Bainbridge Island - Arts Master Plan

Discovering the embodiment of a particular place is an
accumulative process, and an adventure. Winslow, now
Bainbridge, is at a crucial juncture in defining itself. Is it to
retain its self-reliant island sensibility, or is it to evolve into
an extension of somewhere else—a bedroom community
that debarking motorists rush through on their way to
another destination?
What is an island community? Is it sustainable,
resourceful, a place where the collective and the individual
commingle? Are these notions now merely sentimental, or
are they worthy of reviving as core values? The art plan
must first define the philosophical armature of this place.
Once that is determined, the answers to design questions
will be revealed. How are trees selected? How are the
trees planted? The selection of materials, the sources of
materials and the manner in which gateway and public art
projects are built all have an integral role in developing a
place. Resourcefulness and sustainability as a costeffective aesthetic is a real “feature” rather than an
invented one.
The process of the evolution of a village is dynamic, everchanging. Any plan needs to understand and
accommodate these changes. The focus of the Master
Plan will be on the journey onto the island, arrivals and
departures, first impressions, differences, grace and relief
from the mundane. Sustainability, scale, intimacy, selfreliance with a community orientation: this is the
philosophy we are attempting to embody in the various
parts of this plan.
Artists are instrumental in bringing meaning to places.
This plan identifies opportunities on Bainbridge Island for
making use of their gifts.
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This public art master plan is commissioned by the Public Art Committee of the Bainbridge Island Arts &
Humanities Council. The plan was developed in conjunction with the planning of the City of Bainbridge Island’s
Downtown Winslow Gateway Advisory Committee, appointed by Darlene Kordonowy, Mayor.
Nancy Frey, Executive Director
Bainbridge Island Arts & Humanities Council
For invaluable assistance, thanks to:
Bart Berg, Landscape Architect
Tom Cunningham, Bainbridge Island Land Trust
Gerald Elfendahl, Historian
Bill Isley, Bainbridge Architects Collaborative
Joan Piper, Bainbridge Island Historical Museum
Charles Schmid, Association of Bainbridge Communities
Celia Schorr, Washington State Ferries
Dwight Sutton, COBI Open Space Committee
Kathleen Thorne, Bainbridge Island Arts & Humanities
Erica Varga, Bainbridge Island Historical Museum
Beverly Watt, Washington State Arts Commission
Charles Wenzlau, Wenzlau Architects
Members of the Public Art Committee during the
Gateway and Master Plan process:
Gayle Bard, Co-Chair
Michelle Burgess
Bob Carlson
Cathie Currie, Public Art Administrator
Debbi Lester, Co-Chair
Randi Lin Evans
Ann Mendenhall
Kent Scott
Marilyn Turkovich
Laurel Wilson
Richard Wilson
Paul Ziakin
Members of the Downtown Winslow Gateway
Advisory Committee:
Ralph Cheadle, Bainbridge Island Historical Society
Kevin Dwyer, Bainbridge Island Chamber of Commerce
Randi Evans, Public Art Committee
Paul Fuesel, KPG Inc., Consultant to the COBI
Mark Haley, Ferry Commuter
Will Langemack, Bainbridge Island Downtown Association
Debbi Lester, Public Art Committee and Winslow resident
Linda Mallin, Architect
Kathy Cook, COBI Long Range Planning
Lay Chin Foo, COBI Public Works
Randy Witt, COBI Public Works Director
Public Art Committee
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Three gateways to Winslow — Base map courtesy of COBI Department of Public Works
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Goals of the Arts Master Plan:
—Develop a vision for public art on Winslow Way between Ferncliff and Madison Avenues and along Olympic Drive.
—Embrace the unique identity of Bainbridge Island.
—Plan an art environment that celebrates arrival to the Island.
—Pursue art opportunities in the design of street improvements on Winslow Way between SR-305 and Erickson Avenue.
—Provide opportunities for collaborative approaches to problem solving and cultural enrichment between disciplines.
Table of Contents:
The Character & History of the Project Area................................................................................................................... 7
The Gateway Concepts................................................................................................................................................... 10
Gateway I—Eagle Harbor & The Ferry Terminal............................................................................................................ 12
Gateway II—Gateway to the Olympics........................................................................................................................... 18
Gateway III—Threshold to Winslow—Street Improvements Project............................................................................... 22
Gateway IV—The Agate Pass Bridge............................................................................................................................. 26
Other Gateways.............................................................................................................................................................. 27
The Public Art Master Plan............................................................................................................................................. 30
Winslow Way to Ferncliff Avenue.................................................................................................................................... 31
Olympic Drive, from The Ferry Landing to Winslow Way................................................................................................ 32
Winslow Way Business District, SR-305 to Madison Avenue......................................................................................... 33
Unique Design Standards............................................................................................................................................... 35
Trees............................................................................................................................................................................... 36
Ephemeral and Interventionist Projects.......................................................................................................................... 37
Notes on Implementation................................................................................................................................................ 38
Glossary.......................................................................................................................................................................... 39
Useful Contacts............................................................................................................................................................... 40
List of Projects................................................................................................................................................................. 41
Maps of Major Gateways.................................................................................................................................................42
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The Character & History of the Project Area:
The Winslow area is the Island’s downtown, and its
gateway to Seattle. Although other small commercial
areas are scattered around the Island, Winslow Way is
Bainbridge’s “Main Street”. The ferry from Seattle, the
Eagle Harbor waterfront, modest-sized commercial
buildings with small-town businesses and a deep, green
Ravine cutting across the main road into town combine to
make a unique place. Winslow, like the rest of Bainbridge
Island, is experiencing the stress of rapid population
growth and a lively discussion on how to deal with it.
1872 Chart of Eagle Harbor
—Courtesy of Gerry Elfendahl
Use of this area has traditionally been focused on the
waterfront. Duwamish and Suquamish people used the
area extensively, and the Suquamish maintained a
campsite at the mouth of the Ravine. What is now
Winslow began in the late 19th century as “Hawley” and
“Madrone” (named for a surveyor’s witness tree once
located where Madison Avenue meets Eagle Harbor).
These two settlements, each with its own steamer dock,
were located, respectively, east and west of “Canyon
Creek” or “Winslow Creek”, now known as the Winslow
Ravine. A wooden bridge on what is now Winslow Way
joined them in the 1920s.
Shipyard in Eagle Harbor —Courtesy of
Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society
Suquamish camp near Ravine mouth —Courtesy of PEMCO Webster & Stevens
Collection, MOHAI
Bainbridge Island Ferry Terminal
—Courtesy of WSF
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In 1903 the Hall Brothers Shipyard moved from Port
Blakely to Eagle Harbor at the mouth of the Ravine, filling
a natural lagoon behind a sand spit beach which had been
a site for Fourth of July Picnics. Madrone was renamed
“Winslow” after one of the brothers. The shipyard was
famous for a marine railway which transported ships in
and out of the water. In 1916 Hall Brothers became the
Winslow Marine Railway & Shipbuilding Company, which
continued until 1959. During World War II at the shipyard
thousands of workers, most commuting from Seattle, built
minesweepers.
