Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden. Younger children should work with an adult.
Make a drop spindle, a traditional tool we’ll adapt to create a spool of newspaper yarn. Newspaper yarn can be used to weave anything from rugs, to netting throws, to paper jewelry. We’ll help you make the yarn--what you make with it is up to your imagination. Email us pictures of your post-workshop projects and post them on our Facebook page.
Tuesdays in the Garden takes place select Tuesdays in April and May, and two Tuesdays each in June, July and August, from 10:30-11:30 am. Each month has a different theme, but the activities for both sessions within a month are the same. Feel free to stay and picnic afterward
Note: the May 14 and June 11 sessions of Tuesdays in the Garden are now full. There are still spaces available for the June 18, July 9, July 30, August 13 and August 20 sessions.
Fee: $10/$5 members (includes admission to the sculpture garden for one adult and all children aged 4 and under).
The 40 acres that house the Lynden collection of monumental outdoor sculpture are also home to many birds, insects, frogs, mammals and plants. Join naturalist Naomi Cobb on Tuesdays each month for hands-on, all-senses-engaged exploration of the natural world at Lynden. We’ll consider a new theme each month, taking into account the changing seasons. This group is designed for parents and children from birth through age 4. Please dress for outdoor play.
May 14 - FULL
June 11 - FULL - Bugs
June 18 - Bugs
July 9 - Frogs
July 30 - Frogs
August 13 - Butterflies
August 20 - Butterflies
Free to members and dogs, or with admission to the sculpture garden.
It's the 2013 edition of Dog Days! Bring your canine friends for an afternoon of romping in the garden. Picnickers welcome!
Saturday, April 20, 2013 - 12 noon-5 pm
Saturday, May 18, 2013 - 12 noon-5 pm
Saturday, June 15, 2013 - 12 noon-5 pm
Saturday, July 20, 2013 - 12 noon-5 pm
Saturday, August 17, 2013 - 12 noon-5 pm
Saturday, September 21, 2013 - 12 noon-5 pm
Saturday, October 19, 2013 - 12 noon-5 pm
Saturday, November 30, 2013 - 12 noon-5 pm
Saturday, December 21, 2013 - 12 noon-5 pm
Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden.
Yevgeniya Kaganovich and her student assistants will take up residence in the studio all afternoon to make the next “planting” of grow, Kaganovich’s durational installation. grow is a system of interconnected plant-like forms simulating a self-propagating organism in multiple stages of development. Created from a singular material, recycled plastic bags, the system grows over time, its growth rate determined by the number of bags accumulated in our official recycling bin. Drop in to watch or participate as Kaganovich fuses the layers of plastic to create a surface similar to leather or skin, molds the skin into plant-like volumes, stuffs the volumes with more bags, and connects the forms with plastic bag “thread.” Tasks include cutting sheets and strips; fusing sheets and tubes; sewing bulb forms and connecting them to bases; crocheting tubes and necks; stuffing stalks; and assembling the plants.
The Lynden Sculpture Garden offers Homeschool Days for children aged 6-15. Designed by art educator Jeremy Stepien and naturalist Naomi Cobb, these workshops integrate our collection of monumental outdoor sculpture with the natural ecology of 40 acres of park, ponds and woodland, creating a unique, hands-on, small-group experience of art and nature. Two workshop topics are offered each day, one focusing on three-dimensional artmaking and the other on the natural environment. Participants are divided by age, and switch between the appropriate two-hour workshops with a lunch break at midday. Parents are welcome to visit the grounds and house without charge.
Spring Homeschool Day
Metamorphosis
Thursday, May 23, 2013
9:30 am-2:30 pm
Ages: 6-15 $25/$20 members
Registration deadline: May 17, 2013. Space is limited, please register early.
Dress appropriately for the weather; much time will be spent outdoors.
The ponds at Lynden are where the very magical process of metamorphosis begins for insects, frogs and salamanders; the studio is where we use imagination to transform materials into works of art. Metamorphosis means that there are complete changes, which often occur in stages, in the form and structure of a creature after birth or hatching. In this two-part workshop we’ll explore the evidence of these changes by peering into the ponds, looking through magnifying lenses, and sampling water, and we’ll hatch an egg-shaped bundle of materials to form a creature of your imagination.
For more information and registration, click here.
