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!

Jan
13
Sat
Workshop: “In the Kitchen” Basic Handbuilding Series @ Ilwaco Artworks
Jan 13 @ 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

 

Live Music: Nevada Sowle @ The Sou'wester
Jan 13 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Nevada Sowle Live at the Sou’wester

You’d expect most musicians from Northern Idaho to be immovably rooted in folk, country, and Americana stylings, but Nevada Sowle doesn’t let that landlocked positioning define his sound. Constantly seeking to find new tones both acoustic & electronic, unique yet familiar, Sowle’s catalogue fits most snuggly into the category of Pop – but don’t let that word deter you if you’re a stickler for quality lyrical content and well-thought-out composition. Having spent the past few years recording and touring the west coast with acts like Bart Budwig, Desolation Horse, MAITA, Joseph Hein, and An American Forrest, Sowle has found time in between green rooms and sound booths to develop a style that will help define the sound and style of the Pacific Northwest.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jan
20
Sat
Workshop: “In the Kitchen” Basic Handbuilding Series @ Ilwaco Artworks
Jan 20 @ 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

 

Workshop: Sculpted Hats – (Full) @ The Sou'wester Lodge
Jan 20 @ 2:00 pm – Jan 21 @ 4:00 pm

Jan 20 & 21

Sculpted Hats: Wet Felted Millinery Workshop (FULL)

w/Mikal Robinson $100

Working with Pacific Northwest grown wool roving and olive oil soap, each student will shape and create a custom felted hat. Learn how to make a hood pattern and felt in 3D using a wet resist. Blocking and shaping will be done with the assistance of a variety of unique hat molds to choose from. As well as your head. Make sure to bring dry extra clothes. This class will clean everything but potentially leave your sleeves and collar a little water logged. Olive oil soap makes this felting class a good choice for sensitive skin or allergies. 

  • Saturday 2-6p
  • Sunday 12-4p

Location: Sou’wester Lodge Pavilion

Mikal Robinson is a queer alterly abled inspired felter, fiber artist, and educator. The lead instructor for Feral Felt and Wild Child Arts Education for over 17 years. Creating containers for shared learning and enthusiasm wherever they roam.

They have been sharing their love of hand crafts and honoring them as a fine art since childhood. Always encouraging people to remember the vital importance of supporting and maintaining our fibersheds. 

Reminding us that clothing is the shelter we wear. A long known way to communicate visually and embody one’s culture and identity. Always an opportunity for adornment.

To learn more about their classes, workshops, camps, afterschool programs, hand hammered jewelry and fiber art check out www. feralfinearts.com 

Live Music: Girlgoyle @ The Sou'wester
Jan 20 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Girlgoyle: Live at the Sou’wester

FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Girlgoyle is a band based in Portland, Oregon. Their sound and songs are inspired by longing for and loving the desert, softness and the opposite, and Land of Talk. 
Jan
27
Sat
Workshop: “In the Kitchen” Basic Handbuilding Series @ Ilwaco Artworks
Jan 27 @ 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

 

Workshop: Ceramic Trinket Trays or Watercolor Palettes @ Ilwaco Artworks
Jan 27 @ 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Jan 27

Ceramic Trinket Trays (or Watercolor Palettes) Workshop

w/Kimberly Gottschalk $70

Join us for a hands-on, one-day hand-building workshop where you can craft a unique ceramic trinket tray or watercolor palette! Throughout an engaging 4-hour session, you will dive into the art of ceramics, learning the fundamentals of working with clay before creating a unique template to help shape your clay into your choice of tray or palette. Please bring pictures or ideas of shapes to work with.

  • Saturday 2-6p

Location: Ilwaco Artworks

Kimberly is an emerging potter who crafts joyful objects, drawing inspiration from personal experiences and nature, shaping the clay through emotion and intention. She owns Lucida Ceramics, specializing in the whimsical, illustrative, and sometimes spooky. Always seeking to learn from the world around her and expand her techniques, you can find her in the woods as often as in the studio.

https://www.instagram.com/lucida.ceramics/

Live Music: Jonah Sissoyev @ The Sou'wester
Jan 27 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Jonah Sissoyev Live at the Sou’wester

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Jonah Sissoyev finds himself on the road often living between a black T shirt and blue jeans, a Walmart parking lots and gasstations. Since the release of SHADOW OF THE SUN Jonah has spent most of His time touring around the country in cities such as Los Angeles, Nashville, and New York.

Feb
3
Sat
Workshop: “In the Kitchen” Basic Handbuilding Series @ Ilwaco Artworks
Feb 3 @ 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

 

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.