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!

Aug
10
Sat
Clay Studio Drop-in Hours @ Ilwaco Artworks
Aug 10 @ 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Create with clay for the day at our community clay studio, Ilwaco Artworks!

 

 

Aug
11
Sun
Clay Play
Aug 11 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm

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.

 

Clay Studio Drop-in Hours @ Ilwaco Artworks
Aug 11 @ 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Create with clay for the day at our community clay studio, Ilwaco Artworks!

 

 

Aug
13
Tue
(ceramic) Surface Decoration Intensive (Mixed Level) Workshop @ Ilwaco Artworks
Aug 13 @ 3:00 pm – Aug 14 @ 6:00 pm

Surface Decoration Intensive (Mixed Level) 2-day workshop w/visiting artist, Courtney Murphy.

August 13, 3-6p & August 14, 3-6p. $115

In this class we will explore different surface decorations on greenware working with underglazes. Techniques covered will include sgraffito, carving, paper resist, and image transfers. We will use tiles to try out different techniques, before using these new techniques to create a finished piece.

Bio – 

Courtney Murphy is a studio potter living and working in Missoula, Montana. She studied Ceramics at Oregon College of Art & Craft, graduating in 2004. In 2009 she came to Montana where she completed a two year artist-in-residence at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts in Helena. She fell in love with Montana, and after a short term residency at Red Lodge Clay Center, and a long term residency at the Clay Studio of Missoula, she decided to settle in Missoula where she recently finished building a home studio.

Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, and has been featured in books and magazines including American Craft, Pottery Making Illustrated, and Ceramics Monthly. In 2011 she was honored to be chosen as an emerging artist by Ceramics Monthly.

Her designs are influenced by folk art, mid-century modern forms and shapes, as well as patterns, textiles and historical pots. www.courtneymurphy.net / @courtneymurphyceramics on ig

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Aug
17
Sat
Clay Play
Aug 17 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm

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.

 

Refresher/Beginner Wheel Throwing Workshop @ Ilwaco Artworks
Aug 17 @ 2:00 pm – Aug 18 @ 5:00 pm

8/17 & 18: Refresher/Beginner Wheel Throwing

For the beginning or intermediate pottery enthusiast! (Folks with previous wheel experience welcome). Class includes the preparation of clay, the techniques of centering and throwing, texturing, trimming and glazing your work. Fee includes clay, glazing and firing.

Shipping available of finished work to visitors. $15 handling + shipping.

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Live Music: Ezza Rose @ The Sou'wester
Aug 17 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Live Music: Ezza Rose

8/17/2024 FREE AND OPEN TO ALL at The Sou’wester Lodge

Since 2009, Ezza Rose and band has been cultivating a sound of their own. Drawing on several influences from the likes of Mazzy Star, Patti Smith, and their residency in Portland, ERB writes and performs music which reflects the listeners’ lives back at them while hinting at a new perspective. The fluidity of love, the ebb and flow of relationships, and getting caught in the machine of expectations, all are deconstructed with flowy rhythm, aggressive electric guitars, and dreamy vocal melodies. Ezza is excited to strip these songs down to their roots and perform for you acoustic this evening! She is currently working on a solo acoustic record to be released fall 2024. 
 
“More electrified and slightly more ominous than the simple, lilting sound she previously established, this is Rose at her best so far.” – Willamette Week
 
“…an intense studio album with a sudden and unexpected beauty.” – Oregon Music News
 
“Her beautifully delicate, mournfully classic voice floats amongst the loosely bound, misty particles in the air and our minds and fills the cracks with a sound that’s chilling and comforting, all at once.” – Vortex Music Magazine
 
“Ezza’s singer/songwriting talents push on. Her voice is consistently smooth and clear, ethereal, and from the gut.” – ElevenPDX
Aug
18
Sun
Clay Play
Aug 18 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm

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.

 

Aug
20
Tue
(ceramic) Sculptural Coiled Pots Workshop @ Ilwaco Artworks
Aug 20 @ 3:00 pm – Aug 21 @ 6:00 pm
(ceramic) Sculptural Coiled Pots Workshop @ Ilwaco Artworks

Sculptural Coiled Pots Workshop with Taylor Stefanski. August 20th & 21st, 3-6p. $110.

Learn the basics of hand building through various coil and paddling techniques.

The first day students will learn coil building techniques to build their own pots. The second day folks will learn how to refine the forms, add adornments and some detail color.

Bio – 

Her 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.

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Aug
24
Sat
Clay Play
Aug 24 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm

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.