Auto ferry service to Eagle Harbor began, and steamer
service ended, in 1937. One of the two auto ferry docks
was located on Winslow’s waterfront, just east of the
shipyard and the Ravine. Winslow until the 1940s
remained relatively undeveloped, with a hotel and various
businesses on the north side of Winslow Way, and a
ballfield and a network of footpaths between Winslow Way
and the waterfront. Some of the first buildings remain,
adjacent to the Ravine. In 1950 the construction of the
Agate Pass bridge to the Kitsap Peninsula, and of
SR-305, profoundly changed Island life.
Madrone (Winslow), 1900 —Courtesy of Gerry Elfendahl
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Winslow Way is now a mix of old, middling and new
construction, with patched sidewalks of various widths
west of SR-305 and down Olympic Drive to the ferry
contrasting with a sterile, uniform new streetscape east of
SR-305 to Ferncliff. The desire for preservation of angle
parking and the need for wider sidewalks struggle with
the traditional accommodation of large delivery trucks
parked in the middle of Winslow Way. Traffic-slowing and
pedestrian-friendly planting and seating areas have been
added to the street. Winslow Way in the busy retail
section is visibly layered with the history of modest
changes: old power poles and smaller posts that hang
flower baskets jostle trees heaving up roots in too-small
islands. The old creosoted poles—relics of Wycoff
Creosote across Eagle Harbor, 1905-1989—serve as
supports for community banners and informal postings.
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Mid-20 century parade on Winslow Way —Courtesy of the Bainbridge Island Historical Museum
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THE GATEWAY CONCEPTS
The Winslow area of Bainbridge Island possesses not
one, but three, major entry points, each with its own
distinctive features. The first and most profound is the
transition from water to land, as ferry travelers first see the
Island from the water, enter Eagle Harbor, and then
disembark.
The second entryway is at the intersection of SR-305,
which begins where the ferry ramp meets the shore, and
Winslow Way, Bainbridge Island’s “Main Street”. At this
point travelers speed on to other places, or turn left and
enter Winslow.
The third entryway is the entrance to Winslow. Here the
traveler from the ferry, having turned left onto Winslow
Way, crosses the Winslow Ravine, an undeveloped
natural area surrounding a creek that empties into the salt
water of Eagle Harbor.
The Winslow ferry landing
The Island outside Winslow possesses a fourth major
gateway on its north end: the Agate Pass bridge.
The experience of traveling through these gateways
becomes an episodic journey. This gateway portion of the
Master Art Plan looks at the opportunities and challenges
offered by each of the four gateways in the sequence.
Enhance the visual appearance of the ferry terminal and
city gateways. —The City of Bainbridge Island Comprehensive
Plan, Cultural Element, item CUL 10.4, 1998.
The intersection at SR-305 and Winslow Way
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Any part of a town—large or small—which is to be
identified by its inhabitants as a precinct of some kind, will
be reinforced, helped in its distinctness, marked, and
made more vivid, if the paths which enter it are marked by
gateways where they cross the boundary. —Christopher
Alexander, Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein, A Pattern
Language.
Bridge over the Ravine looking west —Courtesy
of the Bainbridge Island Historical Museum
Washington State Ferries Repair Yard, Eagle Harbor
Hidden Cove Road-end beach access
Madison Avenue, north of High School Road
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GATEWAY I—
EAGLE HARBOR ENTRY & THE FERRY TERMINAL:
The first and most potent gateway to Bainbridge Island is
the transition from water to land. Ferry travelers from
Seattle first see the Island from the water, enter Eagle
Harbor, and then disembark in automobiles, on
motorcycles, on bicycles and on foot. At present the
identity of the place from the water is not reinforced with
any signage or artwork. The ferry terminal is drab and
confusing for the non-resident visitor, though good
attempts have been made by the Bainbridge Island
Chamber of Commerce and Bainbridge Island Arts &
Humanities Council to enliven the terminal and orient the
tourist.
Entering Eagle Harbor
Many...mentioned the need for the improvement of the
ferry terminal as the gateway to the Island and felt that the
arts and in particular, public art, could be used to enhance
the gateway. —The Bainbridge Island Cultural Plan, Goal 10.
Public Art and Community Design.
Gateway I / Public Art Projects:
In order to mark the most profound transition, from water
to land, in cooperation with the U.S. Coast Guard and the
Washington State Ferries:
1] Buoy: Place a bell buoy or other sound sculpture near
the approach of the ferry into Eagle Harbor. The work of a
sonic artist could create a sound quality which embodies a
romance of the audible as well as the visual.
Bell buoy
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Dolphin
2] Sign: Commission an artist/writer-designed
“readerboard” attached to the overhead loading
headframe. This is an opportunity for artists and writers to
create a dynamic interactive element proclaiming the
place of arrival, perhaps using LED lighting technology
powered with solar energy, and reinforcing nautical and
sustainability issues.
operations and maintenance issues of the Washington
State Ferries. Pieces sited here should be considered
temporary, constructed of durable materials and should
respond to site-specific issues and the context.
4] Plank: Commission a team of artist and writer to design
poetry for the underside of the pedestrian ferry plank—to
be seen, before the plank is lowered, by people waiting to
disembark.
3] Dolphins: Commission temporary sculptures on the
“dolphins” which guide ferry landings. The planning of
temporary, rather than permanent, pieces, may allow for
more flexibility and willingness on the part of the ferry
system, and avoid long-term maintenance issues.
A note on further harbor gateways: The development of
Pritchard Park on the old Wycoff site, on the south side of
Eagle Harbor, may offer public art possibilities once the
point is available for public use. Planners for this park
have expressed interest in future public art.
The planning for art pieces placed on the “dolphins” and
other locations of the ferry operation will need to respect
“Eagle Harbor” in a Salish transcription
The Plank
Commuters disembarking on the Plank
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The current ferry terminal will be replaced. When it is,
artists should be involved as members of design teams
and as contractors from initial conception through
completion. In the meantime, some opportunities are:
5] Walkway: Commission artwork and/or historic signs to
be hung from the ceiling along the long covered walkway
between ferry and terminal. Historian Gerry Elfendahl has
suggested that replicas of the old signboards from the
steamers that plied Eagle Harbor could become part of a
more involved running text, hung along the walkway
between ferry and terminal, and legible in both directions.
(Steamers that did the Eagle Harbor run: Tolo, Alta,
Eagle, Florence K., Bainbridge, Hyak, Manitou, F.G.
Reeve, Narada. The shipyard tug was Skookum).
The walkway from ferry to terminal
6] Terminal: Enhance interest in the ferry terminal
building, by enlisting unused ticket booths for showcases
and/or sites for temporary art installations. Pieces sited
here should be considered temporary, constructed of
durable materials and should respond to site-specific
issues and the context.
The ferry terminal waiting area
Two pedestrian choices
An unused ticket booth
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Winslow is a waterfront community. A good measure of its
history and image has been tied to uses along the
waterfront. Although types of uses along the waterfront
have changed over the years, for the most part the
community is still cut off from its primary amenity. —The
Winslow Master Plan, p.11.
7] Beach: Provide shore access from the ferry area.
