BIMA’s Treasure Trek
I wandered around this park in Bainbridge Island a few months ago on the #bimatreasuretrek treasure hunt and recognized the location when thomasdambo showed Pia in progress.
Pia is ready to make peace among quarreling friends, by picking them up and making them kiss. Or at least make up. (there are little hidden seats in her hands so that we can all be the right size to be playthings)
Next up, Issaquah.
#sidewalkjoy #wandering #Seattle #Seattleish #streetart #nwtrolls #wayofthebirdking #bainbridgeisland
I found a bimuseum.of.art float!! They are glass blown floats they`ve left around the island in honor of their 10th anniversary. If you find one, you keep it. I cleaned this one up and it`s so pretty!! 😊❤️❤️ #BIMATreasureTrek Float #070
Hello Bainbridge and beyond! PNW Bainbridge and tidelandmag want to congratulate this year’s lucky winners who found glass orbs during #bimatreasuretrek!
Our winners are…tanaberochele and jeanpual emilysaraolsen bre_mccorkle
robbieprice41 jonathanmartinseattle who will enjoy $100 to spend at either the BIMA Cafe or its gift shop AND two tickets to this year’s Gala!
ATTENTION float finders! Congrats on sniffing out these glassy treasures hidden across Kitsap and posting your #BIMATreasureTrek finds here! Tideland and pnwbainbridge have selected five of you for additional prizes, and we just drew names. The winners are...
emilysaraolsen
tanaberochele & jeanpaul
bre_mccorkle
robbieprice41
jonathanmartinseattle
Please message tidelandmag and pnwbainbridge before June 9 to claim your prizes, including BIMA gift certificates and a pair of tickets to BIMA Bash!
Thanks to all who participated and shared their photos since the April 1 kickoff, giving us a glimpse of our county`s beautiful parks as well as your scavenger hunt glory. The winners of our drawing (each pictured here) found floats from South Kitsap Regional Park in Port Orchard to Poulsbo Fish Park to Fort Ward Park on Bainbridge Island.
Our public parks and museums are the best treasures of all. Cheers to bimuseum.of.art on your 10 year anniversary!
We finally found one! I fell and twisted my ankle practically at the start of the trail but continued to limp along and I`m so glad I didn`t give up and go home without at least trying! Float #105 #bimatreasuretrek
A little reminder to check our stories for the latest #BIMATreasureTrek drops! Have you found one? Be sure to post a photo with #BIMATreasureTrek and float number or email treasuretrek@biartmuseum.org to help us keep track of the treks. Enjoy those adventures and thank you for participating!
WE FOUND ONE! I`ve been completely obsessed with the #bimatreasuretrek for the past month. I`ve searched so many parks for the hidden glass floats and made robinannwalter brian.paulsen jimpwally and laurenjulianne12 join me. After countless hours of treasure hunting, my mom and I found one! Float number 13, too 😎
The hunt is on!
Grab your galoshes and get ready to discover art where you least expect it in BIMA’s Treasure Trek: A Glass Float Seek & Keep. This spring, in celebration of BIMA’s 10th anniversary, 200 hand-blown glass orbs will be hidden on public lands across Kitsap County just waiting to be discovered and treasured by intrepid art lovers. The rules are simple: you find it, you keep it—however we ask that you just keep one so more people can enjoy the hunt.
Working in partnership with Tacoma youth development arts non-profit Hilltop Artists, young glassblowers are creating 200 unique glass balls stamped with BIMA’s logo. The balls, or “floats” (inspired by the glass fishing net floats used by Japanese fishermen), will be hidden in parks, on trails and beaches, and other public lands across the county. Never quite in plain sight, the floats could be behind a log, in a tree, in a hollowed-out stump, under a bush, or other spots that help camouflage the grapefruit-sized artworks. But there’s no need to go tromping around off-trail, these translucent treasures will always be about an arm’s reach from marked pathways.
Found one? It’s yours to keep! Keep just one, but continue to hunt and share photos if you’d like—share your find with the hashtag #BIMATreasureTrek and be entered to win one of five prize packages.
Our first float drop will be April 1, 2023 and more will be hidden over the next six weeks, so don’t give up if you don’t find one on your first outing.
Click here for Participating Locations
Treasure Trek Rules
BIMA’s Treasure Trek is a you-find-it, you-keep-it event with just a few guidelines to keep it fun for everyone:
Finding:
- The glass floats are hidden in public spaces such as parks and waterways. No need to trespass, the glass floats will never be on private property.
- Trail-hidden glass floats can be found within a few feet of the trail, and floats hidden on beaches will be well above the high tide line.
- Glass floats will never be hidden in ecologically sensitive areas or wetlands (soggy ground = no floats).
- Don’t forget to look up, down, all around. The glass floats may be hiding off the ground in trees, behind logs, on an old fencepost, etc.
Keeping:
- Please keep only one float per seeker. However…
- Keep hunting, you might find one you like more. Please just hide your first treasure where you found the second one. Or, snap a photo and re-hide it for another seeker to find.
- Send a photo of you with your find to treasuretrek@biartmuseum.org
- Post your photo to Instagram with the hashtag #bimatreasuretrek and tag us at @bimuseum.of.art to win swag in celebration of BIMA’s 10th Anniversary. Follow @bimuseum.of.art for giveaway rules and updates.
