Artist of the Week
The Jack Straw Artist of the Week Podcast highlights work created through the Artist Residency Programs at Jack Straw Cultural Center.-
Amber Flame - Pray
Amber Flame‘s multimedia exhibition ::intrigue:: 8 opens this Friday, July 12th, in the Jack Straw Atrium Gallery. Text and sound pieces were created with words drawn from poems by eight different poets. This piece was based on JeanAnn Verlee’s For the Woman Who Loved the Predator More Than His Prey.
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Artscape - Craig Flory
This Artscapes radio piece was produced at Jack Straw in 1994 as part of a series highlighting the work of Jack Straw’s resident artists. Composer and multi-instrumentalist Craig Flory talks about how he started playing music and what he loves about it.
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Erin Elyse Burns New Media Gallery interview
Alyssa Keene interviews Jack Straw New Media Gallery artist Erin Elyse Burns about her exhibition To Take the Shape of the Container.
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Phoebe Tsang - Unbutton No. 6
Jack Straw artist Phoebe Tsang‘s solo violin/voice album Button Music, produced through the Artist Support Program, was recently released by Off Records. Read and hear more at phoebetsang.com.
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Kathya Alexander - Angel in the Outhouse
Jack Straw artist Kathya Alexander produced the audio version of Angel in the Outhouse, her book of short stories, through the Artist Support Program. The book is available now at audible.com.
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Lynette Westendorf and Animal Dreams - Bar Talk
Pianist/composer Lynette Westendorf’s album Surrounded by Green was produced in 1999 through a Jack Straw Artist Support Program Residency, with Jim Knodle (Trumpet), Kenny Mandell (saxes/flute), Hans Teuber (alto sax/piccolo), Elizabeth Falconer (koto), Dennis Staskowski (bass), and Bill Moyer (percussion). Learn more at lwmusic.com
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Srivani Jade with Thione Diop - The Parrot Song
Jack Straw artists Srivani Jade and Thione Diop performed this piece, from Rajasthan, at the Jack Straw Artist Showcase on January 21, 2018.
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Dave Knott - What Remains: The Great Old Time Piano Drop Soundboard
This piece (performed by Jeff Huston, Mike Shannon, David Stanford, Mark Wheeler, Dave Knott, and Sheri Cohen) is part of the installation Piano Drop, commemorating the 1968 dropping of a piano from a helicopter in Duvall, WA. Knott and many other composers will perform their original music for dropped piano at Jack Straw on February 23rd, 2019.
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Chun Shao New Media Gallery Interview
Alyssa Keene interviews Jack Straw New Media Gallery artist Chun Shao about her installation Silicone Love – Her Garden.
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Coley Mixan - I Don't Think It Had a Name (Just a Red & White Sign)
Jack Straw Artist Coley Mixan was one of twelve musicians who created new songs in response to the work of the 2018 Jack Straw Writers, in partnership with the Bushwick Book Club Seattle. This piece was inspired by the writing of poet Corbin Louis.
