Events

April 3 - April 27, 2026

Bainbridge Island, WA — BAC joins eight other regional galleries in celebrating National Poetry Month by hosting an Ars Poetica exhibition. Ars Poetica invites regional galleries to exhibit art pieces created by their artists in response to poems by local poets.

Now in its 13th year, Ars Poetica was founded by long-time Bainbridge Island poet Nancy Rekow, who passed away in 2023. It is now coordinated by Bainbridge poet Tamarah Rockwood. BAC’s Ars Poetica exhibition is co-sponsored by the Bainbridge Island Poet Laureate Program and includes both BAC and BARN artists.

Participating artists are: Sarah Bantle (BARN), Marilyn Bergstrom, Virginia Causey (BARN), Robin Guterson, Yerusalem Guterson, Jan Hurd, Melody Maleitzke (BARN), Kimberly Morris, Cynthia Toops and Dan Adams (BARN), Diane Walker, and Susan Walker.

The participating poets are: Sheila Bender, Alan Chessman, Barbara Clark, Vera Cromrich, Farol Despeaux, Amba Gale, Teresa Gauthier, Rose Guastella, David Iglehart, Brandon Miller, Sam Rogers, Joy Sprague, and Marty Steyer.

More information about Ars Poetica is at https://www.arspoeticawa.com/.

Poets’ and Artists’ Reception and Reading – April 11, 2 – 3 p.m.

Tossed & Found honors Earth Month 2026 in an exhibition of work by eleven artists and special guests from ReFashion Bainbridge who turn discarded, repurposed, and recycled materials into works of art. Their artistic alchemy follows in the path of earlier artists mining this rich vein of imagination, like Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Cornell, and Robert Rauchenberg who incorporated found objects and unconventional materials into their work, expanding the definition of what could be art, how it could be made, and with what materials. In Tossed & Found expect the unexpected, humor, playfulness, pointed commentary, and technical mastery in work that reimagines our everyday world in new and unique ways.

Featuring work by Joanne Bohannon, David Dickhut, Lynn Di Nino, Denise Harris, Linda Jarvis, Mary Jeanne Linford, Margie McDonald, Steve Parmelee, Kathy Ross, Loran Scruggs, Tyler Andersen, and guest artists from ReFashion Bainbridge.

Opening reception at First Friday, April 3, 6–8pm.

They are Michael (drums), Craig (upright bass), and Chris (vocals and guitar.) They are looking forward to their first gig at The Sip, and you can expect music that will range from Springsteen to Bille Ellish.

Jeffrey Moose Gallery is proud to welcome sculptor Dick Strom and painter Sophie Frieda for our Spring exhibition, April and May 2026. Receptions will be held on First Friday, April 3rd and First Friday, May 1st from 6 to 8 PM. A Facebook Livestream will happen previous to the April event from roughly 5:20-5:40.

Dick Strom was born and raised in West Port Madison on Bainbridge Island, learning welding and metal working as a teenager. His family founded Modern Collision auto repair business in 1974. He attended High School on Bainbridge and then spent three years in the US Marine Corps. His sculptures and commissioned works have graced the Island for decades. Strom works both representationally and abstractly, creating fanciful animals and figures with the same ease as he creates abstract compositions from gears, wheels, chains and just about any type of scrap steel. Most often sited outside, Strom’s sculptures are quite comfortable both in landscape and in homes. Self taught and modest, he often demurs when called an artist.

Sophie Frieda, a classically trained painter of British origin, concentrates on plant life, some local and some tropical. She works primarily in oil on canvas, focusing tightly on foliage and flowers, creating intimate views from the perspective of a rabbit or bird. Her work is refined and precise, created with fine strokes and accurate color yet not cold and photographic. A sort of sympathetic realism thats immediately appealing. Her education includes a BA from Central St Martins college in London and another BA Honors Degree from California College of the Arts

In San Francisco. Her work has been shown at Bainbridge Arts and Crafts, BIMA, Bloedel Reserve as well as in local galleries and is held in collections in the UK, France, Australia, Washington state, California, Texas, D.C. and Connecticut.

For more information, please contact Jeffrey Moose at 360 598 4479 or jmoose@jeffreymoosegallery.com

https://jeffreymoosegallery.com

Come learn about one of the Island’s most famous businesses with our speaker Gary Loverich. As one of the founders of NET Systems, Gary will share the company’s history as an innovator in their field since the 1970s!

