Jack Straw New Media Gallery
The Northwest’s premier space for immersive installation art combining sound, digital media, and other genres.
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Donald Fels is a visual artist and writer. For the past twenty-five years he has followed the trade in commodities around the world. People have always exchanged goods, and in the process have forever swapped stories, traded hopes and ideas. He is currently at work on a graphic non-fiction book, Placing Color, which looks at the rather incredible history of the mordant alum. His book Water’s Edge, about a year he spent as artist in residence at a decommissioned steel plant in Southern Italy, is being readied for publication. |
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Beth Sellars served as curator of Suyama Space from co-founding the gallery with George Suyama in 1998 until its closing in 2017. Working as a museum curator in the Pacific Northwest since 1975, and more recently as curator of the City of Seattle’s Portable Art Collection through 2004, Sellars also works as an independent curator. She has served on numerous regional and national jury panels, museum and arts organization boards and committees, and has lectured internationally. Under Sellars’s stewardship, Suyama Space featured artists of national and international reputation in site-specific format, occasionally in collaboration with local and regional organizations. Past media coverage of programming has lauded Suyama Space as one of the Northwest’s pre-eminent contemporary art spaces. |
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Seattle-based artist Frank Video creates public art designs and artworks, site-specific art installations, and video works. In his own words, “The bulk of my public artwork attempts to memorialize the way we were and the way we are today.” Frank Video studied at Seattle Central Community College, Bellevue Community College, the University of Washington in Seattle, and Northern Illinois University. In addition to being a working artist, he has worked at a variety of arts organizations in the Seattle area for over twenty-five years. He has served as a commissioner for the Washington State Arts Commission, Seattle Arts Commission, and others. |
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 Artist Support Program has been assisting artists working creatively with sound since 1994, including writers, choreographers, multidisciplinary artists, theatre sound designers, radio producers, film makers, visual artists, and musicians and composers of all types. Every year, up to eight artists are awarded twenty hours of studio recording and production time with a Jack Straw engineer; an additional twelve artists receive matching awards for studio time.