The Seattle-Havana Poster Show — featuring works from Cuban and Seattle artists — opens Thursday at el Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, a prominent, state-funded visual arts center dedicated to contemporary art and design in Havana, Cuba. El Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales is located in the Plaza Vieja, the center of old Havana, which UNESCO named a World Heritage site in 1982. The exhibit runs through May 17.
The Seattle curators and many of the local artists in the show will travel to Cuba for the opening in Havana. The Seattle-Havana poster show premiered to an audience of approximately 9,000 people last August at Bumbershoot in Seattle.
Until last summer, most of the Cuban artists featured in the show had never exhibited their works in the United States due to the U.S.-imposed embargo on Cuba which began in 1962. The Cuban government gave permission to the curators to bring the show to Havana, where it will permanently reside as a gift to the city’s el Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales.
The collaborative art exhibit between Seattle and Havana is the first known between any city in the United States and Cuba since the revolution in 1959.
“Not only will we provide an isolated Cuban design community with much desired outside contact and study material, but we will introduce Seattle as the intelligent, arts-focused city it is to the general populace of Havana,” Seattle curator Daniel R. Smith said.
Full show details can be found at www.seattlehavana.com/.
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