September 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
EXHIBITIONS: GALLERY
ELNAZ JAVANI: INNER COMPULSION
Through October 27, 2024
More information: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/exhibitions/elnaz-javani-inner-compulsion
Inner Compulsion emerged from the idea of duration, repetition, and the relationship between body, time, and labor. These elements are embodied in black and red hand embroidery stitches on muslin fabric. The pieces are fictional autobiographies, constructing a visual narrative over a seven-year period, revealing an ongoing continuum. Through slow, deliberate marks, they disclose intimate tensions and psychological states, stemming from an inner force to understand the self in relation to everyday experiences. These works are methods of tracking one’s being over a limited period, with repetition within the series capturing paused moments of transformation, fueled by memories, stories, and past events, reinforced by the present. This process is a highly intuitive study, creating slow drawings that serve as a visual record of time, reflecting history and its passage. Elnaz Javani is an Iranian artist and educator currently residing in Fort Collins, Colorado, where she is an assistant professor and head of Fibers at Colorado State University. This is a HOME program.
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.
WORKSHOPS & EVENTS
THE ART OF BIRDING WITH CHUCK STEBELTON
Sunday, September 8, 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.
STORIES AS WE MOVE: A HOME INTERVIEW SERIES
Wednesday, September 11, 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.
TURF TO HABITAT: CREATING A POLLINATOR HAVEN WITH DANIELLE BELL
Saturday, September 14, 2024 – 10-11:30 am
Fee: $25/$20 members. Scholarship assistance available.
More information: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/turf-habitat-sep-2024
It can quickly become overwhelming to convert your existing landscape into a pollinator haven. What native plants should I choose? How do I get rid of the grass? Where should I place my plantings so I don’t upset my neighbors? This talk will provide you with the tools to design a native landscape plan and explain how to take those first steps toward implementing the plan and bringing your yard to life.
PLANETARY ELEGIES: A POETRY WORKSHOP WITH KP KASZUBOWSKI
Saturday, September 14, 2024 – 1-3:30 pm
Fee: $45/$38
For information and to register: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/planetary-elegies-sep-2024
In this workshop, we will read and write elegies – the poetic form for reflection and lamentation of the dead and the dying. These elegies will often focus on our planet and will just as often celebrate and grieve our brief lives on our planet. Part climate grief circle, part creative development, this workshop is a container to feel deeply and to find language for what might be difficult to express. Workshop guide KP Kaszubowski will lead participants in welcoming, playful, and contemplative writing prompts. Participants will be encouraged to share what they write and affirming feedback and discussion will be woven throughout.
FROM CROP TO FIBER: GROWING AND PROCESSING FLAX
With KALLIA WALKOWIAK and DENNIS CARL
Sunday, September 15, 2024 – 2-4 pm
Fee: $25/$20 members
More information and to register: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/crop-fiber-sep-2024
Flax is a plant harvested for seed, oil, paper, and fiber. It is a centuries-old bast fiber
traditionally used for bedding and underclothes. This versatile plant requires less water than cotton, naturally resists weeds, and matures quickly. In this demonstration, participants will learn how flax is grown and harvested, work with traditional hand tools to process the crop, and finally see their fiber spun into linen yarn. Kallia Walkowiak is a fiber artist and weaving instructor at the ABK Weaving Center in Milwaukee. Dennis Carl is a leatherworker, gardener, and current steward of the Benjamin Church House Herb Garden.
FULL CORN MOON SOUND BATH & LABYRINTH WALK
Wednesday, September 18, 2024 – 5:45-7:15 pm
Fee: $30/$25 members. Pre-registration required.
More information and to register: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/sound-bath-sep-2024
Join artist-in-residence Jenna Knapp and collaborator Sevan Arabajian for September’s Full Corn Moon. This full moon honors the season of harvest and invites us to look at what we are ready to harvest in our own lives. Under the light of the full moon, take some time out of your week to pause and take notice of all that you’re currently cultivating. Relax into a healing sound bath and sunset candle-lit labyrinth walk.
HOME BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
Thursday, September 19, 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 September we finish Ishmael Beah’s Radiance of Tomorrow. Newcomers welcome!
DOG DAYS AT LYNDEN
Saturday, September 21, 2024 – 10 am-4 pm
FREE.
More information: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/dog-days-2024
Bring your canine friends for a solstice walk. Dogs must be leashed and considerate of other visitors, canine and human.
GREENWOOD GATHERING: CARVERS’ MEET-UP WITH JEREMY STEPIEN
Saturday, September 21, 2024 – 11 am-4 pm
Fee: $15/$10 members. You are welcome to attend for the entire day, or for a portion, but registration is required.
https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/carvers-fall-2024
Join us for the fall session of Lynden’s Greenwood Gathering, an open-ended carving event where both new and returning participants can bring their current or finished carving projects to share with fellow woodcarvers. Gather around the campfire to carve, exchange ideas, share techniques, and draw inspiration from each other’s work. The gatherings will include occasional themed demonstrations and relevant garden tours. In September, we will focus on the wood mallet.
CREATIVE TIME FOR FAMILIES: CLAY MAGNETS
Sunday, September 22, 2024 – 12:30-2:30 pm
Fee: $15/$10 member per family (all materials included). All ages are welcome; children younger than 12 should attend with an adult.
