SOU’WESTER EVENTS!
See what’s happening during your next stay or plan a visit around our free live music, workshops, wellness offerings and more!
Jan 20 & 21
Ceramic Sculptures: Making faces with clay Workshop
w/Paige Wright $110
Students with learn proportions, sculptural rendering, surface anatomy, solid building techniques, and many ceramic finishing options while building a life-size human head out of clay.
- Saturday 2-6p
- Sunday 12-4p
Location: Ilwaco Artworks
About Paige – 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.
Andrew Jones: Presented by Sou’wester Arts
Since arriving in Portland in 2009 the multifarious bassist, composer and songwriter has been hard to pin down, working with an incredibly diverse roster of artists. His unique sense of musicality has found a home playing and making records with songwriters, rock bands, jazz composers, avante-improvisers, and hip-hop and live electronic acts. Jones has also collaborated with dancers and visual artists as well as visiting experimentalists and theater productions via the Improvisation Summit of Portland and Time Based Arts Festivals. Outside of the NW, Andrew has had recurring work with artists from New York and Los Angeles, most recently an international touring stint with acclaimed songwriter/composer Julia Holter. The two connected when Jones’ opened for her with his own project, The Crenshaw, with drummer Chris Johnedis. That duo’s full length album features Jones singing darkly comic and cathartic lyrics in counterpoint to upright bass ostinatos, off-kilter beats and psychedelic synth samples. For his forthcoming record, Andrew has been working under the name ‘and/or you’ with Mike Lockwood on drums.
5/4/24 Raku Workshop
$80.00
Explore the world of Raku. This process creates unique and surprising surface patterns. $80
May 4th: 2-3p demonstration | 3-5p handbuilding workshop
Jun 1st: 2-3p Raku final firing (hands on!)
Includes: Raku clay to make 3-7 pieces, demonstration & two weeks of open studio access following your workshop. We will start the workshop by demonstrating the raku process. Then you’ll work on handbuilding your pieces with raku clay. You will have access to open studio hours (M,W,F 3-7p & Sat/Sun 10a-5p) for the following 2 weeks after your workshop to develop your pieces. Plan to come back June 1st to raku fire your own pieces!
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Polaroid Emulsion Lift Workshop
w/ visiting artist, Dani Hughes
Sat, May 11th | 2-6p at The Sou’wester Lodge Pavilion 3728 J Pl Seaview, WA.
In this hands-on workshop, participants will have the opportunity to take their own polaroid photograph and transform it into an emulsion lift print. Led by an experienced instructor, students will learn about the history and basics of polaroid emulsion transfers and a step-by-step guidance of the process. This class is beginner friendly and will include polaroid cameras and film, watercolor paper, and other basic material, as well as offer a new perspective on the medium of photography.
Dani F. Hughes is a fine artist, photographer, and art educator based in the Midwest. She works within an image-based practice utilizing analog processing methods to explore human experiences of intrinsic longing, personal histories, and coexistence to the natural world. Currently serving as a Studio Assistant for the Detroit Institute of Arts, Dani is an active member of the artistic community, participating in collaborative projects, workshops, and interactive education. Outside of her artistic practice, Dani is an avid explorer and storyteller, sharing her journey and creative process on Instagram (@danifhughes) and through her online portfolio (danifhughes.myportfolio.com).
Kendall Lujan: Presented by Sou’wester Arts
Portland, Oregon based artist, Kendall Lujan embarks on her first full length album “Lucky Penny’ it is set to be released Fall 2024. After releasing her Debut self titled EP last Spring, featured on official playlist for Spotify and Apple Music. Lujan also gaining attention from NPR’s Tiny Desk, MTV and winning the John Lennon Songwriting contest. Sharing the stage with Amos Lee, Frazey Ford (of The Be Good Tanyas), Allie Crow Buckley, Early James, and The Magnetic Fields.
