Programs for Young People Adult Classes & Workshops Events

SPRING & SUMMER 2014

Programs for Young People Adult Classes & Workshops Events & Exhibitions

2145 W. Brown Deer Rd. | Milwaukee, WI 53217 lyndensculpturegarden.org Programs for Young People

The Lynden Sculpture Garden offers a unique experience of art For complete details and to register, visit in nature through its collection of more than 50 monumental lyndensculpturegarden.org/education sculptures sited across 40 acres of park, pond and woodland. The Lynden Sculpture Garden offers programs for young people GARDEN & GALLERY HOURS that integrate the sculpture collection with the natural environment Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday: 10 am – 5 pm to create a unique hands-on experience of art in nature. Art Saturday, Sunday: 12 noon – 5 pm activities focus on 3D artmaking—though we will also do plenty The garden stays open until 7:30 pm on Wednesdays beginning May 14. of painting, drawing and collaging—and an age-appropriate understanding of media, processes and techniques. Nature ADMISSION programs make extensive use of the grounds to create a joyful Adults: $9 outdoor experience. Children, Students (with ID) & Seniors (62+): $7 Active military and children under 6 free. MONTHLY OUTINGS FOR DOCENT-LED TOURS PARENTS & SMALL CHILDREN Sundays at 2:30 pm Adults: $12 Join naturalist Naomi Cobb for outdoor play and exploration. Children, Students (with ID) & Seniors (62+): $8 Tuesdays in the Garden Wednesdays in the Garden Once a month (June 15, July 20, August 17) we replace Tuesdays, 10:30-11:30 am Wednesdays, 12:30-1:45 pm the walking tour with one delivered from the patio for those $10/ $8 members for one $12/ $10 members for one with limited mobility. adult and one child 3 or under. adult and one child aged 4-5. Advance registration required; call 414-446-8794 Additional children are $4. Additional children are $4. by 12 noon on the preceding Friday. April 8: Soil Friends April 30: Soil Friends For group and school tours, contact Jeremy Stepien at: May 6 & 20: Spring Flowers May 7 & 21: Spring Flowers [email protected] June 10 & 17: Shapes in Nature June 11 & 18: Shapes in Nature July 1 & 15: Flying July 16 & 23: Flying MEMBERSHIP August 5 & 19: World of Color August 27: World of Color Members enjoy free unlimited admission to the Lynden Sculpture Garden as well as a complimentary Sunday tour; discounts on camps, WEEKLY ART DROP-IN workshops and classes; $5 guest passes; and invitations to special Drop into our studio for informal art exploration. Come for 30 events. Members provide critical support for our educational and minutes or stay for 2 1/2 hours; visit weekly or stop by when you public programs, the conservation of the collection, and the need an after-school activity; bring a friend or sibling or try it on your maintenance of the landscape. To join: own. Each week we’ll introduce different materials, processes and lyndensculpturegarden.org/membership themes, and get you started on a project. Watch for occasional outdoor artmaking days, too. PLAN YOUR NEXT EVENT OR MEETING AT LYNDEN The Lynden Sculpture Garden’s monumental outdoor sculptures, Through May 21 inspiring works of art and magnificent natural vistas provide a Wednesdays, 3-5:30 pm perfect venue for personal celebrations, small conferences and Ages 6-12 retreats, fundraisers and community meetings with a cultural focus. $10 / $8 members More information at: lyndensculpturegarden.org/rentals Art Drop-In Card: Any 8 sessions for $56 / $40 members Programs for Young People

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SCHOOL’S OUT WORKSHOPS SUMMER ART & NATURE CAMPS Looking for something to do when school isn’t in session? Lynden’s art and nature camps feature outdoor exploration and Wednesday, April 16: Scale: Monumental the opportunity to explore a wide variety of art media. Each camp 9 am-4 pm (late pick-up available) concludes with an informal showing for family and friends. Ages 6-11 June 16-August 22 $60 / $52 members Ages 4-13 Financial aid is available; awards are based on need. Schedule Your Own Workshop Are your kids off school on a day when we aren’t providing a workshop? If you can assemble a group, we’re happy to provide a School’s Out Workshop that fits your schedule. Contact Jeremy Stepien at: [email protected]

