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!

Jun
1
Sat
(ceramic) Butter Dishes Workshop @ Ilwaco Artworks
Jun 1 @ 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm
(ceramic) Butter Dishes Workshop @ Ilwaco Artworks

Handbuilding Butter Dishes w/Taylor Stefanski. 6/1. 2-6p. $72.

In this one day workshop students will create and take home their very own butter dish! We will cover how to roll out and prep slabs, how to use a template and add adornments at the end. All levels welcome, ages 16 and up. 

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 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. https://www.tstefanski.com/

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Live Music: Saroon @ The Sou'wester
Jun 1 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

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.

Jun
8
Sat
Hand building with Clay & Plants Workshop @ Ilwaco Artworks
Jun 8 @ 2:00 pm – Jun 9 @ 4:00 pm

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.

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Jun
14
Fri
Community Acupuncture @ The Sou'wester Lodge Pavilion
Jun 14 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm

Community Acupuncture at the Sou’wester with lara pacheco

Come rest, relax, and heal in the coastal forest with others in the pavilion space at the Sou’wester in Seaview, Washington on Friday, June 14th, 10-2pm with lara pacheco. $25-$55 sliding scale.

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This in-person event will take place at the beautiful Sou’wester Historic Lodge. lara pacheco, a licensed acupuncturist, will be providing community acupuncture as a way of making acupuncture more accessible. Community acupuncture is also a way that multiple people are able to relax in a communal space and share in the wide array of benefits that this ancient medicine provides. Acupuncture can treat anything from depression, anxiety, any kind of pain, digestion, sleep issues, and chronic conditions to also providing overall support for general well being. People can expect to rest anywhere from 30 minutes to 1.5 hours depending on what your body needs and what you are comfortable with. Come experience this simple, yet powerful medicine with community and as an addition to being surrounded by the coast and forest.

Please bring a whatever you need to relax (blanket, mat, cushions). Please dress in comfortable layers and be prepared to roll up pants up to knees and long sleeves that roll up to the elbow and to remove socks and shoes for treatment.

  • How does this work? Sign up for a time slot. Tickets will be available in 15 minute slots. You’ll sign up for some short paper work, then find a spot, roll up sleeves and pant legs if that is comfortable for you and lara will start treatment.
  • How long do I stay? Depends. At least 30 minutes is recommended but listening to your body’s needs is most important. Sometimes people fall asleep and sometimes they don’t, but what is most important is that they relax.
 
Jun
15
Sat
Glazing & Surface Decoration Techniques Workshop @ Ilwaco Artworks
Jun 15 @ 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Jun 15

Glazing & Surface Decoration Techniques Workshop

w/visiting artist, w/Charlotte Deason Robillard $80

Students will learn about a variety of ceramic surface decoration techniques. We will provide each student with a bisqued tumbler that they’ll decorate and glaze during the workshop; students are also welcome to bring a piece of their own bisqued work. We’ll go over masking and resistance methods, overlapping glazes, painting with underglazes, using stencils, and techniques for getting clean precise surface designs as well as more organic freehand designs. No previous ceramics experience is required.

Saturday 2-6p

Location: Ilwaco Artworks

 
Live Music: Nick Delffs @ The Sou'wester
Jun 15 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Nick Delffs: Presented by Sou’wester Arts

Nick Delffs grew up in Mendocino County, a lawless stretch of coastline that’s hard to get to and, for many, hard to escape. Nick did — emerging in the early aughts as the frontman for Portland band The Shaky Hands, whose sharp, jittery rock was anchored by Nick’s quavering vocals and questing lyrics. The Shaky Hands were mainstays of Portland on the verge of a major shift, and they rode that shift a while, signing to Kill Rock Stars and touring internationally with some of the bigger names in indie rock. But a hiatus in 2011 became indefinite and Nick Delffs was once again cast into the world: working as a sideman, releasing solo records, doing manual labor, going deeper into his spiritual practices, and, crucially, becoming a father.

Becoming a parent can affect different artists in different ways. Nick rode that change with surpassing grace and maturity. 2017’s Redesign, his first full-length under his own name, reflected the transition. In “Song for Aja”, Nick touched on other concerns familiar to those who follow his work: love of the natural world; longing for spiritual and physical connection; the desire to suffer with meaning and exult with abandon, to embrace somehow the world in its maddening contradictions and find the unity at the core.