Established in 1978 as Nor’Eastern Trawl Systems, NET Systems was founded by Gary Loverich and Tom Croker. The NET Systems team has been at the forefront of innovation across fishing systems and have now branched out to create netting for a number of other industries as well (from sports fields to catamarans, theme parks to construction, safety to aerospace, and so much more).

Come and join us for snacks and libations. This program is FREE for members with a suggested $5 donation per person for non-members. Space is limited so RSVP today!

Concerts to held at Rolling Bay Presbyterian Church at 11042 Sunrise Dr. NE. Bainbridge Island on Friday April 24th and Saturday 25th at 7pm, with special guests Kids in Concert (KIC) directed by Laura Milleson. There will also be a 3pm matinee on Saturday April 25th with special guests Sakai Choir directed by Katie Gibbs. Tickets are $24.00 general admission, $10 for kids 13-18 years old, and kids 12 years and under are free. Discounted tickets are available thorugh our community access offer.  Purchase tickets on our website amabilechoir.org/events .

Amabile is a multigenerational mixed-voiced ensemble of singers from Bainbridge Island and the Kitsap peninsula in Washington state. Our name is taken from Italian for "sweet" or "lovely". In music, "amabile" instructs the performer to play or sing the music in a "gracious or amicable manner" or "lovingly". The choir brings a loving and joyful approach to its music, to each other and to the audience. Our director Sylvia selects beautiful music that delights and inspires your soul. Our group is growing due to our loving and joyful intention and sense of community. We are committed to enhancing the musical experience for our audiences. We are dedicated to learning and fostering the talents of our choir members, and by supporting collaborations with youths for their talent development.

Join us for a fun parent-and-child sewing workshop where you’ll learn beginner-friendly skills while creating your own spring tote bag. All sewing machines, tools, and materials are provided—just bring your creativity and enjoy making something together! Instructor: Tiffany Kleiven.

Drop by Battle Point Observatory for a short Planetarium Show! Learn what's up in the night sky and get a peek inside the Observatory. Shows offered at 12:30 pm and again at 2:30 pm. Content is flexible based on audience interest, common topics include constellations, planets, seasons, and astronomy history.

Open to the community, $10/adult and $5/child tickets (plus tax) available at the door. $5 ticket discount for BPAA Members, we appreciate your support!

To ensure the quality of the show, there is no admittance once the planetarium door is closed.

Check the Observatory Events calendar for more details. Planetarium is wheelchair accessible with advance notice.

Be a part of the global City Nature Challenge event in Manzanita Park and Manzanita Ridge Preserve. Alongside Bainbridge Island Land Trust, we will "bioblitz" or participate in a citizen science monitoring event using iNaturalist in areas along the Manzanita Watershed. This is one of several bioblitz events in Kitsap County between April 24-27 to observe and record natural organisms to help better understand the biodiversity of our area.

Why Manzanita Watershed? The Manzanita Watershed is our priority restoration area as it supports the local and greater Puget Sound ecosystem by providing critical habitat for wildlife and a healthy groundwater supply for all. Protecting and caring for this watershed, connected through Manzanita Ridge Preserve and Manzanita Park, ensures a healthy environment for conservationists and recreationists alike!

More information? Visit iNaturalist City Nature Challenge 2026: Kitsap County--https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2026-kitsap-county

Meet at parking area/kiosk at end of Manzanita Park Rd

*Global City Nature Challenge organization facilitated by Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and the California Academy of Sciences

We will "bioblitz" or participate in a citizen science monitoring event using iNaturalist to make and share observations of wild plants, animals and fungi in areas along the Manzanita Watershed. This is one of several bioblitz events in Kitsap County as part of the global City Nature Challenge between April 24-27 to observe and record natural organisms to help better understand the biodiversity of our area.

Join Battle Point Observatory's Artist in Residence Deborah Milton for this always popular event!  No art experience needed.

Inspired by a planetarium show, you will shed expectations as you learn to paint intuitively and playfully with acrylics on an 11” x 14” canvas suitable for framing. The group's camaraderie will put you at ease and you will probably be surprised, maybe even awed, by your own creative expression!

The theme this month is Dark Skies -- in celebration of April's International Dark Sky Week!

Advance registration required, open to the community.  Limited to 14 adults: REGISTER today! Event fee $50+tax (limited time discount available for BPAA Members).