HOMESCHOOL DAYS 2014 SUMMER CAMPS AT A GLANCE Designed by art educator Jeremy Stepien and naturalist Naomi Cobb, Homeschool Days offer a unique, hands-on, Dates Time Camp Ages small-group experience of art and nature. June 16-18 9 am-4 pm Garden Animals 6-8 Friday, May 22: Emergence June 19-20 9 am-4 pm Across the Pond 6-11 9:30 am-2:30 pm June 23-25 1-4 pm Sea & Sky 4-6 Ages 6-15 June 26-27 9 am-4 pm Grow Your Own 6-11 $35 / $30 members June 30-July 3 9 am-12 pm Secret Garden 4-6 June 30-July 3 1-4 pm Tree House 6-11 July 7-11 9 am-12 pm Art Elements 6-8 July 7-11 9 am-12 pm Into the Air 9-12 July 14-18 9 am-4 pm Moving Parts 9-13 Teachers! Looking for a spring tour or field trip? July 21-25 9 am-12 pm Imaginary Creatures 7-11 Lynden is launching a new tour, Art as an Avenue to Eco July 21-25 9 am-12 pm Flower World 6-8 Awareness, available in docent-led and self-guided versions. July 21-25 1-4 pm Four Corners 6-11 We also offer a full range of art field trips that combine tours July 28-30 9 am-4 pm Bird House 6-11 with hands-on artmaking, and nature field trips that introduce August 4-8 9 am-4 pm Idea to Object 9-13 students to Lynden’s back acres. August 11-15 9 am-4 pm Instrument/Art Camp 6-11 lyndensculpturegarden.org/education August 18-22 9-11:30 am Les Artistes 5-7 Adult Classes & Workshops

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All materials included; most workshops are suitable for teens. What Is the Shape of Your Body as It Moves through the World? A poetry workshop with writer-in-residence Bhanu Kapil with Artist-in-Residence Yevgeniya Kaganovich grow Workshops In collaboration with Woodland Pattern Book Center Sundays, 1-5 pm June 2-5 (various times) April 13, May 18, June 8, July 13, August 17 $250 / $225 members Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden

Shibori with Natural Dyes with Jamie Lea Bertsch WORKSHOPS WITH THE MILWAUKEE BONSAI SOCIETY Saturday, June 7, 9:30 am-4:30 pm Bonsai for Parents & Children $85 / $75 members Saturday, April 26, 9 am-12 noon, $60 / $54 members Bonsai for Beginners Saturday, May 31, 9 am-12 noon, $75 / $85 members Bonsai for Teens Sunday, June 22, 1-4 pm, $60 / $54 members

Ceramic Handbuilding: Porcelain Trays, Tiles & Trivets with Artist-in-Residence Linda Wervey Vitamvas Saturday, May 3, 10 am-4 pm Monday, June 9, 10 am-4 pm Saturday, July 19, 10 am-4 pm $85 / $75 members

Mother’s Day Silk Scarf Painting with Leslie Perrino Sunday, May 11, 10 am-4:30 pm Build Your Own Canoe $85 / $75 members A two-weekend boat build with All Hands BoatWorks Saturday & Sunday, June 21-22 & June 28-29 Explosion of Color: Painting with Pastels with Sally Duback Fee varies with canoe size. All materials are included Saturday, May 31, 9 am-4 pm and you keep the boat you make. Saturday, July 12, 9 am-4 pm $85 / $75 members Wearable Felt Flowers with Jane Moore Saturday, June 21, 9:30 am-12:30 pm TAI CHI AND YOGA IN THE GARDEN $66 / $60 members (includes take-home kit) Tai Chi with Angela Laughingheart Sundays, 2-3:30 pm, June 1-22 & August 3-24 Art of the Book with Carey Watters Wednesdays, 9-10:30 am, June 4-25 & August 6-27 Saturday, June 28, 10 am-3 pm 4-week Sessions, $40 / $32 members $65 / $58 members

