SOU’WESTER EVENTS!
See what’s happening during your next stay or plan a visit around our free live music, workshops, wellness offerings and more!
COMMUNITY CLAYP PLAY
$35/person | 2-5p
Learn basic handbuilding skills to create a finished piece! No experience necessary. Ages 14+ solo or ages 10-13 with parent. Clay Play Includes a demonstration, clay, glazing & firing.
REGISTER
- Sun, May 5th: Mugs & Cups
- Sat, May 11th: Razor Clam Chowder Bowls
- Sun, May 12th: Hanging Planters
- Sat, May 18th: Key Catches
- Sun, May 19th: House Numbers or Welcome Plaque
- Sat, May 25th: Flower Frog Vase
- Sun, May 26th: Ceramic Altars
Email ilwacoartworks@gmail.com to join a waitlist or if you experience any issues with checkout. If you are trying to register for multiple events and run into a checkout error please try purchasing them separately. Thank you!
LIVE AT THE SOU’WESTER LODGE
Bird & Willow
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Bird & Willow: Presented by Sou’wester Arts
Born into a large musical family at the intersection of Bird Avenue and Willow Street, Shiloh and Jared started to write songs in their teens in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Inspired by 90s soft rock as well as folk duo acts like The Weepies and the Oh Hellos, the songs took shape around Jared’s multi-instrumental arranging abilities and Shiloh’s penchant for melodic storytelling and wordsmithing.
Bird and Willow cut their teeth on the indie circuit in San Jose, CA, playing everywhere from unplugged house shows to local street festivals which attracted thousands. Before long they were opening up for touring stops in San Francisco, supporting some of their favorite songwriters like Zach Winters, Tyson Motsenbocker, and Mike Edel, as well as bands such as Sherwood and The Collection.
Shiloh and Jared have now each made a home in the Pacific Northwest, and have been caught up in the thriving Portland music scene. On their most recent release, More Awake Now, the core threads of story-songs drenched in larger meaning have been joined with dreamy guitars, orchestral strings, and the lush production of Justin Kawashima.
COMMUNITY CLAYP PLAY
$35/person | 2-5p
Learn basic handbuilding skills to create a finished piece! No experience necessary. Ages 14+ solo or ages 10-13 with parent. Clay Play Includes a demonstration, clay, glazing & firing.
REGISTER
- Sun, May 5th: Mugs & Cups
- Sat, May 11th: Razor Clam Chowder Bowls
- Sun, May 12th: Hanging Planters
- Sat, May 18th: Key Catches
- Sun, May 19th: House Numbers or Welcome Plaque
- Sat, May 25th: Flower Frog Vase
- Sun, May 26th: Ceramic Altars
Email ilwacoartworks@gmail.com to join a waitlist or if you experience any issues with checkout. If you are trying to register for multiple events and run into a checkout error please try purchasing them separately. Thank you!
COMMUNITY CLAYP PLAY
$35/person | 2-5p
Learn basic handbuilding skills to create a finished piece! No experience necessary. Ages 14+ solo or ages 10-13 with parent. Clay Play Includes a demonstration, clay, glazing & firing.
REGISTER
- Sun, May 5th: Mugs & Cups
- Sat, May 11th: Razor Clam Chowder Bowls
- Sun, May 12th: Hanging Planters
- Sat, May 18th: Key Catches
- Sun, May 19th: House Numbers or Welcome Plaque
- Sat, May 25th: Flower Frog Vase
- Sun, May 26th: Ceramic Altars
Email ilwacoartworks@gmail.com to join a waitlist or if you experience any issues with checkout. If you are trying to register for multiple events and run into a checkout error please try purchasing them separately. Thank you!
Girlgoyle: Presented by Sou’wester Arts
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.
COMMUNITY CLAYP PLAY
$35/person | 2-5p
Learn basic handbuilding skills to create a finished piece! No experience necessary. Ages 14+ solo or ages 10-13 with parent. Clay Play Includes a demonstration, clay, glazing & firing.
REGISTER
- Sun, May 5th: Mugs & Cups
- Sat, May 11th: Razor Clam Chowder Bowls
- Sun, May 12th: Hanging Planters
- Sat, May 18th: Key Catches
- Sun, May 19th: House Numbers or Welcome Plaque
- Sat, May 25th: Flower Frog Vase
- Sun, May 26th: Ceramic Altars
Email ilwacoartworks@gmail.com to join a waitlist or if you experience any issues with checkout. If you are trying to register for multiple events and run into a checkout error please try purchasing them separately. Thank you!
Handbuilding Butter Dishes w/Taylor Stefanski. 6/1. 2-6p. $72.
In this one day workshop students will create and take home their very own butter dish! We will cover how to roll out and prep slabs, how to use a template and add adornments at the end. All levels welcome, ages 16 and up.
Bio: Her work is deeply inspired by the sea. Explores ideas of imperfection and honors the nature of the tides through meditative repetition. Expressed in the chosen hand building process – each of their pieces are created primarily using a coil building technique. Where she rolls each coil by hand to create unique, one of a kind forms.