Childhood Pastimes, his second release on Mama Bird Recording Co., is both more focused and, despite being technically an EP, more ambitious. It’s a four-song cycle — one song with many movements or four songs that bleed into one another, depending on how you hear it — that can be viewed either as a personal journey or an archetypal passage of a human being through four discrete stages: roughly, the movement from childhood innocence into adolescent adventure (The Escape); the sudden immersion into a life of discovery and excitement (The Dream); the first experience of romantic love, followed by the onset of heartbreak, dissolution, breakdown of self (The Affair); the emergence into a new way of thinking, a fresh perspective that encompasses all the suffering and joy into a balanced whole (The Outside).

Nick plays nearly all of the instruments here and the result is a unified aesthetic, born ultimately of his deep-seated love of rhythm: the thrum and throb of the acoustic guitars, the percussive melodic bang of the elegantly-crafted piano lines, and always, always the insistent, driving drums, propelling the record, and the listener, on this journey as the four tracks bleed into one another, one body, one blood, one beating heart. The concept of four songs that are really one suite of music requires a sure hand, and Nick’s never shakes: the way the songs blend together while retaining their distinctiveness — from the poppy exaltation of “The Escape” to the cold intensity, almost like an acoustic Kraftwerk, of “The Affair” — shows a songwriter and musician who has fully grown into his powers.

Those who have followed Nick’s career may see this as a culmination of years and years of honing and fine-tuning his bountiful gifts, and wonder with delight what might come next. For those who haven’t listened to Nick before, Childhood Pastimes is the perfect entry point, a distillation of what’s come before and the promise of a new beginning.

Jun
18
Tue
Workshop: Natural Pigment Making @ The Sou'wester Lodge
Jun 18 @ 2:00 pm – Jun 19 @ 6:00 pm

June 18 & 19

Natural Pigment Making Workshop

w/Laura Wright $100

Natural Pigment Making: Local Foraging to Create Plant-Based Watercolors. In this workshop, we will make watercolor paints from plants found in the area around Sou’wester. During day 1, we will ethically forage local plants and begin the process of extracting their color.  We will also prepare a container for our finished paints.  In the second day, participants will learn how to filter out pigment and use it to create watercolor.  Each participant will leave with a set of watercolor paints created from the colors of the Sou’wester landscape.

  • Saturday 2-6p
  • Sunday 12-4p

Location: Sou’wester Lodge Pavilion

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. 

thewrightclay.com

Jun
22
Sat
Making (Ceramic) Miniatures Workshop @ Ilwaco Artworks
Jun 22 @ 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Jun 22

Making Miniatures

w/visiting artist, w/Korin Schneider $70

Come play with clay and channel your youthful spirit during this lighthearted hand building workshop. Create a collection of mini sculptures and keep them for yourself or give them as tiny treats for friends and family. The options are endless so let’s think big and make small! We will learn the basics of hand sculpting clay including attaching pieces, texturizing and smoothing surfaces, and decorating with underglaze. Each participant will be able to make as many pieces as they can fit into a small box provided.

  • Saturday 2-6p

Location: Ilwaco Artworks

Jun
29
Sat
Ceramic Charms, Beads & Good Luck Icons Workshop @ Ilwaco Artworks
Jun 29 @ 2:00 pm – Jun 30 @ 4:00 pm

Jun 29 & 30

Ceramic Charms, Beads & Good Luck Icons

w/visiting artist, w/Emily Wright $120

Create meaningful and magical symbols for you and your loved ones. Carve your own icon of good luck, cast it in plaster, and make beaded charms for yourself and others.

Saturday 2-6p

Sunday 12-4p

Location: Ilwaco Artworks

Jul
9
Tue
(ceramic) Altered Vessels Workshop @ Ilwaco Artworks
Jul 9 @ 3:00 pm – Jul 10 @ 6:00 pm
(ceramic) Altered Vessels Workshop @ Ilwaco Artworks

Altered Vessels Workshop w/Gelindo L. Ferrin. July 9th & 10th, 3-6p.

Whether you are beginning to explore clay or have some experience, this 2 – day workshop will give you several basic ideas and demo examples of ways to alter the forms you make, either wheel-thrown or hand-built, with different surface decoration options and/or forming your clay projects with simple tools and techniques. The first day will be spent planning and making and the second will be spent building, trimming and finishing your projects. You will take home 2- 3 projects depending on your style.

Bio:

My work has been inspired by the materials and tools available to me, natural environments, and what the materials allow. My style is rather loose, and with a little planning it is always exciting to see what comes forth from the clay and other materials at hand. I am now in the process of reconstructing a creative environment at home after teaching in public education for nearly 30 years. I recently sold my public studio on Bainbridge Island and look forward to doing workshops, teaching and doing demos for creative enrichment. rollingbayclay.com

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