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.-
Tom Baker – Deeply Lodged I: Gather
Tom Baker’s album Deeply Lodged includes music from multiple Jack Straw Artist Support Program projects. “Deeply Lodged,” a work for solo piano in three movements, is performed by Cristina Valdés.
Applications are open now for Jack Straw’s 2025 artist residency programs. Visit us on Submittable for more information: https://jackstraw.submittable.com/submit
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Tokio Florist Project New Media Gallery Podcast
Jack Straw artists Susie Kozawa and Brigid Kelly talk with Shin Yu Pai, Seattle’s Civic Poet and host of the podcast Ten Thousand Things, about their Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation Tokio Florist Project.
Applications are open now for Jack Straw’s 2025 artist residency programs. Visit us on Submittable for more information: https://jackstraw.submittable.com/submit
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Bridge of Eights - The Sleeping Tune
Gregg Dietzman‘s 2023 Jack Straw Artist Support Program project resulted in the soundscape album Sound and Light Signals. The sounds here were recorded at various locations along the Inside Passage of the Pacific Northwest, including “the Haida Náay I´waans (Whale House) in Kasaan, the cupola of Five Finger Lighthouse in Frederick Strait, a boathouse on Kupreanof Island, on a boat at anchor in Eucott Bay, and in chapels in Port Townsend and Friday Harbor,” and edited and mixed together in the studios at Jack Straw Cultural Center.
Jack Straw will host a listening event on Friday, October 11th, featuring Sound and Light Signals, and soundscape works by Jack Straw resident artists So’le Celestial and Perri Lynch Howard.
Applications are open now for Jack Straw’s 2025 artist residency programs. Visit us on Submittable for more information: https://jackstraw.submittable.com/submit
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Foleada - Creoxote
Jack Straw resident artists Foleada released their new album of Brazilian Forró music, Eu Vou Pra Lua, this summer. Forró, a cultural mainstay of Northeast Brazil, describes not just a musical genre but a way of life, a celebration of dance, love, and community. On Eu Vou Pra Lua – Portuguese for “I’m Going to the Moon” – Foleada gives Forró a contemporary Northwest spin, exploring the music’s soulful rhythmic tradition with four originals and four standards.
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Vibhuti Kavishwar - Prabhu More Avagun Chit Na Dharo
Jack Straw resident artist Vibhuti Kavishwar‘s album Shraddhanjali is now available to listen to on YouTube. The album is a tribute to the compositions of Vibhuti’s father, Pandit Lakshman Chausalkar.
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Jeff Rice New Media Gallery Podcast
Jack Straw artist Jeff Rice talks with Carlos Nieto about his Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation Pando Suite.
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Nacha Mendez - Juanita
“Juanita” is a new song from Jack Straw resident artist Nacha Mendez‘s forthcoming full-length album, produced with support from the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.
Nacha writes, “This is my Pride month offering, the breakup song Juanita. . . . I recorded this in Nov. 2023 at Jack Straw . . . I sat with it for 2 1/2 years. I wrote it when I started to date Juanita, but the words emerged after the break up. The song traveled to Seattle, Santa Fe and Los Angeles. It features Stephen Duros on guitar and bass, Rafael Herrera on percussion. Thank you to Camelia Jade, who engineered the first tracks at Jack Straw. Thank you to Jon Gagan of Electric Co. Studios, my collaborator of many years Stephen Duros, and lastly to my producer and friend Steve Peters.”
Lyric translation:
I sincerely offer you this song
There will be a day when you’ll see me on the street
You will say, that I look lovely and well,
I will say the same about you
Too bad our beauty couldn’t hold us up
It’s nothing you’ve said or doneI finally reached the depths of my soul to find you once again
You told me that you thought we were friends, and I thought we were more than just friends
The sign on your door said, hope doesn’t live here, keep walking
I wish you the best, it’s true, yesKeep walking Juanita, Keep walking
That kiss you gave me, lasted forever
Damn kiss woke me up
You played with my heart, you did it to confuse meKeep walking Juanita, Keep walking
I wish you the best, it’s true, yes.Words and Music by Nacha Mendez
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Josephine Ensign - Skid Road
The Skid Road podcast, produced by Josephine Ensign through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, amplifies a diversity of voices about homelessness in the Seattle area. This is the latest episode, featuring a conversation with Sparrow Etter Carlson, who works for the King County Regional Homelessness Authority in sub-regional planning for Seattle.
You can hear more Skid Road at josephineensign.com, or subscribe via Apple Podcasts.
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Wei Yang and Murphy Janssen New Media Gallery Podcast
Jack Straw artists Wei Yang and Murphy Janssen talk with Carlos Nieto about their Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation now you are there when this happened.
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Kosher Red Hots - Morenika
Jack Straw Resident Artists Sheila Fox and The Kosher Red Hots produced their album Our Songs in 2006 as part of their Artist Support Program residency. The album is a compilation of Yiddish and Ladino favorite songs from Seattle’s Jewish community, including live recordings with residents at The Kline Galland Home, Seattle’s Jewish nursing care facility, and studio recordings at Jack Straw. This studio recording features Jovino Santos Neto on piano.
Our Songs is available for listening and purchase on Bandcamp: https://kosherredhots.bandcamp.com/album/our-songs
Learn more on the Kosher Red Hots website: https://kosherredhots.com/oursongs
