DogEar Festival 2025

DogEar is BIMA’s festival of all things related to artists’ books and printmaking, and a joyous celebration of our major artist’s books exhibition, Power of the Presses.

This Triennial three-day festival will feature:
Presentations by Elizabeth Ajunwa, Mare Blocker, Jenie Gao, and more!
Bushwick Book Club Concert
BIMA's 2nd Edible Book Competition
Letterpress Printing with Amos Kennedy Jr.
[BIMA STORE SALE]
Storytime with Mare
Drop-in Art Projects
St. Rita’s Traveling Bookmobile
Self-serve Typewriter Poetry
Film
Music
AND MORE!
Visit our website for more detailed information on each event for specific dates & times!

Accompanying Exhibition:

The power of the press is a power considered sacred by many. The printing press is a tool of revolution, long associated with democracy, freedom of speech, and the ability to reach the masses to exchange ideas and ideals. The printed word or image can unite or divide, heal or hurt, educate or misinform. Artists, as adaptive creative agents, have long embraced the printing press. Power of the Presses, the large-scale artists’ books, broadsides, and print exhibition at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (BIMA) displays the full creative potency of this hallowed art form. For the duration of the exhibit, a printing press will take center stage and be put to work on-site by visitors and special guests.

The artists in this exhibit speak to us through beautiful imagery, elegant design, and messages that go straight to our hearts. The works in this exhibit speak to concern and care for self and community, teach us about our past, and print a path toward a better future. The strength of these works speaks to our ability to bring people together, and to heal, learn, and grow through art. Highlighted in the Feferman Gallery are Mare Blocker, Eileen Jimenez, Kitty Koppelman, Paige Pettibon, and Seattle non-profit Partners in Print (PiP).

Power of the Presses extends across the entire second floor of BIMA, from the Beacon Gallery at the top of the stairs, across the Feferman Gallery, and into the warm intimacy of the Sherry Grover Gallery. Crossing this vast space with printwork allows for a broad demonstration of how printing — through broadsides, prints, and artists’ books — is changing us and changing the world. Each artist’s work offers us an invitation to community, a choice to engage, a chance to wonder, and to feel uplifted.

SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Partners in Print
Suquamish Language Program
Bainbridge History Museum
The Bushwick Book Club Seattle
Vera Project

WITH SUPPORT FROM:
BIMA PRISM
COBI (City of Bainbridge Island)
Kitsap County Washington