Artsmith has a four-member Board of Directors representing a diversity of disciplines and experience.
Jill Johnson - Executive Director
Jill enjoys writing poetry and fiction. She
is the recipient of a fellowship from the A.P. Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Red Wing, MN, a Deborah Tall
Memorial Fund Fellowship, from Pacific Lutheran University, and winner of the Whidbey Writer's Workshop contest.
Jill attends the Rainier Writers Workshop MFA Program at Pacific Lutheran University.
Click here to visit the Rainier Writing Workshop website
Jill happy at the amount raised during PLU's Deborah Tall Memorial
Fund auction
Charles Toxey
Charles left an Information Technology
career to own and run Kangaroo House B&B on Orcas Island in Washington State's San Juan Islands.
He is passionate about living with art and nature, supports historical preservation and environmental conservation, and loves
photography, cooking, organic gardening and making things by hand.
Patrick
McMillan
Patrick is an exhibit designer, art director, producer, and filmmaker who
has worked internationally with such groups as Cannon Films, Landmark Entertainment, Walt Disney's Imagineering,
and Warner Brothers. He has also worked extensively in the museum industry to provide entertaining, inventive,
and large scale exhibits. His museum exhibit design has won numerous awards including the Nature Conservancy Award.
He teaches graphic design, sculpture, and computer-modeling.
Anne Toxey, PhD
Anne is an architectural designer, preservationist,
and researcher specializing in old world cultures. Having degrees in Art History and Architecture, she has also worked as an archaeologist affiliated with University of Texas's
Institute of Classical Archaeology. She is editor and contributing author of two books, including the award winning The
Chora of Metaponto; The Necropoleis. She teaches at multiple universities, and directs annual summer courses
on the ancient Sassi cave dwellings in Matera, Italy.
Our Board members really know how to put their heads together:
Charles, Patrick, and Anne after a day on the water in the San Juan Islands
