November Events at the Lynden Sculpture Garden

The Lynden Sculpture Garden is located at 2145 West Brown Deer Road. Admission is $9 general, $7 for students and seniors. Members and children under 6 are free. Admission includes access to the sculpture garden and house. All events listed below are free with admission unless otherwise indicated. Memberships are available.

HOURS

In November, the Lynden Sculpture Garden is open daily (except Thursdays) from 10 am to 5 pm. The sculpture garden is closed Thursday, November 28, 2019.

ON VIEW ON THE GROUNDS & IN THE HOUSE

ROSEMARY OLLISON: PROSPERITY IN A MILLION SCRAPS
Through December 8, 2019
Free to members or with admission to sculpture garden.
https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/exhibitions/rosemary-ollison
Rosemary Ollison has transformed each of her apartments into an artist environment, deploying layers of pattern, duct tape sculptures, curtains of woven leather, crazy quilts, and inventive drawings. At Lynden she creates an immersive environment within the former home of Harry and Peg Bradley. Spreading beyond the gallery, where a nineteen-foot leather quilt will hang, Ollison will transform Lynden’s dining room, preparing it for an imaginary dinner party. Ollison is a 76-year-old self-taught artist and 2018 Nohl Fellow in the Emerging category. At 16, Ollison moved to the Midwest from an Arkansas plantation, and she began making art in 1994 while healing from an abusive marriage. She collects glass, leather, bracelets, beads, bones, and jewelry from thrift shops and rummage sales and repurposes these materials into sculptural and wearable works. This is a Call & Response event.

EVENTS

WOMEN’S SPEAKER SERIES: Laura Kamoie, Sophie Perinot & E. Knight, authors of Ribbons of Scarlet
Tuesday, November 5, 2019 – 7:00pm
Fee: $24/$19 members (includes refreshments and a signed copy of the book)
More information and to register:
https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/womens-speaker-series-ribbons-of-scarlet
Lynden Sculpture Garden’s Women’s Speaker Series, organized by Margy Stratton of Milwaukee Reads, and Boswell Books welcome Laura Kamoie, Sophie Perinot and E. Knight, three of the six award-winning and bestselling authors who contributed to Ribbons of Scarlet: A Novel of the French Revolution’s Women, to the Lynden Sculpture Garden. These authors bring to life a breathtaking epic novel illuminating the hopes, desires, and destinies of princesses and peasants, harlots and wives, fanatics and philosophers—six unforgettable women whose paths cross during one of the most tumultuous and transformative events in history: the French Revolution. Ribbons of Scarlet is a timely story of the power of women to start a revolution—and change the world.

LABYRINTH SOCIETY OF LYNDEN SCULPTURE GARDEN: VOLUNTEER DAY
Wednesday, November 6, 2019 – 2-4 pm
FREE
More information: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/lsolsg-volunteer-days-nov-2019
Artist-in-residence Jenna Knapp is seeking volunteers to help with buckthorn removal and seeding at Lynden’s newly-inaugurated labyrinth. We’ll be providing beverages. Dress for the weather and bring work gloves. Volunteers will receive free admission to Lynden for the day, a guest pass for future use, and a founding membership in the Labyrinth Society of Lynden Sculpture Garden.

LABYRINTH SOCIETY OF LYNDEN SCULPTURE GARDEN: (ALMOST) FULL MOON SOUND BATH
Saturday, November 9, 2019 – 4:30-5:30 pm
Fee: $15/$10 members. Includes admission to the sculpture garden.
More information and to register: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/lsolsg-sound-bath-nov-2019
The full moon is a time for releasing and cleansing. The light of the full moon illuminates any obstacles or interferences in our lives. Once we recognize our blocks, it becomes easier to let go of what didn’t serve us in the most recent lunar phase. It is an amazing time to reevaluate and recollect. Join Milwaukee’s own sound healer, Catherine Soteira (Cat Ries), initiated by Akhilanka of the Temple of Singing Bowls in Mysore, India, to celebrate the full moon with a healing sound bath. Sound baths are an ancient form of deep meditation; they include various ambient sounds playing in a space where you can hear and feel their vibrations. The sound bath lasts approximately 45-60 minutes. Weather permitting (50 degrees or above), we will do this outdoors, in which case you will need to bring your own sleeping bag or blankets to fortify yourself against the cold, and to dress appropriately for the weather. If it is too chilly, we will assemble indoors and a yoga mat, blanket, or towel to rest on for the duration will be sufficient. All are welcome to come early and walk the labyrinth while it is still light.

