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.
  • Srivani Jade at JS 50

    An excerpt from Jack Straw Artist Srivani Jade‘s set at JS 50: Jack Straw’s 25-hour marathon performance on June 15th-16th 2012 in celebration of our 50th anniversary.

  • Jack Straw New Media Gallery Interview : Ruth Marie Tomlinson

    Ruth Marie Tomlinson‘s installation Lost Long: A Landscape is installed in the Jack Straw New Media Gallery through May 20th. In this interview, she discusses the piece and its inspiration and origin.

  • Jack Straw Artist Interview : Tina Hoggatt

    Tina Hoggatt produced the audio for her Story Chairs installation – currently installed in Jack Straw’s lobby – through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. In this interview, she discusses the Story Chairs project.

  • Jack Straw New Media Gallery Interview: Amber Cortes

    Amber Cortes recently presented Signal to Noise: Imagined Frequencies of Radiophonic Space in the Jack Straw New Media Gallery. In this interview, she discusses the installation and its development and presentation.

  • Paul Nelson at JS 50

    Poet and Jack Straw Writers Program alumnus Paul Nelson reads at JS 50: Jack Straw’s 25-hour marathon performance on June 15th-16th 2012 in celebration of our 50th anniversary.

  • Sean Osborn at JS 50

    The third of Igor Stravinsky’s Three Pieces for Clarinet Solo, performed by Sean Osborn at JS 50: Jack Straw’s 25-hour marathon performance on June 15th-16th 2012 in celebration of our 50th anniversary. He will celebrate the release of his new album Bits and Pieces at Jack Straw this Friday, March 15th at 7pm.

  • Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble - Tunnel Mountain

    The Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble directed by Michael Owcharuk recently completed SJCE Volume 1 through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. It is available for download here.

  • Monktail Creative Music Concern at JS 50

    Members of Monktail Creative Music Concern performed a midnight set at JS 50: Jack Straw’s 25-hour marathon performance on June 15th-16th 2012 in celebration of our 50th anniversary. Bill Monto, tenor saxophone; Steve Parris, electric guitar; John Seman, double bass; Dave Abramson, drums.

  • Esther Sugai and Michael Shannon at JS 50

    An excerpt from Esther Sugai and Michael Shannon’s 4:30 am set at JS 50: Jack Straw’s 25-hour marathon performance on June 15th-16th 2012 in celebration of our 50th anniversary.

  • Judith Skillman at JS 50

    Judith Skillman – an alumnus of the 2008 Jack Straw Writers Program and an incoming 2013 Jack Straw Writer – reads her poem My Grandmother’s Waltz at JS 50: Jack Straw’s 25-hour marathon performance on June 15th-16th 2012 in celebration of our 50th anniversary.