Graduated from Cornish College of the Arts with a focus on printmaking and sculpture. Their ceramic work is carried in a variety of stores in Seattle, Portland and LA. She currently works and teaches in her studio in Capitol Hill. https://www.tstefanski.com/
Saroon: Presented by Sou’wester Arts
Saroon is the genre-fluid creative outlet for the prolific multi-instrumentalist producer/composer ayal. The project is founded on the idea that genuine self expression can act as a beacon for others to relate, and actualize themselves. Over the last year Saroon has released diverse albums such as Gilgul, a piano based instrumental album that describes the process of reincarnation starting at the moment of death and ending at conception; ODDDITTIES VOL.1, an electro-pop album comprised of a collection of songs written for his songwriting podcast Honest Jams; and Dive 1, a collaborative ambient album in which ayal collaborated with members of Bathysphere records who made improvised beds of synths on which ayal recorded clarinet arrangements. Through the music, ayal attempts to express the breadth of experience, from existential grief, to the silliest relief, to the hearts of the vulnerable, and the first cat in space, and what it means to live the lives, and the deepest connection, and waffles.
COMMUNITY CLAY PLAY
At Ilwaco Artworks
Clay Play is a casual, beginner-friendly session where you can learn handbuilding skills to create a finished piece! Ages 10+ w/an adult or ages 14+. $35/person. Register for any four Clay Plays for $100.
July Clay Plays | 1-4p
- 7/7: Mugs & Cups
- 7/13: Berry Bowls
- 7/14: Candle Holders
- 7/20: Slab Animals
- 7/21: Ceramic Mobiles, Rain Chains or Garland
- 7/27: Ceramic Bookends
- 7/28: Ilwaco Art Walk Drop-in Clay Play. No rsvp necessary for 7/28.
August Clay Plays | 10a-1p
- 8/4: Sake Sets- Pinch/coil-built simple pouring vessel/vase with wide belly and narrow neck. Set of 4-6 matching shot-glass sized vessels.
- 8/11: Incense Holders
- 8/17: “The Open Cube” / Five-walled objects – Slab built vases, catch-all’s, herb planters, seed starters, bonsai, wall vases, jewelry holders. Leather hard slab construction.
- 8/18: Wind Chimes
- 8/24: Soft Slab Impression Objects – Soft slabs rolled over local leaves/flora and slump formed over ready-made objects like cups, bowls, cans, etc.
- 8/25: Ilwaco Art Walk Drop-in Clay Play: Mono Print Tiles. No rsvp necessary for 8/25.
- 8/31: Soft Slab Cups
Please email ilwacoartworks@gmail.com to join a waitlist!
Ilwaco Artworks Community Clay Studio – 109 1st Ave N Ilwaco, WA
Inspiration photos are credited and linked in our “Ideas & Inspiration” page.
email ilwacoartworks@gmail.com to join a waitlist or if you experience any issues with checkout. If you are trying to register for multiple events and run into a checkout error please try purchasing them separately. Thank you! Inspiration photos are credited and linked in our “Ideas & Inspiration” page.
COMMUNITY CLAY PLAY
At Ilwaco Artworks
Clay Play is a casual, beginner-friendly session where you can learn handbuilding skills to create a finished piece! Ages 10+ w/an adult or ages 14+. $35/person. Register for any four Clay Plays for $100.
July Clay Plays | 1-4p
- 7/7: Mugs & Cups
- 7/13: Berry Bowls
- 7/14: Candle Holders
- 7/20: Slab Animals
- 7/21: Ceramic Mobiles, Rain Chains or Garland
- 7/27: Ceramic Bookends
- 7/28: Ilwaco Art Walk Drop-in Clay Play. No rsvp necessary for 7/28.
August Clay Plays | 10a-1p
- 8/4: Sake Sets- Pinch/coil-built simple pouring vessel/vase with wide belly and narrow neck. Set of 4-6 matching shot-glass sized vessels.
- 8/11: Incense Holders
- 8/17: “The Open Cube” / Five-walled objects – Slab built vases, catch-all’s, herb planters, seed starters, bonsai, wall vases, jewelry holders. Leather hard slab construction.
- 8/18: Wind Chimes
- 8/24: Soft Slab Impression Objects – Soft slabs rolled over local leaves/flora and slump formed over ready-made objects like cups, bowls, cans, etc.
- 8/25: Ilwaco Art Walk Drop-in Clay Play: Mono Print Tiles. No rsvp necessary for 8/25.
- 8/31: Soft Slab Cups
Please email ilwacoartworks@gmail.com to join a waitlist!
Ilwaco Artworks Community Clay Studio – 109 1st Ave N Ilwaco, WA
Inspiration photos are credited and linked in our “Ideas & Inspiration” page.
email ilwacoartworks@gmail.com to join a waitlist or if you experience any issues with checkout. If you are trying to register for multiple events and run into a checkout error please try purchasing them separately. Thank you! Inspiration photos are credited and linked in our “Ideas & Inspiration” page.