Yoga with Heather Eiden Textile Marbling with Jamie Lea Bertsch Sundays, 2-3:30 pm, June 29-July 20 & September 7-28 Sunday, June 29,10 am-4 pm 4-week Sessions, $40 / $32 members $72 / $65 members Tai Chi for Daddy and Me with Angela Laughingheart Sunday, June 15, 12:30-1:30 pm All Things Paper: The Marvels of Marbling with Carey Watters $15 / $12 members for a parent/child pair Saturday, August 16, 10 am-3 pm $65 / $58 members Events & Exhibitions

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EVENTS EXHIBITIONS + Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden + Opening receptions are free and open to the public.

Women’s Speaker Series WOMEN, NATURE, SCIENCE Wednesdays, 7-9 pm Kyoung Ae Cho: One at a Time April 23: Ann Peters, author of House Hold April 13-July 13 May 28: Jessica Null Vealitzek, author of The Rooms Are Filled Opening reception: Sunday, April 13, 3-5 pm + Kyoung Ae Cho presents work that involves the painstaking collection Kites Over Lynden: A Day for Art & Flying + of things over a long period of time, or the slow accretion of small Sunday, May 4, 12-4 pm objects to produce a whole. Cho’s practice is never far from nature: Kite makers, flyers, plein-air painters and art lovers of all ages are she collects fallen leaves and twigs for her hangings and closely invited to celebrate the arrival of spring. observes the flowers and insects in her garden, recording their behavior in startling, almost voyeuristic photographs. Milwaukee Bonsai Society Spring Display + May 10-11, 12-5 pm Inside | Outside After the dormancy of the long winter months, bonsai trees Nancy Popp & Paul Druecke come back to life with a burst of energy. Some early-blooming July 26-October 26 trees will be starting to flower just in time for Mother’s Day: Opening reception: Saturday, July 26, 5-8 pm + enjoy the bonsai and take your mother for a stroll in the garden. Nancy Popp and Paul Druecke use visual markers to redraw the lines of history. In two new installments of Popp’s Untitled Summer Nature Walks + (Street Performances) and in Garden Path, Druecke’s site-specific Wednesday evenings, 6:30-7:30 pm intervention, they explore Lynden’s evolution from private May 21, June 18, July 16, August 27 residence to public institution. After your Wednesday evening picnic, join naturalist Naomi Cobb for a walk through the back acres.

Midsummer Saturnalia + Wednesday, July 23, 8-11 pm Take advantage of our extended hours on Wednesdays to stop by for a picnic. Stay for an astronomy talk with Robert Powell, then come back outside to see Saturn, Mars, and more.

IN COLLABORATION WITH ALVERNO PRESENTS

Jeanine Durning: inging Two performances: April 16 & April 18 at 7:30 pm Part spoken word performance, part reverie, part dance, part oral biography, inging is a choreography of the mind, moving in the continuous present. Harry & Peg Bradley’s 3rd Annual Backyard Barbecue Conversations with Sculptures Thursday, August 21, 5-8 pm Trisha Brown Dance Company Join us for a feast, entertainment, hands-on art, nature activities Two performances: July 27 at 2 pm & 5 pm and a silent auction to benefit our education programs. Dances and sculptures from the ‘60s and ‘70s: a performance Tickets on sale now! among Lynden’s sculptures of Trisha Brown’s early works. lyndensculpturegarden.org/bbq For more information on events & exhibitions visit lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar + Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden

