Jack Straw Artist Mako recently released Portal, her new album of traditional Okinawan music produced through the Artist Support Program. You can hear the album and purchase a copy at mako3.bandcamp.com. On Saturday, July 11th, at 7pm, Mako will perform a live set from Jack Straw via Facebook Live.
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Jack Straw Artist Andrew Weathers mixed several recordings of his ensemble at Jack Straw for his Artist Support Program Residency. “The Plains of Paradise” and another of these tracks will be included on a cassette single from Timesuck tapes this spring.
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Suzanne Warren’s 2019 Jack Straw Writers Program project is a collection of short stories called In the Country of Husbands that marries domestic realism with magic realism and focuses on the lives of women and girls. In her conversation with curator Kathleen Flenniken, they discuss her background in experimental film, themes of rape culture, and […]
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Putsata Reang’s project for the 2019 Jack Straw Writers Program is a memoir that chronicles her life growing up in rural Oregon and her family’s journey escaping the war and genocide in Cambodia. In her conversation with curator Kathleen Flenniken, they discuss the difficulty of writing a memoir involving people who are living, displacement in […]
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Clarinetist and composer William O. Smith died recently after a long and fruitful career, ranging from playing – as Bill Smith – with Dave Brubeck to performing and composing his own pioneering modern classical work. Bill was a longtime friend of Jack Straw and produced a number of projects here, including his 2001 album Solo […]
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2019 Jack Straw writer Gabrielle Bates spoke with curator Kathleen Flenniken about her collection of poems about growing up in the South. In their conversation, they discuss her array of projects, including a poetry comic collection, surrealism in her writing, and finding patience during a project. “I keep going back, lately, to this great quote […]
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