Sally Alger:  Chair Program Committee

Sally Alger has loved books all of her life. After graduating from college, she worked in the children’s department of the Chicago Public Library system and since moving to Tacoma, for the Pierce County Library system. An involvement with children’s books when creating storytimes has led naturally to an enjoyment of making artist books. She considers herself a permanent student, and has learned much about art, design, printmaking and architecture after joining PSBA.

Jane Anne Carlin:  Vice President and Chair, Communications Committee

Jane is a founding member of PSBA. She served as the Library Director at the University of Puget Sound and during her tenure established a book arts collection, curated numerous exhibits as well organized events and activities associated with the Book Arts. Jane has worked in a number of higher education institutions in this country and abroad and also serves on the Board of the Book Club of Washington. She states,  ”I can't imagine a world without books!

MalPina Chan: Facebook Administrator

MalPina Chan is a founding member of Puget Sound Book Artists. Working mainly as a printmaker and mixed-media artist, her portfolio includes works on paper, artist books, and kiln-formed glass, propelling her art-making practice into three-dimensional and sculptural forms. The multiple and sequential picture plane of artist books lends itself to the narrative stories in her work.

Debbi Commodore:  Secretary and Chair of the 2025 Annual Members’ Exhibition

Debbi is a non-profit professional, book artist and printer with a deep fascination for how a sense of community intertwines with living an full, enriched life. She began creating artist books and exploring printing techniques as an undergraduate business major at Pacific Lutheran University, where she was introduced to the Publishing and Printing Arts program and the Elliott Press. Her work is held in collections across North America.

Lucia Harrison:  Chair, Outreach Committee:

Lucia Harrison is a visual artist and Faculty Emeriti at The Evergreen State College where she taught art/science interdisciplinary programs. She believes that combining visual art, science, and environmental education is a way to win hearts and minds for conservation. Her artwork draws attention to the natural and human history of South Puget Sound in Washington State.  Most recently she has focused on the connection between native plants and animals.  She makes paper and botanical contact prints, draws with ink and watercolor, and incorporates stitching into many of her projects. She is a founding member of Puget Sound Book Artists and lives in Tacoma and Olympia, Washington.

Belinda Hill, President

Belinda Hill loves creating and loves teaching. After she left full time work teaching she had more time to create and has spent the last seven years working with book arts. She started her book arts work by spending several years learning a variety of book structures incorporating her many years working in mixed media. In the last few years she has been teaching book making monthly in Olympia. WA area classes and in workshops for PSBA.

Fran  Snow McReynolds:  Treasurer

Fran joined the PSBA board in 2023 and has been active on the outreach committee. Following a 40-year career as a naturalist, environmental educator, and interpretive trainer, retirement brought more time to embrace book arts as a way to convey her passion for connections with the natural world. Fran served on the Focus on Book Arts board and conference team from 2016-2024, joining PSBA in 2022. She organizes monthly book arts gatherings in northwestern Washington as well as exhibits and beginning book arts classes through Whatcom County Libraries. She loves igniting sparks of curiosity about books and book arts.

Diane Miller: Communications Committee Member

Just a few years ago, Diane walked into the Cynthia Sears Gallery at the Bainbridge Museum of Art and immediately fell in love with artists' books. She joined PSBA right before "lockdown." Through Zoom she met a small group of PSBA artists and writers who meet monthly. Her background is in health care policy and planning with no arts experience. But, PSBA has changed all that and she will join the board in 2025. Her other interests include studying world religions, helping to form a virtual elder village in Olympia and training an untrainable dog.

Rachel Watson:   Communication Committee Member, Website Manager

Rachel Watson is a graphic designer and book artist in the PNW. A bibliophile at heart, the merging of imagery and text has been a part of her life for many years.  She responds to her emotional state through her work. Rachel is inspired by her surroundings in nature, light playing through leaves, textures of various plants and flowers, and the way colors layer and amplify, but also by her family. She spends her free time creating as often as possible.