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50 years ago, in 1962, 
we celebrated the Seattle World's Fair.  
50 years ago, the King of Rock and Roll
visited Seattle and made the film
"It Happened at the World's Fair".

In honor of these two momentous occasions,
Bumbershoot 2012 - Seattle's Music & Arts Festival
is proud to announce the Return of The King to the Seattle World's Fair
and the Seattle Center in an ELVISTRAVAGANZA of art, music and performance.

Saturday through Monday, Sept 1st, 2nd and 3rd see The King in all his many personas at ELVISTRAVAGANZA!  See them all, the handsome young singer, the King of Rock and Roll,
the Army private, the Hollywood Movie Star, the Hawaiian E.P., and the later Las Vegas King. 

The story of Mr. Presley is a heroic tale of lost innocence, of success, excess, and the chronicle of
the rise and fall of an American icon, and his final redemption. Celebrate legendary royalty with us!

Join us Labor Day weekend Sept 1-3, 2012 at Seattle Center Pavilion for ELVISTRAVAGANZA!

The special Mayor's Arts Awards Day and free public preview
and artist reception party for ELVISTRAVAGANZA! is on
Friday August 31st, 2012 - noon until 9pm.

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ELVISTRAVAGANZA! is curated by:
Marlow Harris and Jo David
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and Featuring an Elvis Inspired
Pop Up Gallery curated by:
Annie Adjchavanich
www.anniea.com
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illustration by
Rod Filbrandt

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High Resolution PRESS PHOTOS
can be found HERE in our Flickr Set Artists of Elvistravaganza!
Go to the "Original size", found in "View all sizes"

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Elvistravaganza at Bumbershoot 2012

Here's a delightful video recap mash-up of Elvistravaganza at Bumbershoot 2012

shot and edited by Marlow Harris

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• ELVISTRAVAGANZA ARTISTS •

Here's a quick link to the full list of
ELVISTRAVAGANZA ARTISTS
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King5 Evening Magazine coverage of Elvistravaganza!

•  ELVISTRAVAGANZA ARTISTS  •

Scott Aho

David Amoroso

Bruce Andersen

Shannon Andersen
Arqo

Crystal Barbre

Barry

Joey Bates
Susanne Melanie Berry

Bill Blair

Jim Blanchard
Chris Bradley
Kevin Bradley
Laura Brodax

Laurie Lee Brom

Michael Brown

Tubby Brown
Christopher Bruns
Lisa Buchanan
David Burbu

Charles Burns
Liz Carroll
Matthew Causey

Diem Chau
D. Ciesielski
Collide-O-Scope
David Cowles

James Crespinel

Charles Cross

Chris Crites

Jo David

Jim Dever
Jim Demetre
Ron English

Dorothy Feeney

Scott Fife

Rod Filbrandt

Howard Finster

Roy Finster
Ellen Forney

Alan Fulle
Paul Gallagher

Janet Galore

Art Garcia
Gillian Gaar

Kurt Geissel
Marty Gordon

Troy Gua
Nancy & Joe Guppy

Laura Jane Hamilton

Robert Hardgrave

Marlow Harris
John Hawkley
Hubba

Sean Hurley

Mary Iverson

Elizabeth Jameson

David Kane
Billy King

Markku Laakso
John Larson

Grace Kelly Laster
Deborah Faye Lawrence

Rich Lehl
Denise Loder-DeLuca

Kelly Lyles
Joni Mabe

Jeff McMillan

Ryan Molenkamp

Pat Moriarity

Theresa Neinas

Krysztof Nemeth
John Ohannesian

Craig Orback

Joe Park

Tatjana Pavicevic
Jim E. Peschel
Rhonda Porter
Dave Price
Kathryn Rathke
Bonni Reid

Larry Reid

Roderigo
Rudy

Venus Sadler

Isabel Samaras

Cathy Sarkowsky

David Schmader
Chris Sheridan
Sholt
Alan Simensky

Dale Sizer

Deborah Scott
Tim Silbaugh

CR Stecyk
D. Sturtevant
Shaun Swick
Ken Tanaka
Siolo Thompson
Torronio

Kendal Tull-Esterbrook
Larry Vanover

Joey VeltKamp
Andy Warhol

Alfred Wertheimer
Lance Whitney

William Wikstrom

Willard J

Jennifer Zwick

... and more artists will be announced soon ...

