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Watercolors and Wildlife

From Sept. 28 until Oct. 3, Lawrence University’s Bjِrklunden will offer two different seminars at the lodge just south of Baileys Harbor.

“Watercolor: A Fresh Start” will be led by Helen Klebesadel. Explore the fall at Bjِrklunden while enjoying this opportunity to learn or re-learn watercolor. Seminar participants will explore basic traditional approaches to watercolor painting as well as fresh and experimental watercolor techniques.

Klebesadel was a member of the Lawrence University faculty from 1990 to 2000 teaching studio art and gender studies. She has continued to offer her summer Bjِrklunden watercolor seminars annually since then. Klebesadel currently serves as director of the Wisconsin Regional Arts Program of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Division of Continuing Studies and director of the University of Wisconsin Women’s Studies Consortium. Learn more about her artwork and exhibition schedule at klebesadel.com.

“Door’s Fabulous Plant and Wildlife Communities” will be led by Don Quintenz. Students will examine communities that develop in certain climate zones for life forms and correlate their presence with, as well as their adaptations for, the physical conditions of the site. Participants must be able to walk on unpaved trails for distances of two miles over a period of 2 1/2 hours.

Quintenz, director of education and director of land management at Schlitz Audubon Center in Milwaukee, has been teaching environmental education since 1967. He previously worked with the Milwaukee Public Schools as its environmental specialist and before that was with the Wisconsin Humane Society as an environmental educator.

Seminar classes meet weekday mornings and some evenings at Bjِrklunden’s lodge, just south of Baileys Harbor. Each seminar includes meals prepared by Bjِrklunden’s resident chef. For complete course descriptions, fees, and registration dates call 920.839.2216 or visit lawrence.edu/s/bjorklunden/bjorkseminars.