Exhibtion opening in our Art Trailer Gallery

No Lo Tenia Escrito / It Wasn’t in My Plans by Jade Mara Novarino

No Lo Tenia Escrito showcases a short film, Mi Abuela La Hormiga / My Grandma the Ant (40 minutes, 2023), and several prints and works on paper. The footage and the work are from a trip to Argentina in February of 2023. This work was made in order to remember—my grandma, us, a place, and a time. In a sense, it is a small archive, a document that marks a special moment in our relationship. Initially, for the film, I had set out to ask my grandmother many questions, and in some cases succeeded in receiving answers—but in the still and quiet moments of the footage, when the camera was just another piece of furniture and not someone to act in front of, was where I learned the most. The film is conscious of its own form, and the camera itself is acknowledged multiple times. Even so, the main subject—my grandma—doesn’t seem shy or to change before its presence. The prints and works on paper are reflections, journal entries, and photographs made within the year leading up to the show. 

Jade Mara Novarino is a first generation American artist, educator, farmer, and community member born and raised in San Diego, California. Her work draws on inspiration from her family and the seasons, personal narrative, site-specificity, songs, and attempts to highlight the everyday as sacred. Her multidisciplinary work spans from socially engaged projects to imaginary restaurants to calligraphy to video to collage, photography, painting, and found sculpture. She runs an artist space and farm from her home in Milwaukie, Oregon. Her birthday is in February, her favorite month is September, and she looks forward to planting garlic every October. She is always looking for new pen-pals. 

Curated by Nikki Cormaci

FREE Public screening in The Sou’wester Lodge

12/1/23 at 7 p.m to open our Winter exhibition in our Red Bus Theatre featuring

Wide Blue Yawn – An experimental documentary film by Eva Knowles

The idea for Wide Blue Yawn occurred to Eva after observing a UFO while alone on the beach in October 2020. She always had a powerful relationship to the Long Beach Peninsula, having grown up coming here for family getaways since she was a child–and so, after her mysterious encounter she decided to embark on deeper research of this place and make a film about it. Wide Blue Yawn attempts to capture layers of history at the mouth of the Columbia River and to honor the specific feelings evoked by the rugged pacific northwest geology, the spiritual presence of the first human inhabitants (the Chinookan people), and all that has unfolded since Lewis and Clark hit the scene in 1805. Wide Blue yawn spans centuries and wonders at how we ended up here, in our strange present reality.

Eva Knowles was born in 1990 and grew up in Bonney Lake, Washington. Her films are shot with a handheld digital camcorder and have an intimate and personal feeling. As an artist Eva is concerned with the mysterious, the sublime, and the mundane. She has worked as a teacher, a farmer, and also practices reiki. She has many projects in the works about fascinating topics.

Contact: email: eeva.knowles@gmail.com / instagram

Curated by Nikki Cormaci

Collective Release Fire 

Outside in the trailer court in front of the lodge, we will gather into an expanded moment of presence with the weight of the world, a time of reverence through lively celebration of the complexity of existence in togetherness, where whatever wishes to unfold may do so naturally through the intentional lighting of a fire.  There will be pieces of paper and pens on which to write and reflect and then offer the writings into the fire, instruments with which we can play, and an invitation to donate whatever resources are available, financial or otherwise, to Source Food and Goods, a group offering community aid to the local Palestinian community in Portland, OR .

*No drinks in public. Quiet hours after 10p.

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

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

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

Jan 20 & 21

Sculpted Hats: Wet Felted Millinery Workshop (FULL)

w/Mikal Robinson $100

Working with Pacific Northwest grown wool roving and olive oil soap, each student will shape and create a custom felted hat. Learn how to make a hood pattern and felt in 3D using a wet resist. Blocking and shaping will be done with the assistance of a variety of unique hat molds to choose from. As well as your head. Make sure to bring dry extra clothes. This class will clean everything but potentially leave your sleeves and collar a little water logged. Olive oil soap makes this felting class a good choice for sensitive skin or allergies. 

• Saturday 2-6p
• Sunday 12-4p

Location: Sou’wester Lodge Pavilion

Mikal Robinson is a queer alterly abled inspired felter, fiber artist, and educator. The lead instructor for Feral Felt and Wild Child Arts Education for over 17 years. Creating containers for shared learning and enthusiasm wherever they roam.

They have been sharing their love of hand crafts and honoring them as a fine art since childhood. Always encouraging people to remember the vital importance of supporting and maintaining our fibersheds. 

Reminding us that clothing is the shelter we wear. A long known way to communicate visually and embody one’s culture and identity. Always an opportunity for adornment.

To learn more about their classes, workshops, camps, afterschool programs, hand hammered jewelry and fiber art check out www. feralfinearts.com 

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

Jan 27

Ceramic Trinket Trays (or Watercolor Palettes) Workshop

w/Kimberly Gottschalk $70

Join us for a hands-on, one-day hand-building workshop where you can craft a unique ceramic trinket tray or watercolor palette! Throughout an engaging 4-hour session, you will dive into the art of ceramics, learning the fundamentals of working with clay before creating a unique template to help shape your clay into your choice of tray or palette. Please bring pictures or ideas of shapes to work with.

• Saturday 2-6p

Location: Ilwaco Artworks

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