Offering established and emerging artists opportunities to explore the creative use of sound in a professional atmosphere through residencies in our recording studios and participation in our various presentation programs.
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Manuel Cawaling is the Executive Director of Cultural Access Washington. He served as Executive Director of Youth Theatre Northwest from 2008-2018. In 1989, Manuel was at the forefront of the fringe theatre scene in Seattle, co-establishing Capitol Hill’s Pilgrim Center for the Arts. He also served as a founding board member for Seattle’s League of Fringe Theatres, the predecessor of today’s Theatre Puget Sound and the organization credited with establishing Seattle’s Fringe Theatre Festival, the first such festival in the United States. Between 1992 and 1998, Manuel worked at the Northwest Asian American Theatre. In 1999, Manuel became Exhibit Developer/Manager at the Wing Luke Asian Museum. From 2003 to 2008, Manuel served on staff at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center, initially in artistic programming and then Managing Director, overseeing all administrative and programmatic activities for the performing arts facility. He has served two terms on the Seattle Center Advisory Commission, was a member of the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture’s Public Art Advisory Committee and has served as President for the Washington State Arts Alliance Foundation. Now a boardmember, Cawaling leads the planning for the Cultural Congress, their state-wide arts conference. |
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Kent Devereaux is the 12th President of Goucher College. He most recently served as President of the New Hampshire Institute of Art (NHIA), a private, non-profit college of arts and design. Prior to serving as NHIA president, Kent served as Professor and Chair of the Music Department at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle as well as Artistic Director for the College’s presenting series, Cornish Presents. Prior to moving to Seattle in 2008, Kent taught previously at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the California Institute for the Arts. As a composer and director of music-theater, his work has been performed at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre, the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis, and Seattle’s On the Boards. He studied composition with Lou Harrison and David Cope while attending the University of California at Santa Cruz, and with Gil Evans, Janice Giteck, and Anthony Braxton at Cornish College of the Arts (B.F.A., 1982). He holds a masters degree in Time Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (M.F.A., 1985). He has been awarded grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as a Fulbright Fellowship to conduct research in Indonesia. |
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Christina Sunardi is an ethnomusicologist in the School of Music at the University of Washington, where she has been teaching since 2008. Her interests include performance, identity, spirituality and ethnography in Indonesia. Her work focuses in particular on the articulation of gender through music, dance, and theater in the cultural region of east Java. Her publications include articles in Bijdragen Tot de Taal-, Land en Volkenkunde, Asian Music, and Ethnomusicology, as well as reviews in the Journal of Folklore Research Reviews, American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, and Indonesia. Dr. Sunardi has been studying and performing Javanese arts since 1997 in Indonesia and the United States, earning her Ph.D. in music from the University of California, Berkeley in 2007. She is currently working on a book about the negotiation of gender and tradition through dance and music in east Java. In addition to her academic work, she enjoys playing gamelan music with the Seattle-based ensemble Gamelan Pacifica and performing as an independent dancer. |
The Jack Straw Writers Program, Artist Support Program, and New Media Gallery Program offer established and emerging artists in diverse disciplines an opportunity to explore the creative use of sound in a professional atmosphere through residencies in our recording studios and participation in our various presentation programs.
The Jack Straw Writers Program was created in 1997 to introduce local writers to the medium of recorded audio; to develop their presentation skills for both live and recorded readings; to encourage the creation of new literary work; to present the writers and their work in live readings, an anthology, on the web, and on the radio; and to build community among writers.
The Jack Straw New Media Gallery is a unique venue in Seattle where artists from various disciplines can present works in which sound is an integral or exclusive element. This program enables artists to experiment with audio and to develop new skills and ideas in a supportive setting. Selected artists work with our engineers to realize the sound component of their project, with training as needed.
