The Jack Straw Artist of the Week Podcast highlights work created through the Artist Residency Programs at Jack Straw Cultural Center.
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Opening Doors is a podcast about accessibility in arts and civic life, brought to you by the Seattle Cultural Accessibility Consortium and Jack Straw Cultural Center. Now in our second season, we seek to amplify the voices of outstanding individuals with disabilities of all kinds.
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Tokio Florist Project New Media Gallery Podcast
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Jack Straw artists Susie Kozawa and Brigid Kelly talk with Shin Yu Pai, Seattle’s Civic Poet and host of the podcast Ten Thousand Things, about their Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation Tokio Florist Project. Applications are open now for Jack Straw’s 2025 artist residency programs. Visit us on Submittable for more information: https://jackst…
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Gregg Dietzman‘s 2023 Jack Straw Artist Support Program project resulted in the soundscape album Sound and Light Signals. The sounds here were recorded at various locations along the Inside Passage of the Pacific Northwest, including “the Haida Náay I´waans (Whale House) in Kasaan, the cupola of Five Finger Lighthouse in Frederick Strait, a boathou…
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Jack Straw resident artists Foleada released their new album of Brazilian Forró music, Eu Vou Pra Lua, this summer. Forró, a cultural mainstay of Northeast Brazil, describes not just a musical genre but a way of life, a celebration of dance, love, and community. On Eu Vou Pra Lua – Portuguese for “I’m Going to the Moon” – Foleada gives Forró a cont…
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Vibhuti Kavishwar – Prabhu More Avagun Chit Na Dharo
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Jack Straw resident artist Vibhuti Kavishwar‘s album Shraddhanjali is now available to listen to on YouTube. The album is a tribute to the compositions of Vibhuti’s father, Pandit Lakshman Chausalkar. The post Vibhuti Kavishwar – Prabhu More Avagun Chit Na Dharo appeared first on Jack Straw Cultural Center.…
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Jack Straw artist Jeff Rice talks with Carlos Nieto about his Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation Pando Suite. The post Jeff Rice New Media Gallery Podcast appeared first on Jack Straw Cultural Center.By Jack Straw Cultural Center
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“Juanita” is a new song from Jack Straw resident artist Nacha Mendez‘s forthcoming full-length album, produced with support from the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. Nacha writes, “This is my Pride month offering, the breakup song Juanita. . . . I recorded this in Nov. 2023 at Jack Straw . . . I sat with it for 2 1/2 years. I wrote it when I star…
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The Skid Road podcast, produced by Josephine Ensign through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, amplifies a diversity of voices about homelessness in the Seattle area. This is the latest episode, featuring a conversation with Sparrow Etter Carlson, who works for the King County Regional Homelessness Authority in sub-regional planning for Seattle…
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Wei Yang and Murphy Janssen New Media Gallery Podcast
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Jack Straw artists Wei Yang and Murphy Janssen talk with Carlos Nieto about their Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation now you are there when this happened. The post Wei Yang and Murphy Janssen New Media Gallery Podcast appeared first on Jack Straw Cultural Center.By Jack Straw Cultural Center
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Jack Straw Resident Artists Sheila Fox and The Kosher Red Hots produced their album Our Songs in 2006 as part of their Artist Support Program residency. The album is a compilation of Yiddish and Ladino favorite songs from Seattle’s Jewish community, including live recordings with residents at The Kline Galland Home, Seattle’s Jewish nursing care fa…
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Maureen Whiting – and there was concrete skin for your face
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Choreographer/dancer Maureen Whiting created this soundscape at Jack Straw as part of her 2001 Artist Support Program project, a collaborative installation with video artist Robert Campbell, which appeared in the Jack Straw New Media Gallery in 2002. Other collaborators for the installation included costume designers KD Schill and Sarah Harlett, li…
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Stacey Levine and Lori Goldston – The Post Office
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The Post Office is a comic, surreal play, produced in 1995 through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, about a wildly narcissistic postal clerk, a weak, sniveling customer, and matters of the human heart. Stylistically, it pays homage to playwrights such as Ionesco and Beckett. Stacey Levine will read from her new book Mice 1961 with live accomp…
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Katharine Threat – anatomy of my mixed body pt. 3
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Katharine Threat produced the audio version of her book anatomy of my mixed body through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. The full book will be available for listening soon. Visit Blue Cactus Press for updates: https://bluecactuspress.com/ The post Katharine Threat – anatomy of my mixed body pt. 3 appeared first on Jack Straw Cultural Center.…
