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!

Feb
3
Sat
Workshop: Clay Creatures & Miniature Things @ Ilwaco Artworks
Feb 3 @ 2:00 pm – Feb 4 @ 4:00 pm

Feb 3 & 4

Clay Creatures and Miniature Things Workshop

w/Kaitlyn Nelson $70

In Clay Creatures and Miniature Things we will spend 2 days learning a variety of hand building techniques to create objects such as clay tiles, mini figurines, pinch pots, coil pots and more! On day two we will spend time painting our sculptures using underglazes with a clear top coat.

  • Saturday 2-6p
  • Sunday 12-4p

Location: Ilwaco Artworks

 
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.
Live music: Night Brunch @ The Sou'wester
Feb 3 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Night Brunch Live at The Sou’wester!

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Night Brunch (Portland) brings their dense vocal harmonies and jangular guitar riffs but leaves a few decibels at home for an intimate “Light Brunch” version of their timeless groovemath. 

Feb
9
Fri
Workshop: “In the Kitchen” Basic Handbuilding Series @ Ilwaco Artworks
Feb 9 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm

Jan 6 – Feb 9

Basic Handbuilding Workshop Series“In the Kitchen”

w/Shelly Hedges $250

Make your own dinnerware, serving platters, and storage containers in this beginning handbuilding class. Demonstrations will include slab-building, coil techniques, press molds, and glazing methods.

Includes:

  • One 25lb bag of clay.
  • Open studio access for the duration of class.

Saturdays, 10a – 1p

  • Jan 6th – Place Settings
  • Jan 13th – Serving Bowls & Platters
  • Jan 20th – Lidded Jars and Utensil Crocks 
  • Jan 27th – Pitchers & creamers
  • Feb 3rd – Glazing
  • + Friday Feb 9th – Potluck Show & Tell! 6-8p

Location: Ilwaco Artworks

 

Feb
10
Sat
Workshop: Kintsugi Breaking & Mending (FULL) @ Ilwaco Artworks
Feb 10 @ 1:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Feb 10

Kintsugi Breaking and Mending Workshop (FULL)

w/Glenda Goodrich $70

Where Grief, Gratitude, and Beauty Coexist.

Come join us as we delve into the art of breaking and mending. Participants will choose a bowl to break and mend as a ceremonial metaphor for the woundings of life and the beauty that comes from its broken places. The act of breaking a bowl and mending the “scars” with gold is based on the Japanese art of Kintsugi. Kintsugi teaches us we cannot go back to the way we were before, but instead move forward with our woundings and the beauty they can bring. Students will leave with a ceramic bowl with golden mended fault lines as a reminder of the places where grief, gratitude, and beauty coexist, as well as the opportunity to reframe old ideas about loss and adversity. Workshop fee includes ceremony, instruction, bowls, and all materials.

  • Saturday 1:30-6p

Location: Ilwaco Artworks

Glenda “GG” Goodrich is an artist, art doula, author, and SoulCollage(r) facilitator living in Salem, OR. GG works one-on-one and with groups to create opportunities for people to explore their intuitive creative potential. Her students describe her teaching style as fun, warm and supportive. She recently published her first book, Solo Passage: 13 Quests, 13 Questions (available wherever books are sold), which is a testament to the healing and restorative powers of nature illustrated through stories about her vision questing experiences in the wild over a 20-year period.

Glendagoodrich.com    @glendagoodrich      #ggsdowntoearthstudio

Live Music: Ancient Pools @ The Sou'wester
Feb 10 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Ancient Pools: Presented by Sou’wester Arts

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Ancient Pools is the home recording project of husband and wife duo Vin Christopher and Anna Jeter. They have a soft approach to pop music. Warm, lush synth chords, watery guitar playing and crystalline vocals aim to usher listeners to a calm and peaceful place. 