HOME: CONVERSATIONS ON DISPLACEMENT AND THE ARTS
Saturday, November 16, 2019 – 1-3 pm
Free.
More information: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/home-conversations-displacement-and-arts
This is the second in a series of conversations among artists, scholars, and community activists that continues the work begun with our first annual refugee celebration, HOME this past June, and it focuses attention on these communities as we prepare for the second HOME celebration, scheduled for June 20, 2020. As with similar conversations at Lynden, we will look at displacement broadly, as both an internal and an external phenomenon: from the experiences of refugees and immigrants coming to the United States to those of Indigenous, enslaved, and interned populations within this country. Participants in the second panel, moderated by artist-in-residence Kim Khaira, include Sheila Badwan, Kai Gardner-Mishlove, Kevin J. Miyazaki, and Evelyn Patricia Terry. Refreshments will be served.

KLASSIK’S “QUIET” ALBUM LISTENING EVENT
A Call & Response to the Work of Rosemary Ollison at the Lynden Sculpture Garden
Thursday, November 21, 2019 at 7 pm
Tickets: $20/$18 members – includes light refreshments and a copy of the CD.
More information and to purchase tickets: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/klassik-quiet-album-event
Although the experiences and processes that helped shape Kellen “Klassik” Abston’s latest full-length album QUIET began over four years ago, before he was even familiar with the work of Rosemary Ollison, the commonalities between Ollison’s exhibition at Lynden, Prosperity In A Million Scraps, and Klassik’s QUIET make them complementary artistic explorations of the power of art as a means of healing, and growing through trauma.

“At the opening of her exhibit, Rosemary told this humbling story about how she went through an abusive and toxic relationship, and had been so broken down by it that she felt she only deserved scraps, and so that is how she started collecting all of these fragments from which her art was born. That vulnerability, that exposing of pain and letting the story of healing essentially piece itself together, immediately reminded me of my own self-work, and how QUIET came about. One of the central themes of this new album is serenity: accepting that you can’t change everything, being courageous enough to change the things that you can, and being wise enough to know the difference. In Rosemary’s story I saw serenity in the way she allowed art to move in and heal, and seeing my own experiences reflected in that, I knew that there was no better place to share my artistic representation of growth, courage, and healing than within the loving and beautiful world she created with Prosperity In A Million Scraps.”

LABYRINTH SOCIETY OF LYNDEN SCULPTURE GARDEN: DRESS REHEARSAL
A MOVEMENT WORKSHOP IN THE LABYRINTH WITH JENNA KNAPP
Saturday, November 23, 2019 – 2-4 pm
Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden.
More information: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/lsolsg-dress-rehearsal
Artist-in-residence Jenna Knapp, founder of the Labyrinth Society of Lynden Sculpture Garden, embarks on a seasonal, participatory video project in the labyrinth. She invites you to join her there for an informal pedestrian movement workshop that will get your body moving, creating, and experiencing the space in an entirely new way. You will participate in individual and group movement exercises, and will follow simple prompts to create your own movement and dances. No previous movement or dance experience required. Dress Rehearsal is a recurring event: attend one session or attend them all. Each Dress Rehearsal will be filmed and the footage will be used in Knapp’s video documenting the change of seasons in the labyrinth.

DOG DAYS AT LYNDEN
Saturday, November 30, 2019 – 10 am-5 pm
Free to dogs and members or with admission to the sculpture garden.
More information: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/dog-days
Bring your canine friends for our annual post-Thanksgiving dog day, the perfect occasion for a postprandial stroll. Dogs must be leashed and considerate of other visitors, canine and human.

