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’! […]

All of us at Bainbridge Island Museum of Art are still recuperating from an amazing BIMA Bash! auction weekend in support of the Museum’s exhibitions, programs and operations. While we take a minute to gather our thoughts and photos, we thought we’d share out the video that played during the Saturday night event. We feel fortunate to work with so many wonderful organizations and individuals to help us realize our mission “to inspire curiosity, […]

BIMA staff and board are sad to announce the passing of Steve Charles, an important and much-loved member of the BIMA family from the very beginning of the organization.
Steve Charles (Haida, Tlingit, and Tsimshian tribes) passed away December 7, 2018. Born in Ketchikan, Alaska on December 11, 1960, he grew up in Seattle and graduated from Ballard High School. […]

Featured in BIMA’s Black History Month exhibition, Identities: Past, Present & Future, artist Earnest D. Thomas is back for our Spring exhibition rotation with a solo exhibition entitled Identities in the John Kenyon Ellis Bistro Gallery on view now through June 9.
Learn more about Thomas and his work in this question and answer session. […]

BIMA is proud to announce a new arts festival, DogEar—a celebration of Artist’s Books, print works and paper arts that invites the audience to participate in the fun. This event happens in conjunction with the opening of BIMA’s Spring Artist’s Book exhibition, Open Sesame! The Magic of Artist’s Books Revealed. On March 2 and 3, […]