Founded 1965 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, the San Diego Watercolor Society gallery in Point Loma operates a 4,000 sq ft facility at 2825 Dewey Rd Building 202. Membership has grown from 16 charter members at founding to nearly 700, with programming including juried monthly Member Shows and an annual International Exhibition featuring over $25,000 in cash awards and entries from hundreds of artists worldwide — a scale that complements the smaller cohort-focused studio instruction at Prima Materia Art Institute. The Education Committee runs four ongoing programs — Community Outreach for Youth and Seniors, Liberty School, Military Family Arts Program, and Adult Beginner Watercolor Workshops — alongside a reference and instructional library for watermedia-specific research. Weekly plein air paintouts rotate across San Diego landscapes, a practicing-artist track that runs parallel to the gallery programming at peer spaces including Mi Gallery Tu Gallery in Liberty Station's Arts District. The society's deepest annual engagement is the October International Exhibition — a juried show curated by nationally recognized jurors that feeds the Signature Artist and Master Artist membership tiers accrued by multiply-accepted artists over time, anchoring the organization's role as one of the most active watermedia societies in the United States.