Thank you to our August Week at The Warehouse Sponsors:

Join us for events and classes happening this week:

8/14 Ceramics Open Studio: Monitor- Doug

Time: 11am-2pm

Access to your clay, and our space and equipment, and a shelf for work-in-progress! Our open studio hours are held different times on different days. Check the calendar for details. The cost is $35 per calendar month, to have access to all available dates.  

Writer's Workshop with Carol Amour

Dates: Mondays July 11, 18, 25, August 1, 8, 15 (6-week session)

Time: 1:00-3:00pm

Instructor: Carol Amour

Cost: Pay what you wish. Contributions support the work of the Waaswaaganing First Nations Institute of Indigenous Teaching and Learning

Participants will document the “wiigwaamikewin” process by gathering photos of the gather and construction phases of the wigwam and writing text. Participants will construct story boards and labels (as in a museum) and end up with a book and/or feature articles.

Invite people to journal, write short essays, and poems to contribute to a share wall.

Book Review: Braiding Sweetgrass- with Carol Amour and Kamewin

Dates: Mondays July 11, 18, 25, August 1, 8, 15 (6-week session)

Time: 3:30-5:30pm

Facilitators: Carol Amour & Kamewin

Cost: Pay what you wish. Contributions support the work of the Waaswaaganing First Nations Institute of Indigenous Teaching and Learning

Copies of Braiding Sweetgrass are available for purchase at The Warehouse.

Open to the public.

Participants will be reading and discussing the book “Braiding Sweetgrass” and related reading list.

Hatha-Based Yoga with Cindi Schickert

Dates: Mondays August 8, 15, 22, 29 (4-week session)

Time: 6-7:15pm

Instructor: Cindi Schickert

Cost: $12 / class, or $40 for the 4-week session

The classes will be Hatha based, where postures are held for a few breaths with some slow flow added in.

2-D Tuesday: Open Studio

Dates: Tuesdays August 2, 9, 16, 23, 30

Time: 10:30am-3pm

Cost: Free to attend

Open studio work time is scheduled every Tuesday from 10am-3pm, available for people to work independently on their artwork in our 2-D room. Participants will provide their own materials.

2-D Tuesday: Watercolor Community Class

Dates: Tuesdays August 2, 9, 16, 23, 30

Time: 10:30-12pm

Cost: Free to attend

This is a watercolor community class under the guidance of Dr. Donna Murray. Participants will provide their own materials. Watercolor materials are also available for purchase at The Warehouse.

Ceramic Monstera Leaf Bowls (class 2 of 2)

Dates: August 9 + 16

Time: Aug. 9- 2-4pm, Aug. 16- 2:30-4pm

Instructor: Johanna Buwalda

Cost: $65 / person

This is a Handbuilding class which means that instead of mainly using a pottery wheel, we will use slabs, a template, forms and other tools to create our monstera leaf bowls. The instructor will help you design your bowl and guide you through some different techniques to create your bowls. We can add a stem or handles to embellish the monstera leaf bowls.

During first class we will create the bowls. The second class is for finishing and glazing.

Summer Weekly Clay Class: Lake Bowls

Date: Tuesday, August 16

Time: 4:30-6pm

Instructor: Johanna Buwalda

Cost: $20 / person

During this class, participants of all ages will be guided through a project that can be completed in 1.5 hours. Each class will begin with a 5-10 minute educational moment specific to the project. The instructor will bisque fire, glaze, and glaze fire the projects. Participants can check the Warehouse website or Facebook page to see when the project is ready to be picked up.

Yoga Flow with Kate Remme

Dates: Wednesdays weekly August 3, 10, 17, 24, 31

Time: 8:30-9:30am

Instructor: Kate Remme

Cost: $50 / person for the 5-week August session, or $12 / class

This athletic and strengthening Yoga class will flow from one pose to the next, while releasing muscle tension & reducing stress. Various styles of Yoga will be explored, such as Power Yoga, Ashtanga, Vinyasa, and Yoga Fusion. Modifications offered for all levels.

August Youth Art: Dog Days of Summer!