Feb
17
Sat
Workshop: Sgraffito Vases – Ceramic Surface Design @ Ilwaco Artworks
Feb 17 @ 2:00 pm – Feb 18 @ 4:00 pm

Feb 17 & 18

Sgraffito Vases: Ceramic Surface Design Workshop

w/Jo Pfeirer $105

Sgraffito Vases: During this weekend workshop, students will spend the first day creating 2-3 10 inch vases with clay and spend the second day decorating them with the beautiful, versatile style of Sgraffito. A perfect project for the first spring blooms! 

  • Saturday 2-6p
  • Sunday 12-4p

Location: Ilwaco Artworks

 
Jo began working with clay in 2012, but it wasn’t until 2019 that she built a home studio and eventually turned a hobby into a full-time career. Since 2021 She has been teaching and working as a studio manager at Morning Ceramics Studio in Portland, OR. As an instructor, She provides students with the foundations of wheel throwing and hand building with clay. Jo caters to both beginners and advanced artists through project-based learning techniques, working with students individually in the classroom to help them make the work that interests them. Jopots.com
Live Music: Ollella @ The Sou'wester
Feb 17 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Ollella Live at the Sou’wester

Ollella’s (pronounced oh-lel-uh) career as a musician started early, when she sang before she could talk. Trained as a classical cellist since the age of nine, the Seattle indie-folk musician merges her technical string background with authoritative vocals and live-looping. Described as “really outstanding” by NPR Music’s Bob Boilen and “so tastefully done” by Michelle Zauner (AKA Japanese Breakfast), Ollella blends the acoustic with the contemporary, folk with pop, and tenacity with softness, pulling on influences such as Feist, Cat Power, and Sylvan Esso. She was a finalist in the 2022 NPR Tiny Desk Contest, has had music featured in film festivals and on TV, and is a frequent collaborator with others. She finds herself drawn to music because it unlocks a particularly organic flavor of humanity – one that fits the type of world she believes in.

 

Feb
24
Sat
Ceramic Handbuilding 101 (FULL) @ Ilwaco Artworks
Feb 24 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Workshop: Playful & Sculptural Ceramic Cups (FULL) @ Ilwaco Artworks
Feb 24 @ 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Feb 24

Playful & Sculptural Ceramic Cups Workshop

w/Ashley Campbell $65

Who says cups have to be strictly utilitarian or sculptural and not both? I am a firm believer in usable art and I love to dive into this mentality with one of our most used objects, the cup! In this workshop, your instructor, Ashley Campbell of The Beige Motel will show you the wonderful ways to use mason stains to color your clay. We will be discussing marbling and inlay techniques to create colorful patterns and then use templates, cutters, and molds to create our vessels. Each student can expect to create a pair of colorful cups to take home. 

  • Saturday 2-6p

Location: Ilwaco Artworks

FULL

Ashley Corpuz Campbell is a Filipino-American ceramic artist. Her work is deeply influenced by her childhood experiences and the loneliness felt growing up as a mixed-race kid in 90s suburbia. It has become a major theme in her work and she gathers color inspiration and imagery from the myriad of cartoons and TV shows she watched as a kid. Ashley works mostly in porcelain, using a variety of pigments to stain her clay. She utilizes bright colors mixed with pastel tones to create playful landscapes with a maximalist mentality.

@thebeigemotel

TheBeigeMotel.com

Live Music: Jeremy James Meyer @ The Sou'wester
Feb 24 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Jeremy James Meyer: Presented by Sou’wester Arts

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Jeremy James Meyer is an artificer of song. A songwriter’s songwriter. He crafts redemptive songs full of woody rock ‘n’ roll tones. His deep, penetrating voice has a wide range, and is especially captivating in his droning, lower register. He spent the last decade drifting around, a tool belt troubadour, working carpentry by day, bringing folk music to the people at night. As with most well traveled songwriters it’s hard to tell where the road ends and Jeremy James Meyer begins. His songs seamlessly blend plain-language and poetic lyricism. They wander from personal truth to outlaw legends. He’s capable of cathartic protest songs, cosmic country canticles, and dive bar sing-a-longs. Whenever, and however your path crosses with Jeremy James Meyer’s (and it will) prepare for an enchanting, psychedelic trip through cosmic American music.

– Sean Jewell American Standard Time