November 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. We will be closed on Thanksgiving, as we are on all Thursdays. For complete information on events, visitor guidelines, and everything that goes on at Lynden, visit lyndensculpturegarden.org.
EXHIBITIONS: GALLERY
November 12, 2023-February 25, 2024
Opening reception: Sunday, November 12, 2023, 2-4 pm
More information: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/exhibitions/lania-sproles-products-heart
The portraits in Products of the Heart are recent, finished between 2021 and 2023. They employ various methods of making—painting, drawing, printmaking, collage–and reveal the artist’s fascination with kinship. From the baroque, dimensional frames she incorporates into the earlier portraits to the patterned, nature-inflected backgrounds of the most recent work, Sproles builds vivid environments to establish each subject’s emotional complexity. What she describes as “displays of sentiments” transform her subjects into “monumental emblems”; portraits that stretch across the surface of the wall can also operate like landscapes. These portraits are acts of reclamation, an answer to our imprinted faith that marginalized bodies are not sites of credence and power. Of her subjects, Sproles writes: “Their direct qualm gazes remind the viewer to spectate diligently and for the subjects to secure refuge in their dreamscapes. The nostalgic overtone entwined with fantastical elements solidify the playful adoration vital for these relationships of mine to thrive. Collectively, these figures pay homage to the importance of preserving one’s humanity through carefully maintained curiosity.”
WORKSHOPS & EVENTS
MAKE A PIÑATA WITH CECI TEJEDA
Saturday, November 11, 2023 – 10 am-1 pm
Saturday, November 18, 2023 – 10 am-1 pm
Fee: $125/$105 members
More information and to register: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/make-pi%C3%B1ata-ceci-tejeda
With December approaching, it’s time to think about celebrating. In this workshop you will learn the meaning and the process of the traditional piñata, a vividly decorated container that you fill with sweets and break open at an appropriate moment. Over the course of two Saturday mornings, you will create a medium-sized piñata using the traditional technique of paper and Mexican paste. No experience required, and all materials supplied.
LABYRINTH SOCIETY OF LYNDEN SCULPTURE GARDEN
Actively Missing You Poetry Workshop with Jenna Knapp and KP Kaszubowski
Saturday, November 11, 2023 – 1-4 pm
Fee: $20/$15 members. Scholarship assistance available.
More information: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/lsolsg-actively-missing-you
Join artist-in-residence Jenna Knapp and poet KP Kaszubowski for an interactive poetry workshop celebrating the Norway maple that long provided shade and shelter at the top of the hill overlooking the labyrinth. Unfortunately, the tree had to be cut down due to a fungal infection, and its logs cut from the tree now cascade down the hill, offering additional spaces to pause and reflect. The fall invites us to explore times of change and loss, and the Norway maple becomes a metaphor for the transitions we may be navigating personally. During the workshop, we will discuss the labyrinth’s history, silently walk its winding path, and be led through poetry prompts to generate written material. There will be plenty of time to share and reflect together as a group, and you’ll have the option to contribute your writing to be engraved into the logs at a later date, allowing the Norway maple’s history to live on. Everyone is welcome to attend, regardless of writing experience.
Sunday, November 12, 2023 – 10 am-4:30 pm
Fee: $100/$85 members
More information and to register: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/silk-scarf-painting-2023
This daylong workshop will explore easy and artful ways to apply dye to pre-hemmed silk scarves. From simple techniques such as tie-dyeing, resist and salt, to interesting ways to make marks, we’ll let ourselves be inspired by the wonderful art and nature surrounding us at Lynden. Each student will create three wearable and uniquely painted scarves using this centuries-old painting form. A perfect giftmaking workshop for the holiday season! No experience required, and all materials supplied.
OPENING RECEPTION FOR LaNia SPROLES: PRODUCTS OF THE HEART
Sunday, November 12, 2023 – 2-4 pm
FREE.
More information: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/lania-sproles-products-heart-opening-reception
Join Call & Response artist LaNia Sproles for a reception for her exhibition, PRODUCTS OF THE HEART.
GARDEN WORK DAY: MULCHING
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 – 10 am-12 pm
More information and to register: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/2023-garden-work-days
Join the Lynden land team—Kyle Welna, Alyx Christensen, and Esther Portnoy–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. With over 40 acres and more than half a dozen specialized garden spaces, the Lynden provides many volunteer and learning opportunities, from removing invasive species to planting new trees and plugs, weeding, pruning, collecting, and spreading seeds. In November, we shield the soil from the harsh winter conditions by spreading fallen leaves and tucking in all the bare spots within the gardens. This leaf mulch—which we will till into the ground next spring before planting–will protect the top layers of soil, reintroduce nutrients, and boost fertility for next season’s barrage of flowers. Join us for one last garden work day as we say goodnight to the gardens until spring, jump in crisp piles of leaves, and enjoy the musty scents of autumn.
Thursday, November 16, 2023 – 10 am-12 pm
More information and to register: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/2023-natural-area-work-days
Join the Lynden land team—Kyle Welna, Alyx Christensen, and Esther Portnoy–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. With over 40 acres and more than half a dozen specialized garden spaces, the Lynden provides many volunteer and learning opportunities, from removing invasive species to planting new trees and plugs, weeding, pruning, collecting, and spreading seeds. Winter is a critical time for managing buckthorn, one of the most persistent and prolific plant species that competes against diverse plant ecosystems. Buckthorn has characteristics that allow it to outcompete other plant species; it grows and matures much faster than other plants and rapidly colonizes, leaving little time or room for the growth of anything else. In November, we will be on the eastern side of the grounds, tending the understory of our, within the understory of our paper birch island by manually removing buckthorn using the “cut-stump” method. This will clear the area and relieve competition for future native plantings.
