SOU’WESTER EVENTS!

Explore all things underwater in this fun, adaptable clay workshop! Learn basic ceramic hand-building skills while exploring underwater themes! Participants will create their pieces using pinch, coil, slab, and pebble styles of hand-building. Students will also experiment with texture tools, both nature-made and human-made, to create different effects in their clay work. This program informs on natural sciences, encourages special awareness, and builds kinesthetic skills. Materials fee for this workshop is $5

Register here then follow the link in the registration confirmation to submit payment.

• Youth After-School Program Ages 7-11
• T, W, Th 3:30-5:30 with possible transportation from LB Elementary
• $75/week + materials fee
• 20% off when you sign up for all After-School Workshops!
• Sibling discount an additional 10% off.
• *Scholarships Available

Join us in welcoming our newest art installation. Elijah Jensen-Lindsey is a self-taught, multi-media artist who currently resides in Nampa, Idaho. His career as a carpenter and craftsman informs his esoteric methodology, and has afforded him distinct opportunities within the intersection of visual art and the built, living environment. Working alongside world-renowned artist Theaster Gates, Jensen-Lindsey played an active role in the renovation of an after-school arts program in St. Louis in 2013. A recipient of grants from The Idaho Commission on the Arts and Boise Weekly, he has shown his artwork in Boise; Reno, Nevada; Brooklyn, New York; and St. Louis, Missouri.
He was awarded top prize in the 2020 Idaho Triennial.
As a musician, Jensen-Lindsey engages with the traditions of folk, pop and noise music as a means of exploring the beautiful terrains of the written and spoken word.
He lives with a Siamese cat named Hummingbird, and a fox squirrel named Juniper.
His band, ‘With Child’ will perform @ 6pm. 

Explore all things underwater in this fun, adaptable clay workshop! Learn basic ceramic hand-building skills while exploring underwater themes! Participants will create their pieces using pinch, coil, slab, and pebble styles of hand-building. Students will also experiment with texture tools, both nature-made and human-made, to create different effects in their clay work. This program informs on natural sciences, encourages special awareness, and builds kinesthetic skills. Materials fee for this workshop is $5

Register here then follow the link in the registration confirmation to submit payment.

• Adult/Youth Saturday Workshop (under 12 accompanied by an adult)
• $50 + materials fee
• *Scholarships Available

Johnny Franco + Mike Coykendall : Presented by Sou’wester Arts

Johnny Franco is a Brazilian rock n’ roll marauder who now resides in Portland, and who crafts inventive spaghetti western/folk-rock stompers. Armed with propulsive, spindly guitars, Dylanesque vocals, and adventurous vibes, Franco recently signed to label Blanket Fort.

“A sly blender of old-school country & western and modern Americana, “Treated Like Grass” thrives on its rollicking rhythms and catchy, twangy melodies” – Impose Magazine

Veteran songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Mike Coykendall has been amazingly prolific over the last three decades or so. Currently most well known for his duties as a sideman, producer, and recordist via his work with M Ward, Blitzen Trapper, She & Him, Annalisa Tornfelt, & Tin Hat Trio, to name a few, Coykendall has been making his own unique outsider records since the mid ’80s.

In this workshop we will be gathering natural materials to create nature crowns, mandalas and hanging chimes. We will focus on using our imagination and creativity to construct whimsical pieces from materials we see everyday.

Register here then follow the link in the registration confirmation to submit payment.

• Youth After-School Program Ages 7-11
• T, W, Th 3:30-5:30 with possible transportation from LB Elementary
• $75/week + materials fee
• 20% off when you sign up for all After-School Workshops!
• Sibling discount an additional 10% off.
• *Scholarships Available

In this workshop we will be gathering natural materials to create nature crowns, mandalas and hanging chimes. We will focus on using our imagination and creativity to construct whimsical pieces from materials we see everyday. Materials fee for this workshop is $10

Register here then follow the link in the registration confirmation to submit payment.

• Adult/Youth Saturday Workshop (under 12 accompanied by an adult)
• $50 + materials fee
• *Scholarships Available

Sallie Ford:Presented by Sou’wester Arts

Sallie Ford grew up in Asheville, North Carolina before moving to Oregon.According to singer Seth Avett of The Avett Brothers, Ford’s songs have that “rare quality of somehow combining fun with emotional and artistic integrity” and she “fills the room with it” and reminds him of the “energy of early rock ‘n’ roll.”

Learn about local architecture and building methods from around the world, learn to read blueprints, design your dream house, become familiar with basic hand tools, and build a unique birdhouse. Materials fee for this workshop is $25

Register here then follow the link in the registration confirmation to submit payment.

• Youth After-School Program Ages 7-11
• T, W, Th 3:30-5:30 with possible transportation from LB Elementary
• $75/week + materials fee
• 20% off when you sign up for all After-School Workshops!
• Sibling discount an additional 10% off.
• *Scholarships Available

Use hand tools and basic power tools to build a small bench or table out of reclaimed materials. This class embraces reuse and reclamation of wooden pallets and other often discarded objects. Get creative while also practicing conservation. Perfect as an intro to woodworking for those with DIY spirit. Materials fee for this workshop is $25

Register here then follow the link in the registration confirmation to submit payment.

• Adult/Youth Saturday Workshop (under 12 accompanied by an adult)
• $50 + materials fee
• *Scholarships Available

Laith:Presented by Sou’wester Arts

Laith, known by some as Hutch, hails from the suburban hurricane of Houston, Texas.  Laith’s music is soaked with memories of Grandma and Grandpa’s bayou house, rides on a red vintage lawn mower packed with cousins, and smoky, music filled bars that a 16 year old has no place being. Which is exactly where Laith found himself as a youngling. Torn between playing music on Sunday’s at church (where he learned to play guitar and sing) and performing in grimy dives, creates a tension in his songwriting that sits somewhere between the altar and the barstool. Ain’t no religion here anymore, just songs. Worth noting: “A song is a room, no matter how happy or sad”. – John H. Laith now resides in the Pacific Northwest lugging used up notebooks and loose scraps of paper scratched with the lyrics of new songs, not yet learned. You can always look forward to hearing something new and something honest when you’re listening to Laith.

– Dusty Atticus author of “The Wasp: Foe or Misunderstood Friend?’’