Cello Experiment – Going the Distance

April 24, 2018

Peter Williams and Cello Experiment produced their debut CD through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. They celebrate with a release show tonight (Tuesday, April 24th) at the Crocodile Back Bar. Find more information on the group, the CD, and the show at https://www.facebook.com/celloexperiment/

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Erasure – Quenton Baker

April 5, 2018

Quenton Baker’s project for the 2017 Jack Straw Writers Program was to write a series of erasure poems, exploring the omission of certain events and narratives of enslaved people in the United States. In his conversation with curator Jordan Imani Keith, Quenton talks about the slave revolt of 1841, his process for creating this kind […]

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Love – Wancy Young Cho

March 9, 2018

In 2017 Jack Straw Writer Wancy Young Cho’s piece “The Men on the Hill”–from his collection in progress tentatively titled Let’s Pretend We Don’t Know Each Other–a man describes his romantic encounters with a series of men who move in and out of his housing complex.  Though his work is fiction, the bulk of his […]

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Artscape – Sheree Seretse

March 8, 2018

This Artscapes radio piece was produced at Jack Straw as part of a series highlighting the work of Jack Straw’s resident artists. Sheree Seretse, of Anzanga Marimba Ensemble, talks about how she became interested in African music and dance and the fulfillment she continues to get from playing and teaching.

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Tenderloin – Calvin Gimpelevich

February 22, 2018

Calvin Gimpelevich’s piece in the 2017 Jack Straw Writers Anthology is an excerpt from his novel Tenderloin, set in an alternate reality present-day San Francisco, tracing the intersections of various movements and communities through the 1970s. His conversation with curator Jourdan Imani Keith covers his love of history, using writing as a tool to build […]

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Madeline Crowley: Storied Seattle (excerpt)

February 14, 2018

Madeline Crowley produced the Storied Seattle series, featuring residents of Seattle’s Central District, through her Jack Straw Artist Support Program residency. This excerpt features Elmer Dixon. The full pieces will be aired on Hollow Earth Radio. Read more about the project at peopleofthecentralarea.com.

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Shoes – Catalina Marie Cantú

February 7, 2018

2017 Jack Straw Writer Catalina Marie Cantú has been working a on a series of short creative non-fiction stories as a way to speak to young women about feeling okay with who they are in a Photoshop world. Her conversation with curator Jourdan Imani Keith covers bullying, the influence of teachers, and the ubiquity of […]

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Peter Vukmirovic Stevens: Panacea: I.

January 31, 2018

Jack Straw resident artist Peter Vukmirovic Stevens‘s album Panacea: Three String Quartets, available now from ArpaViva, was produced in the studios at Jack Straw and performed by the quartet of Mikhail Shmidt, Blayne Barnes, Mara Gearman, and Paige Stockley. For CD purchase and more information, visit http://www.arpaviva.org/arpaviva_content/Panacea.html

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Divination – afrose fatima ahmed

January 24, 2018

After a series of personal transitions, 2017 Jack Straw Writer afrose fatima ahmed went from “running around and achieving” to spending a year and a half on the Olympic Peninsula to be with herself in nature.  Her collection of poems blood gold and honey, which grew out of poetry commissions at farmer’s markets and festivals, […]

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