Learn more about our Fall exhibit at the Matzke Fine Art Gallery on Camano Island, WA.

If you live in the Puget Sound region and practice a visual art, you belong
with the Puget Sound Group Northwest Artists.

See the Member Center page of this website.

 

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The Puget Sound Group Northwest Artists is an arts organization that welcomes visual artists and sculptors at all levels of experience and expertise who reside in the Puget Sound area. The group has been in operation since 1928, the oldest art group in the Northwest and members have included many of the most renowned artists of the region. Members are master, mid-career, beginning and emerging level visual artists who reside in the Puget Sound region. 

 

Organization Roles

 

2026-2027 Officers and Board:

Sydney Davis - President

Jessica Sarr Lewis - Vice President

Catalina Mercado - Treasurer 

Vicki Perry - Secretary

Leslie Stark - Correspondence Secretary

Board Members: Caryn Vainio, Christie Coxley,

Sara Pendergast, Ned Mueller, and Lynn Fargo  

 

Other Leadership Roles:

OPEN POSITION - Marketing Team Coordinator

Cynthia Yatchman - Membership Coordinator

Yulia Balenko - Roster Coordinator

Bill Fargo - Signature Membership Team Coordinator

OPEN POSITION - Special Events Coordinator

OPEN POSITION - Member Newsletter Editor

Kaye Guerin Marks - Human Interest Writer

Sara Pendergast - New Art Notices Editor

Yulia Balenko - Webmaster

OPEN POSITION - Fundraising team

Ned Mueller - Member-at-Large

Christie Coxley - Show Venue Coordinator

Madeline Nelson - SAVOR Online Gallery Coordinator

Brom Wikstrom - Historian

Michael Hovey - Scholarship Coordinator

2026 Exhibition Coordinators: 

Fogue Studios & Gallery, Seattle: Christie Coxley and Jessica Sarr Lewis

Scott Milo Gallery, Anacortes: Sara Pendergast

Matzke Fine Art Gallery, Camano Island: Sydney Davis and Jessica Sarr Lewis

 

Special Teams:

Signature Membership Team:  Ned Mueller, Brom Wikstrom,

Barbara Benedetti Newton, Delores Haugland, Frank Gaffney

100-year anniversary book project: Barbara Benedetti Newton, Brom Wikstrom,

Frank Gaffney, Jes Sarr Lewis, Jolyn Wells-Moran, Kristin Lane, and Ned Mueller

Marketing Team: OPEN POSITION, Facebook poster; OPEN POSITION Facebook Community

page moderator,  OPEN POSITION, Instagram poster.

 

Members are subscribed automatically to the member newsletter when they become members.

 

 

Privacy Policy

 

The Puget Sound Group does not and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed),
gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation,
or military status in any of its activities or operations.