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.-
Helen Lessick - Dreams, Deception and Skepticism
Helen Lessick’s 1994 Jack Straw Artist Support Program project, Dreams, Deception and Skepticism, was a 2-channel audio sculpture comprised of a side table with a fish bowl holding live sea monkeys (daphnia), covered with translucent black and white scrims. A wall-mounted headphone set at the end of the table connected to an audio recorder. Visitors would hear two voices in conversation on a short loop. The project was exhibited at Jack Straw.
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Robert Francis Flor - A Christmas in the Cordilleras
Robert Flor produced the radio adaptation of his play A Christmas in the Cordilleras, among other works, through the Artist Support Program at Jack Straw. KVRU 105.7FM will broadcast and stream two Christmas plays by Bob, A Christmas in the Cordilleras and The Christmas Snow Globe, on December 21st at 2pm PST, December 24th at 10am, December 25th at 10am, December 27th at 2pm, and December 28th at 2pm.
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Erin Slomski-Pritz and Jenny Lesser Holman New Media Gallery Podcast
Jack Straw artists Erin Slomski-Pritz and Jenny Lesser Holman talk with Carlos Nieto about their Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation Dream Motif.
Music in this episode by Afterlife Giftshop, from the Dream Motif installation audio.
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Zack Bent New Media Gallery Podcast
Jack Straw artist Zack Bent talks with Carlos Nieto about his Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation The Charity Stripe.
Applications for our 2024-25 New Media Gallery and Artist Support Programs are due Monday, November 27. Apply now!
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Circus Contraption - Wooly Hat
Circus Contraption, a one ring circus with a versatile band led by music director/ringmaster Armitage Shanks, recorded their CD Gallimaufry through the 2001 Jack Straw Artist Support Program.
Applications for the 2024 program are available now!
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Gabriela Denise Frank - ( yubəč / chinook )
Gabriela Denise Frank‘s “( yubəč / chinook )” are paired concrete poems in the shape of salmon, one heading downstream to the ocean, the other heading upstream to spawn. They were published in the I Sing the Salmon Home anthology (Empty Bowl Press) edited by former Washington state poet laureate Rena Priest. They were written to honor the cultural and biological significance of salmon, a keystone species upon whose wellbeing numerous plant and animal species—including humans!—depend. Yubəč is the Lushootseed word for chinook salmon.
Gabriela produced this recording through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. Applications for 2024’s Artist Support Program and our other artist residencies are open now!
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Medejin - Sea Stacking
“Sea Stacking” is the newest single from Medejin‘s album The Garden, produced in part through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. The Garden will be released October 20th, and is available for pre-order now on Bandcamp: https://medejin-music.bandcamp.com/album/the-garden
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Artscape: Juan Barco
This Artscapes radio piece was produced at Jack Straw in 1996 as part of a series highlighting the work of resident artists in Jack Straw’s Traditional Artist Support Program. Singer and songwriter Juan Barco talks about the stories behind his songs and his deep love for his home state of Texas.
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Peter Colclasure: My Lai II. Hugh Thompson, Jr.
Peter Colclasure‘s My Lai, a new work for piano and string quartet based on the My Lai Massacre, was produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, and performed by Peter and Skyros Quartet. “Hugh Thompson, Jr.” is the piece’s second movement. The recording is available for purchase at https://petercolclasure.bandcamp.com/album/my-lai
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Roger Nelson - Vexations
In May of 2010, Jack Straw presented a performance by a rotating cast of 30 pianists, playing through Erik Satie’s infamous “Vexations” theme 840 times, as suggested by the composer’s vexatiously enigmatic note on the original manuscript. The performance started at 4:00pm on Saturday, May 15th, and ended the following day at 11:20am, after the piece had been played exactly 840 times. To our knowledge, this was the first time this had been done in Seattle.
Pianist and composer Roger Nelson performed the eighth hour, from 11pm to midnight.
Read more about this project on our website: https://www.jackstraw.org/program/art-heritage-partnerships/vexations-live-at-jack-straw/