‘Lucky Penny’ features many genres Including Jazz, Folk, Bosa Nova and Indie-Rock. The natural singer and songwriter put together a studio band with Micah Hummel (drums), Colin Schmidt (bass) and Alex Milsted (piano) and recorded at the Map Room Studio in Portland, Oregon with Dominik Schmidt producing.
Her writing is real, introspective and reflective. After touring the songs in Europe twice this past Fall Lujan is ready to show her versatility and growth as an artist. The first single to be released late March 2024 titled ‘Goodbyes’. The song explores mourning and loss of important people in your world. In the sense of ending romantic relationships it explores the process of knowing when someone isn’t suited for your life or growth any longer. Lujan writes “I wrote this song to remind myself that even though things are hard you will meet those people who stick around eventually.” Even though people come and go in your world, remembering that there will be lots of cries and laughs on your journey to finding those people who see you for who you are. The main hook stating: ‘it takes a lot of goodbyes to get to forever. Lujan is set to tour Germany, Austria, and Switzerland again fall 2024.
LIVE AT THE SOU’WESTER LODGE
Bird & Willow
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Bird & Willow: Presented by Sou’wester Arts
Born into a large musical family at the intersection of Bird Avenue and Willow Street, Shiloh and Jared started to write songs in their teens in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Inspired by 90s soft rock as well as folk duo acts like The Weepies and the Oh Hellos, the songs took shape around Jared’s multi-instrumental arranging abilities and Shiloh’s penchant for melodic storytelling and wordsmithing.
Bird and Willow cut their teeth on the indie circuit in San Jose, CA, playing everywhere from unplugged house shows to local street festivals which attracted thousands. Before long they were opening up for touring stops in San Francisco, supporting some of their favorite songwriters like Zach Winters, Tyson Motsenbocker, and Mike Edel, as well as bands such as Sherwood and The Collection.
Shiloh and Jared have now each made a home in the Pacific Northwest, and have been caught up in the thriving Portland music scene. On their most recent release, More Awake Now, the core threads of story-songs drenched in larger meaning have been joined with dreamy guitars, orchestral strings, and the lush production of Justin Kawashima.
Girlgoyle: Presented by Sou’wester Arts
Girlgoyle is a band based in Portland, Oregon. Their sound and songs are inspired by longing for and loving the desert, softness and the opposite, and Land of Talk.
Saroon: Presented by Sou’wester Arts
Saroon is the genre-fluid creative outlet for the prolific multi-instrumentalist producer/composer ayal. The project is founded on the idea that genuine self expression can act as a beacon for others to relate, and actualize themselves. Over the last year Saroon has released diverse albums such as Gilgul, a piano based instrumental album that describes the process of reincarnation starting at the moment of death and ending at conception; ODDDITTIES VOL.1, an electro-pop album comprised of a collection of songs written for his songwriting podcast Honest Jams; and Dive 1, a collaborative ambient album in which ayal collaborated with members of Bathysphere records who made improvised beds of synths on which ayal recorded clarinet arrangements. Through the music, ayal attempts to express the breadth of experience, from existential grief, to the silliest relief, to the hearts of the vulnerable, and the first cat in space, and what it means to live the lives, and the deepest connection, and waffles.
Hand building with Clay & Plants
June 8th 2-6p & June 9th 12-4p at Ilwaco Artworks in Ilwaco, WA w/visiting artist, Misha Hahnl
Students will learn the basics of hand building and incorporate found natural elements (plans, sticks, etc) for decoration and texture: each student will leave the studio with either a painter’s palate, mug or bowl textured with found natural elements and glaze. All levels welcome!
Misha is a teaching artist who has worked in the world of art and education for 15 plus years. Her background is in ceramics, printmaking, education, and caregiving. Currently Misha is working on a program focused on how clay can help process grief with the Portland Grief House and Sandy River Studio. She also offers printmaking workshops in various locations (Chehalem Cultural Center, Grey Raven Gallery, etc). You can learn more about her work, process and workshops @softhandstudio and soft-hand-studio.com.
