Adventures of a Discoverer

This Friday I went to a really cool new art space in Seattle: Cannonball Arts. One of the reasons why it's cool is because how a number of artistic entities in Seattle came together to make good use of a previously abandoned space. In the middle of downtown there used to be a large Bath, Bed and Beyond store which stayed abandoned after the chain went bankrupt. Then, Bumbershoot, the Muckleshoot Tribe, the Seattle Center and other artistic entities pooled together and acquired the building, which was fully remodeled and opened on August of 2025 as a brand new art space for the city. It is a really nice space because it is quite large, bigger than some of the more established art museums in town: it felt bigger than the Frye Art Museum and the Henry Art Gallery. Furthermore, it also has a space for live concerts, which I'm eager to check out. In fact, the team at the center had made an excellent use of the available space, making it feel very airy and roomy, which created a very...