Bainbridge Island Museum of Art Cultural Funding Application 2021 1
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Bainbridge Island Museum of Art Cultural Funding Application 2021 1 CULTURAL FUNDING PROPOSAL FOR THE CITY OF BAINBRIDGE ISLAND 2020/2021: BIMA’S CULTURAL IMPACT INITIATIVE 1) Mission, Vision, and Values Statement Bainbridge Island Museum of ART (BIMA) has a mission to inspire curiosity, wonder and understanding by connecting people with the contemporary art and craft of the Puget Sound region. Fueled by creativity and collaboration, BIMA commits to building a world where art is essential to thriving communities. The organization has identified 6 core values, beliefs that guide BIMA’s actions. They are: • Growth, Learning and Discovery: We create visitor experiences that provide insight, knowledge and a shared understanding of ourselves as individuals and as a community • Accountability and Stewardship: We value integrity, ethical responsibility, and sustainable practices for our people, our collection, our building and our environment • Transformative Artistic Expression & Joy: We celebrate the empowerment, generosity, wisdom, illumination, excitement, and optimism that art has the power to give • Broad & Diverse Community Engagement: We collaborate with organizations and audiences to create cultural programs that reflect the diversity of our region and respect who is telling the story and whose story is being told. • Community Centered: We put community first and honor the resourcefulness, support, and courageous generosity of our community, members, donors, and guests BIMA opened its doors in 2013 with a dream of becoming a cultural and artistic bright spot in our region, and since then has been engaging artists, visitors, students, community groups and arts-lovers and has welcomed more than 500,000 through its doors. Led by a board of directors of 22 and a staff of 18 FTEs, BIMA is still shaping its role as a player in the cultural landscape of our region but in just 6 years has become a top cultural destination, renowned for both the quality of its offerings and its commitment to accessibility and being 100% free of admission. The museum is open 363 days a year completely free of admission, and guests can enjoy a rotating program of visual arts exhibitions, a robust educational and field trip program, and a burgeoning cultural activities and events program. Designed to be a warm, welcoming gathering space for the community, BIMA attracts strong island support and attendance including more than 1500 island members. 2) Past Funding BIMA received Cultural Funding in the 2018-2019 cycle. Those funds helped launch a two-year series of cultural festivals, concerts, literary events, heritage celebrations, and humanities programs that brought new visitors to Bainbridge Island, created cultural partnerships with other non-profits and community organizations, and delivered a world class roster of arts and culture to residents who live, work, play and raise families on Bainbridge. BIMA has just one more event before it completes the projected program, a Jazz Festival which starts in October. PROPOSAL STATEMENT OF PURPOSE 1) Proposal Statement of Purpose BIMA is seeking funding for a Cultural Impact Initiative that presents 16 different cultural, arts and humanities programs over the next two years. The Initiative includes free and low-cost arts, cultural, heritage and humanities programs with wide appeal to audiences of all types, and spans poetry, music, film, theater, exhibition, heritage celebrations, civic gatherings, humanities, and spectacle. Most of these events are designed as festivals or celebrations, with many individual programs packed into each one. They range in length from a single day to 5 weeks long, have a varied planning window of several month to up to a year, and draw anywhere from 300 – 2000 guests each. Together they provide an incredible amount of richness to island cultural life, provide opportunities for cultural dialogue, and infuse our community with beautiful moments of collaboration, conversation and creativity. Bainbridge Island Museum of Art Cultural Funding Application 2021 2 BIMA’s primary goals are to: • Culturally animate the island, allowing more individuals to engage with the arts, and stimulating regional cultural tourism to the island both immediately and long-term • Amplify and deepen the understanding of arts lovers, interweaving exhibitions, education & cultural programs • Create opportunities for other non-profits to collaborate with and use BIMA as a platform for their work and their ideas • Create opportunities for artists through employment, promotion & celebration • Cross pollinate new audiences and spotlight often unheard voices and underrepresented communities by offering work of different cultures, interests, genres, and