The Bainbridge community is invited to a public art workshop next week to shape the vision for art at the city’s gateway park on Winslow Way, the Waypoint.

The city council OK’d funding for new public art at the Waypoint earlier this year. At the public art workshop, scheduled for 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, April 23 in the second-floor classroom of the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, islanders will be able to give input to help set the direction for the art project.

Comments from the idea session will help the Bainbridge Public Art Committee form a “request for proposals,” or RFP, for art at the Waypoint.

The Waypoint project is part of the public art program, which is a collaboration between the city of Bainbridge Island and the Arts & Humanities Council.

“The community’s input is a key element in this process,” said Barbara Sacerdote, executive director of the Arts & Humanities Council. “This is the step that brings the public into public art.”

The Public Art Committee is asking people who plan to participate in the visioning process to visit the Waypoint first and familiarize themselves with the site and the opportunities the site presents.

After the community has provided its input, the committee will finalize the RFP and send a “call to artists” in the Pacific Northwest for proposals.

Officials said a jury is also being assembled to act as peer evaluators for project submissions.

The jury will provide a final recommendation for the artwork to be placed in the Waypoint. Jurists must fit one of the following categories: working visual artist, curator, architect, landscape designer, educator or administrator in the arts field, or representative of the neighborhood where the project is located.

The committee is currently seeking two or three professional artists for the jury.

Those interested in serving can send a curriculum vitae to the attention of Sacerdote at admin@bainbridgeartshumanities.org.