Bainbridge Artisan
Resource Network (BARN) has earned a $500,000 grant from the C.
Keith Birkenfeld Memorial Trust for a new facility.
This grant pushes BARN’s campaign for a 25,000-square-foot artisan center over $5 million, and closer to its $7.5 million goal, said Carolyn Goodwin, BARN spokeswoman.
BARN is currently in a 2,000-square-foot facility, which was meant to be a temporary location for the nonprofit. It is home to metalworking, fiber arts, writing, printmaking and glass work, among others.
BARN is a nonprofit organization, which formed in 2012 to operate a “hands-on center for craft and invention” on the island.
The organization is hoping to break ground this fall on the new center.
