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.-
Donna Miscolta - Excerpt from When the de la Cruz Family Danced
For her 2012 Artist Support Program project, Jack Straw resident artist Donna Miscolta produced several audio excerpts from her novel When the de la Cruz Family Danced. This excerpt is from the prologue. More audio excerpts are available at her website.
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Kevin Craft at JS 50
Poet Kevin Craft, a 2008 Jack Straw Writer, reads two poems at JS 50: Jack Straw’s 25-hour marathon performance on June 15th-16th 2012 in celebration of our 50th anniversary.
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Urtaa Gantulga at JS 50
Jack Straw resident artist Urtaa Gantulga performs traditional music on the Mongolian horsehead fiddle at JS 50: Jack Straw’s 25-hour marathon performance on June 15th-16th 2012 in celebration of our 50th anniversary.
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Felicia Gonzalez at JS 50
2000 Jack Straw Writer – and 2014 Jack Straw Writers Program Curator – Felicia Gonzalez reads two poems at JS 50: Jack Straw’s 25-hour marathon performance on June 15th-16th 2012 in celebration of our 50th anniversary.
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Ruthie Dornfeld - On the Siskiyou Trail
Ruthie Dornfeld has just released Lay of the Waves, her album of original compositions for the vielle, produced through Jack Straw’s Artist Support Program.
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Srivani Jade - Bahar
Bahar is a selection from a series of five pieces Srivani Jade composed in response to the paintings of Annette Solyst. Art to Art, an installation of Solyst’s paintings and Jade’s music, is being presented in Jack Straw’s New Media Gallery through January 17th.
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Sean Osborn - Rhapsody for Clarinet by Willson Osborne
Sean Osborn‘s album Bits and Pieces, a collection of pieces for solo clarinet by different composers (including Osborn himself), was produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.
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Storme Webber - Ray Charles is Forever Singing
Storme Webber recently released the music album Blues Divine, produced at Jack Straw through the Artist Support Program.
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Jack Straw New Media Gallery Interview : Steve Peters
Steve Peters‘s installation Lessons from the Ancestors is installed in Jack Straw’s New Media Gallery through November 22nd, 2013. In this interview, Peters discusses the piece and its origins and inspirations.
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Special O.P.S. - Wool Teeth
“Wool Teeth” appears on the Special O.P.S. EP Backdoor Draft, recorded as part of the Monktail Creative Music Concern‘s Artist Support Program residency.
