August Events at the Lynden Sculpture Garden
The Lynden Sculpture Garden is located at 2145 West Brown Deer Road. Admission is free. All events listed below are free unless otherwise indicated. Memberships, which offer significant discounts on workshops and other events, are available.
HOURS
In July, the Lynden Sculpture Garden is open daily from 10 am-5 pm (closed Thursdays). Thanks to the generosity of our donors, admission is free at this time. For complete information on events, visitor guidelines, and everything that goes on at Lynden, visit lyndensculpturegarden.org. Masks are required in the house. The sculpture garden occasionally closes for special events. Please check our website or Facebook page to confirm that we are open.
EXHIBITIONS: GALLERY
HEALING COATS
Through November 27, 2022
More information: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/exhibitions/healing-coats
If you were the messenger of healing, what would you want to do or say?
Although Call & Response artist Arianne King Comer has been physically absent from Lynden for the past two pandemic years, she has been everywhere in our work: sitting on the HOME Refugee Steering Committee, collaborating with Daniel Minter, and working with local refugees, steering committee members, Call & Response artists, and friends and colleagues from across the country on an exhibition of wearable art. Community engagement specialist Kim Khaira has been coordinating the project on the ground in Milwaukee, procuring sewing machines, pairing designers with seamstresses, staffing translators for virtual meetings with King Comer, and taking refugees to the fabric store for supplies. The “healing coats” produced through this process incorporate cultural and personal symbols of healing. By bringing the coats together in the gallery this summer, we bring together “many voices that speak freely to one another.” This is a Call & Response/HOME event.
EXHIBITIONS: OUTDOORS
THE BONSAI EXHIBIT AT LYNDEN
The exhibition is open to the public on Wednesdays, Saturdays & Sundays from 10 am to 4 pm, or by appointment.
More information: http://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/Bonsai
Located beside Big Lake, the Bonsai Exhibit at Lynden—a collaboration with the Milwaukee Bonsai Society and the Milwaukee Bonsai Foundation–includes a display area for bonsai, waterside teaching patio, and pollinator garden.
CALL & RESPONSE
Since 2015, Call & Response–a cumulative, cross-disciplinary, community-focused, artist-driven initiative–has brought together artists, scholars, educators, and community members to construct a space for artists of color to celebrate the radical Black imagination as a means to re-examine the past and imagine a better future. While the pandemic forced us to cancel or postpone many public events at Lynden in 2020-2021, we continued our Call & Response work both onsite and virtually, taking advantage of the opportunities to work quietly on Lynden’s 40 acres or to erase geographical distance through virtual collaboration. We are particularly delighted to see some of these long-gestating projects coming to fruition in 2022. This year, we offer in-person residencies and public programs with artists Scott Alves Barton, Daniel Minter, Arianne King Comer, Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group, and Portia Cobb.
HOME 2022: WORLD REFUGEE DAY CELEBRATIONS
More information: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/home-2022
Following our virtual celebration of World Refugee Day on June 20, the HOME Refugee Steering Committee at the Lynden Sculpture Garden invites you to observe World Refugee Day in a series of outdoor events and programs that celebrate Milwaukee’s refugee communities through art, food, fashion, and performance: World Refugee Day (June 26), Music Day (July 16), Dance Day (July 30), Fashion Day (August 6), and two Craft Days (August 20 and September 17).
WORKSHOPS & EVENTS
Most in-person programs take place outdoors. Masks are required indoors. Pre-registration is required for some workshops.
HOME FASHION DAY 2022
Saturday, August 6, 2022 – 2-4 pm
More information: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/home-fashion-day-2022
HOME Fashion Day, coordinated by Chin youth leader Biak Tha Hlawn, presents an array of cultural wear and shares the significance behind each garment. Members of the public are encouraged to wear at least one ornament or piece of clothing highlighting their own culture or traditions. Food will be available for donation.
LABYRINTH SOCIETY OF LYNDEN SCULPTURE GARDEN: FULL MOON SOUND BATH + LABYRINTH WALK
Friday, August 12, 2022 – 6:30-8 pm
Fee: $25/$20 members. Pre-registration required.
More information and to register: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/sound-bath-aug-2022
Bloom: The Flower
Join artist-in-residence Jenna Knapp and collaborator Sevan Arabajian for an evening of full moon expansion. Under the full moon we are invited to reflect on what has come to fruition in the most recent lunar cycle. Here we’ll use the full moon energy to expand into our potential and pleasure, and to pause to enjoy the fruits of our labor. Take some time out of your week to relax into a healing sound bath and celebrate all that you’ve accomplished through deep rest and receiving. Then, like confetti, take a flower walk in the labyrinth and color the paths with your offerings of gratitude.
