(Eduardo Munoz Baches)
Every Labor Day, tens of thousands of people pay $35 a day to get together at the Seattle Center to hang out and listen to music. Bumbershoot has something for everyone; Music (the main focus), comedy, film, and visual arts. There has been lots of critisism over the past few years that the event is getting more and more 'corporate'. I agree the acts seem to be gradually more and more mainstream, (I watched Panic! at the Disco with my little brother). The fact still remains that it is a kickass way to spend the weekend, with hundreds of acts, boths, and exhibits, you can't really go wrong.
But I digress..
I want to talk about the visual arts aspect of the events. It seems that the visual shows get pushed more and more to the wayside, this year ending up in the far off Northwest Rooms of the Seattle Center. The visual events were a bit harder to look up then finding out when John Legend was playing, but they were definately worth it.
I spent a few hours volunteering at one of the exhibits, the Seattle-Havana Poster Show. The show was curated by Daniel Smith, a semi-recent graduate of the Division of Design (Visual Communication Design) at the University of Washington, same program I am currently in.
The content of the show was off the hook. A collection of juxtaposing silkscreened poster sets from Seattle and Havana. The quality of the posters selected was superb and the theme of unity definately made it a worthwhile event. Check out their website for more info, they have all the posters online aqui. The posters are currently showing at Verite Coffee houses around Seattle, and hopes are that it will move onto Havana in the near future.
Some photos from the actual exhibit here.
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