SPRING & SUMMER CALENDAR

April June (continued) 6 Family Workshop: Drawn with Nature + 16 Summer Art & Nature Camps begin 8 Tuesdays in the Garden 17 Tuesdays in the Garden 13 grow Workshop with Yevgeniya Kaganovich + 18 Wednesdays in the Garden 13 Opening - Kyoung Ae Cho: One at a Time 18 Wednesday Evening Nature Walk with Naomi Cobb + 16 School’s Out Workshop: Monumental 21 Build Your Own Canoe begins 16 Solo Flight - Jeanine Durning: inging 21 Wearable Felt Flowers with Jane Moore 18 Solo Flight - Jeanine Durning: inging 21 Dog Day: Bring your dog to Lynden + 23 Women’s Speaker Series: Ann Peters 22 Bonsai for Teens 26 Bonsai for Parents & Children 28 Art of the Book with Carey Watters 26 Dog Day: Bring your dog to Lynden + 29 Textile Marbling with Jamie Lea Bertsch 27 Sunday Afternoon Nature Walk with Naomi Cobb + 29 Yoga in the Garden (4-week Sunday session begins) 30 Wednesdays in the Garden July May 1 Tuesdays in the Garden 3 Ceramics: Trays, Tiles & Trivets with Linda Wervey Vitamvas 7-11 UWM Art Education Institute: Living Matter 4 Kites Over Lynden: A Day for Art & Flying + 12 Explosion of Color: Painting with Pastels with Sally Duback 6 Tuesdays in the Garden 13 grow Workshop with Yevgeniya Kaganovich + 7 Wednesdays in the Garden 15 Tuesdays in the Garden 10-11 Milwaukee Bonsai Society Spring Display + 16 Wednesdays in the Garden 11 Mother’s Day Silk Scarf Painting with Leslie Perrino 16 Wednesday Evening Nature Walk with Naomi Cobb + 17 Dog Day: Bring your dog to Lynden + 19 Ceramics: Trays, Tiles & Trivets with Linda Wervey Vitamvas 18 grow Workshop with Yevgeniya Kaganovich + 19 Dog Day: Bring your dog to Lynden + 20 Tuesdays in the Garden 20 Family Workshop: Accordion Books + 21 Wednesdays in the Garden 20 Patio Tour 21 Wednesday Evening Nature Walk with Naomi Cobb + 23 Wednesdays in the Garden 22 Homeschool Day: Emergence 23 Midsummer Saturnalia + 28 Women’s Speaker Series: Jessica Null Vealitzek 26 Reception: Inside/Outside: Nancy Popp + Paul Druecke 31 Bonsai for Beginners 27 Conversations with Sculptures: Trisha Brown Dance Company 31 Explosion of Color: Painting with Pastels with Sally Duback August June 3 Tai Chi in the Garden (4-week Sunday session begins) 1 Tai Chi in the Garden (4-week Sunday session begins) 5 Tuesdays in the Garden 2-5 Poetry Workshop with Bhanu Kapil 6 Tai Chi in the Garden (4-week Wednesday session begins) 4 Tai Chi in the Garden (4-week Wednesday session begins) 16 The Marvels of Marbling with Carey Watters 5 Poetry Workshop Reading & Celebration + 16 Dog Day: Bring your dog to Lynden + 7 Shibori with Natural Dyes with Jamie Lea Bertsch 17 grow Workshop with Yevgeniya Kaganovich + 8 grow Workshop with Yevgeniya Kaganovich + 17 Patio Tour 9 Ceramics: Trays, Tiles & Trivets with Linda Wervey Vitamvas 19 Tuesdays in the Garden 10 Tuesdays in the Garden 21 Harry & Peg Bradley’s Backyard Barbecue 11 Wednesdays in the Garden 27 Wednesdays in the Garden 15 Tai Chi for Daddy and Me 27 Wednesday Evening Nature Walk with Naomi Cobb + 15 Patio Tour 2145 W. Brown Deer Rd. | Milwaukee, WI 53217 lyndensculpturegarden.org

SPRING & SUMMER 2014