EARTH ART BAINBRIDGE Sculpture: EARTHEART
at the BI Farmer’s Market Site
Bainbridge Island
Beginning on Friday, April 1 and continuing through the month, visitors to the site of the Bainbridge Farmers’ Market will have the opportunity to participate in a special interactive sculpture created as part of the EarthArt Bainbridge project. The Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network (BARN) collaborated with the City of Bainbridge Island and local designers Leo and Lishu Rodriguez of El Dot Designs to produce the public sculpture. The resulting EARTHEART piece explores the issue of climate change and environmental sustainability.
Artists’ statement:
In recognition of climate change and the immediate need to act upon it by way of changing individual and communal actions, the EARTHEART sculpture designed for BARN invites participants to walk through it to discover and share ways that we can change our mindsets and hearts, thereby changing our actions towards a more symbiotic relationship with our common home, Planet Earth.
BARN project manager Lousana Campagna enlisted El Dot to design the sculpture. Once the design was complete, El Dot worked with craftsman David Whitacre, who heads Community Service projects for the woodworkers at BARN, to build the sculpture at the BARN woodshop and install it on site. The materials used to create the sculpture will be up-cycled for future BARN projects.
An opening reception will be held on First Friday Art Walk on April 1 from 5:00-6:30pm on site at the Farmer’s Market location, in front of Bainbridge Performing Arts. BARN volunteers will be present then and during Farmers’ Market open hours to provide information about BARN, the new community artisan center in Bainbridge Island. In addition, Renee Jameson and Deborah Milton have organized prayer flag workshops at BARN and will display the flags and hold workshops for the general public at the Farmer’s Market near the EARTHEART sculpture.
We will meet at Bloedel Reserve and talk briefly about how climate change is affecting us and our environment before we split up to contemplate the life and beauty around us and create art. The focus is on photography and poetry. Please bring a camera, pen, notebook, and be prepared in case of rain. Each participant will receive a copy of Bainbridge resident Richard Stine’s The World of Richard Stine.
Please be at the gate right at 10am and let the gate person know you are with Earth Art Bainbridge. We will meet at the parking lot at the gatehouse, and get going by 10:15am.
Registration is free, but tickets are required. Sign up for this event here: http://earthartatbloedel.eventbrite.com
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