June 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
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.
EXHIBITIONS: GALLERY
THE TIME HAS COME: THE LYNDEN STAFF EXHIBITION
Through June 19, 2024
More information: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/exhibitions/time-has-come-lynden-staff-exhibition
Technically, Lynden is not an artist-run organization, but we operate a lot like one, placing artists at the center of all we do. Moreover, almost everyone who works here is an artist, musician, or dancer–and those that aren’t actively practicing are makers. They paint, they carve (wood and mushrooms), they make ceramics and costumes and batik and empanadas, they write songs and take photographs and build puppets, they draw.
Hope Away from Home: A World Where Refugees Are Always Included
June 22-July 19, 2024
More information: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/exhibitions/hope-away-home-world-where-refugees-are-always-included
After being on display in the Milwaukee City Hall Rotunda from June 11-21, Hope away from home – a world where refugees are always included, an exhibition of work by local refugee children and youth, makes a stop at Lynden. The exhibition includes work made by the participants in Be the Change!, Lynden’s arts-based leadership program for young refugee women and girls.
EXHIBITIONS: OUTDOORS
THE BONSAI EXHIBIT AT LYNDEN
The exhibition is open Wednesdays, Saturdays & Sundays from 10 am to 4 pm, or by appointment.
More information: https://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
More information: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/callandresponse2024
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. This summer Asmaa Walton, Reggie Wilson, and Arianne King Comer will be in residence.
HOME 2024: WORLD REFUGEE DAY CELEBRATIONS
More information: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/home-2024
We begin our World Refugee Day celebration on June 20 at Milwaukee City Hall. The HOME Refugee Steering Committee at the Lynden Sculpture Garden then invites you to observe World Refugee Day in a series of outdoor events and programs at Lynden that celebrate Milwaukee’s refugee communities through art, food, fashion, and performance: World Refugee Day (June 22), Threads of Power: A HOME Fashion Showcase (July 13), and HOME Community, Culture & Citizenship Celebration (August 17).
WORKSHOPS & EVENTS
STORIES AS WE MOVE: A HOME INTERVIEW SERIES
Wednesday, June 5, 2024– 2-3 pm
VIRTUAL
FREE.
More information: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/stories-we-move-2024
Stories as We Move launched in 2020 as part of Lynden’s HOME virtual platform. The series pairs individuals who have faced forced displacement in its many forms in a conversational setting. Refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants interview those that have resettled to the United States, including friends and family that are based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as well as those that remain overseas. These interviews are reflections of relationships and conversations that we continue to have long after resettlement; they explore issues that our refugee friends and family members continue to face as they remain in their country of origin or interim country.
THE ART OF BIRDING WITH CHUCK STEBELTON
Sunday, June 9, 2024 – 10-11:30 am
Fee: $10/$5 members.
More information and to register:
https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/birding-2024
Join poet and Wisconsin Master Naturalist volunteer Chuck Stebelton on the second Sunday of each month to bird by eye and ear with a focus on the life histories of wild birds. 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 and field guides if you have them; no previous birding experience required.
HOME BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
Thursday, Thursday, June 13, 2024 – 7-8 pm
VIRTUAL
FREE.
More information and to register:
https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/home-book-discussion-group-2024
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 and fiction, including autobiographical and semi-autobiographical works, by writers who have faced or are facing forced displacement as refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants. In June we continue with Ishmael Beah’s Radiance of Tomorrow. Newcomers welcome!
DOG DAYS AT LYNDEN
Saturday, June 15, 2024 – 10 am-4 pm
FREE.
More information: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/dog-days-2024
Bring your canine friends for an early summer walk. Dogs must be leashed and considerate of other visitors, canine and human.
HOME 2023: WORLD REFUGEE DAY AT MILWAUKEE CITY HALL
Thursday, June 20, 2024 – 11:30 am-2 pm
Milwaukee City Hall, 200 E. Wells St.
FREE
More information: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/home-2024-world-refugee-day-milwaukee-city-hall
Join the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families – Bureau of Refugee Programs and Lynden’s HOME Refugee Steering Committee to celebrate World Refugee Day, and our refugee communities, in Milwaukee’s beautiful City Hall. The program will include art, music, dance, and poetry from refugee communities, hands-on art making activities, and food trucks. An exhibition of work by local refugee children and youth will be on display in the City Hall Rotunda from June 11-20.
Thursday, June 20, 2024 – 7-8:30 pm
Fee: $30/$25 members. Pre-registration required.
More information and to register: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/sound-bath-june-2024
Join artist-in-residence Jenna Knapp and collaborator Sevan Arabajian for the annual summer solstice sound bath. The evening will begin with a sound bath underneath two beautiful trees, led by Sevan. Then, participants are invited to set intentions for this new season and join Jenna in the labyrinth for a sunset candle walk.
HOME 2024: WORLD REFUGEE DAY CELEBRATION
Saturday, June 22, 2024 – 11 am-4 pm
More information: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/home-2024-world-refugee-day
World Refugee Day at Lynden, co-sponsored by the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families – Bureau of Refugee Programs, is organized as both a resource fair and a celebration of many cultures. In addition to making art, tasting food, and listening to stories, poems, and music and dance, visitors will be able to gather information on local services for refugees. Bring a picnic and a blanket to enjoy the outdoors with friends, family, and community or “taste the world” by purchasing food and refreshments from refugee chefs. In the gallery, you will find HOME: A World Where Refugees Are Always Included, and exhibition of work by refugee students from K-12 schools around Milwaukee as well as by the participants in Be the Change!, our arts-based leadership program for young refugee women and girls.