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Scott Aho

Scott Aho

Polaroid portrait of Elvistravaganza curators,

Marlow Harris and Jo David, taken years ago...

Years ago at the Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival, there was an art installation photo opportunity setting by Scott Aho in the courtyard of the Northwest Rooms. Scott was taking Polaroids of festival attendees in front of his installation, where he had set up a 2D cardboard Elvis cutout, with a real guitar, mannequin arm and necklace. He also had a cutout replica of the Science Center arches behind Elvis. In the background, looking south is the real Space Needle over the roof of the Colosseum, now called the Key Arena. 

Marlow & Jo decided they had to bring Elvis back to Bumbershoot this year

for the biggest dang ELVISTRAVAGANZA celebration ever!

  •  Marlow and Jo David actually met at Bumbershoot

on Labor Day many years ago...

Markku Laakso

Markku Laakso

Markku Laakso & Annika Dahlsten

Temptation of the North_10_2009

7.8"w x 5.8"h

$200

Finnish artist Markku Laakso is from the village of Koppelo in the Lapland town of Inari. Laakso’s paintings depict both clothed and nude characters and images of Elvis. The figures in traditional Lappish dress, both boys and girls, are a reference to the artist’s northern heritage, while the ambiguous Elvis appears as the subject of adoration and critical examination at the same time.

Markku Laakso 

Guitar by the Fire

2009

oil on canvas

24x32.5cm  -  12.8"w x 9.5"h

$500.

Markku has sent us a suite of his work for this exhibit, six paintings - oil on canvas, twelve photographs, and this gigantic 110"w x 117"h photographic reproduction of his painting below, "Sammon puolustus", or in English, "The Defense of the Sampo". It was printed for an exhibition at Helsinki Art Museum, and it travelled together with the exhibition to Japan. It has also been on display at the Finnish Cultural Center in Washington DC. The painting refers to the Finnish Golden Age masterpiece by Akseli Gallen-Kallela, and the theme is from the national epic Kalevala. Here is information about the original 1896 Finnish masterpiece, "Sammon puolustus" which Markku's painting references.

Markku Laakso

Reproduction of "Defense of the Sampo" (1999)

photographic print on canvas

110"w x 117"h

Not for sale

Markku Laakso 

Elvis Rows

2012

oil on canvas

24x32.5cm  -  12.8"w x 9.5"h

$500.

Markku Laakso & Annika Dahlsten

Temptation of the North_3_2009

7.8"w x 5.8"h

$200

We're so pleased to have this artist from Finland in our exhibition. It's interesting how we first learned of Markku Laakso's artwork. I had made an online friend on the Flickr photo posting site. He's a German artist, Heiko Müller.  When he had an art show of his work in San Francisco, and was then going to pass through Seattle to see some friends, he contacted me to ask if I could join them for dinner. It turns out that I also knew these same artists also, so I invited everyone over to our home. Here we are on 09/29/09 in our Dead Elvis Lounge with (left to right) Jacob McMurray, Jacob Covey, Jo David, Grady West, Heiko Müller, Marlow Harris, Robert Hardgrave, and Chris Crites.

Grady is holding up one of Heiko's new books, and Heiko is holding a jug of sake that artist Mark Ryden left in my fridge on a visit just previous to this.

When Heiko and Markku had a show together in Germany, Heiko told Markku about our Dead Elvis Lounge and Elvis collections. Markku then kinkdy sent us a book of his artwork which prominently features Elvis as a main character.  We thought it was a longshot, but went ahead and contacted Markku to see if he might be interested in sending us something for the show.  He and Annika are very excited to be a part of Elvistravaganza!

Markku surprised us by gifting us with a wonderful book of his art, sent to us in 2009.

•  Website for artist Markku Laakso  •