We’re excited to feature local multimedia artist Carrie Goller in the Museum Store for the month of October 2019. Stop by the Museum Store to pick up one of Carrie’s greeting cards, prints, and paintings, many of which feature Carrie’s Woodland-theme seen in her exhibition Creatures Comfort at BIMA in 2018.
The Museum Store is open daily from 10am-6pm. […]

BIMA is super excited to be participating in Refract, The Seattle Glass Experience from October 17-20, 2019!
Refract celebrates the region’s luminaries of glass art with epic exhibitions, festive art parties, fascinating talks, tours & demos, scores of open studios and exclusive collector events over four days. Glass artists, collectors, enthusiasts and more will converge on the Puget Sound region to give credit where credit is due in the Pacific Northwest’s role in advancing the art form. […]

We’re excited to feature local artist and designer Joel DeTray in the Museum Store for the month of September 2019. Stop by the Museum Store to pick up one of Joel’s charming etchings featuring wildlife and the beautiful Pacific Northwest.
The Museum Store is open daily from 10am-6pm.
About Joel DeTray
Joel DeTray is an artist and goldsmith living on Dyes Inlet in Bremerton, […]

We’re excited to welcome guest blogger Natalie! Natalie, who will be starting 3rd grade in the fall, recently attended the Art & Nature Camp at BIMA this summer and wanted to share some of her experience with the world:
Art camp was good. There was lots of art. Lots and lots of art. My teacher was Isobel. […]

BIMA staff are sad to learn of the passing of Steve Franz, a friend of BIMA and invaluable member of the music community.
If you attended the daytime events at this year’s MOJO Rhythm and Blues Festival at BIMA in July 2019 you heard him sharing music at the blues listening parties, his commentary on the documentary And This is Free, […]

We’re excited to feature local artist and designer Alex Sanso in the Museum Store for the month of August 2019.
Stop by the Museum Store to pick up one of Alex’s charming and colorful designs featuring the beauty of our back yard, including a collection of her signature vintage Bainbridge Island travel poster style greeting cards featuring artwork that is exclusive to BIMA. […]

We were honored to host printmaker and book artist Amos Kennedy, Jr. at the museum for a weekend in May 2019 for a printmaking workshop with local youth, as well as an artist talk and screening of the documentary Proceed and Be Bold about Amos himself in the Frank Buxton Auditorium. This special visit coincided with BIMA’s exhibition Open Sesame! […]

It’s a wrap! Thank you to everybody who showed up to BIMA’s first-ever MOJO Rhythm & Blues Festival! What a weekend and what a thrilling weekend of music and learning!
During the day, local blues artists Chebon Tiger and Tina Dietz drew steady crowds in the galleries, and blues documentarians and biographers Mark Hoffman, Jim Basnight, […]

Our dedicated Install Crew which is made up of staff and our handiest of volunteers is hard at work hanging our Summer Exhibitions which open this Saturday, June 29. Come see their hard work and hundreds of beautiful works of art at the public reception from 2-5pm or any day between June 29 and September 29 from 10am-6pm. […]

In honor of our upcoming Mojo Rhythm & Blues Festival (July 11-14), BIMA Cultural Programs Manager Jesse Ziebart put together this awesome YouTube playlist with music by featured artists:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHwzS6Uhxef5jsX7rAIpHW8LJw93oF07w
Turn up your speakers (or headphones) and get your mojo workin’! […]