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!
Fall/Winter 2018 Workshop Series
Paint Your Pet: Painting Workshop with Cindy Geffel
Paint a 16″x20″ canvas of your pet (or favorite animal) with acrylic paint. No experience needed! Instructor will guide you step by step to create a beautiful and original portrait of your “best friend.” All materials, including paint, canvas, and easels are provided.
Instructor Cindy Geffel has over 20 years experience of painting instruction, including paint parties and events. In 2003 she completed a BS in Drawing/Painting/Printmaking from Portland State University, with a minor in graphic design and art history, a course of study that has influenced her interest in both the ancient art culture and the contemporary artists of the 20th century. “There has always been a clear direction in my art – create and explore the endless possibilities of form and the essential elements of what art is and can be.”
COST: $30 plus a $8 material fee (Please pay material fee directly to the instructor.)
BRING: 8″ x 11″ photo of your pet (or favorite animal); shoulders and head shot will get the best results. PLEASE BRING YOUR PHOTO ALREADY PRINTED ON PAPER AS WE CANNOT PRINT THE IMAGE FOR YOU. Wear clothes that are ok to get paint on. Please bring a sack lunch and/or snack (coffee & hot tea provided).
This workshop is for students age 11 years and up, 12 students max.
RSVP: souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com or 360-642-2542
The Sou’wester Lodge at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA 98644
This class is part of the Fall/Winter 2018 Workshop Series. All classes are open to the public and all skill levels welcome. Visit www.souwesterlodge.com/calendar to see the full schedule of artist-led workshops.
Fall/Winter 2018 Workshop Series
Doodling for Creativity with Cynthia Mosser
Step into a course that helps you play artistically without fear. Do you doodle? Would you like to experience more creativity and calm your mind? Learn how artists start their projects. You’ll discover how to bring out your inner artist or create ideas for you next big project. The goal of this class is to start the process of playing in your sketchbook with a pen or pencil. Feeling lost? The instructor will guide you through activities to get your pen flowing.
The class will involve guided doodling, allowing your pen to wander without judgement, even using a meaningful word/shape around which to begin. Perfection isn’t the end result, but a process of discovery and exploration. By the end of the class, you may have a project in mind, or an idea for piece of art derived from the class. A pen, sketchbook and an open mind is all that is required!
The work of painter, Cynthia Mosser, is abstract, colorful and biological. She loves ocean forms, succulents, and doodles regularly. Her work has been critically reviewed in ARTnews Magazine, Willamette Week Newspaper, and featured in PortlandMonthlyMag.com Cynthia received a B.A. in Art History from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington and attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. She is represented by the Augen Gallery in Portland, Oregon.
COST: $20 plus $2 material fee (Please pay material fee directly to the instructor.)
BRING: Please bring an 8.5″ x 11″ sketchbook and your favorite pen/pencil. Coffee and tea provided.
Optional Meet&Greet on Friday September 21st from 5pm-7pm at the Sou’wester in the lodge living room.
This workshop is for students age 18 and up. 20 students max.
RSVP: souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com or 360-642-2542
The Sou’wester Lodge at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA 98644
This class is part of the Fall/Winter 2018 Workshop Series. All classes are open to the public and all skill levels welcome. Visit www.souwesterlodge.com/calendar to see the full schedule of artist-led workshops.
Fall/Winter 2018 Workshop Series
Dance Therapy/Healing Through Movement Practice and Creation with Sarah Brahim
This workshop will help you discover deeper connection to your own body and the way you move, no matter your current level. We will explore dancing through memories and personal experiences working to continue intentional dance and movement relationships between our body and mind. We will also have fun and practice dancing to just feel good, release tension, and let go. There will be a creative portion of the class where we will (weather permitting) take movement therapy skills out into nature. We will also incorporate bodywork and massage to finish the workshop feeling relaxed and refreshed.
Sarah Brahim is a movement artist passionate about creating meaningful work with artists of varying mediums. She grew up studying, choreographing, performing, and teaching jazz, ballet, and tap in Portland, Oregon. She then studied at the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance and in 2016 she graduated from London Contemporary Dance School (LCDS) and holds a BA Hons degree in contemporary dance. At LCDS she further explored the depth and resonance of movement, discovering her passion for improvisation, collaboration, choreographing, and healing through movement. In 2017 she graduated from Portland State University with a degree in Public Health specializing in Community Health Education. Returning to her roots, Sarah is currently crafting, choreographing, and performing live with local Portland artists and expanding her repertory as a tap dancer. She believes dance can be life changing, transformative, and a universal language to bring people together.