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Singer-songwriter, composer, and performer Kaley Lane Eaton releases her new album Lookout, produced in part through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, this Friday, March 15th. She celebrates the release that evening with a concert at the Chapel Performance Space: https://www.waywardmusic.org/?p=8047 Album photo by Michelle Smith-Lewis; styling…
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This Artscapes radio piece was produced at Jack Straw in 2000 as part of a series highlighting the work of Jack Straw’s resident artists. The project Safarini: In Transit featured African immigrant artists living in Seattle. In addition to Obo Addy, a drummer, dancer, and composer from Ghana, Safarini included Wawali Bonane, Kofi Anang, Lora Chiora…
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Benjamin Hunter – Hold On, Live at Jack Straw
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Benjamin Hunter performed “Hold On” as part of his solo set the Jack Straw artist showcase in October 2021. You can find the archived video of Ben’s whole set on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrv9IWYn6HM The post Benjamin Hunter – Hold On, Live at Jack Straw appeared first on Jack Straw Cultural Center.…
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Dave Hollinden and Andrew Spencer – Of Wind and Water
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Slender Beams is a collection of recordings of Dave Hollinden‘s compositions by percussionist Andrew Spencer, representing eight years of collaboration between the two. The album was produced through the 1998 Jack Straw Artist Support Program. Read more about it on Hollinden’s website. The post Dave Hollinden and Andrew Spencer – Of Wind and Water …
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Reggie Garrett – So Far Away, Live at Jack Straw
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Reggie Garrett performed this version of “So Far Away” with guitarist Paul Benoit at Jack Straw’s fall 2022 artist showcase. The song is included on Reggie’s album York’s Lament & Other Stories, produced in part through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. You can find the archived video of Reggie and Paul’s full set on YouTube: https://www.youtu…
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Helen Lessick – Dreams, Deception and Skepticism
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Helen Lessick’s 1994 Jack Straw Artist Support Program project, Dreams, Deception and Skepticism, was a 2-channel audio sculpture comprised of a side table with a fish bowl holding live sea monkeys (daphnia), covered with translucent black and white scrims. A wall-mounted headphone set at the end of the table connected to an audio recorder. Visitor…
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Robert Francis Flor – A Christmas in the Cordilleras
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Robert Flor produced the radio adaptation of his play A Christmas in the Cordilleras, among other works, through the Artist Support Program at Jack Straw. KVRU 105.7FM will broadcast and stream two Christmas plays by Bob, A Christmas in the Cordilleras and The Christmas Snow Globe, on December 21st at 2pm PST, December 24th at 10am, December 25th a…
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Erin Slomski-Pritz and Jenny Lesser Holman New Media Gallery Podcast
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Jack Straw artists Erin Slomski-Pritz and Jenny Lesser Holman talk with Carlos Nieto about their Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation Dream Motif. Music in this episode by Afterlife Giftshop, from the Dream Motif installation audio. The post Erin Slomski-Pritz and Jenny Lesser Holman New Media Gallery Podcast appeared first on Jack Straw Cultu…
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Circus Contraption, a one ring circus with a versatile band led by music director/ringmaster Armitage Shanks, recorded their CD Gallimaufry through the 2001 Jack Straw Artist Support Program. Applications for the 2024 program are available now! The post Circus Contraption – Wooly Hat appeared first on Jack Straw Cultural Center.…
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Gabriela Denise Frank‘s “( yubəč / chinook )” are paired concrete poems in the shape of salmon, one heading downstream to the ocean, the other heading upstream to spawn. They were published in the I Sing the Salmon Home anthology (Empty Bowl Press) edited by former Washington state poet laureate Rena Priest. They were written to honor the cultural …
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“Sea Stacking” is the newest single from Medejin‘s album The Garden, produced in part through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. The Garden will be released October 20th, and is available for pre-order now on Bandcamp: https://medejin-music.bandcamp.com/album/the-garden The post Medejin – Sea Stacking appeared first on Jack Straw Cultural Cente…
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This Artscapes radio piece was produced at Jack Straw in 1996 as part of a series highlighting the work of resident artists in Jack Straw’s Traditional Artist Support Program. Singer and songwriter Juan Barco talks about the stories behind his songs and his deep love for his home state of Texas. The post Artscape: Juan Barco appeared first on Jack …
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Peter Colclasure: My Lai II. Hugh Thompson, Jr.
