BAC Art Book Drive

BAC enthusiastically continues its support for the Bainbridge Library. In the last six years we’ve raised over $6000 to buy gorgeous new books on art, architecture, and design for our community. This year we’re out for more!

Here’s how it works: You bring your beautiful, but neglected art books to BAC. The Bainbridge Library chooses the books it wants for its collection. The other books come back to the Gallery, where anyone may purchase them for a donation. You can also give cold, hard cash to the Book Drive. ALL DONATIONS go to the Bainbridge Library to buy beautiful new books on art, architecture and design! Thank you!

What is The Gallery at Bainbridge Arts and Crafts?

It’s about the artists
BAC sells the work of over 300 local and regional artists—in the gallery, in special exhibitions, and at our annual Artists’ Almost Perfect Sale. We visit studios, we look at new work, we listen, we advise. We tell artists about opportunities in regular e-mails, and we hear from them that they’ve gotten commissions. We encourage young artists by exhibiting their work, buying art supplies for the public schools, and by funding scholarships.

It’s about art education
BAC offers gallery talks, artist demos, and art history lectures free in the gallery. Our workshops offer new skills and insights to professional artists as well as to beginners. We bring exciting speakers to the Island and sponsor trips to regional galleries and museum.

It’s about the community
Art belongs in the community—and we’re getting it there. BAC sponsors events, offers educational programs, and mounts exhibitions with other community organizations, such as the Bloedel Reserve, Helpline House, the Kitsap Regional Library, Bainbridge Performing Arts, and the Bainbridge Island School District. Through our Art Rental Program, we hang art all over town.

Mission

Founded in 1948, Bainbridge Arts and Crafts encourages the creation and appreciation of fine contemporary art and craft by exhibiting and selling the work of Northwest artists, and by offering art education to a county-wide audience of all ages.