COST: $40
BRING: Water, wear comfortable clothing, (warm layers), socks, and comfortable shoes. Please bring a sack lunch and/or snack. Coffee and tea provided.
This workshop is for students age 17 years and up.
RSVP: souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com or 360-642-2542
The Sou’wester Lodge at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA 98644
This class is part of the Fall/Winter 2018 Workshop Series. All classes are open to the public and all skill levels welcome. Visit www.souwesterlodge.com/calendar to see the full schedule of artist-led workshops.
Fall/Winter 2018 Workshop Series
Chocolate and Coffee Making Workshop with Becca Roebber & Ryan Rabaca
Learn about where coffee and cacao come from, how they are similar and different and why we love them so much! You will learn how to roast coffee & cacao at home, best coffee brew methods and how to make chocolate at home. Finally, experience a sensory analysis by pairing single origin dark chocolate with single origin coffee in a guided tasting.
Each person will leave with a bag of freshly roasted coffee and dark chocolate made by hand.
Becca Roebber is the Marketing Director and COO of indi chocolate, in Pike Place Market. She has worked with cacao farmers for over 10 years passionately telling the story of direct trade chocolate to consumers through education, events and classes that all include tasting dark chocolate. Becca and indi chocolate love to work collaboratively with other local businesses so that chocolate can be shared with all different communities in Seattle and beyond. She travels to cacao growing regions as often as possible and works with communities to increase their standard of living through the production of cacao.
Ryan Rabaca has been Ladro‘s head roaster for two years. He has spent nearly a decade in the coffee industry and is passionate about flavor development, direct trade farming practices, and roasting coffee that everyone can enjoy. Palate training and coffee education are important pieces of his job. He loves connecting people through coffee.
COST: $55
BRING: All supplies provided. Bring a snack if desired. Water pitcher and drinking glasses provided, but bring a water bottle if you prefer.
This workshop is for students age 16 and up. Max students 20.
RSVP: souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com or 360-642-2542
The Sou’wester Lodge at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA 98644
This class is part of the Fall/Winter 2018 Workshop Series. All classes are open to the public and all skill levels welcome. Visit www.souwesterlodge.com/calendar to see the full schedule of artist-led workshops.
Fall/Winter 2018 Workshop Series
Arabesque Quilling: Bridging Cultures With Art
with instructor Koloud ‘Kay’ Tarapolsi
Quilling is a Renaissance art form that uses strips of paper that are rolled to create designs. The paper was wound around a quill to create a basic coil shape that was glued and shaped by Catholic nuns. Now we have modern tools for you to try this pioneering art form. No experience needed as instructor will guide you in step by step instructions on creating a card, bibelot or party favor. All materials, including paper, tools, and glues are provided.
Instructor Koloud ‘Kay’ Tarapolsi is a Libyan American paper artist who has been teaching quilling for 10 years in the Pacific Northwest to children and adults. She studied African art as an undergraduate and moved to Washington to receive her Masters in International Studies, specializing in the Middle East. She enjoys using the quilling stripes in her arabesque art since the paper allows her the freedom to explore movement in calligraphy while other mediums she has tried, such as clay and wood, have been too restrictive.
photo by Ingrid Pape-Sheldon
COST: $30 plus $5 material fee (Please pay material fee directly to the instructor.)
BRING: All materials provided. Bring a snack if you would like. Coffee and tea provided.
This workshop is for students age 16 and up.
RSVP: souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com or 360-642-2542
The Sou’wester Lodge at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA 98644
This class is part of the Fall/Winter 2018 Workshop Series. All classes are open to the public and all skill levels welcome. Visit www.souwesterlodge.com/calendar to see the full schedule of artist-led workshops.
Fall/Winter 2018 Workshop Series
Printmaking Without A Press: Relief, Monotypes, & Collagraphs Using Akua Non-Toxic Inks with Jane Pagliarulo
We’ll learn fast and furious, the myriad ways you can print on your kitchen table or schoolroom desk using rolling pin, printing pin, or baren. These techniques are immediate, experimental, fun and well-suited for teachers or professionals or folks who claim they are not artistic! Our printing plates will include wood, plexiglass, gel plates, easycut, scratch foam and mat board, and we will play with masking tape, paper, mylar, brushes, rags and brayers.
The $40 materials fee will include inks, newsprint, 2 sheets Arches paper, one each gel plate, scratch foam plate, tiny easy cut block, 3 tiny woodblocks. Additional Printmaking paper and bigger wood block plates available for purchase.
