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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 cost-effective aesthetic is a real “feature” rather than an invented one. The process of the evolution of a village is dynamic, ever-changing. 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, self-reliance 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.

For invaluable assistance, thanks to: Nancy Frey, Executive Director Bart Berg, Landscape Architect Bainbridge Island Arts & Humanities Council Tom Cunningham, Bainbridge Island Land Trust Gerald Elfendahl, Historian Members of the Public Art Committee during the Bill Isley, Bainbridge Architects Collaborative Gateway and Master Plan process: Joan Piper, Bainbridge Island Historical Museum Gayle Bard, Co-Chair Charles Schmid, Association of Bainbridge Communities Michelle Burgess Celia Schorr, Washington State Ferries Bob Carlson Dwight Sutton, COBI Open Space Committee Cathie Currie, Public Art Administrator Kathleen Thorne, Bainbridge Island Arts & Humanities Erica Varga, Bainbridge Island Historical Museum

Debbi Lester, Co-Chair Randi Lin Evans

Beverly Watt, Washington State Arts Commission Ann Mendenhall Charles Wenzlau, Wenzlau Architects 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

Public Art Committee Kathy Cook, COBI Long Range Planning Lay Chin Foo, COBI Public Works Randy Witt, COBI Public Works Director

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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................................................................................................................................................ 38Glossary.......................................................................................................................................................................... 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. 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.

Suquamish camp near Ravine mouth —Courtesy of PEMCO Webster & Stevens

Collection, MOHAI

1872 Chart of Eagle Harbor

—Courtesy of Gerry Elfendahl

Shipyard in Eagle Harbor —Courtesy of Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society

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.

Mid-20th 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 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 Winslow ferry landing

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.

Washington State Ferries Repair Yard, Eagle Harbor

Madison Avenue, north of High School Road

Bridge over the Ravine looking west —Courtesy

of the Bainbridge Island Historical Museum

Hidden Cove Road-end beach access

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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. 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.

Entering Eagle Harbor

Bell buoy Dolphin

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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. 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. The planning for art pieces placed on the “dolphins” and other locations of the ferry operation will need to respect

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. 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.

“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). 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.

Two pedestrian choices

The walkway from ferry to terminal

The ferry terminal waiting area

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. 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 City of Bainbridge Island Shoreline Master Program.

Currently blocked beach access at the ferry terminal

Remnants of the shipyard, south of the ferry terminal

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8] Orientation: Enhance navigation into Winslow. 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 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. 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. 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

could research existing “desire lines”, and give design input to assist in the future design of the ferry landing. 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. 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.

Crosswalk lattice striping

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 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 Transportation Plan, NM 5.4.

A stile on a public pathway

World War II military gate, ferry terminal Trail at Alma Place NE and SR-305

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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.

Gateway to the Olympics — the Clearwater Casino

The Winslow ferry landing, c. 2000 —Courtesy of WSF

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.

SR-305 / Winslow Way intersection with Unocal property

Eagle Harbor view from Winslow Marine property

Island artifact in Winslow Marine property

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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”.

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. 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. 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, police station

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. —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.

Winslow Ravine—Courtesy of the Bainbridge Island Historical Museum

Ravine bridge map—Courtesy of the Bainbridge Island Historical Museum

Winslow Wash—Courtesy of Bainbridge Island Historical Museum

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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. 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 low-maintenance and is comparable to concrete in slip-resistance. 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. 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

with the goal of removing invasive plants and propagating and planting natives. 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.

Perch in the forest

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 cost-effective, 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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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

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.

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.

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

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:

View under the Ferry Yard dock

The Public Dock represents the essence of Island gateway. On Bainbridge Island it is a personal embark/disembark amenity. Boats are like islands—self-sustaining 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.

The Washington State Ferry Yard—Gateway/Public Art Projects:

The Waterfront Trail near the foot of Madison Avenue

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. 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 site-specific 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 WINSLOW WAY FROM SR-305 TO FERNCLIFF AVENUE: 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.

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 pedestrian-level 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 10-17).

Ferry terminal kiss-n-ride area

Sidewalk to the ferry Bainbridge Island Multi-modal Ferry Terminal Master Plan, Hewitt-Isley

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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 big-buck 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 Rainwater cistern

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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UNIQUE DESIGN STANDARDS: Promote quality design in both the natural and the built environments and use artists on design teams. —COBI Comprehensive Plan, Cultural Element, CUL 10.3. An aesthetic of urban design must be rooted in the normal processes of nature and living. —Ann Whiston Spirn, The Language of Landscape. 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. 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

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. Public Art Projects (Some of the following projects are also mentioned elsewhere in this plan): 1] Variety: Commission artists to design unique pedestrian lighting for areas of Winslow Way. 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.

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

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.

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).

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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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. 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. 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

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. 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. 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.

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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.

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.

Intersection of old and new development on Winslow Way Dolphins in fog

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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. Desire Line: A pathway created spontaneously by pedestrians, usually following a more direct route to a destination than the available official sidewalks and streets. 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

is usually defined. Temporary works are often created in response to an opportunity of limited duration. 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. 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.

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USEFUL CONTACTS: Kathy Cook Long Range Planning City of Bainbridge Island Planning Department (206) 842-2552 [email protected] 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 Joan Piper, Executive Director Erica Varga, Curator Bainbridge Island Historical Museum (206) 842-2773 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 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

President-Elect The Rotary Club of Bainbridge Island (206) 842-8075 [email protected] Kevin Dwyer Director Bainbridge Island Chamber of Commerce 590 Winslow Way East (206) 842-3700

Celia Schorr Public Affairs Coordinator Washington State Ferries 2911 Second Avenue, Seattle, WA 98121 (206) 515-3918 [email protected] Dick Hayes Executive Director, Kitsap Transit (360) 478-6230 Tim Westcott, Petty Officer 1st 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 [email protected]

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LIST OF THE GATEWAY/PUBLIC ART PROJECTS PROPOSED IN THIS PLAN: 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 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

Partnerships with other agencies: Pritchard Park Partnership pg.13 Suquamish Tribe Partnership pg.26 Rotary Club Sign pg.26 Ferry Yard pg.27 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 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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