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!

Feb
3
Sat
Workshop: Clay Creatures & Miniature Things @ Ilwaco Artworks
Feb 3 @ 2:00 pm – Feb 4 @ 4:00 pm

Feb 3 & 4

Clay Creatures and Miniature Things Workshop

w/Kaitlyn Nelson $70

In Clay Creatures and Miniature Things we will spend 2 days learning a variety of hand building techniques to create objects such as clay tiles, mini figurines, pinch pots, coil pots and more! On day two we will spend time painting our sculptures using underglazes with a clear top coat.

  • Saturday 2-6p
  • Sunday 12-4p

Location: Ilwaco Artworks

 
Kaitlyn Nelson is a multi-disciplinary Artist and Educator. She has a vibrant studio practice working in hybrid media creating surrealism and storytelling infused with a passion for technical craft.  Her creative works amount in a wide breath of material forms as: soft sculpture- mask and costumes, theatrical production, object design, fine art paintings and illustrative book arts. Kaitlyn is originally from Portland, OR where she received a BFA in illustration and Communication Design at PNCA in 2017. She is currently working on a film, “Mistakes Will Be Made” as well as a children’s book / Cumphy synth collaborative album.
Feb
9
Fri
Workshop: “In the Kitchen” Basic Handbuilding Series @ Ilwaco Artworks
Feb 9 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm

Jan 6 – Feb 9

Basic Handbuilding Workshop Series“In the Kitchen”

w/Shelly Hedges $250

Make your own dinnerware, serving platters, and storage containers in this beginning handbuilding class. Demonstrations will include slab-building, coil techniques, press molds, and glazing methods.

Includes:

  • One 25lb bag of clay.
  • Open studio access for the duration of class.

Saturdays, 10a – 1p

  • Jan 6th – Place Settings
  • Jan 13th – Serving Bowls & Platters
  • Jan 20th – Lidded Jars and Utensil Crocks 
  • Jan 27th – Pitchers & creamers
  • Feb 3rd – Glazing
  • + Friday Feb 9th – Potluck Show & Tell! 6-8p

Location: Ilwaco Artworks

 

Feb
10
Sat
Workshop: Kintsugi Breaking & Mending (FULL) @ Ilwaco Artworks
Feb 10 @ 1:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Feb 10

Kintsugi Breaking and Mending Workshop (FULL)

w/Glenda Goodrich $70

Where Grief, Gratitude, and Beauty Coexist.

Come join us as we delve into the art of breaking and mending. Participants will choose a bowl to break and mend as a ceremonial metaphor for the woundings of life and the beauty that comes from its broken places. The act of breaking a bowl and mending the “scars” with gold is based on the Japanese art of Kintsugi. Kintsugi teaches us we cannot go back to the way we were before, but instead move forward with our woundings and the beauty they can bring. Students will leave with a ceramic bowl with golden mended fault lines as a reminder of the places where grief, gratitude, and beauty coexist, as well as the opportunity to reframe old ideas about loss and adversity. Workshop fee includes ceremony, instruction, bowls, and all materials.

  • Saturday 1:30-6p

Location: Ilwaco Artworks

Glenda “GG” Goodrich is an artist, art doula, author, and SoulCollage(r) facilitator living in Salem, OR. GG works one-on-one and with groups to create opportunities for people to explore their intuitive creative potential. Her students describe her teaching style as fun, warm and supportive. She recently published her first book, Solo Passage: 13 Quests, 13 Questions (available wherever books are sold), which is a testament to the healing and restorative powers of nature illustrated through stories about her vision questing experiences in the wild over a 20-year period.

Glendagoodrich.com    @glendagoodrich      #ggsdowntoearthstudio

Feb
17
Sat
Workshop: Sgraffito Vases – Ceramic Surface Design @ Ilwaco Artworks
Feb 17 @ 2:00 pm – Feb 18 @ 4:00 pm

Feb 17 & 18

Sgraffito Vases: Ceramic Surface Design Workshop

w/Jo Pfeirer $105

Sgraffito Vases: During this weekend workshop, students will spend the first day creating 2-3 10 inch vases with clay and spend the second day decorating them with the beautiful, versatile style of Sgraffito. A perfect project for the first spring blooms! 