WORKSHOPS FOR ADULTS

PAPER MARBLING: A WORKSHOP WITH CARY SUNEJA
Saturday, November 2, 2019 – 10 am-4 pm
Fee: $90/$80 members
More information and to register: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/paper-marbling-nov-2019
Marbling is the ancient art of “floating” paints on a water bath, then combing and raking them into intricate patterns. In this workshop, you will learn how to apply acrylic paints to a water bath and create beautiful one-of-a-kind papers. You will go home with 12 or more of your own papers for use in your next project, from bookbinding to card making to paper crafting.

WORKSHOPS FOR EDUCATORS
ART AS ACTIVISM: A MINI WRITING RETREAT WITH THE UWM WRITING PROJECT
Saturday, November 2, 2019 – 10 am-12 pm
Fee: $20
More information and to register: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/art-activism-mini-writing-retreat-2019
Engaging with art often stimulates our desire to investigate more of our world and develop a disposition for taking action. Join UWM Writing Project Teacher Leader Kelly Saunders and ZIP MKE Founder Dominic Inouye for an opportunity to connect educators with a passion for exploring social justice issues. Through participation in a series of reflective visual literacy and writing activities, you will use your own unique experiences to build collective knowledge about how to express our most passionate beliefs and advocate for positive change.

ENAMELING: A WORKSHOP WITH LESLIE PERRINO
Sunday, November 3, 2019 – 9:30 am-4:30 pm
Fee: $110/$99 members
More information and to register: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/enameling-nov-2019
Enameling is a timeless art form that involves sifting colored glass onto a copper base and fusing it in a kiln to create shiny, colorful works of art. In this workshop, Leslie Perrino teaches the basics of enameling, covering a variety of techniques including stencils, sgraffito, threads, silver foil, screens, and decals. She will also be covering new techniques for returning students. You will complete sample pieces for practice and can then choose from a variety of projects. No experience required, and all materials supplied.

GIFTMAKING: BATIK WITH NATURAL DYES WITH KIM KHAIRA
Tuesday, November 5, 2019 – 10 am-4 pm
Saturday, November 9, 2019 – 10 am-4 pm
Fee: $85/ $75 members per session. Two sessions available; take one or both!
More information and to register: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/giftmaking-batik-natural-dyes-kim-khaira
Artist-in-residence Kim Khaira spent part of the summer working alongside master dyer Arianne King Comerand walking the grounds with Native herbalist Angela Kingsawan.These interactions informed the next phase of her residency project at Lynden: harvesting plants from the grounds and developing the natural dyeing techniques used in this workshop. Her practical and artistic experiments with indigo, turmeric, goldenrod and other materials gathered at Lynden have elicited everything from poetic lamentations on natural fibers to a series of sample batik prints in a range of colors and a variety of saturations. In this workshop, Khaira invites you to gather around the dye vat and create batik gifts for upcoming holidays unique to you, your family, and your culture.

AROMA ARTS: AN INCENSE-MAKING WORKSHOP WITH MIKE PARÉ
Sunday, November 10, 2019 – 1-4 pm
Fee: $65/$55 members. Advance registration required; all materials included.
More information and to register:
https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/aroma-arts-incense-making-nov-2019
Learn the basics of making your own natural incense. This workshop introduces a Japanese style of incense-making using traditional materials. Artist Mike Paré, founder of Zouz Incense, a natural incense company, draws from the history of incense to introduce students to a variety of aromatic herbs, spices, tree resins, and powders; discusses the philosophy of fragrance formation; and teaches participants to roll cones or joss sticks. Each participant will finish the workshop with 12-20 pieces of incense.

