Jack Straw Artist of the Week

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 – ( yubəč / chinook ) appeared first on Jack Straw Cultural Center.

“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 Lai II. Hugh Thompson, Jr. appeared first on Jack Straw Cultural Center.

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 appeared first on Jack Straw Cultural Center.

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.

“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, and […] The post Last of the RedHot Mamas – P-Pop Blues appeared first on Jack Straw Cultural Center.

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.

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.

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.

“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 – Residential School Requiem appeared first on Jack Straw Cultural Center.

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.

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 […] The post I Wayan Sinti – Gegilak appeared first on Jack Straw Cultural Center.

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, 2023 and died in 2008. You can read more about him and his legacy at the […] The post Grey Eagle – How Wolf Helped the Sami appeared first on Jack Straw Cultural Center.

“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 which communities are displaced by gentrification. Guests […] The post Story-keeping—the UN-[TITLED] Oral History series appeared first on Jack Straw Cultural Center.

“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. […] The post Nada Rosa – Reversal of Fortune appeared first on Jack Straw Cultural Center.

“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 […] The post MANtrio – It’s Simply a Matter of Work appeared first on Jack Straw Cultural Center.

“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 post LaVon Hardison – Walks with Robert appeared first on Jack Straw Cultural Center.