River Coello | HAMPI
April 3 – June 12, 2026
Appointments recommended: call 206-634-0919 or email jsp@jackstraw.org.
Opening reception: Friday, April 3, 7pm
In person at Jack Straw Cultural Center
Artist Talk: Friday, June 12, 7pm
In person at Jack Straw and streaming live on YouTube and Facebook
Youth and Family Workshop: Saturday, June 13, 2pm
E-mail education@jackstraw.org for more information
HAMPI (“medicine” in Quechua) is a multilingual, multimedia, autobiographical, and autoethnographic project chronicling Coello’s journey of ancestral reconnection to the Andean cosmovision.
The exhibition features photographs and artifacts collected by Coello during their travels in Ecuador and Peru, along with the project’s various collaborative elements, including handmade physical poetry art books with For the Birds Trapped in Airports, illustrations with Kiki Lechuga-Dupont, textile samples with LMRM, and a Quechua-language soundscape with Jack Straw Cultural Center. Coello will also perform poetry on opening day.
Artists
River Coello
River Coello is a Guayaquil-born writer, translator, performer, facilitator, speaker, and researcher based in Orlando. They are the author of HAMPI, a multilingual, multimedia collection exploring their reconnection with…
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