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How Time Flies

How Time Flies

Not Your Grandfather’s Grandfather Clock Designed and built at the BARN (Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network) by Walt Sutton and Warren Pollock between October 2021 and September 2022. Notes by Walt Sutton I am fascinated by time and art, the intersection…

Member Highlight: Linda Sohlberg

Member Highlight: Linda Sohlberg

On any given day, you’ll find Linda Sohlberg in Metal Fabrication bending sheet metal into sculptural or practical shapes, or down in the Woodshop turning a block of spalted birch into a live-edge bowl. An architect by trade, Linda is…

Low Income Housing Institute – BARN Builds a Tiny Home

Low Income Housing Institute – BARN Builds a Tiny Home

Good news! The BARN-built Tiny House has been placed at LIHI’s brand new Friendship Heights Village located at 12245 Aurora Ave N in north Seattle! This village has 40 tiny houses total that will serve an estimated 55 homeless people….

Bainbridge Island Chamber of Commerce – Conference Table

Bainbridge Island Chamber of Commerce – Conference Table

The Chamber of Commerce is working on a remodel of the Chamber office on Winslow Way. The project has wide-ranging community partnerships in order to create a new resource for the island. In support of the project, a team of ten talented…

Supporting ShareNet’s Thrift Store 

Supporting ShareNet’s Thrift Store 

ShareNet’s mission is to fight hunger in North Kitsap with meaningful programs in a nourishing environment. Their Thrift Store provides funding for the food bank program and is a resource for those who need clothing and household goods at low…

One Thousand Cranes for Hope

One Thousand Cranes for Hope

Eagle Scout Project by Rydley Strong  What do you get when a team of Scouts, local youth groups, and Rydley Strong’s friends and family come together? A beautiful 千羽鶴, senbazuru titled One Thousand Cranes for Hope. Rydley’s community-wide Eagle Scout project found…

Restoring the Quinault

Restoring the Quinault

The Quinault is a boat with many stories to tell, and all 61 feet of her is now suspended inside the BARN woodshop. When the Bainbridge Island Rowing Club needed help and space to restore this historic rowing shell, they…

Back to School with BARN in the Classroom

Back to School with BARN in the Classroom

Hundreds of high school students returned to classrooms this fall to find cell phone caddies built by the BARN Woodworking Studio. Volunteers at BARN built the custom caddies over the summer to help Bainbridge High School (BHS) teachers implement a…

BARN Woodworker Launches Canoe Project in Nicaragua

BARN Woodworker Launches Canoe Project in Nicaragua

How can one class at BARN bring changes to people living on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua? Step into the Woodworking and Boatbuilding Studio this summer and you will see a beautiful canoe. In June of 2017, Jim Gordon became…