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
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.
Live Music: Lili St. Anne @ The Sou'wester
Mar 23 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Lili St. Anne: Presented by Sou’wester Arts

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

 

Elizabeth Margit-Anne is the frontwoman of Lili St Anne, a Santa Fe-based art-folk trio that combines the excitement of psychedelic rock with the groundedness of Elizabeth’s folk songwriting. When performing solo, Elizabeth shares the intimacy of her songwriting with grit and grace, exploring themes of love, loss, and grief with a heart-swelling verve. For fans of Laura Gibson, Big Thief, and Sharon Van Etten. Elizabeth grew up coming to Seaview many times a year, and the Sou’Wester holds a very special place in her heart. She is thrilled to be performing here again. Follow Lili St Anne on social media for shows and news of upcoming dual-single release, Water Songs, in Spring of 2024.

 

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.
Live Music: Eugenia Riot @ The Sou'wester
Mar 30 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Eugenia Riot Live at the Sou’wester

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Portland, Oregon based songwriter Leigh Jones makes a dazzling turn with her latest folk creation: Eugenia Riot. The name was taken from her eldest-known female ancestor, who was born in the year 1205 in Yorkshire, England. An internationally touring musician with a background in theater, Jones delights audiences with her irresistible stage presence and enrapturing voice. She has spoken at the US Embassy in Ethiopia on Women in Music, was selected with her former band Crow and the Canyon for the American Music Abroad program, and has toured the US from coast to coast since 2010.  

She grew up in North Carolina and went on to earn a drama degree from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Her time immersed in the diversity of NYC’s music scene sparked a passion for songwriting, and she was eventually lured to the magic of the Pacific Northwest, where continued to maximize her versatility as a musician. With her former bands, bluegrass outfit Crow and the Canyon, and harmony-driven folk trio Five Letter Word, Jones moved easily from strings to percussion, occasionally throwing on tap shoes to round out a performance. 

Her pandemic-born solo project, Eugenia Riot, explores the crescendos of love, heartache, and the human condition through infectious melodies and a self-examining pen. Featuring Abby Gundersen (Phoebe Bridgers, Noah Gundersen) on strings, Eugenia Riot’s debut album, Can’t Wait To Miss You, is both gentle and fierce, playful and romantic – an engaging blend of folk, rock, and pop.

 

Mar
31
Sun
Clay Play: Sculptural Garden Critters @ Ilwaco Artworks
Mar 31 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Clay Play: Sculptural Garden Critters @ Ilwaco Artworks

CLAY PLAY

Sun, March 31st: Sculptural Garden Critters | 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).

Apr
6
Sat
Clay Play: Berry Bowls & Colanders @ Ilwaco Artworks
Apr 6 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Clay Play: Berry Bowls & Colanders @ Ilwaco Artworks

CLAY PLAY
Sat, April 6th: Berry Bowls & Colanders | 2-5p | $35/person

AT ILWACO ARTWORKS

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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).