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Postmark Center for the Arts is happy to feature local artists in our Gift Shop!

Read about our amazing, featured artists below.

Nicole Bennion - Nicole Bennion strives to create art that promotes an appreciation of our natural world and all the species that inhabit it, especially our local, wild neighbors of the Pacific Northwest. Her ultimate goal is to foster empathy and inspire people to care about wildlife, the environment, and one another through her art and written work.

Marit Berg - Marit Berg has been living in the Northwest and working out of her studio in Tacoma for over 20 years. She specializes in painting and printmaking, including lino-cut, etching, and screen-print media. Her subject-matter focuses on a fascination with a variety of animal species. Recently, she has been exploring the history of games which explain cultural attitudes and societal values.

Robert Chism -Robert LaSelle Chism is a fine arts photographer based in Washington State. As an award-winning artist, his work has been featured in numerous media publications locally and nationwide. With the bold use of color, attention to detail, and creative resolve Robert has the unique ability to create iconic images that are sure to catch your eye. 

Linda Covey-Campbell - Kiln formed glass artist with a home studio for approximately 12 years. I enjoy constantly learning new techniques and experimenting with new color combinations. My work is constantly evolving.

Taylor Cox - Taylor Cox is a letterpress printer, block carver, illustrator and proprietor of Coxswain Press, a small letterpress printing and book arts studio located in the Pacific Northwest. With a focus on limited edition art prints, greeting cards, and artist books, each item is thoughtfully crafted by hand. Taylor’s collection of limited-edition block prints are inspired by the lush botanical world of the NW.

Aimee Dan - Aimee Dan is an AAPI/Biracial artist from Seattle who specializes in storyboards and illustration. She has worked for high-profile clients on a variety of projects, including games, advertisements, concept art, future tech pitches, and children’s books.

Sarah Dillon - Sarah Dillon’s work explores memory and change through imagery and the physical act of painting. The surface aggressively develops, pulling at threads of setting, figure and narrative gleaned from old family photographs or current events. It ages. Intention and emotion scraped away to abstractly reveal painting action from below, obliterating what was present. Fresh mark-making, born anew.

Marita Dingus - Marita Dingus is an African-American environmental artist. She’s primarily a mixed media sculptor who uses discarded materials, which represent how people of African descent were used during the institution of slavery and colonialism then discarded, but found ways to repurpose themselves and thrive in a hostile world. She incorporates recovered materials into pieces of art where possible and appropriate, and to mitigate waste and pollution in all her work.

Sarah Holmes - Sarah Holmes is a downtown Auburn resident who started making jewelry 25 years ago. She loves stones and rocks, so she enjoys incorporating gemstone beads into her jewelry. She uses sterling silver to do wiretwisting to create fun and unique pieces.

J.A.W - Jakobi, AKA “j.a.w”, is a street artist from Auburn who’s been making hearts out of concrete since 2014 and loves watching them evolve over time. He likes to explore the Puget Sound area while finding interesting spots for his hearts and has placed 2000 of them from Tacoma to the U District. He hopes his hearts bring a smile to people’s faces and a bit of joy to their lives when they’re spotted.

Mary Mann -Mary Mann is based in beautiful Tacoma, Washington, which is a constant source of inspiration. As a child, she often imagined that she saw human anatomy in trees, a torso rising from the ground with legs dancing or arms reaching up to the sky. Her paintings focus on the relationships between communities, people, and nature. 

Saori Matsushita - Saori Matsushita is a contemporary ceramic artist born in Japan. Originally specializing in ceramic sculpture, she incorporates innovative designs that break away from the conventional "ceramic essence" framework in pottery.

Molly McCann - Molly Patricia is a PNW-based fiber artist who finds joy in crafting all things cute and cozy. She loves to crochet food and animals.

Sarah Miller - Sarah Miller is passionate about fostering inclusivity, creativity, and community, and creating a space that supports artistic growth and innovation. Through her community driven project, SHOW YOUR ART, in the form of a comprehensive guidebook and outreach, she aims to empower new and emerging artists in Washington and connect them with local businesses and venues eager to showcase creative talent.

Alex Mojica - Alex Mojica is a designer and illustrator based in South King County. Born and raised in Washington state, her work draws inspiration from the natural beauty and unique wildlife of the Pacific Northwest. Driven by her fascination with invertebrates and non-mammalian vertebrates, her goal is to showcase overlooked species as the lovely creatures they truly are.

Hugo Moro  - Hugo Moro was born in Havana, Cuba in 1954. He lived in New York City from the age of 12, there he attended The High School of Art and Design; Pratt Institute; The Fashion Institute of Technology; and The Art Students League. In New York he held various graphic design positions in advertising and publishing. He was a residence artist at Art Center/South Florida in Miami Beach, and an adjunct professor at FIU from 2006 to 2012, and relocated to Seattle WA in September 2014. His work space is located at Project-106 Artist Studios in Pioneer Square.

