Sally Penley is a contemporary Sumi artist and award-winning Western calligrapher. In addition to her passion for calligraphy, Sally has long enjoyed making Asian-inspired “marks” with handmade brushes and simple tools to create textural images with sumi ink. Sally also teaches a variety of art classes on Zoom.
sallypenley.com
Miranda Mellis is the author of Crocosmia (Nightboat Books, 2025) and numerous other books. She lives in Olympia and teaches at The Evergreen State College. She has been writing and painting for 30 years. Her paintings focus on shape and layers of color. They are abstract, depicting channels, currents, folds, color fields and passages of unexpected contiguity and discontinuity. For more on her work please visit https://mirandamellis.com and https://youareinlovewiththeimpossible.substack.com/
Olympia Spice is the newly reopened spice shop, formerly Buck's Spices, that uses extensive knowledge of spices to guide visitors toward meeting their culinary needs.