Thomasa and the Bird Tribe Orchestra – Prelude/Dance of the Faeries
Thomasa Eckert and The Bird Tribe Orchestra produced their album Red Ruby Palace during their 2000 Jack Straw artist residency.
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Thomasa Eckert and The Bird Tribe Orchestra produced their album Red Ruby Palace during their 2000 Jack Straw artist residency.
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Amontaine Aurore’s project for the 2024 Jack Straw Writers Program is an autobiographical coming of age novel set between 1963 and 1974, when her family moved to and lived in an all-white neighborhood in Seattle. The novel focuses on her search for a Black identity during a time of cultural, political, and social upheaval and […]
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Jack Straw artist – and 2022 Jack Straw Writer – Jessica Gigot has released the second season of her podcast Her Deepest Ecologies, produced in part through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. In conversation with a wide range of artists, makers, creators, and caretakers, this podcast takes on two fundamental and interconnected questions: “How […]
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KRAB FM aired this adaptation of Dickens’s classic – produced, directed, and narrated by Rita Rega – on Christmas, 1974. The cast includes Harold Street, Theda Berkeley, David Stimson, Doug Dillon, Dean Richardson, Father Cyril Kenna, Larry Smith (Albert), Brian Fox, Cheryl Rockham, Charlene King, Ken Graham, Phil Ferguson, Shirley Powell, Raleigh Fisher, and Natasha […]
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Becca Rose Hall’s project for the 2024 Jack Straw Writers Program is a family epic novel set in the Pacific Northwest, homing in on the town of Home, Washington, an anarchist colony founded in 1896 on the Kitsap Peninsula. The novel switches between a homesteader living in Home and her great granddaughter, who in the […]
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This excerpt from the 7th episode of Derek G. Larson‘s animated series Très Mall, with music produced through Derek’s Artist Support Program residency, features a clip from an interview with art historian David Joselit. You can watch the full episode, which also includes music by Jim O’Rourke and conversations with art critic Boris Groys, philosopher […]
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Mary Pan’s project for the 2024 Jack Straw Writers Program is a collection of lyric essays focusing on themes of mental health, caregiving, identity, and the idea of retrospective diagnosis. In her conversation with curator Nisi Shawl, they discuss the challenges of navigating the healthcare system, the stories she encounters during her medical practice as […]
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Rasheena Fountain’s Jack Straw Artist Support Program project Dropped Down Blues is on view in the “How to Carry Water” exhibit at The Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts (PRAx). Dropped Down Blues is a speculative blues fiction and poetry audio-visual project set in Pipers Creek, a 1.4-mile stream located in Carkeek Park […]
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E.J. Batiste’s project for the 2024 Jack Straw Writers Program is a collection of poems two years in the making, covering a range of topics including her experience as a person of color in the rural south, femininity, prayer, and history. In her conversation with curator Nisi Shawl, they explore her recent name change and […]
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Jack Straw artists Transonic recently released “Hook Jab,” the first single produced with help from their Jack Straw Artist Support Program residency. Follow them at @transonicmusic to hear what comes next. Applications are due November 25th for Jack Straw’s 2025 Artist Support and New Media gallery programs. Visit us on Submittable for more information: https://jackstraw.submittable.com/submit
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