Access to the beach here would give respite to travelers
waiting for ferries. A beach trail linking to the existing
shoreline access easement and the Ravine bridge would
provide a pleasant route to Winslow without crossing
Olympic Way. Adjacent to the dock is a natural access
point to the beach for debarking passengers. The route
possibilities into town along the waterfront need to be
enhanced if the state ferry maintenance yard is
redeveloped—presently this facility interrupts the shore
walk into town. Other nearby public beach access points
could be developed to encourage low-tide exploration.
Currently blocked beach access at the ferry terminal
Beach access near the ferry, and especially to and from
the ferry terminal, will need to be developed in tandem
with the Washington State Ferries and the United States
Coast Guard, since recent security issues have put
pressure on both agencies to more tightly control access
to ferry facilities. However, this situation should not
preclude creative ways to keep Bainbridge Island’s
waterfront access as plentiful as possible.
Provide, protect and enhance a public access system that
is both physical and visual and which utilizes public and
appropriate private lands and increases the amount and
diversity of public access to the State’s shorelines. —The
Remnants of the shipyard, south of the ferry terminal
City of Bainbridge Island Shoreline Master Program.
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8] Orientation: Enhance navigation into Winslow.
could research existing “desire lines”, and give design
input to assist in the future design of the ferry landing.
I think what we’re finding out is that most people,
particularly if they get off the ferry, really don’t know where
the downtown is. —Will Langemack, architect, quoted in The
8a] Ferry Terminal to Olympic Drive: Commission an
artist to work with the ferry system when they plan interim
improvements to the terminal building. Hire an artist
skilled in working with signage, to devise maps, signs,
paving treatments, and other elements to direct first-time
visitors toward Winslow. Avoid clichés of “way-finding”,
and allow at least some aspects of the journey to be a
discovery.
Bainbridge Island Review, November 27, 2002.
It really doesn’t say, ‘Welcome to Bainbridge Island,
here’s what we have downtown’. —Kevin Dwyer, Executive
Director, Bainbridge Island Chamber of Commerce, quoted in The
Bainbridge Island Review, November 27, 2002.
Then the first-time visitor drives or walks off the boat, only
to find...not much of anything. The motorist encounters an
asphalt chute....Pedestrians encounter mostly
puzzlement. As they walk off the trestle, through what can
most kindly be described as a ‘functional’ terminal, they
encounter...a parking lot, stretching as far as the eye can
see. —Editorial, The Bainbridge Island Review, January 1, 2003.
Commission an artist to work with city and/or ferry system
engineers to redesign the crosswalk on Olympic Drive
near the automobile ticket booths. Unique street surface
patterns and pedestrian lighting could improve safety and
add diversity in pedestrian routes.
To lay out paths, first place goals at natural points of
interest. Then connect the goals to one another to form
the paths. The paths may be straight, or gently curving
between goals; their paving should swell around the goal.
The goals should never be more than a few hundred feet
apart. —Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa and Murray
Silverstein, A Pattern Language.
Crosswalk lattice striping
Improving pedestrian navigation into Winslow is one of the
biggest problems faced by the Gateway Project. One
difficulty is that the Washington State Ferries and Kitsap
Transit are phasing in ever-changing plans for the
eventual complete rebuilding of the ferry terminal and its
holding lots, bus loading, access roads and pedestrian
walkways. In the meantime, some steps can be taken, but
should be considered ephemeral and temporary. An artist
Lattice “grass-crete”
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8b] Olympic Drive: Engage artists on the design team for
any future work on the Olympic Drive roadway, sidewalks,
lighting and streetscape amenities. Commission an artist
or artists to create works along the walkway, such as
artist-designed railing along the sidewalk on the southwest
side. One main goal of the work should be to draw
attention to the way to Winslow.
8c] Ravine Trail: Secure a public easement when and if
the Winslow Marine property (along the southwest side of
Olympic Drive, adjacent to and just south of the Unocal
property) is developed. Create a public trail from Olympic
Drive at the corner of Harborview Drive, more directly to
the existing pedestrian bridge across the lower Ravine.
Engage an artist in the design of the trail. Clearly mark the
trail, coordinating the design of its entrance with the
design of the sidewalk and railing in 8b] Olympic Drive,
above. Also, more prominently mark the public access to
the beach off Harborview Drive.
A stile on a public pathway
A note on trails and pathways: Gateway planning
should support trails throughout Winslow, and help create
an inventory of stiles, markers and maps. A city ordinance
may be required to preserve these “desire lines” . Support
plans for the continuation of the waterfront trail, by
extending the dock further west and connecting the
missing link between the foot of Madison Street and the
public park. Artists can contribute interest in these
opportunities through performances, temporary
installations and events. Develop trails following the 1998
Winslow Master Plan, pp.31-34.
Identify high priority projects, such as the Waterfront
Trail...and assure their completion. —COBI Non-Motorized
World War II military gate, ferry terminal
Transportation Plan, NM 5.4.
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Trail at Alma Place NE and SR-305
GATEWAY II—GATEWAY TO THE OLYMPICS:
Until that fence [around the Unocal property] gets taken
down, we’re never going to feel like anything’s welcoming
anyone. —Cris Beattie, Executive Director, Bainbridge Island
Downtown Association, quoted in The Bainbridge Island Review,
November 27, 2002.
Gateway II is the intersection of SR-305 and Winslow
Way. Through it rushes traffic entering and leaving the
ferries. It is the hurried point of decision—an important
crossroad, providing the choice of whether to move on
through the gateway to the Olympics, or to turn left and
engage Winslow.
This crossroad needs to maintain its connection with the
Eagle Harbor Waterfront through the Unocal and Winslow
Marine properties and the Winslow Ravine, with their
opportunities for trails and view corridors. It also needs to
maintain a clear visual and physical connection to the
Winslow downtown area. The disposition of many
properties around the intersection is in question.
The Winslow ferry landing, c. 2000 —Courtesy of WSF
Gateway to the Olympics — the Clearwater Casino
SR-305 / Winslow Way intersection
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The Unocal property on its southwest corner, a former gas
station, is a key piece in encouraging flow into downtown
Winslow.
The Winslow Marine property, adjoins the Unocal property
to the south along Olympic Drive. It too is a key piece, as
it contains access to views and waterfront connections
called for in the Winslow Master Plan, but which will be
likely lost if the property is completely developed. There
are some significant trees on the property.
The third key piece is the police station on the southeast
corner of the intersection. The police station will relocate
in the future, leaving future uses of this piece in question.
All three properties should become public spaces,
providing public waterfront views, trails to access Winslow
and the waterfront, and art opportunities.
Eagle Harbor view from Winslow Marine property
SR-305 / Winslow Way intersection with Unocal property
Island artifact in Winslow Marine property
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2] Winslow Marine Property: Acquire the property for
public use. Clear out invasive plants and establish a
network of trails through the property and possibly into the
Ravine itself. This property offers a more direct and
pleasant route to the pedestrian bridge over the lower
Ravine. This trail should pass the old truck reclaimed by
vegetation. An artist should be part of the design team to
enhance the journey through habitat enhancement, and
embellishments. This property makes a crucial connection
from the Unocal site and Olympic Drive to the Washington
State Ferry Maintenance Yard, a site which will likely
change uses in the future, possibly becoming a small
boaters’ water access and cultural facilities center.