perspectives The Cultural Impact Initiative puts BIMA at the center of a powerful benefit cycle, magnifying the impact BIMA can make on the community, region and world. Through these programs, BIMA will: • Create a platform for the artistic talent of hundreds of artists in music, theater, film humanities, literary arts, cultural and heritage events, kid’s arts & more, with a special focus on reaching underserved and minority audiences, presenting artists of diverse background, orientation, age, and ethnicity, and with strong representation from women artists. • Eliminate the barrier of financial means to cultural engagement through free admission, free programs and low-cost tickets, and provide cultural experiences for those with limited access to the arts • Create a cultural hub for our region, one that provides our own island community with outstanding, world class arts and culture, and attracts others to Bainbridge Island to experience this cultural richness • Help to float the boat of scores of other arts and non-profits organizations in the region, through partnership, co-presentation, and platforming • Attracting new and different audiences and organizations to its beautiful, versatile facility, and generating positive economic impact on the island throughout the year By contributing to the Cultural Impact Initiative, COBI is helping to transform the museum into a more vibrant and inclusive hub of ideas and activity for the entire region, to partner meaningfully with a range of non-profit and arts organizations, and to establish a new cultural heartbeat that fortifies greater Kitsap County and beyond. These goals directly align with BIMA’s Mission, Vision and Values, particularly its values of Growth, Learning and Discovery; Transformative Artistic Expression & Joy; Broad & Diverse Community Engagement & Collaboration; and being Community Centered. Bainbridge Island Museum of Art Cultural Funding Application 2021 3 BEGINS WITH BENEFITS OUR POWERFUL YEAR- COMMUNITY: With ROUND BENEFITS positive economic PROGRAMS REGIONAL impact on RESIDENTS: community delivers resonant businesses and arts, humanities, non profits. and cultural programs for low or no cost CULTURAL PROGRAMS TRIGGER A POWERFUL BEN COMMUNITY BENEFIT CYCLE, RAISING OTHER BENEFITS THE MUSEUM: AUDIENCE BUILDING KEY STAKEHOLDER GROUPS: ARTISTS, BENEFITS ARTISTS: PARTNERSHIP provides teaching, STRENGTHENING AUDIENCES, STUDENTS, NON PROFIT lecture, and DEVELOPMENT PIPELINE performance SUSTAINABIITY ORGANIZATIONS, DONORS, RESIDENTS, employment opportunities & MUSEUM MEMBERS, LOCAL BUSINESSES, & THE exposure for museum artists to GREATER COMMUNITY new audiences BENEFITS BENEFITS OTHER STUDENTS & LOW NON PROFITS: INCOME offering an INDIVIDUALS: affordable way for through low or no them to present cost engagement performances and with world class programs in a first Bainbridge Island Museum of Art Cultural Funding Application 2021 4 artists and class venue programs OVERVIEW OF THE CULTURAL IMPACT INITIATIVE PROGRAMS 2020 EVENTS, MILESTONES, & DESCRIPTIONS # # EST # DATE & TIME ADMISSI LOCATION DAY INDIV. OF ON S PROGR AUDIEN AMS CE SERVED MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR – A DAY OF 1 4 250 January Free BIMA Full REFLECTON: Performance, documentary, and Museum speakers honoring Martin Luther King, Jr.) CULTURAL CELEBRATION OF BLACK & AFRICAN 2 7 400 February Free Museum AMERICAN ACHIEVEMENTS: Community groups weekend Gallery & collaborate through reading, kid’s arts, music, TBD Auditorium dance, and theater MOMENTUM – NEW WORKS FESTIVAL: 12+ 5 15 1840 Month of Free & BIMA performances, lectures, films, and cultural WEE March; low-cost Auditorium & programs all featuring new work by KS daytime & ticket Galleries contemporary performing, humanities and evening literary artists events POETRY MONTH: BIMA joins the national poetry 4 7 430 Month of Free Auditorium, month movement with a combination of poetry WEE April; Store installations and performances, including youth KS exhibition Windows poets from Kitsap county and a spoken word plus daytime showcase & evening slots MOJO: A celebration of the art of rhythm & 1 8 675 Summer Free and BIMA blues with live music, film, listening WEE Dates TBD; low-cost Auditorium, parties, lectures and more K day & ticket Plaza & evening Galleries events DIA DE LOS MUERTOS: A beautiful, colorful & 1 4 1850 Oct 31 – Free BIMA traditional celebration of Mexican culture that WEE November 8 Auditorium & honors loved ones who have passed, with an K 10 – 6 daily Galleries ofrenda, arts activities, shared readings, plus evening artwork, music, and food of Mexico events MUSIC ON THE PLAZA: summer afternoons with 6 6 400 Summer Free Outdoor music and dance WEE Sundays; 3- plaza KS 6pm WITHIN/EARSHOT JAZZ FESTIVAL: A month-long 4 10 1575 Month of Free and BIMA celebration of this region’s