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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.

A presentation by Dan Kowalski

Fostering a Sense of Place boils down to coming into relationship with where we live. The best qualities of being human come to play: a sense of curiosity, discovery, aesthetics, stewardship, deepening knowledge–love. Home can scale anywhere from a neighborhood all the way out to Planet Earth. My focus is our Cascadia bioregion. Together we’ll explore aspects of our bioregion with a particular emphasis on Alaskan glaciers.

By Olaf Ribeiro

Bainbridge Island Metro Park & Recreation District

When people talk about technologies that might offset climate change, they often evoke complex and expensive methods that are just too expensive for most cities, or individuals to implement. However, there is a comparatively low cost method with little risk that can effect climate change –one that all of us can easily participate in. It is called Trees! Planting trees remains one of the cheapest and most effective means of removing excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere (Carbon sequestration).

One tree shading a home in the city will save fossil fuel and cut carbon dioxide reducing the “Greenhouse Effect”. A single mature tree can absorb carbon dioxide @ 48 lbs/year and release enough oxygen into the atmosphere to support 2 human beings. If every American family planted just one tree, the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere would be reduced by one billion lbs. annually.

These are just some of the effects of planting trees that will be discussed in this talk as well as what efforts are taking place globally to save trees – and to plant more trees to mitigate climate change.