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!

Dec
13
Fri
Travel Cups Workshop @ Ilwaco Artworks
Dec 13 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm

A beginner-friendly session, where you’ll learn handbuilding skills to craft a decorative or functional object. Clay Dates are open to solos, duos or friend groups and include a demo, clay, glaze, firing, and plenty of lasting memories for.

Pieces are glazed, fired and ready for pick up in 3-6 weeks. Shipping is available for our visiting attendees for $15 plus shipping costs. Bring friends and enjoy a group discount on additional tickets!

$15 off any 3 Clay Dates. Location: Ilwaco Artworks

Dec
14
Sat
Handmade Bazaar – Ceramics & Art @ Ilwaco Artworks
Dec 14 @ 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Live Music: A Beat Happening presents Luvjonez and SuckerForLights @ The Sou'wester
Dec 14 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

A BEAT HAPPENING Presents LUVJONEZ x SUCKERFORLIGHTS Live at The Sou’wester Lodge

12/14/2024 | 7pm

Free and open to the public!

A BEAT HAPPENINGA Beat Happening is a free, monthly, all ages, all genres, all identity inclusive music producer and DJ showcase based in Portland, Oregon. 

LUVJONEZ: Luvjonez is a Puerto Rican instrumental hip hop music producer based in Portland, Oregon. He weaves a nostalgic and downtempo blend of musical influences from his cultural roots, extensive travels, and multimedia visual art practices. His instrumental tracks combine Down South, East Coast, Pacific Northwest elements and ancestral Caribbean vibes, creating a genre-defying mix of lofi, jazzy, downtempo, and boom bap styles. 

SUCKERFORLIGHTS: Husband and wife dream pop duo from Portland, OR. Their last full length album, “Hearts Fade”, is a lush and expansive pop record covering themes on the many facets of love.SOU’WESTER PRESS

Dec
15
Sun
Slab Planters & Saucers Workshop @ Ilwaco Artworks
Dec 15 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm

Clay Plays are casual, beginner-friendly pottery sessions where you will learn basic ceramic handbuilding skills to create functional or decorative objects. Ages 10+ with an adult or ages 14+. Pieces are glazed, fired and ready for pick up in 3-6 weeks. Shipping is available for our visiting attendees for $15 plus shipping costs.

Surface Explorations Workshop @ Ilwaco Artworks
Dec 15 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

In this class you will learn a variety of surface design techniques and take your pottery to the next level. You will make stamps, explore sgraffito using colored slips, learn basic monoprinting and play with texture. Students will be given tiles to practice these methods. Includes glazing and firing.

STUDIO COURSE BUNDLE – 3 Classes for only $90 when you register for all 3!

  1. Working in the Ceramics Studio – Wedging to Glazing
  2. Surface Explorations
  3. All Things Glaze

Discount automatically applied when you add all three classes to your cart.

Dec
16
Mon
4-Week Wheel Throwing Series | All Levels @ Ilwaco Artworks
Dec 16 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

12/2-12/23: 4-Week Wheel Throwing Series | All Levels | Mondays, 2pm-4pm

Ilwaco Artworks Community Clay Studio – 109 1st Ave N Ilwaco, WA

Whether you’re new to the wheel or have years of experience, this class is designed to elevate your pottery throwing skills. Each session begins with a brief demonstration, followed by hands-on instruction tailored to naturally advance your abilities toward your personal goals. For advanced students, the projects are open-ended, allowing for creative exploration, while beginners will receive one-on-one guidance to successfully craft chosen objects like cups, bowls, planters, and more. We’ll examine wedging, throwing, trimming, altering, and surface treatment in depth to ensure you develop a well-rounded skill set.

Dec
19
Thu
Intermediate Wheel Throwing – 3-Week Series @ Ilwaco Artworks
Dec 19 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm

Take your wheel-throwing skills to the next level in this dynamic 3-week class, designed for those with prior throwing experience. We’ll explore techniques including form alterations, darting, faceting, and various texturing methods. You’ll also learn how to create spouts and lids. With personalized guidance, Hans will help you develop projects that match your creative goals, expanding your form vocabulary and pushing you toward exciting new possibilities on the wheel.

Dec
20
Fri
Monoprint Coasters Workshop @ Ilwaco Artworks
Dec 20 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm

A beginner-friendly session, where you’ll learn handbuilding skills to craft a decorative or functional object. Clay Dates are open to solos, duos or friend groups and include a demo, clay, glaze, firing, and plenty of lasting memories for.

Pieces are glazed, fired and ready for pick up in 3-6 weeks. Shipping is available for our visiting attendees for $15 plus shipping costs. Bring friends and enjoy a group discount on additional tickets!

$15 off any 3 Clay Dates. Location: Ilwaco Artworks

Dec
21
Sat
Layered Lines and Color – Bowls Workshop @ Ilwaco Artworks
Dec 21 @ 10:00 am – Dec 22 @ 1:00 pm

n this workshop students will create detailed and colorful bowls by layering underglazes and freehand newsprint stencils. 

We will spend the first day of this workshop creating large bowls that will serve as canvases for the color work on day two. 

On the second day, once the bowls have firmed up, we will explore color layering and freehand newsprint stenciling. By applying underglaze under and over our stencils, we all create a harmonized composition of sharp lines, patterns, organic overlays, and fascinating colors.This technique allows for detailed designs and adds depth in your piece.

Horse Hair Raku Fire @ Ilwaco Artworks
Dec 21 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

In this hands-on class, you’ll explore alternative firing methods in a communal kiln firing setting such as Horsehair and Obvara.

Option one $40: Pick up 2lbs of raku clay at the studio any time after purchase and build your pieces at home. Drop your work off at the studio to be bisque-fired by Oct 5th. Then, join us for the raku fire, Oct 19th, 10a-1p where we will glaze and fire your pieces and they will be ready to take home that day. Basic tools kits are also for sale in the studio.

Option two $60: Join us on Oct 19th, 10a-1p and choose from pre-made, bisqued pieces to be glazed and fired and taken home that day!

Horse Hair Raku is a pottery technique that involves applying strands of horsehair to hot ceramic surfaces. As these materials burn, they leave intricate smoke patterns and carbon trails, which become permanent decorative marks on the piece once it cools.

Obvara—also known as “Baltic Raku”—is a little known Eastern European technique in which pottery, fresh from the kiln, is quickly submerged into a fermented mixture of water, sugar, and yeast. This process results in organic, black-and-white surface patterns and pigmentation that are completely unique, and is completed in under an hour.

American Raku is a contemporary take on the traditional Japanese method. In this process, works are removed from the kiln at peak heat, where rapid oxidation or combustible reduction produces dramatic surface effects on the clay and glaze. The results, uniquely colored by fire and smoke, are ready to handle in less than an hour. While pre-made ceramic vessels are provided by Ilwaco Artworks, students are encouraged to create their own pieces.