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Peter Colclasure‘s My Lai, a new work for piano and string quartet based on the My Lai Massacre, was produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, and performed by Peter and Skyros Quartet. “Hugh Thompson, Jr.” is the piece’s second movement. The recording is available for purchase at https://petercolclasure.bandcamp.com/album/my-lai The …
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In May of 2010, Jack Straw presented a performance by a rotating cast of 30 pianists, playing through Erik Satie’s infamous “Vexations” theme 840 times, as suggested by the composer’s vexatiously enigmatic note on the original manuscript. The performance started at 4:00pm on Saturday, May 15th, and ended the following day at 11:20am, after the piec…
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Whitney Lynn and Till the Teeth New Media Gallery Podcast
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Jack Straw artists Whitney Lynn and Jonathan Rodriguez of Till the Teeth talk with Carlos Nieto about their Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation TIME KILLS. The post Whitney Lynn and Till the Teeth New Media Gallery Podcast appeared first on Jack Straw Cultural Center.By Jack Straw Cultural Center
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“P-Pop Blues” is the first single from Last of the RedHot Mamas’ forthcoming album Magick Black Woman, produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. Last of the RedHot Mamas is a blues band built around the jazz-inspired, country-sauced songs of Amber Flame. Singing about queer Black life, Flame brings raunchy wordplay, constant hustle, a…
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Leanna Keith performed this piece at Jack Straw’s 2022 Fall Artist Showcase as part of a freely improvised set featuring the flute family and a looper pedal. The post Leanna Keith Live at Jack Straw appeared first on Jack Straw Cultural Center.By Jack Straw Cultural Center
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Sasha Petrenko New Media Gallery Interview
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Jack Straw artist Sasha Petrenko talks with Carlos Nieto about her Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation FOREST TIME WATER. The post Sasha Petrenko New Media Gallery Interview appeared first on Jack Straw Cultural Center.By Jack Straw Cultural Center
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Ching-In Chen and Cassie Mira New Media Gallery Interview
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Jack Straw artists Ching-In Chen and Cassie Mira talk with Carlos Nieto about their Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation Breathing in a Time of Disaster. The post Ching-In Chen and Cassie Mira New Media Gallery Interview appeared first on Jack Straw Cultural Center.By Jack Straw Cultural Center
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“Residential School Requiem” is an audio excerpt from Jack Straw resident artist D.A. Navoti‘s multimedia work O’otham Rhapsode. The work will premiere on June 16th at Jack Straw as part of the event Indigenous Americana: In Words, Song, and Multimedia, and will be exhibited at Jack Straw from June 16 to July 14, 2023. The post D.A. Navoti – Reside…
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This recording of an early version of Ran Park‘s “A Silkworm’s Thread” is from her December 2019 Artist Showcase performance at Jack Straw. You can hear the final version of the piece on her new EP, Primer, available on Bandcamp. The post Ran Park – A Silkworm’s Thread appeared first on Jack Straw Cultural Center.…
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I Wayan Sinti produced several recordings at Jack Straw as part of a 2004 residency in the Artist Support Program. At the same time, he was in residency as a visiting artist at the University of Washington School of Music, where he taught Balinese vocal and gamelan music. During his time at the University of Washington he also created a new form of…
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This story is excerpted from Grey Eagle’s audio collection Hear the Wolf: Native American & Sami Stories, produced in 1994, the first year of the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. Ken Jackson, aka Grey Eagle, was born April 27, 1923 and died in 2008. You can read more about him and his legacy at the website of his sons’ family business. From the l…
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Story-keeping—the UN-[TITLED] Oral History series
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“Story-keeping—the UN-[TITLED] Oral History series” is a soundscape of music and oral histories heard during performances of the UN-[TITLED] Project. As a series of offerings and invitations created in collaboration with theater and community artists and architects, UN-[TITLED] is an immersive, multisite-specific project that centers on the ways in…
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“Reversal of Fortune” is the first single from Nada Rosa’s upcoming album, Nunca Te Olvido, produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. The song speaks to the natural ebb and flow of life, and the inherent cycle of evolution and destruction that we all experience. “Reversal of Fortune” is available now on all platforms. Nunca Te Olvido …
