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.-
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.
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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
