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Name: Natural Path Sanctuary Walking Tour with NPS Cemeterian Dustin Duve
Start: 2024-05-21T10:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-05-21T12:00:00+00:00
Location: Farley Center

FULL/Waitlist: Farley Center Reusable Beeswax Wrapper Workshop with Jeanne Meier

bees, community, create, culture, environmental, food, friendship, fun, sustainable

March 3, 2024

EVENT IS FULL AS OF 2/14/24 – WAITLIST ONLY

Reusable Beeswax Wrapper Workshop with Jeanne Meier

Join Natural Path Sanctuary Board Chair Jeanne Meier on March 3 from 1-2:30 p.m. at the Farley Center for a workshop on creating reusable beeswax wraps. These eco-friendly wraps will use beeswax from the Farley Center hives, promoting a plastic-free lifestyle. Don’t miss this sustainable and fun event! There is no cost to attend, but each participant must bring a hand towel, an iron, and a grater or vegetable peeler (for grating wax). Each person will go home with 3 wraps of varied sizes.

Space is limited to 12 participants and registration is required.

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Earth Connections: Land Art Exhibition Artist Reception

art, celebration, community, create, culture, environmental, friendship, fun, NPS, woods

Dane Arts and Farley Center Come together

DABL Pop-Up Art Market and The 2023 Land Art Reception
join forces for a day of
art, food, music and fun in the woods

September 9, 2023 –– 10AM-5PM
Artist Tour: 1pm (Meet at BOWA – The Bur Oak Welcoming Area)

(We are able to accept checks and cash)

EARTH CONNECTIONS Land Art Exhibition

Come take a walk-about and see what is created August 15 – October 31, 2023. We will have maps available for self guided tours. Visit the Farley Center anytime from sun-up to sun-down and take a walk through the woods. We will have a community tour on Sept. 9, starting at 1pm where many of the artists will be present to talk about their work.

DABL ART MARKET

New this year, Farley Center will host Dane Arts Buy Local Art Market on Sept. 9. A variety of artists (including 9 of our Earth Connection artists) will set up booths to display and sell their art. It will be a fun arts festival including music and food! Bring the whole family to for this outdoor celebration. (Artists will be able to accept cash or check) Learn more about DABL and the Pop-Up Market

Music

11 AM – 1 PM: Cédric Baetche

2 PM – 5 PM: Gaines & Wagoner

Food

Madame Chu

Sunshine Salad Farm

El Sabor de Puebla

Gani Moon

This is the sixth year that area artists will create installations in the woods of the Natural Path Sanctuary on the Farley Center land. These artists are rising to the challenge of using only materials that can safely decompose back into the land.

Land art, also known as Earth art, and environmental art is created by artists who use the materials of the Earth including for instance, the soil, rocks, branches, trees, vegetation, water and other natural, non-toxic materials.

The Farley Center supports these types of installations on our land to highlight the beauty, value and necessity to think about how we view and use the land. Our artists help raise the discussion of what is toxic and what do we mean by the word “decompose.” What has to change in the way we work in order to sustain the Earth and all of us that live on it in healthy ways

Earth Connections 2023 Land Artists:

Justin Bitner
David Carlson
Mona Cassis*
Gene Delcourt
Betsy Delzer
Char De Vos
Kate Heiber-Cobb
Steve Heuer*
Amelia Higgins (Youth Participant)
Chris Hindle
Ruthanna Hutton-Okpalaeke
Angela Johnson
Ellen Khalifa
Katrina Krueger

Efrat Livny*
Erin McWalter*
Billy Morgan
Karen Reppen*
Cynthia Reynolds
Bobbette Rose*
Phil Saunders
Sue Schuetz
Barry Sherbeck*
John Steines
Cooper Talbot
Kelsey Voy
Urban Indigenous Art & Sciences Youth Group

*These artists will also be selling their art through DABL Art Market on Sept. 9

The Farley Center would like to thank all the artists who are participating this year. A special thank you to Bobbette Rose who is the Farley Center Art Coordinator and has helped organize land art exhibits/projects for the Farley Center.

For a look at past land art exhibits (2013-2021): http://farleycenter.org/land-art-installations/

For questions, please contact

Farley Center Volunteer “Snow Labyrinth”Day!

art, community, create, culture, friendship, fun, meditational, snow, volunteer, winter

Please join us to work on the Farley Center Snow Labyrinth 2022 at the Farley Center from 11:00-1230 on Sunday, February 6.

The Farley Center snow labyrinth has been completed and will be soon open to the public. However, we would like to have volunteers come and walk the labyrinth to stamp down the snow so it is easier for people to walk it. This year we made it closer to the parking area so it is a shorter walk up the trail.

Please meet at the lower parking lot at the Center, We will walk/snowshoe to the labyrinth from there.

Please dress for outdoor weather. Wear good boots or bring your snowshoes.

Please social distance and wear masks if you feel more comfortable. We do require that all volunteers be vaccinated for the safety of all our volunteers and staff.

If you have any questions, please e-mail .

