SOU’WESTER EVENTS!
Discover what’s happening during your next stay or plan a visit around our free live music, workshops, wellness offerings and more!
Jun 15
Glazing & Surface Decoration Techniques Workshop
w/visiting artist, w/Charlotte Deason Robillard $80
Students will learn about a variety of ceramic surface decoration techniques. We will provide each student with a bisqued tumbler that they’ll decorate and glaze during the workshop; students are also welcome to bring a piece of their own bisqued work. We’ll go over masking and resistance methods, overlapping glazes, painting with underglazes, using stencils, and techniques for getting clean precise surface designs as well as more organic freehand designs. No previous ceramics experience is required.
Saturday 2-6p
Location: Ilwaco Artworks
COMMUNITY CLAY PLAY
At Ilwaco Artworks
Clay Play is a casual, beginner-friendly session where you can learn handbuilding skills to create a finished piece! Ages 10+ w/an adult or ages 14+. $35/person. Register for any four Clay Plays for $100.
August Clay Plays | 10a-1p:
- 8/25: Ilwaco Art Walk Drop-in (1-4p no rsvp necessary): Mono Print Tiles.
- 8/31: Soft Slab Cups
September Clay Plays | 10a-1p:
- 9/1: Carved Bowls
- 9/8: Handled Cups
- 9/15: Reliquaries (AKA Ornate boxes for special items)
Wings Over Willapa Festival Clay Plays:
Register for 9/21 or 9/22 Here
REGISTER for all other Clay Plays, Here
Please email ilwacoartworks@gmail.com to join a waitlist!
Ilwaco Artworks Community Clay Studio – 109 1st Ave N Ilwaco, WA
Inspiration photos are credited and linked in our “Ideas & Inspiration” page.
email ilwacoartworks@gmail.com to join a waitlist or if you experience any issues with checkout. If you are trying to register for multiple events and run into a checkout error please try purchasing them separately. Thank you! Inspiration photos are credited and linked in our “Ideas & Inspiration” page.
Always Moving / Magical in Motion By LAURA HEIT + MONA HUNEIDI
- OPENING FILM SCREENING 6/16/24
- FREE AND OPEN TO ALL
- FILM WILL BE SCREENING DAILY 11a & 4p or by request with the front desk
“I am interested in everything that is opaque, that which takes place in secret and behind curtains or in the shadows. My aim is not to make clear or justify, rather I aim to watch/show as if in a dream. My work focuses on the minutiae of human behavior, obsessive habits, arduous matters of the heart, betrayal, espionage and inexplicable phenomenon. These themes are the impetus and the architecture that builds the sets, the mise en scene and the characters I create.
I use wood, glass, transparencies, wire weaves, paper dolls, found objects, doll parts, shadows, tea leaves and texture to create space and the characters that inhabit it. I believe that everyday articles are curious when taken out of context and that still objects, no matter how pedestrian, are magical in motion.” — MONA HUNEIDI
Always Moving / Magical in Motion features the stop-motion, live-action puppetry, hand drawing and computer animation in the short films of artists Laura Heit and Mona Huneidi. Sometimes fantastical, sometimes abstract, sometimes in orbit, these films visualize the things we cannot see, fears, hypothetical stars, moments inside catastrophes, and the future. On view at The Sou’Wester’s Red Bus Microcinema, 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA, June – September, 2024, with screenings at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. daily. A special closing event attended by filmmaker Laura Heit will take place in September. More details to come.
Laura Heit is an interdisciplinary artist who currently lives and works in Portland Oregon. Her work has been exhibited and screened in the US and abroad, at venues including Track 16 (Los Angeles, CA), Boise Art Museum (Boise, ID), Adams and Ollman (Portland, OR), The Schnitzer Museum of Art (Eugene, OR), The Schneider Museum of Art (Ashland OR), She Works Flexible (Houston, TX), REDCAT (Los Angeles, CA), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN), MoMA (NYC, NY), Millennium Film (NYC, NY), Pompidou (Paris, France), TBA Festival (Portland, OR), the Guggenheim Museum (NYC, NY), Walt Disney Hall (Los Angeles, CA), and Detroit Institute of the Arts (Detroit, MI) among others. Her grants include; 2016 Oregon Arts Council Individual Artists Fellowship, Artist Project Grant Regional Arts & Culture Council including the 2014 Innovation Award, The British Council, and the MacDowell Colony. She has previously held positions at PNCA as chair of Animated Arts, SAIC, and Cal Arts where she was co-director of the Experimental Animation Department. Her book Animators Sketchbooks was published in 2013 by Thames and Hudson.