MAJOLICA: CREATING A MEMORY PLATE
A WORKSHOP WITH KATHERYN CORBIN
Two Wednesdays, November 13 & November 20, 2019 – 10 am-3 pm
Fee: $150/ $140 members per session.
More information and to register: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/majolica-fall-2019
The island of Majorca and the surrounding Mediterranean countries produce decorative and utilitarian pottery known as Majolica. Majolica ware uses an opaque white glaze as a ground and brush painting with colorful ceramic oxides and stains to create surface decoration. The brush work is similar to painting with watercolors, and this is an excellent workshop for painters new to ceramics. This workshop focuses on creating a memory plate. Please bring a photograph or object that you would like to commemorate. On the first day you will learn basic slab and coil construction and will hand-build a clay vessel of your choice—perhaps a platter or shallow bowl with plenty of surface for painting. Return a week later to paint your bisque-fired piece using your photo or object as inspiration.

HOLIDAY GIFTMAKING WORKSHOP: BUILD YOUR OWN CUTTING BOARD
A WORKSHOP WITH DAVID COBB AND DAVID WEISSMAN
Sunday, November 17, 2019 -1-4 pm
Fee: $50/$45 members
More information and to register: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/build-your-own-cutting-board-nov-2019
Join David Cobb and David Weissman, co-founders of the Milwaukee Craft Guild, in the Lynden shop as they take you through the steps of constructing your very own cutting board. The two Davids will guide you through wood selection, gluing, sanding, and finishing to create a unique family heirloom. No prior woodworking experience is needed. The workshop concludes with bread, cheese, and wine to authenticate the boards.

FOR KIDS & FAMILIES

WEEKLY ART DROP-IN FOR KIDS AGED 11 and Up
November 6, 13, 20
Wednesdays, 3-5:30 pm
Fee: $11/$9 members; Art Drop-In Card: Any 8 sessions for $64/$48 members
More information and to register: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/wed-adi-fall-2019
Drop into our studio for informal art exploration. Come for 30 minutes or stay for 2 1/2 hours; visit weekly or stop by when you need an after-school activity; bring a friend or sibling or try it on your own. Each week we’ll introduce different materials, processes and themes, and get you started on a project. We’ll focus on three-dimensional artmaking–though we will also do plenty of painting, drawing and collaging–and make use of Lynden’s special resources: the collection of monumental sculpture and 40 acres of park, lake and woodland.

WEEKLY ART DROP-IN FOR KIDS AGED 6-11
November 7, 14, 21
Thursdays, 2:30-5 pm
Fee: $11/$9 members; Art Drop-In Card: Any 8 sessions for $64/$48 members
More information and to register: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/thurs-adi-fall-2019
Drop into our studio for informal art exploration. Come for 30 minutes or stay for 2 1/2 hours; visit weekly or stop by when you need an after-school activity; bring a friend or sibling or try it on your own. Each week we’ll introduce different materials, processes and themes, and get you started on a project. We’ll focus on three-dimensional artmaking–though we will also do plenty of painting, drawing and collaging–and make use of Lynden’s special resources: the collection of monumental sculpture and 40 acres of park, lake and woodland.

TUESDAYS IN THE GARDEN: AN OUTING FOR PARENTS & VERY SMALL CHILDREN
Tuesday, November 12, 2019 -10:30am -11:30 am
Fee: $10/$8 members (includes admission to the sculpture garden for one adult and one child aged 2-4; additional children $4 each; extra adults pay daily admission).
More information and to register: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/tuesdays-2019
The 40 acres that house the Lynden collection of monumental outdoor sculpture are also home to many birds, insects, frogs, mammals and plants. Educator Claudia Orjuela offers a program for the very young that explores a different theme each month, taking into account the changing seasons, and provides an opportunity for those with very small children to engage in outdoor play and art making. The theme for November is indoor gardens.

FAMILY DROP-IN WORKSHOP: THE SOUND TREE PROJECT
Sunday, November 17, 2019 – 12:30pm – 2:30pm
Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden.
More information: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/family-workshop-sound-tree-project
Sue Pezanoski Browne and Katie Hobday, Lynden’s teachers-in-residence, invite you to participate in the Sound Tree Project, the focus of their collaborative artist residency. Working in a grove of trees on the Lynden grounds, Pezanoski Browne and Hobday are constructing an environment filled with clay chimes that they make and fill with personal narratives. This exploration of art, nature, memory, and materials is informed by their thinking about movement and migration—about life as movement interspersed with pauses of various lengths. On two Sundays this fall, people of all ages can join the artists as they work on their installation. On October 20, participants will explore the tension between movement and stillness by creating a large weaving between the trees. On November 17, you will use clay to add sound to the installation, experimenting with various natural forms to create chimes. Watch for more Sound Tree Project drop-in workshops in the spring.

