It is with great sadness to announce the recent passing of Victoria Josslin at her home on Bainbridge Island on May 12, 2019. As the founder of Artdish, she brought a genuine interest in leveraging an internet platform to foster discussion and lively debate among the arts community around Seattle and the Pacific Northwest. She saw value in launching the Artdish web site as an esteemed extension of the post-art walk discussions she shared around Seattle, Bellevue and Bainbridge to a digital platform.

Towards that endeavor, she was energized by web technology's capacity for connecting individual participation through social interactions and dialogue on the Artdish forum — one that emerged before the advent of social media sites including Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit, and before the popular adoption of blog platforms like Wordpress and Medium among writers.

Although Victoria's investment in Artdish was capped at five years on her terms, she helped nurture a community around the Artdish brand that she cultivated through her essays and writing as well as from her associates, artists and friends that supported the project.

In 2005, she passed her hat on to Seattle writer Jim Demetre to continue the Artdish mission and publish topical essays on Pacific Northwest art by local writers and guest contributors. It also freed up her time to focus on her own endeavors to write for national arts press including GLASS: The UrbanGlass Quarterly and to publish her first work of fiction "The Bookstore of Other Languages" in March 2018.