We will accept Scotch broom, English holly, English ivy, Himalayan blackberry, tansy ragwort, English laurel, and the noxious weeds on Kitsap County’s “Noxious Weed” list. Please do not mix in non-invasive yard waste. No limits on the amount of invasives you can bring for this event.

For questions about whether or not something will be accepted, email Andrew Fraser, Land Trust Stewardship Manager, or call (206) 842-1216.

Join us for a fun day full of science, stewardship, and the Pacific Northwest.

Enjoy activities including:

10:00 – 1:00 PM Participate in the City Nature Challenge for Kitsap County – a world-wide collaboration
10:00 – 2:00 PM Plant sale with Bloedel Reserve and local nurseries including Chimacum Woods Nursery, Salish Trees Nursery, and Windcliff Plants
1:00 – 2:00 PM Readings from Birdbrains: A Lyrical Guide to Washington State Birds with several contributing authors
2:30 – 3:30 PM Birding walk with Community Creative Abbie Birmingham
Nature inspired activity: Create Your Own Biosphere in a Jar
Purchase a variety of beverages from Groovy Grinds, pizza from One Two Kai, and crepes from Corrigan Sisters
Lawn games & More!

This five-day Handwork workshop is ideal for those who are interested in creating an artist’s book centered around a theme of personal relevance. Emphasis will be placed on building book structures that complement the chosen theme.

You'll be guided through writing, brainstorming, and project planning exercises in order to develop content for your book and receive personal feedback daily. A variety of options for generating image and text will be discussed, and low-tech methods such as monotype and collagraphy will be demonstrated. Book structures covered include accordion and pamphlet bindings.

At the end of the workshop, you'll have developed original content and completed a unique artist’s book or a prototype for an edition of books centered around your chosen theme. Strategies for completing your edition or expanding upon concepts developed during the class also will be discussed.

This workshop is offered as part of Handwork: Celebrating American Craft 2026, a national initiative led by PBS's Craft in America and the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery.

Instructor: Alisa Banks

Alisa (she/her) is a visual artist living in Dallas, Tex., who investigates connections between contemporary culture, her Louisiana Creole heritage, and the African diaspora. Her interests include exploring the performative potential of the book and investigating links to the material culture of her ancestors. Alisa’s artists’ books, writings, and textile collages, which often reference traditional craft, have been exhibited internationally and are housed in several private and public collections, including the Smithsonian Institution, the US Library of Congress, The Schomburg Center, and The British Library. Alisa holds a bachelor of science degree in medical laboratory science from Oklahoma State University and a master of fine arts degree in visual art from Texas Woman’s University. www.alisabanks.com

Transform a piece of western red cedar into a traditional bentwood box carved with Salish design elements under the guidance of Suquamish Tribe elder Randi Purser. Randi Purser, whose tribal name is XWibulica, has been carving for over 10 years now, including the 14-foot Welcome Pole representing Chief Seattle's father, which stands at the start of the Sound to Olympics Trail on Bainbridge Island and pairs with her companion pole in Seattle representing Chief Seattle's mother.

This one-week, full-day Handwork class will start with a discussion about the wood and which planks from a log are likely to work for bentwood boxes. You'll receive a piece of locally milled, old-growth cedar, lay out your box, and cut V-shape kerfs for each corner. Then you'll put your prepared plank in a steam chamber to make the fibers pliable enough to bend without breaking, but only for a few minutes as you quickly fold the sides together to form a box.

You'll use wooden dowels, a modern version of the traditional hand-carved pins, to secure the only joint, where the beginning and end of the board meet. You'll also make a lid and a base for the box and attach the base. The final days will be devoted to embellishing your box by carving a traditional design suggested by the instructor or your own design.

Woven into the whole class will be a discussion about Salish design, how boxes were used, and other woodworking traditions. Salish designs were developed by people from the Columbia River north through Puget Sound and up to about the middle of Vancouver Island along its east coast. Salish designs aren't as well known as the styles used by more northern, coastal indigenous groups.

Presented as part of Handwork: Celebrating American Craft 2026, a national initiative led by PBS's Craft in America and the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery.

This workshop will focus on field sketching as both reportage and sketching skill development. The format will include lectures, demonstration, field sketching, studio sketch refinement, and technique exploration in the sense of quick to long sketches. Varying media will be explored, including pencil, pen, wash, watercolor, and colored pencil.

The idea is to learn both drawing and painting skills, but also the role of sketching in reportage/documentation, storytelling, and a way to understand one’s world at a deeper level through observation and documentation. Style is a personal expression and the idea is for you to explore your own style from “cartoonish” to realistic to expressionistic.