Gateway II / Public Art Projects:
1] Unocal Property: Preserve the property for public use
and significant art. On the Unocal site, pathways could
converge and shelter pedestrians from traffic and the
elements. An active public park with amenities to enhance
the needs of arriving and departing pedestrians and
bicyclists could become a meeting and information point
providing navigation aids into Winslow. This location
provides sites for public art visible to passing motorists as
well as pedestrians. It may be prudent to initiate the siting
of art here as a temporary maneuver until the new ferry
terminal is constructed and roadway / sidewalk alignments
are established. Because of the site’s history as a gas
station, its first major art piece could be a bio-mitigation
artwork teaming an artist and a scientist. The corner could
be transformed into a new, metaphorical “fuel station”.
Protect the Island’s unique scenic resources along all
transportation corridors. —COBI Comprehensive Plan,
Transportation Element, TR 2.4
Properties in the ferry terminal neighborhood: Unocal (orange), Winslow Marine (green) and COBI Police Station property (purple)—Courtesy of COBI Engineering Department
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3] Police Station: Treat the present police station opposite
the Unocal site in a collaborative project between a artist
and architect, deconstructing the structure into a form
which compliments an entry, and serves a purpose, such
as a clock tower or water tower. Provide amenities such as
seating and kiosks for the walker.
Maintain the natural beauty of Bainbridge Island.
—The COBI Comprehensive Plan, Cultural Element, 10.6.
4] Green Corridor: Preserve and reinforce the green
corridor along Olympic Way (The Unocal and Winslow
Marine properties). The green along the southwest side of
Olympic Way needs to be preserved, and reinforced with
planting on the northeast side of the street. This greenbelt,
seen immediately by disembarking drivers, provides a link
to the longer green corridor that to many travelers is their
only impression of the Island.
SR-305 / Winslow Way intersection, police station
5] Intersection Design: When the Washington State
Department of Transportation redesigns the SR-305 and
Winslow Way intersection lighting and sign system, insist
on an artist playing an active role on the design team, in
order to mitigate and transform the impact the changes will
have on that intersection. All crosswalks could use a
distinctive marking such as a lattice design, in order to
create a distinctive element on the surface plane, and
provide a psychological auto calming device. The pattern
language of the lattice strengthens the sense of arrival into
a small town/island community. and reinforces a pedestrian
based streetscape. This pattern language could be
translated into elements such as utilitarian traffic poles,
which could support temporary trellises for flowering vines.
SR-305 / Winslow Way intersection, looking west
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GATEWAY III—THRESHOLD TO WINSLOW (2003-2004
STREET IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT PRESENTLY IN
DESIGN DEVELOPMENT):
People invest places with social and cultural meaning, and
urban landscape history can provide a framework for connecting
those meanings into contemporary urban life. —Dolores Hayden,
The Power of Place.
Choosing a past helps us construct a future. —Kevin Lynch, What
Time is This Place?
There is every reason why the beginnings and endings of streets
should be well marked, as part of the street, to introduce us to
them and to take us elsewhere. Entrances can always be open
and inviting. Experience of fine streets indicates that entries and
exits are not always well done or memorable in themselves. The
same experience suggests that when they are well done they
contribute in significant ways to great streets, though they may
not detract all that much when they are less than they might be.
Winslow Ravine—Courtesy of the Bainbridge Island Historical Museum
—Allan B. Jacobs, Great Streets.
Ravine Entrance— The Winslow Ravine Bridge
Threshold:
The Ravine is the threshold into historic downtown
Winslow. Once spanned by a wooden trestle bridge and
now earthen infill, the Ravine’s presence and influence
remains. The Ravine now is easy to miss, and it needs to
be marked by a significant experience in the roadway. The
proposed threshold bridge bases some elements of its
design on this historic structure, while creating a unique
entry which becomes an amalgam of the then and the now.
The following are the bridge components which collectively
create this sense of passage and arrival. This gateway is
about the poetics of utility and the aspirations of place.
Ravine bridge map—Courtesy of the Bainbridge Island Historical Museum
Winslow Wash—Courtesy of Bainbridge Island Historical Museum
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with the goal of removing invasive plants and propagating
and planting natives.
Gateway III / Public Art Projects:
1] Ravine Threshold: The four elements of the threshold,
1a-1d, are described separately, but function as one piece
to mark the Ravine crossing.
Future options: Build a wooden or metal pedestrian
footbridge separating and rejoining or connecting to the
harbor trail below, providing more intimacy with the Ravine
views, and drawing pedestrians toward Winslow, or
construct an artist/engineer-designed perch out in the trees
accessed from a walkway mid span on the south side of
the street.
1a] Bridge: Build a wooden “boardwalk” sidewalk over the
Ravine, along the edges of the existing fill. The wooden
bridge of the 1920s and 30s is a signature image of
Winslow. Sustainably harvested IPE wood, used in
Portland’s Jameson Square, lasts 50 years, is lowmaintenance and is comparable to concrete in slipresistance. A major difference in the use of wood rather
than concrete or steel grating (which are also possible
materials for creating the sense of “bridge”) is the feel and
acoustic quality. The design team is considering a
construction method which accentuates the resonance of
each board, thus creating a musical boardwalk.
Highlight the existing narrowing of the street to emphasize
that this is like a doorway to Winslow (the proposed
features do not actually narrow the street, but work within
the City’s plans for street and sidewalk width). Add railing
with a historic reference. The new railing is an design
opportunity and a potential poetic handrail. It is important to
maintain a sense of passage, and not make the bridge into
a “place” or plaza.
Perch in the forest
Enhance the experience of passing through the natural
greenbelt. Clear the ivy which is choking trees and
obscuring views through the Ravine to the harbor, and
replant with appropriate native plants. The enlistment of
volunteer help could be a social and educational asset in
addition to the task at hand. Create a modern day Civilian
Conservation Corps to employ and educate island youth
Proposed “bridge” boardwalk
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1b] Suspended lighting: Create a lighting feature over the
bridge threshold. The suspended lighting is planned to be
enticing from highway 305 and experiential to those
passing under. The lights would be hung along the
centerline of the street so that the light spills onto the street
and not into the ravine. The catenary wires provide a
armature for LED feature lighting, which can create festive
aerial light-scapes of low intensity but high-visibility as well
as subtle effects such as a evening atmosphere of cobalt
blue. the “then and now” mutually enhance each other in a
lighting design that is low energy and long lasting, and
easily programmable to meet the occasion. Additional pole
lighting can be retrofitted if necessary over pedestrian
areas similar to the approach proposed for pedestrian
lighting along Winslow Way.
The old poles also offer opportunities for lighting retrofits
at pedestrian height, and for community postings. Create
a system for erecting banners and holiday lighting across
the street from pole to pole. Future public art commissions
could include embellishments of amenities along the
streetscape, infrastructure opportunities and surface
enrichments.
1c] Tall Poles: The suspended lighting would be
supported with recycled wooden light poles. The poles will
stand at the four corners of the threshold bridge and be
tensioned with guy lines typical of this type of installation.
