Sou'Wester Lodge is a vintage trailer hotel. In Seaview, Washington, they are on the fault line and wipeout by tsunamis from the Really Big One https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one. Friends of mine survived the 2004 tsunami in Asia, many did not. Friends provided relief Tohoku 3-11.
A long time ago, friends created Spaceness at Sou'wester, a week for artists to make work themed on aliens and the paranormal. The last three years a new curtorial team has moved from that theme, and this year are curating in Seattle artists.
The Sou'wester Lodge art weekend has expanded to support an art space in Ilwaco, a very low budget hamlet in the Southern Long Beach penninsula by the bridge.
For this project a curatorial committe on the project website collects artist residency applications. You could be one!
The artists work for a week at a minimal hotel fee. They guest you me and everyone we know to experience the work and meet the artists. It is family friendly. Some events are children workshops.
Sou'Wester Art Weekend https://www.souwesterlodge.com/artsweek2025/. https://www.souwesterlodge.com/arts-week-2025-program-draft/ March 14th at Ilwaco Artworks 109 1st Ave N, Ilwaco, March 15th at The Sou’wester 3728 J Place, Seaview, March 16th at Wave Preschool | 1306 39th Pl, Seaview. Free
