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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.

20 poems honoring 20 endangered species representing 20 biomes of the world read aloud by 20 local scientists.

We believe that the merging of science and art creates a more powerful message about the impact humans are having on the world.

This year, Arts & Humanities Bainbridge has partnered with Earth Art Bainbridge to explore themes of ecology and change through the power of verse.

The works of more than 40 island poets are now arrayed in local storefronts, bringing the beauty of verse to passersby — pause and enjoy these “Poetry Corners” as you visit local merchants and services around town.

See the complete list of winning poets and where to find their works at http://ahbainbridge.org/poetry-corners/.

POETRY CORNERS LIVE: Join us at 7 p.m. April 28 for Poetry Corners LIVE! at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art. Contributing poets will share their works from the auditorium stage.

Janet Norman Knox’s performance prose poem, Artifact Pattern, examines the Alaskan Way Viaduct as a way to observe humanity’s take on climate change. In collaboration with musician Tom McDonald, Knox uses the humor and heaviness of a viaduct and climate in flux to weigh in on what both tell us about ourselves. Built on giant carbon feet, the viaduct’s very cement is a massive carbon sink. The viaduct is our Roman aqueduct, sending carbon like water to quench the empire’s power thirst. The viaduct is lodged in geologic history like a receding glacier. It occupies the same footprint as the fingers of glaciers that retreated, dropping their erratics, sands, and gravels. There are many facts to connect and our very human brains want to recognize the patterns in poetry, in music, in the quandaries of a society speeding headlong into an uncertainty where we may find ourselves.