The catenary wire and tensioning wires will provide a costeffective, stout structure.
Proposed “bridge” boardwalk
A note about poles: The use of poles to support the
bridge lighting create a dialogue with the existing poles
(“Legacy Poles”) along Winslow Way. These relics can
continue to serve many needs even after the power lines
are rerouted underground or along the back of the
commercial district. The former Wycoff Creosote Works
located in Eagle Harbor provides a local vernacular, and a
historic rationale for retaining vestiges of this past. The old
poles provide a rhythm and amenity to the streetscape.
The poles presently provide support to hang official holiday
lights and banners as well as a surface to provide unofficial
community communications—the posting kiosks for events
and lost pets.
Plan and section of proposed “bridge”
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1d] Stormwater Made Visible: Address the current
dumping of untreated stormwater into the Ravine, by
detaining and treating the stormwater runoff from the
threshold bridge. Incorporate a “bio-ditch” along the
outboard sides of the boardwalk. Either by excavating
moats or providing half-round culvert wetlands planters, the
bio remediation can clean the water before it enters the
stream. Overflow precautions can be designed into the
system. The fact that this wetland landscape parallels the
walkway reinforces the notion of a bridge crossing water.
This high-visibility feature also reinforces the message of
sustainability.
temporary concrete or asphalt infill, to allow future
installations as schedules require. The infill can be
removed later, and replaced with art paving. A major
opportunity exists when the SR-305/Winslow Way
intersection is redone. WDOT should provide blockouts at
the pedestrian walkways and a budget to the Bainbridge
Art and Humanities Council to commission artists, thus
continuing the approach seen along Winslow Way.
Develop demonstration bioswales wherever possible,
beginning with the new planting areas around the
Erickson/Bjune intersections. These areas can be as
attractively planted as conventional green spaces.
Develop cisterns in Winslow to capture water from roofs.
Reuse it for watering downtown plantings. Incorporate
water pressure of detention tank on Erickson Avenue into a
fountain/watering pump feature at the curb bulb bioswale
on the north side of Winslow Way at Erickson. There are
other areas on the island where piping ditches is proposed.
These ditches could easily be transformed into bioswales,
at less cost. Creative solutions are needed to design a
solution for competing needs of auto, bike pedestrian and
the adjacent “bio-ditch”.
Relic light fixture still in use on Madison Avenue
2] Continuing Pavement Art
Continue the practice of artists making unique paving infill.
Interesting paving appears in the central section of
Winslow Way at Cafe Nola and at Blackbird Bakery. Small
projects like this should continue in each new section of
sidewalk in Winslow. Blockouts can be made with
Proposed “bridge” boardwalk
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GATEWAY IV—THE AGATE PASS BRIDGE:
The fourth entry is the bridge at Agate Pass. Both sides of
this bridge should be nurtured as important transitions for
the traveler.
Gateway IV / Public Art Projects:
1] Tribal Collaboration: Northbound travelers leaving
Bainbridge Island and entering the Suquamish
Reservation, the land of the first inhabitants of the area,
could, with the collaboration of the Suquamish Tribe,
create a reinforcement of the journey to the Kitsap/Olympic
Peninsula.
2] Bridge Treatment: Southbound traffic could be made
aware of the entering of Bainbridge island with an artistic
gesture, either on the bridge or upon entering the Island
from the bridge.
Bridge at Agate Pass
3] Rotary Club Sign: On the west side of SR-305, south of
the Agate Pass Bridge at Alma Place NE and NE Seabold
Road, is a historic piece of Bainbridge—the carved and
painted Island map with Rotary, Kiwanis and American
Legion post symbols. This piece of property could be a
public park, and is a good place for a gateway feature. Its
redesign could be a fruitful collaboration between an artist
and the Rotary Club (and possibly another agency, such as
a public school).
Rotary Club welcome sign
Rotary Club welcome sign at Agate Pass
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OTHER GATEWAYS THAT REINFORCE THE EPISODIC
APPROACH: There are three other public entries to the
Island which have a direct engagement with Winslow. One
is the Winslow Public Dock. The second is the Washington
State Ferries Maintenance Yard. The third actually
comprises several—the “city limits” entries into the historic
boundary of Winslow and/or where the city boundary
changes from high to low density. And a fourth category of
gateways—public road ends—surrounds the Island.
The Winslow Public Dock—Gateway/Public Art
Projects:
The Public Dock represents the essence of Island
gateway. On Bainbridge Island it is a personal
embark/disembark amenity. Boats are like islands—selfsustaining and personal. The Public Dock boardwalk
connects to the public trail along the shore, reinforcing a
potentially significant social promenade experience. The
missing boardwalk link between Madison Street and the
Waterfront Park needs to be completed so that walkers can
have an uninterrupted tour of the waterfront.
View under the Ferry Yard dock
The Washington State Ferry Yard—Gateway/Public Art
Projects:
Support the restoration of part of the lagoon and sand spit
at the mouth of the Ravine. When the ferry yard relocates,
opportunities for public use of the property appear.
Restoring some of the lagoon would improve the health of
the Ravine and make a much-needed connection to the
water (fulfilling goals in the 1999 Harbor Management
Plan, p.23, and the 1998 Winslow Master Plan, pp.11-12).
The Public Art Committee of the Bainbridge Island Arts &
Humanities Council should be involved at the outset of any
redevelopment plans by either public or private entities, to
assure artists’ engagement.
The Waterfront Trail near the foot of Madison Avenue
Waterfront Trail boardwalk
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Other Winslow Village Entries—Gateway/Public Art
Projects:
The 1998 Winslow Master Plan calls (p.118) for four other
entryways into Winslow to receive special treatment: 1] At
Wyatt and Weaver, 2] At High School Road and
Sportsman’s Club, 3] At Madison and New Brooklyn and 4]
At Ferncliff and High School Road. Ideas that are
developed by this group could be extended to these sites.
These are transition zones from “rural” to small-town
urban, points where the essences of each commingle,
creating a hybrid. Here the “bio-ditch” turns into the
bioswale. There is a project currently in planning for new
sidewalks and stormwater treatment along Madison
Avenue near the high school, which is a good prospect for
a bioswale used as a learning tool by students.
Bioswale, SEA Street in Seattle
The rural bio-ditch in the making
Lost opportunity or bio-ditch retrofit
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Public Road Ends: In addition, the public road ends of
Bainbridge Island are a treasure of access to, and
gateways from, the waterfront surrounding the Island. Each
one is a possible site for future intervention by an artist.
The county’s first commissioner declared that every shore
road would go to the water, thus the Island’s legacy of road
ends every half-mile or so around the Island. —The
Bainbridge Island Comprehensive Plan (1990), An Historical Profile.
Public beach access, Harborview Drive
Public Road Ends—Gateway/Public Art Projects:
1] Public Amenities: Artists could be hired to create sitespecific amenities at road ends. The nature of elements
such as seating, fish-cleaning tables and firepits should be
responsive to the adjacent community, site-specific,
functional, and mindful of the modest nature of the sites—
not competing with but complementing the natural settings.
The local communities should be involved in these
projects. This is an opportunity for art as a collaborative
“gift”. Ecological and sustainability principals need to be
recognized and applied.
