Micaela Green, BIMA’s Membership and Museum Events Associate, got the opportunity to chat with exhibiting artist Betty Pasco recently to hear more about her and her fascinating work featured in BIMA’s current exhibition Fiber 2020. Betty Pasco is a Suquamish Tribal Elder, who works in Salish-style wool weaving, often using natural dyes made from local plants and lichens. […]

Micaela Green, BIMA’s Membership and Museum Events Associate, got the opportunity to chat with exhibiting artist Ko Kirk Yamahira recently to hear more about him and his fascinating work featured in BIMA’s current exhibition Fiber 2020.
Ko Kirk’s work is a unique approach to minimalism through deconstruction– he painstakingly unweaves threads of lightly painted canvas until he has transformed the surface into a draping, […]

In celebration of the Art Speaks online festival, we asked our currently exhibiting artists what they’ve been reading while at home for the past few months. Check out the long list of titles BIMA artists has been enjoying below!
Looking to get a copy of one of the books? We recommend ordering through our friends at Eagle Harbor Books or Bookshop.org to support local independent bookstores! […]

In celebration of the Art Speaks online festival, we asked our staff what they’ve been reading while at home for the past few months. Check out the long list of titles the BIMA crew has been enjoying below!
Looking to get a copy of one of the books? We recommend ordering through our friends at Eagle Harbor Books or Bookshop.org to support local independent bookstores! […]

A diverse collection of spoken word pieces and musical interludes from emerging artists and legends of today and days past, curated by DJ Sidecar (Gary Bedell).
About DJ Sidecar
Gary Bedell is a graphic designer, silk screener, and vinyl DJ residing and creating on Bainbridge Island, Washington. In 2016 he got back into spinning records after taking a 30 year break from stints being a DJ at Skate King and KBCS 91.3 community radio. […]

As a curator, I have always had the impulse to combine music inspirations with an artwork to add another layer of experiencing and connecting to the translation of an art exhibition. Anna Teiche’s solo exhibition Fragments transmits a language of music through immersive colors and patterns counterbalanced with the human figure. Anna describes much of her painting practice as inspired through her community of music and dancing. […]

Some of the jazz enthusiasts on staff here at BIMA have been really hurting for a jazz fix and we figured you might be too!
While we can’t get together to enjoy some swingin’ music together, we thought we’d put together a playlist of some of our jazz favorites to get your weekend hoppin’!
We hope you’re staying safe at home and we can’t wait to have you back at the museum for a great concert sometime in the future! […]