More information and to register: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/creative-time-fall-2024
From September through December, we will be offering monthly, drop-in workshops for families. Stop by for engaging, hands-on activities that bring art and nature to life. Whether you make a quick visit or stay the entire two hours, count on spending some quality creative time with family and friends. Drop into the art studio in September to create a sculptural magnet to hang on your refrigerator. Get creative with shapes, patterns, and colors to make your magnet truly unique. Let your imagination fly as you work with air dry clay and a variety of materials and methods.
NATURAL AREAS WORK DAY
Tuesday, September 24, 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 September, we will take you behind the scenes to clear paths to ensure that staff can continue to traverse these landscape, tending to projects and plant life.
GARDEN WORK DAY
Thursday, September 26, 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. In September, we will be removing thistles and dandelions and sprucing up this welcoming walkway.
DOORS OPEN MILWAUKEE
Saturday, September 28, 2024 – 10 am-5 pm
FREE
More information: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/doors-open-2024
The Lynden Sculpture Garden joins Doors Open Milwaukee for a day of free tours and activities. Visit the Milwaukee Bonsai Foundation’s Bonsai Exhibit and the pollinator gardens, take a sculpture mini-tour, check out a self-guided activity, or explore on your own.
EDIBLE TREES OF LYNDEN
Sunday, September 29, 2024 – 1-3 pm
Fee: $15/$10 members
More information and to register: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/edible-trees-fall-2024
Join Lynden land manager Robert Kaleta on a walk around the grounds to learn how to identify, harvest, and process some of nature’s delicious fall offerings–Wisconsin’s own edible tree nuts. You will learn all you need to know to begin or continue your foraging endeavors, as well as the tools and techniques required to keep you busy processing your harvested nuts all winter long.
FALL PROGRAMS FOR THE YOUNG AND VERY YOUNG
TUESDAYS IN THE GARDEN FOR PARENTS & VERY SMALL CHILDREN
Tuesdays, September 3, 10, 17, and 24, 2024- 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. Tuesdays in the Garden meets weekly and the themes for September are Pond Life Cycles: Frogs, Harvest Fest, Flower Friends, and Meet a Tree.
LYNDEN ART CLUB
Wednesdays, September 11-December 18, 2024 – 3:30-5:30 pm
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
Thursdays, September 12-October 24, 2024 – 3:30-5:30 pm
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.
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.
APPLICATION OPENS FOR TWENTY-SECOND CYCLE OF THE NOHL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
Tuesday, September 3, 2024, at 11 am
For information and to apply: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/nohl
The Lynden administers the Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists program. The fellowship program, funded by the Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund, provides unrestricted funds for Established and Emerging artists to create new work or complete work in progress. Practicing artists residing in Milwaukee, Waukesha, Ozaukee, or Washington county are eligible to apply. Assistance for prospective applicants is available in four free, informal, virtual sessions. Polly Morris, joined by Nohl Fellows, will offer an application workshop on Thursday, September 5, 2024, 6-7:30 pm. She will also offer three Q&A sessions: Thursday, September 12, 12 noon-1 pm; Saturday, September 21, 10-11 am; Thursday, September 26, 6:30-7:30 pm. All sessions are free, but you must register in advance. If you are unable to attend these sessions on Zoom, they will be recorded and posted on the web.
OUT OF THE SUITCASE 2024: AN EXHIBIT OF AWARDEES OF THE MARY L. NOHL SUITCASE EXPORT FUND
Through September 21, 2024
Gallery hours: Monday through Saturday, 10 am – 5 pm.
Reception: Thursday, September 19, 2024 – 6–8 pm, with a special performance of Dada’s Daughter by Sara Sowell at 7 p.m.
Frederick Layton Gallery, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, .273 E. Erie St., Milwaukee, WI
The Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design is proud to present a special iteration of its biennial Suitcase Fund exhibition. This year’s showcase features not only awardees from the current cycle, but also those recognized in the previous cycle due to the pandemic’s pause on the exhibition in 2019. This expanded exhibition offers a unique survey of visual artists from the region, and it highlights the diversity and depth of talent creating new work in the Milwaukee area.
COMING UP IN OCTOBER
Nohl Fellowship applications are due October 3, and Nina Ghanbarzadeh (Nohl 2024) is the guest of the UWM Artists Now Lecture Series on October 30. Folayemi Wilson and Arielle Julia Brown will be in residence, working on a project related to ELIZA’S PECULIAR CABINET OF CURIOSITIES, and Ammar Khalifa visits under the auspices of HOME and the UWM Institute of World Affairs. Cris Salas returns for a ceramics workshop and again for a pit firing. Our sound baths come to an end for the season on October 2, when we gather beneath the new moon; the moonwalk season begins on October 19 with a walk celebrating the Hunter moon. We kick off a Center for 21st Century Studies Collaboratory with artist-in-residence Yevgeniya Kaganovich and her guests. On October 5, Kaganovich joins Lynden land manager Robert Kaleta for a tree and mushroom walk. We have two wood workshops in October: a spoon-carving intensive with Jeremy Stepien on the 12th and 13th, and another Greenwood Gathering on the 19th. Chuck Stebelton leads his last bird walk of the season on October 13, and we have two volunteer work days: natural areas on October 22 and formal gardens on October 24. Claudia Orjuela directs another session of Creative Time for Families on October 20; Tuesdays in the Garden toddles along weekly (10:30-11:30 am on Tuesdays); a new section of Art + Nature Lab begins on October 31; and HOME Multilingual Story Time resumes on October 16. Also online is our HOME Refugee Book Discussion group, which starts a new book in October. Don’t forget Dog Day on the 19th.
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.
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