HOME BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
Thursday, November 16, 2023 – 7-8:30pm
VIRTUAL
FREE.
More information and to register:
https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/home-book-discussion-group-2023
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. 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 November we are reading the second installment of Beth Nguyen’s Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir. Newcomers welcome!
DOG DAYS AT LYNDEN
Saturday, November 25, 2023 – 10 am-4 pm
FREE.
More information: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/dog-days-2023
Bring your canine friends for our annual Thanksgiving post-prandial walk. Dogs must be leashed and considerate of other visitors, canine and human.
LYNDEN BY NIGHT: A WALK WITH CLAUDIA ORJUELA
Sunday, November 26, 2023 – 5:30-7 pm
Fee: $10 per session/$5 per session for Lynden members. Children under 6 are free.
More information and to register: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/lynden-night-nov-2023
Come walk Lynden’s grounds with educator Claudia Orjuela, who will introduce you to the mysteries and unique features of outdoor life after dark. Discover the sights and sounds of the night in Lynden’s back acres and observe our monumental sculptures beneath the light of the beaver moon. A bonfire and treats await at the end.
FALL PROGRAMS FOR THE YOUNG AND VERY YOUNG
TUESDAYS IN THE GARDEN FOR PARENTS & VERY SMALL CHILDREN
Tuesdays, November 7 & 21, 2023 – 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 November include Artful Clay and Hibernation: Cozy Shelters.
Wednesdays, September 13-December 20, 2023 – 3-5 pm (late registrations accepted)
Ages 12 and up
Fee: $308/$224 members per 14-week session
More information and to register: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/lynden-art-club
Art club is a community of young artists who are independent in their art practice but value a place to exchange ideas and support, and to learn from one another. Students will design a long-term independent art project at the beginning of the session and meet for in-progress reviews, take part in creative art challenges, have conversations about contemporary artists, and discuss their work with Lynden educators and their peers. Students will present their work at our final art club meeting.
ART + NATURE LAB—NEW SESSION!
Thursdays, November 2-December 21, 2023 – 3:30-5:30 pm (no class November 23, 2023)
Ages 7-11
Fee: $154/$112 members per 7-week session
More information and to register: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/art-nature-lab-ages-7-11
Lynden’s Art + Nature Lab engages participants aged 7-11 in inquiry-based art and nature learning, problem solving, and creative making. Over the course of each seven-week session, art educator Jeremy Stepien will take you on a series of art challenges and studio projects. Art + Nature Lab will meet indoors in the studio at Lynden with occasional excursions in the garden.
HOME: MULTILINGUAL STORY TIME
Wednesday, November 15, 2023– 10:30-11 am
Ages 4-8
FREE
More information: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/home-multilingual-story-time-2023
HOME Multilingual Story Time is back online in November, featuring що змінила Рондо/How War Changed Rondo, written by Romana Romanyshyn and Andriy Lesiv, read in Ukranian and English by Karina Tweedell from our partner organization Wisconsin Ukrainians.. HOME Story Time is a collaboration with the Milwaukee Public Library, the Islamic Resource Center, Hanan Refugee Relief Group, Alliance Française de Milwaukee, and Milwaukee African Women’s Association.
NOHL FELLOWSHIP EVENTS
Supporting artists is a significant part of the 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.
UWM DEPARTMENT OF ART & DESIGN: ARTISTS NOW! GUEST LECTURE SERIES
FATIMA LASTER
Wednesday, November 15, 2023, at 7:30 pm
VIRTUAL
For information: https://uwm.edu/arts/event/artists-now-guest-lecture-series-fatima-laster/
A self-taught interdisciplinary visual artist, curator and gallery owner-operator, Fatima Laster (2023 Mary L. Nohl Emerging Artist Fellow) broaches social-political subject matter from a Black American vantage point. Her goal is to produce resistance art imbued with humor or irony to disarmingly reveal rejected or overlooked perspectives and people.
TALKS BY 2024 NOHL JURORS
Thursday, November 30, 2023. Reception begins at 6 pm; talk begins at 6:30 pm
FREE
For information: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/talks-2024-nohl-jurors
The three jurors who will be selecting the five recipients of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund for Individual Artists Fellowships (2024) will give a public talk about their institutions and curatorial interests at the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, 1234 W Tory Hill St, Milwaukee, WI 53233 (on the Marquette campus.) Come meet Allison Glenn, Independent Curator and Writer, New York, NY; Misa Jeffereis, Associate Curator, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri; and Anisa Olufemi, Independent Curator and Fellowship Manager, Hamiltonian Artists, Washington, DC. The talk begins at 6:30 pm and is preceded by an informal reception.
COMING UP IN DECEMBER
The sculpture garden will be closed December 23, 2023, through January 1, 2024, for the holidays. But before the end of the month we will be winding down our after school classes, squeezing in two last 2023 sessions of Tuesdays in the Garden, and airing an archival version of HOME Multilingual Story Time. Virtual HOME programs include the latest episode of our interview series, Stories as We Move and our monthly Book Discussion Group. Offsite, 2022 Nohl Fellow Inna Dmitrieva will host a screening, In Retrospect, at the UWM Union Cinema. Behind the scenes, the Nohl Fellowship jurors will be in town for studio visits with this year’s twelve finalists. The K-12 teachers we work with in our Innovative Educators Institute will meet for their fall reconvening, “Collective Memory.” Be the Change!, our year-long arts and leadership workshop with young refugee women and girls, will be meeting in the studio to work on projects about female refugee leaders in their own communities.
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. It has not been verified for its accuracy or completeness.
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