ARTS WEEK INFORMATION FOR APPLICANTS & PARTICIPANTS

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Our juried Arts Week artists will experience a residency stay arriving Sunday, March 9th and departing Sunday, March 16th. Generally 30-35 artists and art collectives are selected from the application process to participate. Help us spread the word, invite your community.

Arts Week will take place March 9th – 16th 2025 at The Sou’wester Lodge

Timeline:

  • Applications open: December 4th 2024, 12am PST
  • Applications close: January 10th 2025, 11:59pm PST
  • Accepted artists notified: by January 27th 2025
  • Artist contract due: February 3rd 2025
  • Artists announced: February 10th 2025
  • Accommodations assigned: February 14th 2025
  • March 9th – Artists arrive and begin their residency week. Sunday – Thursday artists will create, interact and enjoy an arts residency by the beach.
  • March 14th-15th – Arts Week opens to the public Friday evening and all day Saturday as a grand exhibition to share everyone’s art!
  • March 16th: Artists check out 11am

2025 Jurors

Liz Harris: An artist working out of the Pacific Northwest.  She releases music and art editions on her imprint YELLOWELECTRIC, and kranky records, and records/produces under the names Grouper, Nivhek, Raum, Helen and Mirrorring.

Anis Mojgani: Oregon’s 10th Poet Laureate, co-creator of the Oregon Telephone Poetry Hotline, and a two-time individual winner of the National Poetry Slam. The author of six poetry collections, an opera libretto and a children’s picture book forthcoming, his most recent collection is, The Tigers, They Let Me. Originally from New Orleans, Anis lives in Portland Oregon.

Amanda Manitach: A self-taught multidisciplinary artist, writer, and curator based in Seattle, WA. Manitach’s visual art blends her passion for drawing and language in large-scale works on paper and other media that play with the plasticity and power of language. Other adventures include co-founding scrappy, artist-run spaces in Seattle, serving as curator at Seattle University’s Hedreen Gallery (2013-15), and a seven-year stint as visual arts editor at City Arts Magazine. She is currently editor in chief at Public Display Art and co-manages the Recology King County AIR Program. She is represented by Winston Wächter Fine Art in Seattle and New York.

Kristina Goetz Kristina has served as the Acting Executive Director of Artist Trust since 2020 after initially joining as the Director of Development in 2015. With nearly twenty years of experience in the non-profit sector, Kristina has served organizations representing almost every artistic discipline, including visual art, theater, modern dance, performance, and popular and classical music. Raised in New York City in a family of restaurateurs, she relocated to Seattle from Florida in 2009, first settling in at the historic Woodland Theater/ Josephine performance space in Ballard. She has held leadership roles in fundraising and administration at The Vera Project and Northwest Folklife in the Pacific Northwest, and the Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival and Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra in Florida. Kristina lives in Seattle’s South Park neighborhood with her partner, guitarist Simon Henneman, a cat named Brownie, and a dog named Lola.

Julia Barbee Julia Barbee’s autobiographical works span performance, fashion, film, food, social media, photography, retail space, and publication. Born in 1978, in Portland, Oregon, where she resides, she has shown in Los Angeles, New York, and abroad. Frocky Jack Morgan was her deconstructed clothing line for 10 years in the early oughts, which is now a conceptual ephemeral line under her name. Spaceness (the predecessor of The Sou’wester’s Arts Week) was a five-year running art event she co-founded and curated with her friend and husband in 2015. She has had an antique and vintage picking business for over 20 years that has straddled her visual arts practice, her educational pursuits, and her child rearing.​

Pre-Arrival Site Visit:

It is an option to stay at The Sou’wester and see the project spaces in-person to better inform your vision and project. Site visits are a single, discounted weeknight stay. Additional nights at Artist Residency rates. Not all units available. Holiday blackout dates may apply. Book a site visit.

Fees

  • Application fee is $25.
  • Arts Week fee is $220 +taxes. This includes one accommodation for the length of your stay.
    • Artist collectives requiring multiple accommodations will be charged $220 for each additional accommodation. 
  • Arts Week fee for approved financial aid applicants will be $170 (approximately ) +taxes for participants who applied for financial aid. (This amount is approximate as we have $500 that will be split among all who requested it.)
  • Arts Week fee for BIPOC participants who opted into the BIPOC grant will be $170 +taxes.
    • Participants who applied for both scholarships may receive both.
  • If bringing a dog there is a $30 one time cleaning fee + $15 per additional pet.
  • Early arrival and late check-out available. $35 moving fee.

