Our on-site store is open daily 11am - 6pm!
Everyone is invited.
Creativity is essential.
Alchemy is transformation.
Alchemy Art Center is San Juan Island's living arts community, where makers, learners, and dreamers of every age, ability, and background belong.
Art is messy, magical, connective, and necessary.
We believe creativity is a human right. Alchemy exists to make creative opportunity possible across ages, abilities, and incomes, and to nurture San Juan Island's creative community in the process.
Everyone belongs here
From your first class to your thousandth hour in the studio
Cross-pollination is magic
Disciplines, ages, and backgrounds collide and spark.
We listen and pivot
Programs evolve with the community, season to season
A bridge to the art world
National-caliber education and opportunity, on-island.
Classes & Workshops
Ceramics, printmaking, fiber arts, darkroom photography and more for adults, teens, and kids
WHAT WE OFFER
Find Your Way In
Studio Membership
Open studio access, private studios, community press — come make, anytime
Artist Residencies
Live and create immersively on San Juan Island — our 2026 cohort is here
Community Programs
Tuition assistance, youth mentorship, accessible arts, and more
New in 2025:
Alchemy’s Field Campus
The Field Campus is a 13 acre creative campus at 45 Hawthorne Ln, the former Pelindaba Lavender Farm site, just a quarter mile from our original home. The fields are still blooming, the lavender is still being distilled, and we've layered a full creative community on top. Come see it!
Alchemy Art Barn
A 14,000 sqft facility featuring our printmaking, fiber, and textile studios, recording studio, accessible arts classroom, offices, and the Alchemy Store. Open to visitors, members, and classes.
Lavender Fields
Acres of historic organic lavender fields, now stewarded by Alchemy. Walk them free, year-round. Peak bloom in late July.
The Alchemy Store & Lavender Products
Handcrafted essential oils, soaps, salts, and sachets, distilled on-site from our own harvest. Open daily 11am-6pm.
Local Art For Sale
Our cooperative gallery puts island-made ceramics, prints, paintings, and fiber works in front of visitors and collectors, directly supporting the livelihoods of local artists.
Alchemy Art Center is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, and our mission of art accessibility on San Juan Island is supported by grants from the San Juan Island Community Foundation, Arts WA, the National Endowment for the Arts, Tulalip Cares, the Madrona Institute, San Juan County LTAC, ArtsFund, the Horizons Foundation, the Norcliffe Foundation, and the San Juan County Arts Council. A large part of our funding also comes from community members generously donating amounts of all sizes! Thanks to all of you, we have been able continue our mission of providing fulfilling, engaging, and inspirational arts programming to islanders.
We are so very grateful to be a part of this incredible, resilient community.
Thank you so much, we could not do this without you!
Maria Michaelson, Founder, Director
Jane Wentworth, Chair, Board of Directors
Shelle Cropper, Treasurer, Board of Directors
Guisepi Spadafora, Secretary, Board of Directors
Malcolm Suttles, Board of Directors
Timber Rose, Board of Directors
Marni Mayer, Board of Directors
Masha Chase, Board of Directors