Jane Pagliarulo, Master Printer and co-owner of Atelier Meridian, received a BFA in Printmaking from UMass at Amherst. From 1989 to 1996 she worked as a fine art printer at Hand Graphics in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she printed lithographs, woodcuts, etchings and monotypes. She worked one-on-one in creative collaboration with artists who had tremendously varied conceptual and technical approaches. As a result she strays beyond the traditional boundaries of printmaking. In 1996 Pagliarulo co-founded a printmaking workshop in Hood River, Oregon. In 2007 she started Atelier Meridian, a collaborative membership printmaking studio in Portland, teaching workshops & printing editions.
COST: $150 plus $40 material fee (includes inks, newsprint, 2 sheets Arches paper, one each gel plate, scratch foam plate, tiny easy cut block, 3 tiny woodblocks) Please pay material fee directly to the instructor.
BRING: Please bring your favorite paint brushes (stiff -bristled oil brushes are best), your favorite apron that is ok for paint to get on, any mark-making tools you would like to try, like Caran D’ache water crayons, oil sticks, and textured fabrics
Please bring a sack lunch and/or snack. Coffee and tea provided.
This workshop is for students age 10 and up. 10 students max.
RSVP: souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com or 360-642-2542
The Sou’wester Lodge at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA 98644
This class is part of the Fall/Winter 2018 Workshop Series. All classes are open to the public and all skill levels welcome. Visit www.souwesterlodge.com/calendar to see the full schedule of artist-led workshops.
Fall/Winter 2018 Workshop Series
Spore Printing: A Mushroom’s Unique Mark
with instructor Kyla Sjogren
This workshop is divided into 2 parts with a break in between. Please plan to attend both parts of the class:
1st part of the class: 11am – 1pm
2nd part of the class: 4pm-5:30pm
Individual mushroom spores are tiny and cannot be seen with the naked eye. Spores can become visible on mature mushrooms by the process of spore printing. In this hands-on workshop explore methods of Spore Printing with locally foraged fungus. The materials fee of this workshop includes high quality Arches Textwove paper and a special plant dyed paper for each student. Please be prepared for a possible short walk in nature to collect materials.
Strongly influenced by a blue-collar work ethic and the southern cotton fields surrounding her youth, Kyla Sjogren is a textile designer who passionately works towards awareness of material consumption in the apparel industry. In 2011, she moved from Northwest Florida to Portland to document the viability of making sustainable wool garments in the Northwest region of the US. She initiated the process from start to finish: from raising sheep, processing wool, spinning and weaving, to natural dyeing and garment design.
Kyla’s work to create a sustainable system for textile and clothing production continues through collaborations with Northwest fashion designers, her industry experience working with Pendleton Woolen Mills and Columbia Sportswear, and teaching workshops in the Pacific Northwest. Her goal is to educate through creating material with meaning, and to initiate skepticism/investigation into the origins and conditions of where our clothing is grown and manufactured.
Sjogren is a graduate of the PNCA/OCAC Applied Craft and Design MFA program in Portland, Oregon. To see more of Kyla’s work, please visit her website at www.pastoraltextiles.com.
COST: $30 plus a $20 materials fee (Please pay materials fee directly to the instructor.)
BRING: All supplies provided. Please feel free to bring any snack you may need for the duration. Coffee, tea and water provided. Please wear comfortable clothes and shoes ok for a possible short nature walk.
This workshop is for students age 9 years old and up. 12 students max.
RSVP: souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com or 360-642-2542
The Sou’wester Lodge at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA 98644
This class is part of the Fall/Winter 2018 Workshop Series. All classes are open to the public and all skill levels welcome. Visit www.souwesterlodge.com/calendar to see the full schedule of artist-led workshops.
This class is also part of the annual Wild Mushroom Celebration on the Long Beach Peninsula. “This celebration is a culinary and cultural event honoring the Pacific Northwest’s delectable, edible wild mushrooms. The six-week celebration features expert-led hikes through an Oregon state park, chef-inspired menus at some of the Long Beach Peninsula’s finest restaurants and lodging specials at acclaimed inns and vacation rentals.”~www.wildmushroomcelebration.com
Fall/Winter 2018 Workshop Series
Mycopigments: Mushroom Dyed Silk Scarf with Alissa Allen
Learn about prized local wild mushrooms and lichens used for dye. We will design 3 silk scarves using resist techniques for simple, yet elegant patterns. Participants will receive a detailed instructional handout, a color guide to the best local dye fungi and 3 silk scarves.
photo by Megan Hodde
Alissa Allen is an amateur mycologist and the founder of Mycopigments. She specializes in teaching about regional mushroom and lichen dye palettes to fiber artists and mushroom enthusiasts all over the continent. Alissa got her start in the Pacific Northwest and has been sharing her passion for mushrooms for over 15 years. She has written articles for her website as well as Fungi Magazine and Fibershed. In 2015 she created the Mushroom and Lichen Dyers United discussion group and The Mushroom Dyers Trading Post. These groups have grown into a community of over 6000 members. Alissa uses brilliant colors found in mushroom dyes to entice people to take a closer look at mushrooms and their relationship within the ecosystem.
