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.-
Stacey Levine and Lori Goldston - The Post Office
The Post Office is a comic, surreal play, produced in 1995 through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, about a wildly narcissistic postal clerk, a weak, sniveling customer, and matters of the human heart. Stylistically, it pays homage to playwrights such as Ionesco and Beckett.
Stacey Levine will read from her new book Mice 1961 with live accompaniment from Lori Goldston at Fantagraphics on Saturday, April 13th.
Director: Stacey Levine
Producer: Lori Goldston
Recording: Doug Haire
Music written by Lori Goldston.
Musicians: David Barnes, Beth Ann Harvey, Lori Goldston, Kyle Hanson, Matthew Sperry
Actors: Dayna Hanson and Jack Magai
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Katharine Threat - anatomy of my mixed body pt. 3
Katharine Threat produced the audio version of her book anatomy of my mixed body through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. The full book will be available for listening soon. Visit Blue Cactus Press for updates: https://bluecactuspress.com/
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Kaley Lane Eaton - Lookout
Singer-songwriter, composer, and performer Kaley Lane Eaton releases her new album Lookout, produced in part through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, this Friday, March 15th. She celebrates the release that evening with a concert at the Chapel Performance Space: https://www.waywardmusic.org/?p=8047
Album photo by Michelle Smith-Lewis; styling by Gina Bettelli; cover design by Alex Allen.
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Artscape - Obo Addy
This Artscapes radio piece was produced at Jack Straw in 2000 as part of a series highlighting the work of Jack Straw’s resident artists. The project Safarini: In Transit featured African immigrant artists living in Seattle. In addition to Obo Addy, a drummer, dancer, and composer from Ghana, Safarini included Wawali Bonane, Kofi Anang, Lora Chiorah-Dye, and Frank Ulwenya. The Safarini compact disc was released by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings in 2000.
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Benjamin Hunter - Hold On, Live at Jack Straw
Benjamin Hunter performed “Hold On” as part of his solo set the Jack Straw artist showcase in October 2021.
You can find the archived video of Ben’s whole set on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrv9IWYn6HM
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Dave Hollinden and Andrew Spencer - Of Wind and Water
Slender Beams is a collection of recordings of Dave Hollinden‘s compositions by percussionist Andrew Spencer, representing eight years of collaboration between the two. The album was produced through the 1998 Jack Straw Artist Support Program. Read more about it on Hollinden’s website.
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Reggie Garrett - So Far Away, Live at Jack Straw
Reggie Garrett performed this version of “So Far Away” with guitarist Paul Benoit at Jack Straw’s fall 2022 artist showcase. The song is included on Reggie’s album York’s Lament & Other Stories, produced in part through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.
You can find the archived video of Reggie and Paul’s full set on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtTbJ4_4Oug
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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.