Residency week:

Artist check in at 4pm Sun, March 9th for four days of residency work using their accommodations as their studio space. Visit the list of all vintage travel trailers, cabins and lodge rooms for more details about each accommodation at The Sou’wester.

Mail:

Since this is a rural area most deliveries are 2-3 days slower. The Seaview, WA Post Office is open Sun-Fri 9a-3p (closed Saturdays).

  • Incoming mail:
    • USPS – We do not receive USPS mail at the lodge. All USPS mail goes to the Seaview Post Office. Address: “The Sou’wester+(your name), PO Box 102, Seaview, WA 98644”
    • UPS/FEDEX/AMAZON – Comes to the lodge front desk between 9a-9p. Address: “Your name, 3728 J Place, Seaview WA 98644.”
  • Outgoing mail:
    • USPS – Address: “The Sou’wester+(your name), PO Box 102, Seaview, WA 98644”
    • FEDEX/UPS – FEDEX shipping centers are located in Astoria, OR. UPS shipping available at Oman & Son Builders Supply in Long Beach (7:30a-5p M-F, 8a-5p Sat). Address: “The Sou’wester+(your name), 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA 98644”

Ceramic Artists:

Spend your residency at our community clay studio, Ilwaco Artworks. You’ll have access to the studio from  7 AM to 10 PM, a designated storage shelf, pottery wheels, a wedging table, and tools. Artists are welcome to bring their own ^6 clay or purchase studio clay. You can leave their work with us to bisque fire or take it home as greenware.

What to bring:

  • Studio Supplies: Please bring all you need for your residency week studio, final project set-up, and items needed to sell your work (if you choose to). We recommend you bring any needed extension cords, power strips and clamp lights for enhanced studio/project lighting. (Most of our outlets are 2-prong, so also bring 3-prong adaptor/s). We have limited fold-up tables, please bring your own if able/needed. There is a hardware store, “Dennis Company” in Long Beach, 2mi from The Sou’wester.
  • Packing: Please pack extra blankets for the couch/bed if you are bringing a pet. Remember, no dogs in the lodge. ​​We are in a temperate rainforest and recommend you pack for all weather conditions. Pack your rain gear, socks, layers, more than one pair of shoes and anything else that will help keep you comfortable in wind, rain and sunshine.

Final Presentation locations

Where your final presentation will be displayed/presented to the public. Please bring all items needed to display your work for studio tours (price tags, easels, promo material, etc.

  • Lodge rooms are reserved for artists hosting studio tours.
  • Cabins are reserved for artists who will be presenting/performing in the cabin carports.
  • Vintage trailers can also be your final presentation space. If you would like to present in or around a vintage trailer it must also be your accommodation. 
  • All project locations

Invite your community!

Arts Week visitors can enjoy 20% off their stay at Snow Peak, which includes access to their luxurious ofuro spa. To book, simply call and mention you’re an Arts Week guest to receive the discount, or use code ‘Campwithus24’ when booking online to save 20%.”

Friday & Saturday (public portion):

At the end of the week each participant will show their work, a finished piece or work in process, to the public on Friday and Saturday and may chose to set up a display in their accommodations or install/perform in various locations around the grounds, woods, beach, Wave Preschool and Ilwaco Artworks. The public will pick up a program and map to each space to experience the open studio, performance or installation. Participants will check out Sun, March 16th at 11am. Early arrival and late check-out available – $35 moving fee.

Selling work:

  • During Arts Week: You are welcome to sell your work during Arts Week. It is not required but we are asking a 20% commission as a donation to Chinook Indian Nation and their efforts for federal recognition. Please submit commission donations here.
  • Sou’wester Consignment: If you’d like to be considered to become a consigner in The Sou’wester Lodge sun porch market please email Deborah at deborahsouwester@gmail.com before arrival. Commission is 30%.
  • Ilwaco Artworks Consignment: If you’d like to be considered to become a consigner in Ilwaco Artworks art gallery please contact Hans before arrival at ilwacoartworks@gmail.com. Commission is 30%.

Media Kit/Promotional Material

Selected artists will be sent a form to submit marketing images and materials. Due by February 7th 2025

Policies:

  • Cancellations: We only accept cancellations in case of illness or emergencies.
  • Quiet hours are between 10p and 8a. The beach is a few blocks to the west and is open all night.

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