FARLEY CENTER ON SITE SUPERVISOR(S)
Director Shedd Farley
Program Director Caroline Tu Farley

Gene Farley Sculpture Exhibit

art, celebration, community, create, culture, environmental, friendship, fun, justice

Gene Farley Sculpture Exhibit
Opening Reception – Sat, Aug. 13,
1:00-2:30

Many of you who have been out to the Farley Center have noticed the many sculptures that are grace the land.

Gene Farley was a man of many talents. In addition to being the Chair of the UW Family Medicine, he was active in many progressive groups but he also enjoyed creating these large metal sculptures and drawing what he called doodles.

There are a total of 17 sculptures at the Center. There is another one in front of the Social Justice Center in Madison and another in Golden, CO.

We will kick off the Gene Farley Sculpture Exhibit on Sat, August 13 from 1:00-2:30 at the Farley Center. Please join us for light refreshments and take a map and take a self guided sculpture tour. This exhibit will be a permanent exhibit at the Center.

Linda Farley also was artistic and talented and enjoyed painting with watercolors. The watercolor is from a photo of Gene working on a sculpture. Linda named it “Sculpturer with Red Gloves.”

Rooted In The Land: Land Art Exhibition

art, celebration, community, create, culture, environmental, friendship, fun, NPS, woods

As part of the “Rooted in the Land” celebration, 26 artists are coming together to fill the NPS woods with art using only materials that can safely decompose back into the ground! This is the 5th year we’ve had artists creating in the woods and its the largest exhibition yet!

Work will be on public view August 15 – October 31, 2021.

Meet the artists at a reception September 25, 2021, 1:30-4:00pm
Thank you Bunky’s Catering for providing light refreshments and drinks.

Learn More

Farley Center Tree Carving Tour with Artist David Carlson

art, community, create, culture, friendship, fun

Tree Carving Tour and information for wood carvers and other interested folks with Artist David Carlson. This will be a visit to the tree and a walkabout on the grounds for ideas.

See: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1468380859914667

For more information, please e-mail David Carlson at

Please send an e-mail to if you plan on attending.

Greetings Artists,

I have begun to receive seed catalogues, so we know spring is on its way. My thoughts return to the Farley Center Tree Carving project. This is one of many things that Covid-19 has put on hold. The good news is that we can begin to work towards resuming.

I would like to invite you to consider what you might want to contribute to the project. Remember that the theme is “Rooted in the Land.” This will also be the theme of the 2021 land art exhibition this year.

Simply contact me with what you would like to do. The tree is divided by vine carvings into “panels” of various sizes. You can select one of those to carve, paint, or attach objects that are environmentally friendly and that fit the theme. The challenge is to create with materials that are weather resistant.

I will, when things warm up this spring, be refreshing things and then I will be working on a carving on one of the panels modeled after the oak tree we so often gather around at the center. There are lots of other ideas related to the land, such as farming, bees and bee keeping, wildlife, birds, native flowers and much more.

I hope to hear from you soon.
David Carlson

Sanctuary: Environmental Land Art at the Farley Center

art, climate change, community, create, culture, environmental, friendship

The Farley Center presents an art exhibition at the Overture Center.

Artist reception on Friday, Sept. 28 from 6:00-8:00. Enjoy light refreshments and music by WYSO Madison Music Makers while exploring the exhibit and meeting many of the participating artists.

“Sanctuary: Environmental Land Art at the Farley Center” exhibit is a photographic tour of these art installations. It will be on display in the Playhouse Gallery at the Overture Center for the Arts September 7-October 28, 2018.

Using natural materials from the land, area artists were invited to be inspired, expand creative boundaries, play with mystery, initiate surprise, explore and celebrate our connection to the earth. The theme was “Sanctuary” which could be interpreted however the artists chose. Sixteen artists took on the challenge and created a variety of pieces on the outdoor grounds of the Natural Path Sanctuary at the Farley Center near Verona, WI the summer of 2017.

ARTISTS
Dave Carlson, Jessica Luer, Betsy Delzer, Drew McCoy, Michael Duffy, Karen Reppen, Patrick Flynn, Cynthia Reynolds, Beverly Gordon, Bobbette Rose, Chris Hindle, Jane Scharer, Lewis Koch, John Scharer, Katrina Krueger, Sue Schuetz

EXHIBITION PHOTOGRAPHER
Barry Sherbeck

The Farley Center thanks Dane Arts, the Dane County Board of Supervisors and private funders for their generous support of this exhibition including funds from the Endres Mfg.Company Foundation, the Evjue Foundation, Inc., charitable arm of the The Capital Times, the W. Jerome Frautschi Foundation and the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation.

Farley Center also thanks the Overture Center for the Arts for inviting us to exhibit in the Playhouse Gallery and helping us make this show a reality.

Sanctuary 2017

art, community, create

Artist gathering to talk about participation in SANCTUARY 2017. Get creative using natural materials from the land. This is an open invitation to create something new and fresh in the woods. There is space for everyone who wants to be involved. All work is created out of doors, in the woods of the Natural Path Sanctuary on the Farley Center land.
Learn more and access the registration form