Seabold Road-end, rope lifeline to beach
2] Modest works: Artists could be hired to create modest
pieces at road ends which call attention to unique features,
or history, of the site. Care should be taken to not disrupt
the natural beauty and simplicity of the road ends. The
local communities should be involved in these projects.
Lytle Road-end, Pleasant Beach
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THE PUBLIC ART MASTER PLAN
Opportunities for enhancing the built environment include
new City capital improvement projects such as sidewalks
and curbing projects, the development of amenities such
as planters, public seating and small public spaces, and
the use of building walls for public art projects. Many of the
participants in the focus groups mentioned the need for the
improvement of the ferry terminal as the gateway to the
Island and felt that the arts and in particular, public art,
could be used to enhance the gateway. The residents of
Bainbridge Island are justifiably proud of the built and
natural visual environments of the Island and the quality of
life produced by these landscape assets. As the Island
continues to grow, it will be important that deliberate
strategies be in place to preserve these assets.
Fanciful water features
—The Bainbridge Island Cultural Plan, Goal 10. Public Art and
Community Design.
Great streets require physical characteristics that help the
eyes do what they want to do, must do: move. —Allan B.
Jacobs, Great Streets.
[An] artist’s job is...to produce an image that expands the
public’s expectations of what they may get from public
forms, to provoke thought, and help people look around
them with fresh eyes. —Lucy Lippard, Get the Message: A Decade
of Art for Social Change.
The goals of this plan are to develop a vision for siting
future public art on Winslow Way between Ferncliff Avenue
and Madison Avenue and along Olympic Drive, while
embracing the unique identity of Bainbridge Island. Ideas
put forth in this plan will overlap with and, in some areas,
elaborate on, the ideas in “THE GATEWAY CONCEPTS”.
Children operating waterworks
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4] Amenities: Add artist-designed amenities, such as
seating. One or two artist-designed (but not site-specific)
benches have been added to the area, to its benefit. Future
projects should be site-specific—designed especially to
enhance this location. The best option would be to obtain
easements from new development for privately or publicly
funded artist-designed landscaped amenities / seating
areas, off the sidewalk.
WINSLOW WAY FROM SR-305 TO FERNCLIFF
AVENUE:
The eastern stretch of Winslow Way, from SR-305 to
Ferncliff Avenue, is the northern boundary of a small sea of
parking lots that serve ferry commuters. It will soon
become busier with pedestrian and auto traffic to a new
mixed-use development on the north side of Winslow Way
at Ferncliff. The street was recently repaved, with new
sidewalks, railing, street trees and pedestrian lighting. The
work was functional and the street feels cold and
featureless.
5a] Design team for Private Development: Develop a
model for a percent-for-art program on Bainbridge Island,
from private development costs. A pilot project should be
the inclusion of an artist on the design team for Winslow
Landing, planned for the north side of Winslow Way at
Ferncliff. The large mixed-use project already plans a
substantial public open space crossed by public trails—a
perfect location for public art as well. The site as it currently
stands offers interesting possibilities for an artist in terms of
history and land configuration, as it was the location of
significant early buildings, and contains significant trees.
Springs send water out of the hillside, suggesting a
possible waterworks piece. Winslow Landing could be a
flagship of sustainability for the Island. All roof and surface
water could be captured and used or allowed to perk to the
aquifer; graywater could be reclaimed and reused,
assuring a year-round supply of irrigation water.
Public Art Projects from SR-305 to Ferncliff Avenue:
1] Sidewalk: Retrofit artist-designed paving treatments.
The areas of infill would need to be sawcut out of the
existing sidewalk. Additional saw cuts could provide tree
pits to break the regimentation of the existing generic
streetscape treatment.
2] Lighting: Retrofit the existing lighting with pedestrianlevel lighting with artist-made lamp shades. When the
redevelopment of both the north and south sides of the
street occurs, replace the existing fixtures with a more
sensitive approach, and reinstall the artist made lamps.
3] Landscape: Retrofit the drainage along the curbline to
address bio-mitigation art based projects as being
proposed in the first phase of the Winslow Way Project.
Replace existing generic trees with indigenous tree types
and plant in clusters or groves.
5b] Sculpture for Private Development: Alternatively,
develop the model percent-for-art program from private
development costs outlined in number 3], by
commissioning an artist or artists to create work for the
public space in Winslow Landing. In this variation, the artist
would not participate in the design team, but would develop
one or more stand-alone sculptures for the space.
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OLYMPIC DRIVE, FROM THE FERRY LANDING TO
WINSLOW WAY:
This commuter walk-and-drive-way to and from the ferry is
constantly changing, subject to the push-and-pull of the
sometimes competing needs and initiatives of the
Washington State Ferries, Kitsap Transit and The City of
Bainbridge Island.
Public Art Projects for Olympic Drive from the Ferry to
Winslow Way:
Ideas for public art in this zone are addressed in this plan,
in THE GATEWAY CONCEPTS, Gateway I (pages 1017).
Ferry terminal kiss-n-ride area
Sidewalk to the ferry
Bainbridge Island Multi-modal Ferry Terminal Master Plan, Hewitt-Isley
— Courtesy of WSF
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WINSLOW WAY BUSINESS DISTRICT, SR-305 TO
MADISON AVENUE: Winslow Way is the cultural, service
and retail core of Bainbridge Island. Its “Main Street”,
Winslow Way, is close to but cut off from the waterfront.
Tourists come from Seattle to shop and eat and soak up
the small-town atmosphere. It is where people meet, where
friends gather by intent or accident, where political
discussions take place on the benches in front of bakeries.
Winslow Way is the heart of civic life on the Island.
Public right-of-way occupies approximately 50% of the
retail core. Improvements there belong to, and should
reflect and support, the entire Island.
Lowly, unpurposeful and random as they may appear,
sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city’s
wealth of public life may grow. —Jane Jacobs, The Death and
Life of Great American Cities.
Small-scale, inexpensive improvements can be more
effective at drawing people into spaces than major bigbuck projects. —Project for Public Spaces, Inc., How to Turn A
Place Around.
Combination street and pedestrian lighting on Madison Avenue
Existing Winslow Way street art —Mesolini Glass
Street activity at Blackbird Bakery
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5] Temporary Sculptures: Commission artists to create
temporary sculptures to be sited on Winslow Way,
whenever an opportunity presents itself. Examples of such
opportunities might be street construction resulting in a
temporary condition, or building demolition and/or
construction leaving a temporary open space. In
transitional times the street can become a laboratory to try
out and condition both artist and citizen to interesting
possibilities.
Public Art Projects for the Winslow Way business
district:
1] Sidewalks: Continue placement of artist-designed
paving as sidewalks are rebuilt.
Advocate for the inclusion of quality public art in projects
built by...private developers. —COBI Comprehensive Plan,
Cultural Element, CUL 10.2.
2] Private Development: Encourage or require private
developers who build along the street to include an artist
on their design team, or to commission an artist to create
a site-specific work for public spaces associated with the
development. Artists should be selected through, or with
the assistance of, the Public Art Committee, to assure the
continuity of concepts in the adopted Master Plan.
