Third Stone is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit arts and education organization founded in Seattle in 2022. We are the heart of Bumbershoot, housing the education program and the main festival event.
We seek to restore trust and faith in the Bumbershoot brand by re-launching Bumbershoot as an opportunity to re-engage and highlight our regional arts and culture community with the core festival event on Labor Day weekend. Third Stone will elevate and transform Bumbershoot via our Four Pillars: Education, Community, Art, and Access, while continuing to honor the essential characteristics of the Bumbershoot legacy.
Bumbershoot is a celebration of the Pacific Northwest’s unique culture
Bumbershoot is a full-spectrum arts and music experience—from punk to performance art, ballet to wrestling, pole dancing to roller skating, food to fashion, and all manner of ingenuity in between. Celebrating creators and innovators of all kinds, Bumbershoot breaks stereotypes, champions a more inclusive art community and bets on the dreamers, makers and performers who call the Pacific Northwest home. It is Seattle’s moss-covered Mardi Gras, daring everyone to join in the spectacle.
First produced at Seattle Center in 1971, Bumbershoot is Washington’s legacy arts and music festival, made for community by community. Today Bumbershoot is produced by New Rising Sun, a seasoned team of concert promoters and visual arts producers dedicated to supercharging the iconic Bumbershoot brand.
Cannonball Arts exists to elevate, fortify, exhibit and celebrate the artists that call the Pacific Northwest home. It stands as a testament to the vitality of our creative community and a call to action to support our regional artists through participation, patronage, philanthropy and mentorship.
Integral to the mission and operations of Cannonball Arts is our Workforce Development Program, training and mentoring the next generation of arts and music producers, curators and entrepreneurs. Third Stone, our non-profit partner, will use the art center as classroom, with paid internships to train, mentor and employ the next generation of arts producers in the region’s creative economy.
