Slow Growing in the Time of Trees: Tree and Mushroom Walk
October 5 @ 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Free and open to the public. Space is limited; advance registration required. Click here to register online.
Robert Kaleta, Land Manager, will lead the walk around the Lynden Sculpture Garden to tell the story of the existing trees: identify various species, and learn about the physiological changes that trees go through each season and how each tree species fits into the larger ecosystem. Yevgeniya Kaganovich will discuss her tree intuit chair growing sculptures, as part of her divergent fates project at Lynden. Participants will encounter fruiting myceliated sculptures, as well as naturally occurring species at Lynden Sculpture Garden, while collaborators Yevgeniya Kaganovich, Lisa Moline, Lane Hall and Jim Charles identify the mushrooms and discuss the symbiotic relationship between mushrooms and trees, as well as their collaborative intervention into this symbiosis through cultivated species.
About the Participants:
Robert Kaleta, Lynden’s land manager, has worked for more than a decade in the field of ecological restoration, and has spent almost a lifetime enjoying what nature has to offer.
Lynden artist-in-residence Yevgeniya Kaganovich is a Belarus-born, Milwaukee-based artist, whose hybrid practice encompasses jewelry and metalsmithing, sculpture and installation. Yevgeniya received an MFA from the State University of New York at New Paltz and a BFA in Metal/Jewelry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Yevgeniya has been an active art practitioner since 1992, exhibiting her work nationally and internationally. Her work has received numerous awards and has been published widely.
Yevgeniya’s interest in craft scholarship and pedagogy lead her to undertake curatorial projects, panel and symposium organizing, and other contributions to contemporary craft discourse. Yevgeniya has worked as a Designer/Goldsmith at Peggie Robinson Designs, Studio of Handcrafted Jewelry in Evanston, Illinois and has taught Metalsmithing at Chicago State University, Chicago, Illinois, and Lill Street Studios, Chicago Illinois. Currently Yevgeniya is a Professor in the Department of Art and Design, Peck School of the Arts, at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, heading a thriving Jewelry and Metalsmithing Area with a graduate and undergraduate programs.
The Lynden Sculpture Garden offers a unique experience of art in nature through its collection of more than 50 monumental sculptures sited across 40 acres of park, lake and woodland.