafts to float $96/$85 members (one adult and one child). $96/$85 members (one adult and one child). (for children) Date of Birth: ___/___/___ Grade as of 9/18: __________ across the pond, and recording our discoveries in accordion books, Additional child: $50. Additional child: $50. prints, and sculptures. Whether we are exploring metamorphosis Take up residence in Lynden’s flower Join your child or grandchild in an up-close, School: ________________________________________________ garden and get a close look at the flowers, hands-on exploration of the plants, insects, Parent(s)/Guardian(s): ______________________________________ or the physics of flotation, digging in the vegetable garden or pollinators, and animals (real and sculptural) and animals that share the garden with us. Address: __________________________________________________ carving handles for our knives, our focus is on cultivating creativity that live there. We will listen to stories, plant Each day’s mini-safari will be followed by City, State, Zip: _____________________________________________ and an appreciation of process. some seeds, and create our own garden hats story time and art making. Email: ____________________ Phone: _________________________ festooned with flowers. Story River Lynden Sculpture Garden Membership No.: ________________________ Hara’s Home 3 DAYS August 13-15 | 9 am-12 pm 3 DAYS July 30-August 1 | 9 am-12 pm Ages 4-6 • $96/$85 members SUMMER CAMPS Fields of View Four Corners Ages 4-6 • $96/$85 members Create an accordion picture book to 5 DAYS 5 DAYS June 11-15 Fields of View ($332/$282 members) $____ June 11-15 | 9 am-4 pm August 6-10 | 9 am-4 pm Sculptor Deborah Butterfield uses driftwood record a week of discoveries at Lynden. Ages 6-11 • $332/$282 members Ages 6-11 • $332/$282 members June 18-22 Pond Metropolis ($332/$282 members) $____ to create 3D portraits of horses. We will collect Leaves and seeds become characters, The dynamics of the natural world ensure Wander to the far edges of the sculpture our own materials in the back acres to make plants provide colors, and sound maps June 25-27 Flower Garden ($96/$85 members; add’l child $50) $____ that Lynden’s landscape is in constant garden to dwell in hidden landscapes and miniature friends and habitats for Hara, will describe our nature walks in these flux. We can track change by exploring unique habitats. How do we encounter June 25-27 Whittlers ($225/$195 members) $____ Lynden’s Butterfield horse. experiential journals. differences in scale, texture, shape, and nature? What histories can you imagine July 9-13 Writers in the Garden ($215/$182 members) $____ form. Whether observing an ecosystem for these places? What stories do they July 16-20 Pond Voyage ($332/$282 members) $______ up close or hiking through Lynden’s tell? Using mapmaking, movement, and fields, viewing plants through a collaborative projects, we’ll chronicle our July 30-August 1 Hara’s Home ($96/$85 members) $____ microscope or raising butterflies in discoveries in Lynden’s four corners. Whittlers Symbiotic Relationships 15 AGE TO FOR OLDER CHILDREN UP 3 DAYS June 25-27 | 9 am-4 pm 5 DAYS July 30-August 3 | 1-4 pm the pollinator garden, we will seek out July 30-August 3 Symbiotic Relationships ($142/$121 members) $____ Ages 10-15 • $225/$195 members Ages 10-15 • $142/$121 members change and use watercolor, pressure August 6-10 Four Corners ($332/$282 members) $____ There is a unique pleasure in working natural Much of the activity we observe at Lynden printing, and paper pulp to interpret materials with simple hand tools. We will use is the result of organisms working in August 13-15 Roots & Feet ($96/$85 members; add’l child $50) $____ our discoveries. Extended care option rasps and files to shape hardwood handles for concert with each other. Symbiosis takes August 13-15 Story River ($96/$85 members) $____ available for all of our own fixed-blade carving knives, and then many forms, and guest artist Melissa Pond Metropolis these camps. head to Lynden’s back acres to select buck- Courtney draws a parallel between Extended Care List Dates ($7/day): 5 DAYS June 18-22 | 9 am-4 pm thorn saplings and learn green wood carving biology and art by asking questions Ages 6-11 • $332/$282 members ____Total days x $7 = $____ techniques. You’ll walk away with a staff, as about collaboration, artmaking techniques, A teeming world lies just below the Sibling/Buddy Discount - $____ well as a carving tool and new skills that will and color theory. Focusing on printmaking water’s surface. Strap on waders to Deduct $10 for each child if you are registering with a sibling or a friend who is new to Lynden. enable you to continue your whittling adven- and installation-building, we will explore observe the intricate interactions in the tures at home. Returning students will add a mutualism, commensalism, and pond and to collect specimens for our chisel set to their tool kit, and will work parasitism: some of the ways that artists, SUBTOTAL giant aquarium. Blending the observed on advanced carving projects. materials—and humans—can interact. Add a membership and save! (Family membership is $60) $____ and the imagined, we will paint, print, For full membership benefits, visit: lyndensculpturegarden.org/membership and sculpt a new world of fantastical creatures. A knee-deep adventure for TOTAL $____ those who like to get their feet wet. Les Artistes Writers in the Garden PAYMENT In collaboration with Alliance In collaboration with the University of Pond Voyage & PARTNERSHIPS COLLABORATIONS 5 DAYS July 16-20 | 9 am-4 pm Franḉaise de Milwaukee. Register at Wisconsin-Milwaukee Writing Project. ____ Cash ____ Check (payable to: Bradley Family Foundation) Ages 6-11 • $332/$282 members afmilwaukee.org or call 414-964-3855. 5 DAYS July 9-13 | 9am-1:30 pm For aquatic insects, understanding 5 DAYS August 20-24 | 9-11:30 am Ages 10-15 • $215/$182 members ____ MasterCard ____ Visa ____ Discover buoyancy, surface tension, and Ages 5-7 • $185 Aspiring writers are invited to join propulsion is key to their survival.

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