  • Saturday 2-6p
  • Sunday 12-4p

Location: Ilwaco Artworks

 
Jo began working with clay in 2012, but it wasn’t until 2019 that she built a home studio and eventually turned a hobby into a full-time career. Since 2021 She has been teaching and working as a studio manager at Morning Ceramics Studio in Portland, OR. As an instructor, She provides students with the foundations of wheel throwing and hand building with clay. Jo caters to both beginners and advanced artists through project-based learning techniques, working with students individually in the classroom to help them make the work that interests them. Jopots.com
Feb
24
Sat
Ceramic Handbuilding 101 (FULL) @ Ilwaco Artworks
Feb 24 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Workshop: Playful & Sculptural Ceramic Cups (FULL) @ Ilwaco Artworks
Feb 24 @ 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Feb 24

Playful & Sculptural Ceramic Cups Workshop

w/Ashley Campbell $65

Who says cups have to be strictly utilitarian or sculptural and not both? I am a firm believer in usable art and I love to dive into this mentality with one of our most used objects, the cup! In this workshop, your instructor, Ashley Campbell of The Beige Motel will show you the wonderful ways to use mason stains to color your clay. We will be discussing marbling and inlay techniques to create colorful patterns and then use templates, cutters, and molds to create our vessels. Each student can expect to create a pair of colorful cups to take home. 

  • Saturday 2-6p

Location: Ilwaco Artworks

FULL

Ashley Corpuz Campbell is a Filipino-American ceramic artist. Her work is deeply influenced by her childhood experiences and the loneliness felt growing up as a mixed-race kid in 90s suburbia. It has become a major theme in her work and she gathers color inspiration and imagery from the myriad of cartoons and TV shows she watched as a kid. Ashley works mostly in porcelain, using a variety of pigments to stain her clay. She utilizes bright colors mixed with pastel tones to create playful landscapes with a maximalist mentality.

@thebeigemotel

TheBeigeMotel.com

Mar
2
Sat
“In the Garden” Ceramic Handbuilding Series @ Ilwaco Artworks
Mar 2 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
"In the Garden" Ceramic Handbuilding Series @ Ilwaco Artworks

Get ready for Spring! We will explore various techniques to make ceramic projects for the garden; planters, bird baths, watering bells and more! Includes open studio time for the duration of the class as well as glazing and firing.

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  • March 2nd: Pots & Planters 
  • March 9th: Bird/Bee Baths & Garden Markers 
  • March 16th: Garden Oya’s & Watering Bells
  • March 23rd: Birdhouses & Feeders 
  • March 30th: Glazing
  • Sunday, April 7th, 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Potluck Show and Tell
Workshop: Ceramic Candelabras @ Ilwaco Artworks
Mar 2 @ 2:00 pm – Mar 3 @ 4:00 pm

Mar 2 & 3

Ceramic Candelabras Workshop

w/Taylor Stefanski $108

In this 2 day candelabra workshop we will be touching on form and function. Candelabras traditionally are tall candle holders for taper candles – the height of both help illuminate a space. We will cover rolling coils, shaping and designing our forms on the first day. On the second day of class we will refine our taper holders and assemble everything to create our candelabras. This class is great for beginners and experienced folks alike.

  • Saturday 2-6p
  • Sunday 12-4p

Location: Ilwaco Artworks

T. Stefanski / Taylor Stefanski is a ceramicist living in Seattle, WA.

Their work is deeply inspired by the sea. Explores ideas of imperfection and honors the nature of the tides through meditative repetition. Expressed in the chosen hand-building process – each of their pieces are created primarily using a coil-building technique. Where she rolls each coil by hand to create each unique, one-of-a-kind forms.

Graduated from Cornish College of the Arts with a focus on printmaking and sculpture. Their ceramic work is carried in a variety of stores in Seattle, Portland, and LA. She currently works and teaches in her studio in Capitol Hill.

@t.stefanski      tstefanski.com

Mar
9
Sat
Clay Play: Flower Pots & Planters @ Ilwaco Artworks
Mar 9 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Clay Play: Flower Pots & Planters @ Ilwaco Artworks

Sat, March 9th: Flower Pots & Planters | 2-5p. $35/person. Ages 14+ & all experience levels. Learn handbuilding skills to create a finished piece! Clay Play includes a demonstration, clay, glazing & firing .

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*Shipping available for visiting attendees! ($15 S&H)

Mar
10
Sun
Clay Play: Bird Feeders @ Ilwaco Artworks
Mar 10 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Clay Play: Bird Feeders @ Ilwaco Artworks

CLAY PLAY

Sun, March 10th: Bird Feeders | 2-5p | $35/person 

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Learn basic handbuilding skills to create a finished piece! No experience necessary. Ages 14+. Includes a demonstration, clay, glazing & firing. Shipping available for visiting attendees! ($15 S&H).