River Coello – HAMPI (Excerpt)

March 18, 2026

This week we share an excerpt from the audiobook of Jack Straw New Media Gallery artist River Coello‘s HAMPI, produced at Jack Straw. River’s Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation HAMPI, which incorporates sound from the audiobook, opens April 3rd, with a reception and performance from the artist.

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The Bonnies – Cowboy Bob

March 4, 2026

Jenny Peterson and Kaitlin McCarthy/The Bonnies produced “Cowboy Bob” as part of their Jack Straw Artist Support Program residency. In their residency, they created audio for their show I’m on Fire, You’re on Fire, We’re on Fire, presented through the Velocity Regionally Established Creative Incubator Program. The show opens tonight at 12th Ave. Arts and […]

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War Boys – Jason Prokowiew

February 25, 2026

Jason Prokowiew’s project for the 2025 Jack Straw Writers Program is a braided memoir about his Russian father’s adoption by the Nazis who murdered his family at the start of World War II, and the trauma he carried into parenthood. In his conversation with curator Kathleen Alcalá, they talk through the reason his father had […]

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I Go Back to Both Sides of the Dream – Makayla Danielle Gay

February 11, 2026

Makayla Danielle Gay’s project for the 2025 Jack Straw Writers Program is a series of poetry collages that combine poetry with archival film from her family. In her conversation with curator Kathleen Alcalá, they discuss the process of going through archival material, why she says art-making is an act of community, and the challenge of […]

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William Chapman Nyaho – Silk Hat and Walking Cane (Price)

February 4, 2026

This recording of Florence Price’s “Silk Hat and Walking Cane” is included on William Chapman Nyaho’s album Kete: Piano Music of Africa and the African Diaspora, produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program and released in 2020 on MSR Classics.

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The Parasol Maker – Mia Tong

January 28, 2026

Mia Tong’s project for the 2025 Jack Straw Writers Program is a mythology-inspired Young Adult adventure duology. The story revolves around a young adult named Vana, her caretaker who contracts an illness, and Vana’s journey to find a cure in a vast country she knows little about. In her conversation with curator Kathleen Alcalá, they […]

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