Skill level: Open to all abilities and levels of training.

This workshop is offered as part of Handwork: Celebrating American Craft 2026, a national initiative led by PBS's Craft in America and the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery.

Instructor: Daniel Winterbottom

Daniel has a degree from Tufts University and a certificate from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He has created a range of art including painting, ceramic, sculpture, and drawing. The COVID epidemic rekindled his interest in urban sketching. His work documenting casitas — vernacular Puerto Rican gardens in NYC — has been exhibited in Museo Del Barrio and Ramapo College. In 2021, he was the only American of four awardees to receive an Urban Sketchers Reportage Grant for 2021 for his project “The Shifting Landscapes of Despair, Hope, Survival and Persistence.“

Richard operates a studio for kiln-glass in Bozeman, Mont. He holds a master of architecture degree from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., and a bachelor of architecture degree from the University of Idaho in Moscow.

Richard has taught architecture and design at the University of Michigan and Montana State University. He teaches classes in kiln-glass throughout the world, focusing on the visual elements of design, color theory, and inspiration, meaning, and intent.

Richard is teaching Tapestry Through the Looking Glass at BARN, one of our Handwork Week workshops (April 26-May 1).

Handwork 2026 at BARN
Join us as BARN participates in Handwork: Celebrating American Craft 2026, a national initiative led by PBS's Craft in America and the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery.

Welcome to BPO book club, the 4th Tuesday of the month at 6:00 pm! Join in the lively conversation over Zoom for these three books, as we discuss International Dark Sky Week in April and beyond. You are welcome to attend one or all three sessions.

April 28th - Night Magic: Adventures Among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and Other Marvels of the Dark by Leigh Ann Henion. [With a family friendly field trip to bring in the dark at Battle Point Park, at another date/time to be chosen by the group.]

May 26th - The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light by Paul Bogard

June 23rd - "The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life by Johan Eklöf

We recommend reaching out to your local book store, such as Eagle Harbor Books, and ordering a copy. For details and to register on Zoom: Book Club Event

Visit our website for more astronomy info & science events, online and in-person: bpastro.org

Daniel has a degree from Tufts University and a certificate from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He has created a range of art including painting, ceramic, sculpture, and drawing. The COVID epidemic rekindled his interest in urban sketching. His work documenting casitas — vernacular Puerto Rican gardens in NYC — has been exhibited in Museo Del Barrio and Ramapo College. In 2021, he was the only American of four awardees to receive an Urban Sketchers Reportage Grant for 2021 for his project “The Shifting Landscapes of Despair, Hope, Survival and Persistence.“

A landscape architect, Daniel's firm, Winterbottom Design Inc., focuses their practice on healing/restorative gardens. He has been published widely in Northwest Public Health, Places, the New York Times, Seattle Times, Seattle P.I., and Landscape Architecture Magazine. He has authored “Wood in the Landscape” and has contributed to several books on sustainable design, community gardens, therapeutic landscapes and community service learning. He has completed projects in Seattle, New York City, Bedford Hills New York, Mexico, Guatemala, Bosnia/Herzegovina, and Croatia. In 2006 he developed the Healing Garden Certificate program at the University of Washington.

Handwork 2026 at BARN
Join us as BARN participates in Handwork: Celebrating American Craft 2026, a national initiative led by PBS's Craft in America and the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery.

Known for their “music outside the box” approach, their live shows mix storytelling, groove, and a little vintage grit for a sound that feels both classic and fresh.

Join us in the Great Room to hear Jeff Oens in conversation with BARN's Membership Manager Kate Henderson. Jeff is a widely renowned sculptor with bronze artwork exhibited in prominent art collections and public displays across the United States and Canada. He is best known for his outstanding wildlife sculptures, but his portfolio also includes human figures, mythical creatures, and other diverse subjects, ranging in size from miniature to monumental. Many of Jeff’s sculptures can be seen around the industrial park on Three Tree Lane, just across from BARN!

Jeff is one of BARN's Foundry Program instructors. He, along with Mario Oblak and Frank Wurden, is teaching Handwork in the Foundry: Cast Bronze Bell as part of Handwork Week at BARN.

Handwork 2026 at BARN
Join us as BARN participates in Handwork: Celebrating American Craft 2026, a national initiative led by PBS's Craft in America and the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery.