Artist of the Week Podcast

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 boathouse on […] The post Bridge of Eig...

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 post Foleada – Creoxote appeared first on Jack Str...

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 .

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 .

“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 […] The post Nacha Mendez – Juanita appeared first on J...

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. You can hear […] The post Josephine Ensign...

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 .

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 […] The post Kosher Red Hots &#82...

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, lighting designer Dave Proscia, and […] The po...

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 […] The post Stacey Levine and Lori Goldston – The Pos...

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 .

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 by Gina Bettelli; cover design by Alex Allen. The...

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 […] The post Artscape – Obo Addy appeared f...

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 .

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 appeared first on Jack Straw Cul...

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 […] The post Reggie Garrett &#...

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. Visitors […] The post Helen Lessick –...

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 […] The post Robert Francis Flor – A Christmas in the Cordi...

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 Cultural Center .

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 .

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 […] The post Gabriela Denise Frank – ( yub...

“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 Center .

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 Straw Cultural Center .

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 post Peter Colclasure: My...

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 […] The post Roger Nelson – Vexations appe...