Mona Huneidi is an animator/filmmaker who was born and raised in Kuwait. She went to primary schools in Lebanon and Kuwait and arrived in the US in 1980 to pursue her education. She holds a BFA in Filmmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute. She worked as an assistant producer for television productions in Kuwait in the late 80s and early 90s. Upon returning to the US, she joined the pre-production team at Imago Theatre working as a puppeteer, a dramaturg, prop master and a set dresser. She earned a Drammy award in 2004 for the projection design on the play Missing Mona. She writes, creates and produces her own animated films, which have been shown locally at Performance Works Northwest, Imago Theatre Cabaret and PCC’s Art Week. Her work has also been screened internationally at Festival Du Cinéma Bruxelles, Festival De Cine Internacional De Barcelona, Animacam Online Animation Festival Galicia, and the Cannes Short Film Festival.
Curated by Nikki Cormaci
June 18 & 19
Natural Pigment Making Workshop
w/Laura Wright $100
Natural Pigment Making: Local Foraging to Create Plant-Based Watercolors. In this workshop, we will make watercolor paints from plants found in the area around Sou’wester. During day 1, we will ethically forage local plants and begin the process of extracting their color. We will also prepare a container for our finished paints. In the second day, participants will learn how to filter out pigment and use it to create watercolor. Each participant will leave with a set of watercolor paints created from the colors of the Sou’wester landscape.
- Tuesday 3-6p
- Wednesday 3-6
Location: Sou’wester Lodge Pavilion
Born and raised in Portland, Paige was introduced to ceramics at a young age to help with deficiencies in mainstream academia. She found her stride in making the human form, taking it into college, and earning a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Ceramics. In a constant pursuit to expand her practice, she has participated in many residences in the US and abroad. This passion led her to take ceramic-centric jobs such as production potter, glaze department supervisor, and adjunct ceramic faculty. Currently, she teaches weekly Ceramics classes and Workshops at Radius Ceramic Studio and in her own classroom The Wright Clay Studio in Portland.
COMMUNITY CLAY PLAY
At Ilwaco Artworks
Clay Play is a casual, beginner-friendly session where you can learn handbuilding skills to create a finished piece! Ages 10+ w/an adult or ages 14+. $35/person. Register for any four Clay Plays for $100.
August Clay Plays | 10a-1p:
- 8/25: Ilwaco Art Walk Drop-in (1-4p no rsvp necessary): Mono Print Tiles.
- 8/31: Soft Slab Cups
September Clay Plays | 10a-1p:
- 9/1: Carved Bowls
- 9/8: Handled Cups
- 9/15: Reliquaries (AKA Ornate boxes for special items)
Wings Over Willapa Festival Clay Plays:
Register for 9/21 or 9/22 Here
REGISTER for all other Clay Plays, Here
Please email ilwacoartworks@gmail.com to join a waitlist!
Ilwaco Artworks Community Clay Studio – 109 1st Ave N Ilwaco, WA
Inspiration photos are credited and linked in our “Ideas & Inspiration” page.
email ilwacoartworks@gmail.com to join a waitlist or if you experience any issues with checkout. If you are trying to register for multiple events and run into a checkout error please try purchasing them separately. Thank you! Inspiration photos are credited and linked in our “Ideas & Inspiration” page.
Jun 22
w/visiting artist, w/Korin Schneider $70
Come play with clay and channel your youthful spirit during this lighthearted hand building workshop. Create a collection of mini sculptures and keep them for yourself or give them as tiny treats for friends and family. The options are endless so let’s think big and make small! We will learn the basics of hand sculpting clay including attaching pieces, texturizing and smoothing surfaces, and decorating with underglaze. Each participant will be able to make as many pieces as they can fit into a small box provided.