3] Water Projects: Further develop the treatment of
building and street runoff begun as part of the art
integration in the street improvements between Erickson
Avenue and SR-305. For example, hire an artist to design,
in cooperation with COBI engineers, cisterns for existing
buildings, to make rainwater from roofs available for
watering Winslow Way landscaping. One possible location
is within the Winslow Mall, with the participation of the
property owner and the business owners.
Winslow Way / Erickson Ave intersection
4] Streetscape: Work with the Bainbridge Island
Downtown Association to plan artist participation in future
public seating/landscaping projects. The existing projects
done by landscape architect Bart Berg are an excellent
model of places in which people can relax and enjoy the
street, and should be treasured and expanded. The hiring
of artists for small projects such as these can add
unexpected elements to the street.
High school road pavement art —Carolyn Law
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Rainwater cistern
Comprehensive Plan, Cultural Element, CUL 10.3.
locations—should be patterned to signal that it is primarily
a pedestrian domain, and that traffic should slow. A
successful example of street patterning is at Westlake
Mall in Seattle. An artist-designed pattern could add visual
richness to the street environment.
An aesthetic of urban design must be rooted in the normal
processes of nature and living. —Ann Whiston Spirn, The
Public Art Projects (Some of the following projects are
also mentioned elsewhere in this plan):
UNIQUE DESIGN STANDARDS:
Promote quality design in both the natural and the built
environments and use artists on design teams. —COBI
Language of Landscape.
1] Variety: Commission artists to design unique
pedestrian lighting for areas of Winslow Way.
Create a set of unique design standards for Winslow Way.
The design guidelines in the City of Bainbridge Island
Zoning Ordinance serve as a baseline. In addition,
Winslow’s special character should be recognized and
developed. Modest, genuine solutions to design problems
can be observed now and should be continued. Cliches
and generalized solutions should be discouraged.
2] Sidewalks: Continue placement of artist-designed
paving as the sidewalks are rebuilt.
3] Street: Team an artist with COBI engineers to devise
surface patterning treatments for the street, on Winslow
Way between Erickson Avenue and Madison Avenue.
Design Standards for the Winslow Way Commercial
District, Madison Avenue to Erickson Avenue:
1] Variety: Standardization is undesirable. Part of
Winslow’s attraction now is its quirkiness. Allowance
should be made for small, unique features. A variety of
lighting solutions, for example, is desirable.
2] Sidewalks: Wider sidewalks, but not too wide, should
be built. This area’s sidewalks are sometimes too narrow,
and obstructed by utility poles, for easy passage.
However, a small increase in width would be enough to
ease walking. Enough street width should be kept to allow
the informal parking of delivery trucks in the center, with
traffic able to slowly move around them.
3] Street: The surface of the street itself in the business
district—where pedestrians cross regardless of crosswalk
Winslow Way holiday lighting
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4] Significant Trees: Mark and protect all significant trees.
Create ways to mark these trees’ significance in new and
creative ways. Create a marker which tells the story of the
large trees growing on Erickson at the future site of the
Historical Museum.
TREES:
How many know that the three trees located at the
Historical Museum’s new location were taken as saplings
from Kew Gardens, around the Horn? —Bill McKnight
1] Tree types: Work on a unique, not generic, selection of
street trees for Winslow. Consider replanting east Winslow
Way with more interesting and appropriate trees, such as
Madrone or Cedar. The pairing or grouping of two or three
trees together in large planters, where possible, would
provide a refreshing option to the ubiquitous regimentation
of street trees (and is proven to be beneficial to growth).
5] Tree Planting Projects: When possible, create a
community or school planting event similar to arbor day, or
the senior class year tree. This event can enlist an
interdisciplinary team of performance artists, sculptors and
horticulturalists to create awareness and respect for the
global “re-leaf” of street trees.
2] Orchard: Reintroduce the village orchard, possibly at
part of the Winslow Green. Preserve all existing “heritage
apples”; take scions and nurture for future plantings. The
old fruit tree in front of the Virginia Mason Clinic on
Winslow Way is an example of a lovely mature tree to be
preserved, as is the more recently planted Russian Pear
on Winslow Way at the entrance to Town & Country
parking lot.
3] Madrone Witness Tree: Reintroduce the historic
witness tree that gave Winslow its older name “Madrone”,
by replanting a Madrone at the foot of Madison in the
precise location where this historic tree existed and
became a witness tree. Research the old survey field notes
to locate the original site, and include this documentation
as part of a historical illustration adjacent to the tree.
Fruit tree at Virginia Mason Winslow Clinic
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spontaneous expression of sculptures of heroic scale.
These installations were the work of individuals who may
or may not have considered themselves artists. By using
the flotsam and jetsam of the bay to construct their
sculptures they literally created a connection to their
surroundings, of materials driven by the changing tide
and time. To the thousands of daily passing motorists,
the sculptures were a gift.
EPHEMERAL AND INTERVENTIONIST PROJECTS:
By studying the informal community expressions—artistic
and otherwise—which presently occur on the Island, it is
clear that there is a history here of individual and
collective creative gestures. The traditions of high school
class efforts on country roads, community amenities at
road-ends, street chalk art, parade floats and costumes,
construction wall paintings, postings on poles, etc. are
community assets, enriching life here.
Public Art Projects:
Make opportunities on Bainbridge Island for unsolicited
expressions of art. Allow unprogrammed venues where
art activities can happen in a spontaneous way. The
Bainbridge Island Arts & Humanities Council could
encourage the opportunities and venues where these
spontaneous events can happen and have visibility.
In encouraging more of this type of project as art, it is
important first to observe and nurture existing forms of
spontaneous ephemeral expression, rather than invent
venues. Honest ‘home-grown’ expressions take time and
gentle guidance until they acquire the critical momentum
to become self-sustaining.
These works would not be financially supported by the
Public Art Committee, but rather supported and nurtured
in other ways in the hopes that artistic expression in all its
forms has a platform.
A well-known example of an ephemeral project is the art
made in the Emeryville mud-flats, in the area just west of
L-80 and north of the San Francisco Bay Bridge. For
more than twenty years, this site hosted a self-initiated
Sculpture on the Emeryville mud flats
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IMPLEMENTATION:
In order to facilitate the implementation of this Master
Plan, the Public Art Committee and the Bainbridge Island
Arts & Humanities Council will need to communicate the
contents of this document with the public. An alliance of,
and clear communication among, all engaged parties—
the PAC, the BIAHC, the City of Bainbridge Island mayor,
city council and staff, the Washington State Ferries, the
Washington State Department of Transportation, Kitsap
Transit, private property owners who are stakeholders,
and the public—will be crucial to the plan’s
implementation.
Develop a long-range comprehensive plan for the City’s
One Percent for Public Art Program. —City of Bainbridge
Island Comprehensive Plan, Cultural Element, 1998.
For a city this size, I’ve never seen so much paperwork.
I don’t really know why that is so, but we do seem to
have an awful lot of process here without getting a lot
done. —Lee Walton, City Administrator, The Bainbridge Island
Review.
This Master Plan’s focus area is Island gateways, and
Winslow Way and Olympic Drive. Future plans will
address other areas of the Island. We hope that the spirit
of the process of discovery about the Island embodied in
this document will carry through its realization.