Sam Obrovac - Sam Obrovac is a multidisciplinary artist who creates pieces that draw from traditional Pacific Northwest and Coast Salish design. His work was featured in the Postmark exhibition “Muckleshoot: Alive & Strong” and he contributed to wood carvings in Lumen Field, T-Mobile Park, Climate Pledge Arena, and the Seattle Waterfront “To Our Teachers” installation.

Savannah J. O'Malley - Savannah “Savy” Jane O’Malley is a wife and working mother of three former preemies, using painting and storytelling to help comfort families and bring awareness to birth trauma. She works full-time, pursues her artistic passions part-time, and moms all the time.

Raychelle Ordoñez - Raychelle ORDOÑEZ (Ray-shell ordone-yez, she/her) is a queer femme Filipina-American illustrator & tattoo artist based in Seattle, Washington. She aims to combine dreamy aesthetics, vibrant colors, and cultural significance to both her tattoo and her illustration work. Raychelle’s work includes themes such as (but is not limited to): identity, queerness, language, symbolism, composition, pops of color, contrast, love, visibility, transformative grief, and Filipino culture.

Liz Park - Originally from Pennsylvania, Liz graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2006 with a B.F.A in Painting. Her medium for many years has been acrylic paint on varnished wood panels - she uses a simplified color palette, and plays with negative space - letting the wood grain show through to create interesting compositions, usually of wildlife and mountain scenes. If you see wood grain in her work - then that’s the actual wood grain showing through.

Trenton Quiocho - Trenton Quiocho is a Filipino-American Tacoma native who’s been working with glass for over 15 years in various capacities. He has held positions as a glassblower, hot shop technician, and teaching artist with organizations including Chihuly Boathouse, Glassybaby, Hilltop Artists, and the Museum of Glass. Currently, he is the Production Manager at Hilltop Artists in Tacoma.

Melanie Reed - Growing up in the ever-changing visual landscape of the Pacific Northwest with a keen eye, a passion for narrative, a gravitation towards the darker and more subterranean aspects of the human psyche, and a fascination with paper and found objects, Melanie was introduced to Surrealist art and Surrealist collage in the mid '80s and continue to find this medium a significant channel for artistic expression.

Perry Shaw - Perry Shaw is a woodturning artist. He creates handmade hollow form vessels, bowls and other wooden products on a lathe in his small studio in downtown Auburn, Washington. He works almost exclusively with storm- or naturally-fallen trees and aims to accentuate the natural beauty of the wood with clean, refined forms. What he makes is what he sells.

Renee Sonnichsen - Renee Sonnichsen owns and operates Hardwear by Renee, a line of contemporary handbags designed with atypical items such as recycled hardware, inner tubes, and cables. When not pressing and cutting vinyl or searching for the perfect inner tube, Renee makes dahlia and daisy bouquets and punny garden signage out of concrete.

Christine Stoll - Christine Stoll is a multimedia artist, whose creations are influenced by her passion for the past and a little bit of sass. The results, from jewelry to collage, can be found in shops around the Seattle area and beyond. Whatever she makes, she brings that love of repurposing the old and discarded, and adds a modern twist to build a story. Each piece she produces includes a description of the “ingredients” to help build that cherished connection to the past.

Glenna Tsang - Glenna Tsang especially enjoy finding a unique perspective, bold colors, and whimsical ideas within her nature inspired watercolors. Her recent pieces have revolved around themes of maturation and aging. Glenna’s work is mostly two dimensional, but she also loves to experiment with new ideas. Presently, she is dabbling with recycled wire sculpture and welding techniques.

Wendy Wahman - Wendy Wahman works in improvisational drawing, editorial illustration, infographics, and children's books. She lives in Tacoma with big poodles, old cats, and a husband named Joe. She’s won many awards for illustration, but her greatest joy is loving the two-, three-, and four-legged animals she has known. She is author and illustrator of the picture books “Don't Lick the Dog” and “A Cat Like That.”

Ash Wheelock - Asher is a queer artist whose work primarily exposes domestic space in relation to LGBT experience. Asher's work is vibrant and graphic in style.

Haley White - Haley White makes unique jewelry focused on balance—balance between art and jewelry, motion and a moment, natural beauty and human intervention. Each piece serves a dual purpose as adornment and a miniature kinetic sculpture, both interactive and captivating. She’s always been fascinated by miniatures and interactive artwork, especially mobiles, and regards jewelry as the epitome of interactive art.

Allyce Wood - Allyce Wood is a visual artist and weaver currently focused on creating expressive textiles on a vintage four-shaft loom. Allyce considers public engagement a vital part of her practice and is always seeking ways to share and connect. The opportunity for community involvement, information sharing, and connection drives her to pursue exhibitions, public projects, and publications into which others may enter.