Saturday, August 13, 2022 – 2 pm
Free but registration required. For more information and to register: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/POWER
Reggie Wilson and his company, Fist and Heel Performance Group, return to Lynden for the third episode in a relationship that spans many years. Working from a model we developed with the choreographer, his company, and the Milwaukee community in 2015, when we reimagined MOSES(es), and refined in 2018, when we remade CITIZEN, Wilson will complete the trilogy by reimagining POWER, his latest work, for outdoor performance at Lynden. With POWER, Wilson extends his investigation into the role of the body in Black spirituality, and particularly the ways in which spirituality and religiosity can be expressed with the body and in relationship with other bodies. Starting with Mother Rebecca Cox Jackson, a free Black woman who became a Shaker eldress and formed her own community in nineteenth-century Philadelphia, and drawing on decades of research into Black shout traditions, African formalism, and post-modern dance, Wilson imagines “what Black Shaker worship could look like.” POWER will be reworked to integrate a large intergenerational cast of local dancers and community members—some of them veterans of previous productions.
This is a Call & Response event.
BIRDING WITH CHUCK STEBELTON
Sunday, August 14, 2022 – 8:30-10 am
Fee: $10/$5 members. For the safety of all concerned, you must register in advance.
More information and to register: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/birding-chuck-stebelton-2022
Join poet and birder Chuck Stebelton the second Sunday of each month for a small-group, socially distanced bird walk on the grounds. Keeping to the perimeter of the garden, we’ll watch for seasonal migrants and resident bird species and seek out the best bird habitats to identify as many species as we can. Please dress for the weather and plan to walk in varied terrain. Bring your binoculars if you have them; no previous birding experience required.
HOME BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
Thursday, August 18, 2022 – 7-8:30 pm
VIRTUAL
FREE.
More information and to register: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/home-book-discussion-group-homeira-qaderi-dancing-mosque
The Lynden/HOME Refugee Steering Committee book discussion group, moderated by Lynden’s Kim Khaira, is for those interested in firsthand accounts of displacement. We consider works of non-fiction, including autobiographical and semi-autobiographical works, by writers who have faced or are facing forced displacement as refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants. Where stories of persecution, historical trauma, and loss of livelihood are effortlessly conveyed by storytellers, journalists, and humanitarians who search out or stumble upon the lives of refugees, we seek out the words of those to whom these stories belong: the narrators who are the closest to their own stories, and the stories of their people, friends, family and, of course, refugees. In August, we conclude Homeira Qaderi’s Dancing in the Mosque, translated by Zaman Stanizai. Newcomers welcome!
DOG DAYS AT LYNDEN
Saturday, August 20, 2022 – 10 am-4 pm
FREE.
More information: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/dog-days
Bring your canine friends for a summer romp. Dogs must be leashed and considerate of other visitors, canine and human. Dogs are welcome at our HOME Craft Market.
Saturday, August 20, 2022 – 11 am-4 pm
More information: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/home-august-craft-market-2022
Browse our outdoor market featuring crafts and other goods from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Indigenous makers. Food will be available for donation.
LABYRINTH SOCIETY OF LYNDEN SCULPTURE GARDEN: GARDEN HOURS WITH JENNA KNAPP
Sunday, August 21, 2022 – 11 am-1 pm
FREE
More information: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/lsolsg-garden-hours-aug-2022
Artist-In-residence Jenna Knapp views the labyrinth as a physical representation of the kinds of spaces that she also holds in her coaching practice. The center becomes a place for not only individual reflection but an opportunity for connection and conversation with the community. During Garden Hours you can find Knapp at the center of the labyrinth (or up on the hill depending on the intensity of the sun) where she lends a listening ear to those who would like to be heard. Walk the labyrinth and set down some of your burdens, share your secrets with someone, or verbalize the dreams you haven’t yet brought yourself to say out loud. Insight available upon request. Or just enjoy the charged energy of a shared space, at the center of a winding path.
10th ANNUAL HARRY & PEG BRADLEY’S BACKYARD BARBECUE
Thursday, August 25, 2022 – 5 pm-8 pm
Tickets: $100 per person / $230 per family (up to 2 adults and children under 18)
Additional children: $30
Table options: $800 per table of 8 / $400 per table of 4
More information and to buy tickets: http://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/bbq
Join us for our annual fundraiser to benefit Lynden’s education programs, featuring a feast of local, sustainable foods catered by Braise; desserts by the refugee chefs of Tables Across Borders; magic and music. All proceeds benefit Lynden’s education programs.