- Saturday 2-6p
Location: Ilwaco Artworks
COMMUNITY CLAY PLAY
At Ilwaco Artworks
Clay Play is a casual, beginner-friendly session where you can learn handbuilding skills to create a finished piece! Ages 10+ w/an adult or ages 14+. $35/person. Register for any four Clay Plays for $100.
August Clay Plays | 10a-1p:
- 8/25: Ilwaco Art Walk Drop-in (1-4p no rsvp necessary): Mono Print Tiles.
- 8/31: Soft Slab Cups
September Clay Plays | 10a-1p:
- 9/1: Carved Bowls
- 9/8: Handled Cups
- 9/15: Reliquaries (AKA Ornate boxes for special items)
Wings Over Willapa Festival Clay Plays:
Register for 9/21 or 9/22 Here
REGISTER for all other Clay Plays, Here
Please email ilwacoartworks@gmail.com to join a waitlist!
Ilwaco Artworks Community Clay Studio – 109 1st Ave N Ilwaco, WA
Inspiration photos are credited and linked in our “Ideas & Inspiration” page.
email ilwacoartworks@gmail.com to join a waitlist or if you experience any issues with checkout. If you are trying to register for multiple events and run into a checkout error please try purchasing them separately. Thank you! Inspiration photos are credited and linked in our “Ideas & Inspiration” page.
COMMUNITY CLAY PLAY
At Ilwaco Artworks
Clay Play is a casual, beginner-friendly session where you can learn handbuilding skills to create a finished piece! Ages 10+ w/an adult or ages 14+. $35/person. Register for any four Clay Plays for $100.
August Clay Plays | 10a-1p:
- 8/25: Ilwaco Art Walk Drop-in (1-4p no rsvp necessary): Mono Print Tiles.
- 8/31: Soft Slab Cups
September Clay Plays | 10a-1p:
- 9/1: Carved Bowls
- 9/8: Handled Cups
- 9/15: Reliquaries (AKA Ornate boxes for special items)
Wings Over Willapa Festival Clay Plays:
Register for 9/21 or 9/22 Here
REGISTER for all other Clay Plays, Here
Please email ilwacoartworks@gmail.com to join a waitlist!
Ilwaco Artworks Community Clay Studio – 109 1st Ave N Ilwaco, WA
Inspiration photos are credited and linked in our “Ideas & Inspiration” page.
email ilwacoartworks@gmail.com to join a waitlist or if you experience any issues with checkout. If you are trying to register for multiple events and run into a checkout error please try purchasing them separately. Thank you! Inspiration photos are credited and linked in our “Ideas & Inspiration” page.
Jun 29 & 30
Ceramic Charms, Beads & Good Luck Icons
w/visiting artist, w/Emily Wright $120
Create meaningful and magical symbols for you and your loved ones. Carve your own icon of good luck, cast it in plaster, and make beaded charms for yourself and others.
Saturday 2-6p
Sunday 12-4p
Location: Ilwaco Artworks
COMMUNITY CLAY PLAY
At Ilwaco Artworks
Clay Play is a casual, beginner-friendly session where you can learn handbuilding skills to create a finished piece! Ages 10+ w/an adult or ages 14+. $35/person. Register for any four Clay Plays for $100.
August Clay Plays | 10a-1p:
- 8/25: Ilwaco Art Walk Drop-in (1-4p no rsvp necessary): Mono Print Tiles.
- 8/31: Soft Slab Cups
September Clay Plays | 10a-1p:
- 9/1: Carved Bowls
- 9/8: Handled Cups
- 9/15: Reliquaries (AKA Ornate boxes for special items)
Wings Over Willapa Festival Clay Plays:
Register for 9/21 or 9/22 Here
REGISTER for all other Clay Plays, Here
Please email ilwacoartworks@gmail.com to join a waitlist!
Ilwaco Artworks Community Clay Studio – 109 1st Ave N Ilwaco, WA
Inspiration photos are credited and linked in our “Ideas & Inspiration” page.
email ilwacoartworks@gmail.com to join a waitlist or if you experience any issues with checkout. If you are trying to register for multiple events and run into a checkout error please try purchasing them separately. Thank you! Inspiration photos are credited and linked in our “Ideas & Inspiration” page.