NATURAL AREAS WORK DAY
Tuesday, June 25, 2024 – 10 am-12 pm
FREE
More information and to register: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/2024-natural-area-work-days
Join the Lynden land team—Robert Kaleta, Esther Portnoy, and Alyx Christensen–for a volunteer work day on the grounds. The Lynden Sculpture Garden is transforming its natural habitats and formal landscapes into sustainable and diverse ecosystems that highlight the natural beauty inherent in them. The Lynden’s goal is to steward healthy habitats for an array of native plants and wildlife while adding a vibrant mosaic of color and texture to this sculptural landscape through every season. In June, we’re on the lookout for white sweet clover in Lynden’s prairies and savannas. This clover tends to outgrow ecologically significant species, shading out the sun-loving plants we are working to cultivate in these microhabitats. While sweet clover is not so desirable in the landscape, it can be cooked and eaten as a vegetable or dried and used for vanilla flavoring in sweets and tea. Water, snacks, and additional tools will be provided.
GARDEN WORK DAY
Thursday, June 27, 2024 – 10 am-12 pm
More information and to register: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/2024-garden-work-days
Join the Lynden land team—Robert Kaleta, Esther Portnoy, and Alyx Christensen–for a volunteer work day on the grounds. The Lynden Sculpture Garden is transforming its natural habitats and formal landscapes into sustainable and diverse ecosystems that highlight the natural beauty inherent in them. The Lynden’s goal is to steward healthy habitats for an array of native plants and wildlife while adding a vibrant mosaic of color and texture to this sculptural landscape through every season. Spend a couple of hours in the formal gardens with us in June sprucing up the lilacs and learning about blending native and non-native plants to enhance the beauty and pollinator value of the formal gardens here at Lynden. Volunteers are encouraged to bring their favorite gardening gloves and digging tools (if you have them)! Water, snacks, and additional tools will be provided.
PROGRAMS FOR THE YOUNG AND VERY YOUNG
TUESDAYS IN THE GARDEN FOR PARENTS & VERY SMALL CHILDREN
Tuesdays, June 4, 11, 18 & 25, 2024- 10:30 am-11:30 am
Sessions meet outdoors. Sessions move indoors in the event of inclement weather.
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. Click here to see the themes for June.
HOME: MULTILINGUAL STORY TIME
Our virtual Multilingual Story Time takes a break over the summer, but it does occasionally pop up in person. We will host an in-person story time during our World Refugee Day celebration on June 22 (see above).
SUMMER CAMPS AT THE INTERSECTION OF ART AND NATURE
June 17-August 21, 2024
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. Information and registration will be posted in January.
NOHL FELLOWSHIP EVENTS
Supporting artists is a at the core of Lynden’s mission. One of the ways that we support artists is by administering a range of grant programs for artists: the Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists, the Suitcase Export Fund, and the Ruth Arts Mary L Nohl Alumni Awards.
2023 NOHL FELLOWS EXHIBITION
May 31-August 4, 2024
Haggerty Museum of Art, 1234 West Tory Hill Street on the Marquette University Camps
Open M-Sa 10 am-4:30 pm, admission free. (The museum will be closed June 26-July 7, 2024 and July 14-21, 2024).
More information: https://www.marquette.edu/haggerty-museum/exhibitions.php
Opening reception: Saturday, June 1, 4-6 pm
The exhibition brings together work by Mikal Floyd-Pruitt and Janelle VanderKelen in the Established category; and three artists in the Emerging category: Siara Berry, Fatima Laster, and Alayna N. Pernell. The 2023 Nohl Fellows were chosen in late 2022 from a field of 157 applicants by a panel of three jurors: Jadine Collingwood, assistant curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Thomas James, independent curator and executive director
Lynden will be closed for the holiday on July 4. Our HOME celebrations continue with Threads of Power: a HOME Fashion Showcase on July 13. The show is not just about clothing: it’s a celebration of the strength and diversity that refugees bring to the global community. Designers involved in the event come from various cultural backgrounds, each bringing a unique perspective to their creations. We also offer a two-day HOME workshop (July 13-14) with Ceci Tejeda, who returns to make more alebrijes. Later in July we open another HOME event, Inner Compulsion, an exhibition of hand-embroidered textiles by Elnaz Javani. The artist will be on hand for the opening reception on July 23. Chuck Stebelton leads a bird walk on July 14 and dog day is July 20. In a departure from their usual practice, artist-in-residence Jenna Knapp and Sevan Arabajian-Ries offer a daytime sound bath on July 21 and follow it up with a full moon mini-market. In July, we’ll still be on the lookout for white sweet clover in Lynden’s prairies and savannas, and we will also be watching for wild oregano, particularly in and around the labyrinth, during the natural areas work day (July 23). We’ll be tidying up Waterfall Hill during the garden work day (July 25). Tuesdays in the Garden meets weekly (five times in July!) and the themes for are Movement and Music in the Garden, Artful Animals, Flower Friends, Life Cycles: Monarch Butterflies, and Pond Life Cycles: Frogs. The HOME Book Discussion Group continues with Ishmael Beah’s Radiance of Tomorrow on July 18. If you visit Lynden between July 22 and August 2, you are likely to see choreographers working on the grounds. They are the participants in our inaugural Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group ChoreoLab at Lynden. All are welcome at their final, informal showing on August 2.
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. Admission is free. 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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