Intersection of old and new development on Winslow Way
Dolphins in fog
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is usually defined. Temporary works are often created in
response to an opportunity of limited duration.
GLOSSARY:
Amenity: An element in the streetscape which serves
and enriches the pedestrian experience. Often called
street furniture, these elements include seating, waste
receptacles, tree guards, lighting and drinking fountains.
Threshold: The plank, stone or wooden piece placed at
the bottom of an entrance and beneath the door...hence,
the entrance....Figuratively, an entrance or beginning,
especially, the starting point of any undertaking. —Funk
& Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary of the English
Language, 1945. Any place or point of entering or
beginning. —Webster’s Unabridged Encyclopedic
Dictionary of the English Language, 1989.
Desire Line: A pathway created spontaneously by
pedestrians, usually following a more direct route to a
destination than the available official sidewalks and
streets.
Wayfinding: A popular term referred to graphic signs
used to inform pedestrians where to go to find whatever
the sign directory lists. This “wayfinding” device often
becomes a cliché. We question the quality of experience
of a journey which is directed rather than discovered, and
caution against the overuse of “wayfinding”. Well
designed maps illustrating alternative routes to various
destinations, which leave a good amount of discovery for
the walker, are preferred.
Gateway: That which is regarded as an opening or
means of ingress or egress; avenue; approach....a harbor
entrance. —Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary of
the English Language, 1945. Any passage by or point at
which a region may be entered. —Webster’s Unabridged
Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English Language, 1989.
Public Art: Work by an artist or artists paid for with
public funds, commissioned through a public process and
located on public property, or on publicly accessible
private property.
Sculpture: Three-dimensional work by an artist or artists,
not limited to freestanding pieces but also including
elements such as paving, furniture, lighting, landscaping,
walls and fences, water features and unique
environmental systems incorporated into parks and
streetscapes.
Temporary sculpture or installation: Sculpture which,
though it may be fabricated of durable materials to
withstand the stresses of public spaces, is not maintained
permanently. The length of time it is meant to be in place
Tswassen Ferry cross-boardwalk
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USEFUL CONTACTS:
Kathy Cook
Long Range Planning
City of Bainbridge Island Planning
Department
(206) 842-2552
kcook@ci.bainbridge-isl.wa.us
Randy Witt, Director
City of Bainbridge Island Public Works
Department
(206) 780-3707
Cris Beattie
Bainbridge Island Downtown Association
(206) 842-9869
Bill Isley, Sean Parker
Bainbridge Architects Collaborative
435 Erickson, #250
Bainbridge Island, WA 98110
(206) 842-2011
Larry Nakata, Chair
Winslow Way Property Owners Association
Town & Country Market
(206) 780-0901
The Bainbridge Island Land Trust
Frank Stowell, Board Chair
Karen Molinari
(206) 842-1216
Ken Crawford
Superintendant
Bainbridge Island School District #303
(206) 842-4714
The Suquamish Tribe
P.O. Box 498
Suquamish, WA 98392
(360) 598-3311
President-Elect
The Rotary Club of Bainbridge Island
(206) 842-8075
croghanj@aol.com
Joan Piper, Executive Director
Erica Varga, Curator
Bainbridge Island Historical Museum
(206) 842-2773
Kevin Dwyer
Director
Bainbridge Island Chamber of Commerce
590 Winslow Way East
(206) 842-3700
Libby Hudson
Senior Planner, COBI
Pritchard Park
842-2552
Dwight Sutton
(Assigned the Unocal Property)
Open Space Commission
City of Bainbridge Island
(206) 842-3011
Charles Schmid
Waterfront Trail
(206) 842-5313
Celia Schorr
Public Affairs Coordinator
Washington State Ferries
2911 Second Avenue, Seattle, WA 98121
(206) 515-3918
schorrc@wsdot.wa.gov
Dick Hayes
Executive Director, Kitsap Transit
(360) 478-6230
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Dr. Olaf Ribeiro
Agricultural/Horticultural Consulting
10744 NE Manitou Beach Drive
Bainbridge Island, WA 98110
(206) 842-1157
Terry Lande, Executive Director
Perry Barrett, Senior Planner
Sue Hylen, Cultural Arts Supervisor
Bainbridge Island Park & Recreation District
(206) 842-2306
The Bainbridge Island Graduate Institute
284 Madrona Way
Bainbridge Island, WA 98110
(206) 855-9559
Joanne Croghan
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Tim Westcott, Petty Officer 1 Class
13th Coast Guard District
(206) 220-7283
The United States Coast Guard
916 2nd Ave., Room 3510
Seattle, WA 98174
Beverly Watt
Art in Public Places Program
Washington State Arts Commission
(360) 753-3860
beverlyw@arts.wa.gov
LIST OF THE GATEWAY/PUBLIC ART PROJECTS PROPOSED IN THIS PLAN:
Partnerships with other agencies:
Pritchard Park Partnership pg.13
Suquamish Tribe Partnership pg.26
Rotary Club Sign pg.26
Ferry Yard pg.27
Artist projects:
Acoustical Buoy pg.12
Dolphin Temporary Sculpture pg.13
Ferry Terminal Interior pg.14
Ferry Terminal Ticket Booths pg.14
Sidewalk Art pg.25
Winslow Public Dock pg.27
Public Road Ends Amenities pg.29
Public Road Ends Modest Works pg.29
Sculpture for Development on Winslow Way pg.31
Winslow Way Temporary Sculptures pg.34
Writer and/or artist projects:
Headframe Salutation pg.13
Plank Text pg.13
Artist working with local community projects:
Public Road Ends Amenities pg.29
Public Road Ends Modest Works pg.29
Design team projects, including an artist or artists:
Ferry Terminal Walkway pg.14
Ferry Terminal Interior pg.14
Ferry Terminal Beach Access pg.15
Orientation to Winslow pg.16
Olympic Drive Amenities pg.17
Ravine Trail pg.17
Unocal Property pp.18-20
Winslow Marine Property pp.18-20
Police Station Site pp.18-21
SR-305 Intersection Design pp.18-21
Ravine Threshold pp.22-25
Agate Pass Bridge Treatment pg.26
Winslow Public Dock pg.27
Ferry Yard pg.27
Other Winslow Village Entries pg.28
Landscape on Winslow Way, east of SR-305 pg.31
Streetscape Amenities on Winslow Way pg.31
Private Development on Winslow Way pg.31
Winslow Way Water Projects pg.34
Winslow Way Lighting pg.35
Street Patterning pg.36
COBI action:
Ferry Terminal Beach Access pg.15
Unocal Property pp.18-20
Winslow Marine Property pp.18-20
Police Station Site pp.18-21
Green Corridor pp.18-21
SR-305 Intersection Design pp.18-21
Ferry Yard pg.27
Public Road Ends Amenities pg.29
Public Road Ends Modest Works pg.29
Landscape on Winslow Way, east of SR-305 pg.31
Other projects:
Tree Planting pg.36
Madrone Witness Tree pg.36
Significant Tree Marking pg.36
BIAHC / PAC Action:
Ephemeral Projects pg.37
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