Surrogate Mountain Soundscape: Visitors to Jack Straw are invited to take Mt. Rainier for a walk. A tiny version of the mountain with wheels will be located at the gallery, waiting on leash to be taken out into the city. Walking with the mountain, you can take your view with you. Surrogate Mountain now also comes with its own mountain soundtrack, so that you can be transported to the sonic slopes of the mountain while walking in the city.

Vaughn Bell creates interactive projects and immersive environments that deal with how we relate to our environment. Vaughn has exhibited her work including sculpture, installation, video, performance and public projects internationally. Her work has been seen in diverse venues including Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Exit Art in New York, The Soap Factory in Minneapolis, and the town of Kamiyama, Japan. Vaughn has been the recipient of 4Culture grants for artist projects, Site-Specific Performance Network Grant, the Nancy Graves Fellowship to the Millay Colony for the Arts and the Artist in Research Grant at the Berwick Research Institute. Her work has been featured in Artnews, Afterimage, and Arcade Journal, among others. She received her MFA from the Studio for Inter-related Media at Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, MA.