MILWAUKEE BONSAI SOCIETY 51ST ANNUAL EXHIBIT
Saturday, August 27 and Sunday, August 28, 10 am-4 pm
FREE
More information: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/mbs-exhibit-2022
The Milwaukee Bonsai Society returns to Lynden for their 51st annual exhibit. More than forty trees will be housed under two tents on the main lawn, where they will be judged by visiting experts. Whether you are a spectator, a beginner, or are already practicing, there will be plenty of opportunities to learn more about the art of bonsai.
Tuesday, August 30, 2022 – 10 am-12 pm
More information and to register:
https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/natural-areas-work-day
Join the Lynden land team—Kyle Welna, Robert Kaleta, Alyx Christensen, Annalesa Johnson–for a work day in Lynden’s natural areas. With over 40 acres and more than half a dozen specialized garden spaces, Lynden provides many opportunities for volunteers, from removing invasives, to planting, weeding, and collecting seeds. Individuals with a few hours to spare and those ready to commit time on a regular basis are all welcome. Volunteers are encouraged to bring gardening gloves and digging tools (if you have them). Water, snacks, and additional tools will be provided.
GARDEN WORK DAY
Wednesday, August 31, 2022 – 10 am-12 pm
More information and to register: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/garden-work-day
Join the Lynden land team—Kyle Welna, Robert Kaleta, Alyx Christensen, Annalesa Johnson–for a garden work day on Lynden’s grounds. With over 40 acres and more than half a dozen specialized garden spaces, Lynden provides many opportunities for volunteers, from removing invasives, to planting, weeding, and collecting seeds. Individuals with a few hours to spare and those ready to commit time on a regular basis are all welcome. Volunteers are encouraged to bring gardening gloves and digging tools (if you have them). Water, snacks, and additional tools will be provided.
SUMMER PROGRAMS FOR THE YOUNG AND VERY YOUNG
TUESDAYS IN THE GARDEN FOR PARENTS & VERY SMALL CHILDREN
Tuesdays, August 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, 2022- 10:30 am-11:30 am
Sessions meet outdoors.
Fee: $16/$12 members for one adult and one child.
More information and to register:
https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/Tuesdays
Join art educators Claudia Orjuela and Denice Niebuhr for hands-on art making and all-senses-engaged exploration of the outdoor world at Lynden. Tuesdays in the Garden, designed for children aged 1-3, provides a nurturing environment where children’s curiosity and wonder are extended through play and exploration, and children and their caregivers learn and discover side-by-side. We’ll consider different themes, each designed to connect Lynden’s environment with children’s interests. We will encourage experimentation and the manipulation of art and natural materials to tell stories, solve problems, and develop relationships. The themes for August include Feathered Friends, Flower Friends, Light and Shadows, Secret Fairy Garden, and Nature’s Kitchen.
SUMMER CAMPS AT THE INTERSECTION OF ART AND NATURE
Through August 24, 2022
Ages 4-15 years
Fees vary.
More information and to register: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/camps
Lynden’s art and nature camps for children aged 4 to 15 years integrate our collection of monumental outdoor sculpture and temporary installations with the natural ecology of our hidden landscapes and unique habitats. Led by artists, naturalists, and art educators, the camps explore the intersection of art and nature through collaborative inquiry and hands-on artmaking, using all of Lynden’s 40 acres to create a joyful, all-senses-engaged outdoor experience.
ABOUT THE LYNDEN
The Lynden operates as a laboratory at the intersection of art, nature, and culture. Since opening to the public in 2010, we have worked with artists, educators, students, and our community to create, support, and share experiences that integrate our collection of more than 50 monumental sculptures and temporary installations, Lynden’s community of artists, and the natural ecology of our 40-acre site. The sculpture garden is open to art and nature lovers of all ages daily, 10 am-5 pm; closed Thursdays. Thanks to the generosity of the Herzfeld Foundation and other donors, admission is currently waived. Learn more about visitor guidelines here: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/visit. Annual memberships are also available.
NOTE: This press release was submitted to Urban Milwaukee and was not written by an Urban Milwaukee writer. While it is believed to be reliable, Urban Milwaukee does not guarantee its accuracy or completeness.
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