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Upcoming Events
Venues Lynden Sculpture Garden uses across Milwaukee
Events hosted by Lynden Sculpture Garden
A four-hour hands-on bonsai workshop at Lynden led by Milwaukee Bonsai Society members. You'll style your own juniper bonsai and leave with the tree, pot, and a one-year MBS membership. Space is limited; pre-registration required. $80 general / $75 Lynden members / $50 MBS members.
Monthly birding walks at Lynden with poet and Wisconsin Master Naturalist volunteer Chuck Stebelton. 90 minutes, 10–11:30am. No experience needed.
Lynden's eighth season of outdoor Sound Bath & Labyrinth Walks with Sevan Arabajian—a local social worker, musician, and spiritual guide. About 45–60 minutes of ambient sound meditation on Lynden's grounds, followed by a labyrinth walk. Bring something to lie on, dress for weather, arrive 15 min early.
Lynden's eighth annual World Refugee Day celebration on June 20, 11am–4pm. Free community gathering with art-making, food, music, dance, poetry, and a resource fair for local services. All ages welcome—a good reason to head to River Hills on a summer Saturday.
A four-morning camp for kids 4–6 at Lynden Sculpture Garden in River Hills. Children hunt for the animals that actually live on Lynden's 40 acres, then make art inspired by the animal sculptures in the collection. Morning sessions run 9am–noon; pack a snack and sunscreen.
A two-day deep-dive into bonsai as art for kids 6–11 at Lynden, led in partnership with Milwaukee Bonsai Society's John Rodgers. Kids create both a Penjing miniature landscape and a Kokedama moss-ball bonsai to take home. One of the more focused, craft-intensive camps Lynden offers.
Three afternoon sessions of Garden Animals for kids 4–6, running 1–4pm June 29–July 1. Same animal-themed art exploration as the morning camp—good if your child already has morning activities that week.
Five full days (9am–4pm) at Lynden's ponds for kids 6–11. Campers build working rafts—actual human-sized rafts—inspired by aquatic insect physics, then paddle them across the pond on Friday. Batik-dyeing, pond journals, and floating sculptures fill the week. One of Lynden's most popular camps.
A second session of Lynden's Pond Voyage camp, added because the first week filled. Same raft-building, batik-dyeing, and pond-sailing curriculum for kids 6–11, July 20–24. If your kid missed the first session, this is the slot.
A five-day foraging and making camp for kids 6–11 at Lynden. Kids practice ethical wild harvesting, make tea from foraged plants with Open Kitchen's Alyx Christensen, pit-fire ceramic beads in a campfire, and sew their own foraging bags. Brings in real community collaborators.
A conceptually rich five-day camp for kids 6–11 that uses Lynden's sculptures as jumping-off points for thinking about transitions and thresholds. Printmaking, paper-making, and painting are the primary media. Less nature-physical than Pond Voyage, more studio-in-the-garden.
Five days of hand-tool woodworking for kids and teens 10–15 at Lynden's back acres. Campers make their own fixed-blade carving knives then use them on green wood carving projects. Returning campers and first-timers both welcome; prior carving experience not required.