How much of a 50-event festival can you see without moving the car? In Cannon Beach this weekend, you can see most of it.
The 39th Stormy Weather Arts Festival runs Friday through Sunday, November 6 to 8, 2026. The Cannon Beach Chamber of Commerce lists more than 50 events. That number makes it sound like a whole town to cover. Put the addresses on a map, though, and the receptions, demos and busker sets bunch up along a short stretch of Hemlock and Spruce downtown. Only a few stops sit far enough out to need their own trip. If you live here, the job this weekend is fitting those outliers, the few ticketed seats, and the Saturday overlaps around one walkable core.
The downtown core, address by address
These are the festival venues within a few blocks of each other, using the addresses in the Chamber's business directory:
- Coaster Theatre Playhouse, 108 N Hemlock St. Home of Saturday's Spotlight Concert.
- Jeffrey Hull Gallery and Firefly, both listed at 172 N Hemlock St.
- Bronze Coast Gallery and Brumfield Gallery, 224 N Hemlock St #2, The Landing.
- Images of the West by Randall J Hodges, 224 N Hemlock, Suite 1, in the same building.
- White Bird Gallery, 251 N Hemlock St.
- DragonFire Gallery, 123 S Hemlock St, Suite 106.
- House of Orange, 107 Sunset Blvd.
- Steidel Community Hall and the Chamber Information Center, both at 207 N Spruce St. The Chamber describes the hall as downtown, next to the Visitor Center.
- Cannon Beach Community Church, 132 E. Washington St., per the festival guide.
Two of the three outdoor busker spots fall inside this core too. Rain or shine, the 2026 festival guide puts buskers at Sandpiper Square, Coaster Theatre Square and The Landing. On Saturday the sets are staggered, so you can usually hear music from wherever you stand. At 10:30 a.m., Bruce Thomas Smith plays Coaster Theatre Square while the RJ Marx Trio plays Sandpiper Square. Lauren Sheehan and Pete Krebs take The Landing at 11. Then come Jersey Jon and Maui Mike, Winn Alexander, the Dead End Duo, the Rouge Trio, the Carr Family Trio, and Uncle Mary, whose set at The Landing ends at 4:30.
The three stops that pull you south
Everything above is a short walk from everything else. These three are not, and each needs its own slot in your weekend.
- Cannon Beach Gallery, run by the Cannon Beach Arts Association, at 1064 S Hemlock St. The opening reception for its annual miniature show, "Microcosm," runs Friday 4 to 6 p.m. and is free. Every piece measures roughly 6 by 6 inches or smaller, and all the work comes from Arts Association members.
- Cannon Beach History Center & Museum, 1387 S Spruce St. This is a workshop venue rather than a drop-in stop. Becky DeVries-Wong teaches fabric collage here Saturday 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. On Sunday, Valerie Savarie leads "The Final Cut," an intro to altered book art, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
- The Ocean Lodge, 2864 Pacific St., by far the farthest out. "An Evening of Art" runs Friday 4 to 7 p.m. with Astoria watercolorist Karl Hauer, Portland guitarist Steve Bissell, vintage Larson Bros. guitars, wine and light bites.
Icefire Glassworks sits in between, at 116 East Gower St. The Chamber's visitor map puts a public parking area at Hemlock and Gower, in midtown. The Chamber also says downtown and midtown are about a half-mile, or a 10-minute walk, apart. Icefire's featured artists are glassblower Mark Gordon, fused-glass artist Steven Krig, and bead maker and carver Laura Bowker, with studio artists Jim Kingwell and Suzanne Kindland as hosts.
Friday is the one evening when the outliers compete with each other. The Microcosm opening, the DragonFire reception, and the start of the Ocean Lodge evening all begin at 4 p.m. Jeffrey Hull's downtown reception follows from 5 to 7. One workable Friday order is Cannon Beach Gallery first, then the Ocean Lodge before it wraps at 7, or the reverse with Jeffrey Hull downtown at the end. Either way, the free Beachwalks concert starts at 7 p.m. at Cannon Beach Community Church. Local jazz pianist David Robinson plays an hour of Ludovico Einaudi and Ola Gjeilo on the church's 7-foot Steinway while local nature photographer Thomas Robinson's beach images are projected on the big screen.
