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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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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An excerpt from the first episode of Hatch, a new podcast by Leilani Lewis and Chieko Phillips, produced with support from Jack Straw’s Artist Support Program. Leilani and Chieko will share their work and talk about this project at Jack Straw’s winter artist showcase, Sunday, Jan. 21 from 2-6 at Jack Straw Cultural Center. Hear […]
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“Sand Dune” is from David Hahn and Concert Imaginaire’s new album Passionate Isolation, produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. The band will perform selections from the new CD at Jack Straw’s winter artist showcase, Sunday, Jan. 21 from 2-6 at Jack Straw Cultural Center.
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2017 Jack Straw Writer D.A. Navoti describes his piece “One Pima Pilgrim” as a love-letter/goodbye letter to the Gila River Indian Community outside of Phoenix, AZ, in the Sonoran Desert. In the 2017 Jack Straw Writers Anthology, Dan explores the beauty of the landscape and what it feels like to be an outsider in his […]
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2017 Jack Straw Writer Brandon Young spoke with curator Jourdan Imani Keith about hoarding and its range of meanings and expressions, from bountiful treasure to suffocating trash. Brandon and Jourdan explore the idea that hoarding can provide salvation from an emotional trauma and is often a sign of an insecure environment. For Brandon’s work, he […]
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Sound collage produced through the New Media Gallery workshop for Tori Ellison and Garrett Fisher‘s installation Mikawa.
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Chris Jeffries and Harold Taw produced a cast recording of their original musical Persuasion (based on the Jane Austen novel) through the Artist Support Program. “That’s Home” is the final song. More information and links to purchase the recording at persuasionmusical.com.
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Steph Kesey‘s piece in the 2017 Jack Straw Writers Anthology is an excerpt from a book-length memoir in progress about her father’s battle with mental illness. She talks with curator Jourdan Imani Keith about this experience, how she began as a sculptor and became a writer, and how she finds form by putting the brutal […]
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Alyssa Keene interviews Jack Straw New Media Gallery artists Garrett Fisher and Tori Ellison about their installation Mikawa.
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