Dates: Wednesdays August 3, 10, 17, 24, 31

Time: 10:30-12pm

Instructors: Donna Murray and Tammie Lindstrom

Cost: $50 for the 4-week session, or $12 / class

Children ages 6 and under are asked to please bring an adult to stay and help.

August Intermediate/Advanced Wheel Throwing (class 2 of 3)

Dates: Wednesdays August 10, 17, 24

Time: 1-5pm

Instructor: John Langer

Cost: $185 / person

Are you interested in honing your skills on the potter’s wheel? This offering is perfect for those who have some experience and consider their skill level to be intermediate or advanced in relation to the potter’s wheel. You should be comfortable centering clay and pulling a decent wall. Further your skills under the guidance of John Langer, an experienced studio potter, in a small class setting with no more than 6 students.

8/17 Ceramics Open Studio: Monitor- Rob

Time: 6:30-9pm

Access to your clay, and our space and equipment, and a shelf for work-in-progress! Our open studio hours are held different times on different days. Check the calendar for details. The cost is $35 per calendar month, to have access to all available dates.  

8/18 Ceramics Open Studio: Monitor- Kris

Time: 9am-2pm

Access to your clay, and our space and equipment, and a shelf for work-in-progress! Our open studio hours are held different times on different days. Check the calendar for details. The cost is $35 per calendar month, to have access to all available dates.  

Corks & Canvas

Dates: August 18

Time: 6-9pm

Instructor: Megan Raymond

Cost: $45 / person

With instruction and guidance from an experienced artist/teacher, participants will paint their own version of an example image and will start at the beginning, including a description of tools and materials, and proceed step by step through the creation of an acrylic painting.

This class is open to adults. Includes one drink from our Inspiration Bar!

Closing Ceremony- Living WITH the Northwoods

Date: Friday, August 19

Time: 6-9pm

Cost: free to attend

This event will be the closing ceremony for our summer programming, “Living with the Northwoods”, and community wigwam project with Wayne Valliere. We will be celebrating Living WITH the Northwoods with oral stories and traditional drum and song.

Exhibit: Wiigwaas: Birch Bark Art of the Anishinaabeg

On display July 9 - August 20

Artist: Wayne Valliere

This exhibit will feature diverse handcrafted containers (berry, food storage, winnowing (rice), cargo, cradle receptacle, feather cases, dishes and bowls, folding maple syrup baskets, a birch bark canoe). Warehouse staff and Board members and volunteers will serve as hosts and educators, providing background information and directing visitors to explore construction of the wigwam in process.

Master Artist Wayne Valliere (Mino-giizhig in Ojibwe), a member of The Lake Superior Chippewa’s Lac du Flambeau band, will be a featured artist this summer leading various discussions, classes, and talks as well as guiding a community wigwam project as part of our summer programming theme, “Living WITH the Northwoods!” Wayne is a 2020 recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship, the nation’s highest honor awarded to those who keep folk and traditional arts alive.

Serving as the centerpiece of our programming, Wayne and his apprentices will lead students of all ages in harvesting materials from our local woodlands and constructing a summer wigwam in the courtyard of The Warehouse. The wigwam will be on display all summer and beyond.

In addition, Wayne will showcase an exhibit at The Warehouse, “The Many Uses of Birch Bark by the Anishinaabeg”. This exhibit will feature diverse handcrafted containers (berry, food storage, winnowing (rice), cargo, cradle receptacle, feather cases, dishes and bowls, folding maple syrup baskets, a birch bark canoe). The exhibit will be on display from July 9 – August 20.

Wayne has been an artist in residence at Northwestern University and currently works as a language and culture teacher at the Lac du Flambeau Public School. He is also currently in a residency with Purdue University. He is passionate about keeping cultural knowledge and traditions alive. Wayne is an experienced artist of many mediums, including beadwork, basketry, quillwork, singing, storytelling, and more. He is also one of only a handful of birch bark canoe builders left in the United States, highlighting its significance in the Anishinaabe culture and carrying on a tradition that has been handed down for thousands of years.

Current hours:

Monday - Thursday 10am - 3pm

Friday 10am - 9pm

Saturday + Sunday 10am - 2pm