HOMESCHOOL DAY: REPURPOSING AND ADORNMENT
Thursday, November 21, 20189– 9 am-2 pm
Fee: $45/$35 members. Series of three sessions: $120/$90 members
More information and to register: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/hsd-repurposing-and-adornment
Artist Rosemary Ollison, whose work is on view at Lynden, believes we should give “our creative imagination permission to be creative.” She liberates her imagination by working with repurposed materials: clothing gathered from thrift stores, bones remaining after a dinner. Taking Ollison as our inspiration, we will explore relationships between collections, place, and personal identity. Working with natural materials collected from Lynden’s vegetable and pollinator gardens, scraps of fabric, and bones, we’ll create wearable works that define our place in the world. Ages 6-15.

SCHOOL’S OUT ART DROP-IN FOR KIDS AGED 6 AND UP
Wednesday, November 27, 2019 – 12-5 pm
Fee: $16/$12 members; Art Drop-In Card: Any 8 sessions for $64/$48 members
More information and to register: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/schools-out-adi-nov-2019
With many schools closed for the holiday, we’re offering an extended Art Drop-In session prior to Thanksgiving. Drop into our studio for informal art exploration. Come for 30 minutes or stay for 5 hours; bring a friend or sibling or try it on your own.

NOHL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

Supporting artists is a significant part of Lynden’s mission. One of the ways that we support artists is by administering the Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists program.

TALKS BY 2019 NOHL JURORS
Thursday, November 7, 2019. Reception begins at 6 pm; talk begins at 6:30 pm
Haggerty Museum of Art on the Marquette University campus
For further information: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/nohl
The three jurors who will be selecting the five recipients of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund for Individual Artists Fellowships (2019) will give a public talk about their institutions and curatorial interests. Come meet Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University; Dean Daderko, curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; and Jessica S. Hong, Associate Curator of Global Contemporary Art at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth. The talk begins at 6:30 pm and is preceded by an informal reception.

UWM DEPARTMENT OF ART & DESIGN: ARTISTS NOW! GUEST LECTURE SERIES
MAKEAL FLAMMINI
Wednesday, November 13, 2019 at 7:30 pm
UWM Arts Center Lecture Hall, 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd.
For information: (414) 229-6052 or arts.uwm.edu
Makeal Flammini, a 2018 Nohl Fellow in the Emerging category, and Samantha Hunt, author of three novels and the short story collection, The Dark Dark, have been penpals for years. In this conversation they discuss Flammini’s work, the way that “mothering slices deep,” and the experience of making art in a world where “women, children, and dreams are doubted.” This talk is sponsored in part by the Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists.

COMING IN DECEMBER

More giftmaking opportunities in December: John Holzwart will teach you how to make a hearth broom (Dec. 7); Leslie Perrino offers one of her popular silk scarf painting workshops (Dec. 8), and in our monthly family workshop we’ll be making terrarium pendants (Dec. 15). Tuesdays in the Garden considers signs of winter (Dec. 10), art drop-in runs until the middle of the month and then goes on hiatus, and dog day is on the 21st. And who knows, maybe there will be ice skating. Lynden is closed from December 24 through January 2.

ABOUT THE LYNDEN SCULPTURE GARDEN

The Lynden Sculpture Garden offers a unique experience of art in nature through its collection of more than 50 monumental sculptures sited across 40 acres of park, lake and woodland. The sculpture garden is open to art and nature lovers of all ages from 10 am to 5 pm every day except Thursdays (closed). In the summer, the sculpture garden remains open until 7:30 pm on Wednesdays. Memberships are available. More information: http://lyndensculpturegarden.org or 414.446.8794.

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