COST: $75 plus a materials fee of $25 (Please pay material fee directly to instructor.)
BRING: Dress comfortably in layers, bring gloves and a name tag. Bring mushrooms and lichens if you find them, there will be time for identification. Please bring a sack lunch and/or snack. Coffee and tea provided.
All ages welcome, children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Children under 7 can work with smaller scarves at half price. Max students 20.
RSVP: souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com or 360-642-2542
The Sou’wester Lodge at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA 98644
This class is part of the Fall/Winter 2018 Workshop Series. All classes are open to the public and all skill levels welcome. Visit www.souwesterlodge.com/calendar to see the full schedule of artist-led workshops.
This class is also part of the annual Wild Mushroom Celebration on the Long Beach Peninsula. “This celebration is a culinary and cultural event honoring the Pacific Northwest’s delectable, edible wild mushrooms. The six-week celebration features expert-led hikes through an Oregon state park, chef-inspired menus at some of the Long Beach Peninsula’s finest restaurants and lodging specials at acclaimed inns and vacation rentals.”~www.wildmushroomcelebration.com
Fall/Winter 2018 Workshop Series
Exploring Color: Silk Painting with Jess Beebe
We will be working with color combinations on paper exploring the interaction of color before we take paint to silk scarves. The process of silk painting is much like watercolor and the application of salt at the end adds textural interest. Color is a deeply personal and provocative element with a power that shifts as it is experienced with other colors. We will explore these relationships through meditative association and color exercises on paper. The finished silks (21” square) may be worn or hung as wall art.
Jess Beebe is an artist and clothing designer who creates hand printed and dyed textiles. Her clothing line, Linea designs was created in 2001 as a way to explore textiles, color and form. She studied art and literature at PSU with an immersion in art and color theory in Florence, Italy then finishing at OCAC, with textile design. A student of Shadow Yoga since 2001, informs her work in meditation.
COST: $50
BRING: All supplies provided. Please wear clothes that are ok to get paint/dye on. Bring a snack if desired. Coffee and tea provided.
This workshop is for students age 10 and up. Max students 10.
RSVP: souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com or 360-642-2542
The Sou’wester Lodge at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA 98644
This class is part of the Fall/Winter 2018 Workshop Series. All classes are open to the public and all skill levels welcome. Visit www.souwesterlodge.com/calendar to see the full schedule of artist-led workshops.
Fall/Winter 2018 Workshop Series
Climactic Dialogue for the Climactic Story Teller: A Writing Workshop with Diana Kirk
Dialogue is the difference between grey skies and perwinkle horizons. It’s the color, the peak, the cherry on the top of a banana split. It’s an accent to any story and it brings you from one of narration only to a multi-faceted quilt of characters and nuances that can only be found when characters speak outloud. Learn how to write using dialogue to tell your story or fold into an existing one. Find people’s voices, find your own.
In this four hour workshop, we’ll tell stories from our own lives and practice writing these into small vignettes or polaroids of dialogue leading to a climactic conclusion. When you leave, you’ll have the tools and confidence necessary to write other people’s words, to write your own words…with intent.
Diana Kirk is a liar, a hussy, a boss lady and a downright dirty dawg. Which means she’s a helluva writer. The author of Licking Flames: Tales of a Half-Assed Hussy and Nasty! has been published in Progessive magazine, Nailed, Psychology of It and has appeared on NPR. Her stories, her vignettes and her ramblings can be found all over social media and most nights at her 92 year old bar called Workers Tavern in Astoria, Oregon.
COST: $30 plus $13 material fee (includes book). Please pay material fee directly to the instructor.
BRING: Please bring paper and pen/pencil or other favorite writing method. Please bring a sack lunch and/or snack. Coffee and tea provided.
This workshop is for students age 18 and up. Perfect for beginners. Perfect for essay writers. Novel writers. Whomever.
RSVP: souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com or 360-642-2542
The Sou’wester Lodge at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA 98644
This class is part of the Fall/Winter 2018 Workshop Series. All classes are open to the public and all skill levels welcome. Visit www.souwesterlodge.com/calendar to see the full schedule of artist-led workshops.