HAVING A BALL WITH BIMA BIMA’s Treasure Trek, a Glass Float Seek & Keep

This year, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art celebrates a decade of local art patronage, and they’re taking the party outside!

BY ISABELLE HAINES

PHOTO BY HUNTER STROUD

In celebration of the museum’s 10th anniversary, BIMA’s Treasure Trek—dubbed its Glass Float Seek & Keep—brings an art scavenger hunt to public lands around Kitsap County. Scavengers should look for glass balls, roughly the size of grapefruits, that will be hidden within a few feet of trails on parklands or above the high-tide line on beaches. One hundred balls will be hidden for the April 1 launch date, and another hundred will be distributed over the next eight weeks. And the best part? If you find a ball, it’s yours to keep!

“Don’t forget to look up, down, all around,” said Korum Bischoff, BIMA’s director of communications and visitor experience. “They may be hiding off the ground, in trees, behind logs, on old fence posts—they just won’t be out in plain sight.”

The balls, which are modeled on glass fishing floats, were created by students from Hilltop Artists, a Tacomabased nonprofit that gives young people tuition-free instruction in glassblowing.

“The museum’s mission is to support artists of the Puget Sound region,” Bischoff said. “It’s nice to work with a Tacoma group. It’s nice to partner with our Kitsap neighbors and have something for people beyond the shores of Bainbridge to be involved in without needing to trek to the island each time they want to have an art moment with us.”

Want to get in on the action? PNW Bainbridge and Tideland magazines have come together to up the ante above and beyond coming home with a oneof-a-kind orb. If you’re lucky enough to find one of the 200 balls, post a picture of yourself on social media with the hashtag #BIMATreasureTrek on or before May 25. Five posters selected at random will win $100 to spend at BIMA’s café or gift shop. Additionally, BIMA will give each winner a pair of tickets to the Friday night BIMA Bash on June 9, a $200 value per winner, which includes food, drinks, music, silent auction and other fun activities.

Not to mention, the renown of being featured in both magazines’ upcoming issues. You’re practically famous already!