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Upcoming Events
Venues Lynden Sculpture Garden uses across Milwaukee
Events hosted by Lynden Sculpture Garden
A summer Saturday at Lynden devoted to family art-making and a craft market, July 18, 11am–4pm. Part of the HOME World Refugee Day series celebrating Milwaukee's refugee communities. Free and family-friendly.
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.
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.
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.
Monthly birding walks at Lynden with poet and Wisconsin Master Naturalist volunteer Chuck Stebelton. 90 minutes, 10–11:30am. No experience needed.
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.
Five days exploring natural transformation through art and science at Lynden for kids 6–11. Campers use microscopes, raise butterflies in the pollinator garden, and record discoveries in clay, watercolor, pressure printing, and paper pulp. A good late-summer camp that captures what's happening at Lynden in August.
Three summer mornings at Lynden's ponds for kids 4–6. Children explore the sensory world of the pond—frogs, turtles, insects—keep a pond journal, and build a small floating sculpture they actually launch in the water. A good end-of-summer camp before school starts.
Afternoon version of Pond Wonders for kids 4–6, running 1–4pm Aug 24–26. Same pond-exploration and floating sculpture curriculum as the morning session—pick whichever time slot works for your family.