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.-
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
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Maureen Whiting - and there was concrete skin for your face
Choreographer/dancer Maureen Whiting created this soundscape at Jack Straw as part of her 2001 Artist Support Program project, a collaborative installation with video artist Robert Campbell, which appeared in the Jack Straw New Media Gallery in 2002. Other collaborators for the installation included costume designers KD Schill and Sarah Harlett, lighting designer Dave Proscia, and mechanical designer Tashi Meath. Maureen worked together with these artists to incorporate traditional performance elements (costumes, lighting, performance, visual design) into the installation and converge them in non-traditional and unexpected ways. Set to Maureen’s soundscape, dancers moved amid costumes and through video projections in the installation.
More information on the exhibit webpage: https://www.jackstraw.org/exhibit/maureen-whiting-and-robert-campbell-and-there-was-concrete-skin-for-your-face/
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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