What costs money, and what doesn't
Almost all of the walkable core is free to wander. The spending comes in a few specific places. The Chamber sends concert ticket sales and workshop registration through SimpleTix.
| Item | Where and when | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Gallery receptions, demos, busker sets | Throughout downtown, all weekend | Free |
| Beachwalks piano concert and photo show | Community Church, Fri. 7 p.m. | Free |
| Sand art make-and-take | Chamber HQ, Fri. and Sat. 10–5, Sun. 10–2 | $2 suggested donation |
| Lorrie Vogel, "Atmospheric Landscapes in Cold Wax & Oil" | Steidel Hall, Fri. 11–1 | $100 |
| Spotlight Concert, Scott, Bailey & Ross | Coaster Theatre, Sat. 7:30 p.m. | $29 general admission |
| Festival poster by Ronni Harris | Chamber, 207 N Spruce St. | $25 open edition, $75 signed limited edition |
| Festival tote | Chamber | $29 |
Only 75 of the signed, numbered posters were produced. Ronni Harris, the Chamber's 2026 Artist of the Year, is signing festival merchandise in the Chamber Information Center lobby Saturday from noon to 4. The guide lists the other workshops with a fee and suggests advance registration. They include Duncan Berry's gyotaku fish printing, Trijsten Leach's painting-and-wine morning at The Wine Shack, and Dianne Aoki's Sunday Haystack Rock painting class. The Wine Shack is also pouring a $20 Stormy Weather wine flight on all three days, and Ocean Spa is offering 15% off during the festival.
Saturday, built around the core
Because Saturday stays almost entirely downtown, you can plan it as one long loop.
Start at House of Orange for the 9:30 a.m. coffee hour, with complimentary Elk Creek coffee and scones. Greg Scott, Susan Walker, Dianne Aoki, Kristie Mooney and Tamara Goldsmith demonstrate on staggered times through 1 p.m. Glass fans can begin earlier, at Icefire's 9 a.m. breakfast reception, where live glassmaking demos follow.
Late morning, DragonFire's painting demos with Michael Orwick, Joanne Shellan and Bev Jozwiak run 11 to 3. At White Bird, Valerie Savarie's book-carving demo runs 11 to 2, followed by local guitarist Wes Wahrmund from 2:30 to 4:30. Over midday, the Ronni Harris signing at the Chamber and a Wine Shack tasting at B. Boutique both run noon to 4.
Late afternoon is the crunch, with most receptions overlapping:
- 4 to 6 p.m.: Randall J Hodges at Images of the West, with a photography talk and his "Out in the Field" video. Shearwater's reception with Duncan Berry, Lori LaBissoniere O'Neil and Kate Speranza. House of Orange's dessert reception, with Susan Walker's new painting unveiled at 4:30.
- 4 to 6:30 p.m.: DragonFire's reception, with live guitar from Jason Okamoto.
- 5 to 7 p.m.: Receptions at Bronze Coast and Brumfield, featuring bronze sculptors Melissa Cooper and David Crawford, wood sculptor Crystal Lockwood and jeweler Robert Rogers, and at White Bird.
- 5:30 to 7 p.m.: Jeffrey Hull stays open late so you can see new work before the concert.
Images of the West and Bronze Coast share the 224 N Hemlock building, so two of those receptions are one stop. Doors at the Coaster open at 7 p.m. for the 7:30 concert. Scott, Bailey & Ross are three friends who first played together as teenagers in 1963: composer Cal Scott on guitar, Bob Bailey on bass and Dan Ross on drums.
Sunday is shorter. Icefire's "Reveal" runs 10 a.m. to noon and shows pieces made during the weekend's demos. DragonFire holds a closing demo and reception from 11 to 1:30. Shearwater hosts a closing tea party from noon to 3, and Archimedes Gallery has a closing reception with Matt Schu from noon to 4. Sunday is also the last day of Tamara Goldsmith's stained-glass trunk show at House of Orange, which ends at 3.
The shows that outlast the weekend
If the crowds keep you home, two shows stay up long after the buskers pack up. "Microcosm" stays at Cannon Beach Gallery into December. The festival guide lists its run as November 6 to December 20, 2026, while the Chamber's event listing gives December 13, so it's safest to go before mid-month. White Bird's new mixed-media exhibition runs through December 15. It features ceramics, metal, book art, sculpture, collage and glass from new, guest and gallery artists. That's a good reason to save the south-end gallery for a quiet weekday in late November. The Chamber shop at 207 N Spruce St., open Monday through Saturday 10 to 5, sells the official festival merchandise in person, and the same items are sold online at cannonbeach.org. All proceeds support the festival.
The festival has changed shape since 1987. The Chamber's history says it began as a quick draw among locals, with the finished art auctioned off to benefit the Chamber, and grew into today's receptions and demonstrations. Neither event appears on the 2026 schedule. The full listings are on the Cannon Beach Gallery Group's weekend schedule and the Chamber's festival page.
Whether you walk Hemlock this weekend or wait for a quiet weekday in December, I'm always glad to compare notes on the galleries that make this town what it is. If one of those conversations turns into questions about a home near downtown or midtown Cannon Beach, Cindy Hawkins Colley is a short walk from most of these stops. Let's Connect.
