Located a stone’s throw away from the Bainbridge Island ferry terminal, BIMA is the gateway to Bainbridge Island and beyond. Home to a growing Permanent Art Collection with a focus on artists and collections from the Puget Sound region, BIMA is thrilled to welcome visitors from around the world to view its galleries.

Since opening its LEED Gold-certified building in 2013, BIMA has become the cultural living room for the local community. The Museum’s galleries, auditorium, Bistro, Store and plaza buzz with a variety of events covering the entire artistic spectrum.

BIMA’s exhibitions feature recognized masters and emerging artists who are sure to leave you inspired by their striking work and thought-provoking themes. With major exhibitions changing three times per year (that’s 15-20 new shows to experience annually!), as well as classes, tours, films, workshops, lectures, concerts, and events, there is always something new and exciting to experience at BIMA.

BIMA actively delivers its artistic vision through a variety of educational programs, including field trips for students throughout the region during the school day, hands-on art projects to children of all ages, after-school art clubs, summer camps, workshops for adult learners, and programs for people going through Early Stage Memory Loss.

BIMA believes art is for everyone and is committed to provide free general admission to the museum every day.

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BARN (Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network) is a regional center for craft on Bainbridge Island, Washington. Our dedicated volunteers and staff provide fun, welcoming spaces where everyone can explore creativity, learn new skills, work with others, and give back to the community.

BARN operates eleven member-run studios spanning woodworking, glass arts, fiber arts, metal fabrication, culinary arts, jewelry making, and more. Since opening our 25,000-square-foot facility in 2017, we’ve grown to serve over 1,400 members with 2,700+ classes and events annually. BARN’s mission centers on growing and inspiring creative community through craft, learning, and service.

Beyond skill-building, BARN members actively contribute to the region through dozens of community service projects—from building furniture for at-risk youth to preparing meals for community events. We believe everyone can be creative, and we offer comprehensive tuition assistance and programming designed to remove barriers to participation. Whether someone is a complete beginner or seasoned artisan, BARN provides the tools, expertise, and supportive community to help creativity flourish.

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Our Mission
The Burke Museum cares for and shares natural and cultural collections so all people can learn, be inspired, generate knowledge, feel joy, and heal.

About The Burke Museum
With working labs you can see into, one-of-a-kind objects all around you, and galleries filled with curiosity and conversation, at the Burke, you see—and feel—a world alive.

The Burke Museum is located on the University of Washington campus in Seattle with a focus on dinosaurs, fossils, Northwest Native art, plant and animal collections, and cultural pieces from across the globe.

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The Columbia Gorge Museum was established in 1995 to house historically significant objects from the Columbia River Gorge area of Washington and Oregon. Its amazing collections contain quilts, lace pillows, lace, wedding dresses, and handmade household materials, as well as the “world’s” largest rosary collection, historical lumber industry objects, indigenous people’s cultural objects (all media); Japanese cultural objects, and a collection of art and rare objects once belonging to a Russian Baron, originator of the Lightbearers philosophical and spiritual organization. The collection is housed in an award-winning building on 18 acres on the banks of the Columbia River.  The Museum is recognized for its exhibitions and programs, especially those that support emerging artists; highlight historical contributions; and connect communities throughout the region.

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The House of Welcome Cultural Arts Center is part of the House of Welcome, the first longhouse built on a U.S. College Campus. Our work as a public service center is to support and promote Native arts and cultures and engage with Indigenous cultures throughout the world.

We support studio arts specifically in fiber art and carving on our Indigenous Arts Campus which includes a fiber arts studio and a carving studio complex. The work includes college classes, short and long term arts workshops and residencies, locally. We also support a artist workshop program in Native American communities in a four state region including Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana. We provide grant support to colleges and universities who are seeking to improve or begin work in a similar fashion with Tribal artists from Tribal communities within their own service regions.

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The Moses Lake Museum & Art Center is a program of the Moses Lake Parks, Recreation & Cultural Services Department. Originally founded as the Adam East Museum in 1958, the Museum is home to local history exhibits, a fine art gallery, Museum store and a giant Columbian Mammoth metal sculpture. It offers classes in craft and fine art for all ages. The Museum is housed in the Moses Lake Civic Center. Admission is free.

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Maryhill Museum of Art occupies a historic Beaux-Arts mansion that is situated high above the Columbia River in south-central Washington state. Conceived in 1917, it was dedicated by Queen Marie of Romania in 1926 and opened to the public in 1940.

The museum collection contains European and American paintings, works on paper, and decorative arts; a sculpture collection with many works by Auguste Rodin; gilded furniture from Romanian royal palaces; ecclesiastical arts (especially Russian icons); an international array of chess sets; and the Théâtre de la Mode—miniature mannequins that are displayed in stage sets and attired in mid-1940s Paris fashions.

Maryhill is also home to Balkan and Central American folk clothing (most notably Romanian and Macedonian garments), numerous vintage women’s hats, and more than 1,200 baskets from Indigenous North America.

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Northwest Designer Craftartists (NWDC) was founded in 1954 to promote excellence of design and craftsmanship and to stimulate public appreciation and interest in fine craft. Artists in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska, who work professionally in clay, wood, glass, metal, fiber, and/or mixed media, are members. Other members support the crafts in the Pacific Northwest as educators, managers of non-profit arts organizations, or buyers of art for public or private collections. Northwest Designer Craftartists is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.

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