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“It’s Simply a Matter of Work” will be included on MANtrio‘s forthcoming album, produced through the Artist Support Program. About it, drummer Melanie Sehman writes, “‘It’s Simply a Matter of Work’ was not something we had planned on recording when we came to record at Jack Straw. While in the studio, we needed a quick break from recording our comp…
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“Walks with Robert” is a selection from LaVon Hardison‘s new album Brown Girls Dream, produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. Catch LaVon live, and pick up a copy of the CD, at our spring artist showcase on April 1st at Jack Straw. About this song, LaVon writes, “I wrote ‘Walks with Robert’ in the winter of 2020 and everyone was hud…
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This Artscapes radio piece was produced by Jack Straw in 1995 as part of a series highlighting the work of Jack Straw’s resident artists. Jack Straw artist Kofi Anang talks about growing up in Ghana and the inspiration behind his music and performance. The post Artscape – Kofi Anang appeared first on Jack Straw Cultural Center.…
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Tiffany Danielle Elliott New Media Gallery Interview
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Jack Straw artist Tiffany Danielle Elliott talks with Carlos Nieto about her Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation I promise I won’t scream. The post Tiffany Danielle Elliott New Media Gallery Interview appeared first on Jack Straw Cultural Center.By Jack Straw Cultural Center
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Jose Bold (aka John Osebold) performed this version of “Get Better Nova” at Jack Straw’s October 2022 artist showcase. The original appears on his 2012 album Amp Year. Find more music and other projects from John at josebold.com. The post Jose Bold – Get Better Nova appeared first on Jack Straw Cultural Center.…
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“Fading Light” is the first movement of Robert Honstein’s Evergreen, included on arx duo‘s album Ambient Resonances, which was produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program and is available now from Origin Classical. Watch: arx duo live at Jack Straw in October 2021 The post arx duo – Evergreen (I. Fading Light) appeared first on Jack Stra…
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James Falzone – The Already and the Not Yet
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This improvisation by James Falzone revolving around a medieval advent carol was recorded live in the Jack Straw New Media Gallery on December 21, 2019 at the Jack Straw Winter 2019 Artist Showcase. The post James Falzone – The Already and the Not Yet appeared first on Jack Straw Cultural Center.By Jack Straw Cultural Center
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This performance was recorded live at Jack Straw’s 2021 Fall Artist Showcase. You can catch the band’s full set from the showcase on YouTube. EarthtoneSkytone is currently finishing up their new album, produced with help from the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. The post EarthtoneSkytone – Tend Towards Whispers appeared first on Jack Straw Cultur…
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This Artscapes radio piece was produced by Jack Straw in 2005 as part of a series highlighting the work of Jack Straw’s resident artists. Jack Straw artist Nancy Rawles talks about her audio project, an audio companion to her book My Jim that incorporates music with spoken/sung arrangements of the text. The post Artscape – Nancy Rawles appeared fir…
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Reggie Garrett – A Woman’s Work (Is Never Done)
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“A Woman’s Work (Is Never Done),” featuring Wayne Horvitz on piano, is included on Reggie Garrett‘s new album York’s Lament & Other Stories, which was produced with assistance from the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. The album CD and download will be available for purchase from Drums and Wires Recordings. The post Reggie Garrett – A Woman’s Work…
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Agermos Chamber Music Project – The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
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Agermos Chamber Music Project performed their version of “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” at our Fall 2018 Jack Straw Artist Showcase. They’ll play this and more seasonal favorites at a children’s Halloween concert this Saturday, October 29th at Faith Lutheran Church in Seattle. Tickets and more information here. The post Agermos Chamber Music Project –…
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“MMXX” is a single release by the Seattle-based artist Athr, produced in part through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. The project covers era-specific themes of isolation and frustration. Watch the lyric video on YouTube. This track contains explicit language. The post Athr – MMXX appeared first on Jack Straw Cultural Center.…
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Esta pieza fue producida como parte del proyecto del Programa de Apoyo al Artista de la organización Jack Straw y realizado por la artista Marilyn Montúfar. El proyecto consiste de una serie de fotografías enfocadas en asesorar y fotografiar a jóvenes chicanas y mujeres migrantes de herencia Méxicana. Las jóvenes participantes fueron asesoradas en …
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