SOU’WESTER EVENTS!

Discover what’s happening during your next stay or plan a visit around our free live music, workshops, wellness offerings and more!

Mar
2
Sat
Workshop: Ceramic Candelabras @ Ilwaco Artworks
Mar 2 @ 2:00 pm – Mar 3 @ 4:00 pm

Mar 2 & 3

Ceramic Candelabras Workshop

w/Taylor Stefanski $108

In this 2 day candelabra workshop we will be touching on form and function. Candelabras traditionally are tall candle holders for taper candles – the height of both help illuminate a space. We will cover rolling coils, shaping and designing our forms on the first day. On the second day of class we will refine our taper holders and assemble everything to create our candelabras. This class is great for beginners and experienced folks alike.

  • Saturday 2-6p
  • Sunday 12-4p

Location: Ilwaco Artworks

T. Stefanski / Taylor Stefanski is a ceramicist living in Seattle, WA.

Their 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 each 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.

@t.stefanski      tstefanski.com

Mar
9
Sat
Clay Play: Flower Pots & Planters @ Ilwaco Artworks
Mar 9 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Clay Play: Flower Pots & Planters @ Ilwaco Artworks

Sat, March 9th: Flower Pots & Planters | 2-5p. $35/person. Ages 14+ & all experience levels. Learn handbuilding skills to create a finished piece! Clay Play includes a demonstration, clay, glazing & firing .

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*Shipping available for visiting attendees! ($15 S&H)

Mar
10
Sun
Clay Play: Bird Feeders @ Ilwaco Artworks
Mar 10 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Clay Play: Bird Feeders @ Ilwaco Artworks

CLAY PLAY

Sun, March 10th: Bird Feeders | 2-5p | $35/person 

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Learn basic handbuilding skills to create a finished piece! No experience necessary. Ages 14+. Includes a demonstration, clay, glazing & firing. Shipping available for visiting attendees! ($15 S&H).

Mar
11
Mon
Sou’wester Arts Week @ The Sou'wester Lodge
Mar 11 @ 4:00 pm – Mar 18 @ 11:00 am

Schedule and itinerary TBA

 

ARTS WEEK ARCHIVE

 
Mar
15
Fri
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC: Sou’wester Arts Weekend!
Mar 15 @ 6:00 pm – Mar 16 @ 10:00 pm
Each March The Sou’wester is given over to 30+ artists and art collectives for a week of residency work culminating in a public exhibition of performances, installations & studio tours. Arts Week highlights the creative process and experiential nature of the Sou’wester Artist Residency Program. Arts week 2024 hopes to create communal movement from the confluence of individual flow states. Through each of our visions, we come together to share in making something bigger. How does this energized space wash back on us? How does it inspire us, heal us, move us towards a sense of belonging? What do we take back from this exchange to seed  our own revisioning?


FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC MARCH 15-17

FRI, 6-10p @ ILWACO ARTWORKS
SAT, 10a-12p @ WAVE PRESCHOOL
SAT, 12-10p @ THE SOU’WESTER
SUN, 11-1p @ ILWACO ARTWORKS

Schedule and itinerary TBA

 
Mar
23
Sat
Clay Play: Coffee Carafes @ Ilwaco Artworks
Mar 23 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Clay Play: Coffee Carafes @ Ilwaco Artworks

CLAY PLAY

Sat, March 23rd: Coffee Carafes | 2-5p | $35/person

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Learn basic handbuilding skills to create a finished piece! No experience necessary. Ages 14+. Includes a demonstration, clay, glazing & firing. Shipping available for visiting attendees! ($15 S&H).

Workshop: Nerikomi Plates & Platters @ Ilwaco Artworks
Mar 23 @ 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Mar 23

Nerikomi Plates and Platters Workshop

w/Ally Bruser $70

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In this workshop, students will explore the “nerikomi” technique of pressing or folding multiple colors of clay to achieve unique surface designs. Students will learn the basics of hand-building with clay while creating plates and platters for any purpose. This class is beginner-friendly and includes all the tools you need, clay, glaze, and firing of two or three finished pieces.

  • Saturday 2-6p

Location: Ilwaco Artworks

Ally Bruser is an elementary school art teacher, artist, and mother living in southwest Washington, on the unceded territory of the Chinook Nation. Most of her ceramics are handbuilt using Nerikomi techniques — the process of pressing and folding multiple colors of clay together and then rolling them into slabs. When not making pottery, Ally is working towards making the arts and arts learning experiences more accessible as the Program Manager for Sou’wester Arts. Visit albepottery.com or follow @albepottery on Instagram to learn more about Ally and her pottery process.
Mar
24
Sun
Clay Play: Tiles & Trivets @ Ilwaco Artworks
Mar 24 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Clay Play: Tiles & Trivets @ Ilwaco Artworks

Sun, March 24th: Tiles & Trivets | 2-5p. $35/person. Ages 14+ & all experience levels. Learn handbuilding skills to create a finished piece! Clay Play includes a demonstration, clay, glazing & firing .

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*Shipping available for visiting attendees! ($15 S&H)

Mar
30
Sat
Clay Play: Mugs & Cups @ Ilwaco Artworks
Mar 30 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Clay Play: Mugs & Cups @ Ilwaco Artworks

CLAY PLAY

Sat, March 30th: Mugs & Cups | 2-5p | $35/person 

CLASS FULL

Learn basic handbuilding skills to create a finished piece! No experience necessary. Ages 14+. Includes a demonstration, clay, glazing & firing. Shipping available for visiting attendees! ($15 S&H).

Workshop: Wheel Throwing Fundamentals @ Ilwaco Artworks
Mar 30 @ 2:00 pm – Mar 31 @ 4:00 pm

Mar 30-31 & Apr 6-7

Wheel Throwing Fundamentals Workshop

w/Kaitlyn Nelson $150

Wheel Throwing Fundamentals (getting centered) and hand building exploration. During the two week course we will be developing beginner skills and techniques for wheel thrown ceramics. This course is designed so give each student 1:1 time to learn how to wheel throw. Between individual wheel throwing sessions with the instructor student will be creating hand built objects and are encouraged explore the properties of clay as a medium. Students will likely bring home 1-2 cylindrical objects and a variety of hand built items. 

  • Saturday 2-6p
  • Sunday 12-4p
  • Includes 1 week of open studio access between classes (M,W,F 3-7)

Location: Ilwaco Artworks

THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL
 
BIO – Kaitlyn Nelson is a multi-disciplinary Artist and Educator. She has a vibrant studio practice working in hybrid media creating surrealism and storytelling infused with a passion for technical craft.  Her creative works amount in a wide breath of material forms as: soft sculpture- mask and costumes, theatrical production, object design, fine art paintings and illustrative book arts. Kaitlyn is originally from Portland, OR where she received a BFA in illustration and Communication Design at PNCA in 2017. She is currently working on a film, “Mistakes Will Be Made” as well as a children’s book / Cumphy synth collaborative album.