Josh Griffin’s project for the 2024 Jack Straw Writers Program is a book of poems dedicated to the life and legacy of his mother, Carolyn Jane Griffin, who passed away in 2018. In his conversation with curator Nisi Shawl, he talks about how his mother encouraged him to pursue his art, choosing to write about […]
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Leanna Keith’s album body of breath, available September 27th and produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, is a concept album exploring the bass flute as a living, breathing, organism. “Al-Wahdat al-Wujud” was composed by Nebal Maysaud. Other composers featured on the album include Josh Hou, Heather Bentley, Kaley Lane Eaton, and Kevin Baldwin. […]
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Tom Baker’s album Deeply Lodged includes music from multiple Jack Straw Artist Support Program projects. “Deeply Lodged,” a work for solo piano in three movements, is performed by Cristina Valdés. Applications are open now for Jack Straw’s 2025 artist residency programs. Visit us on Submittable for more information: https://jackstraw.submittable.com/submit
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Jack Straw artists Susie Kozawa and Brigid Kelly talk with Shin Yu Pai, Seattle’s Civic Poet and host of the podcast Ten Thousand Things, about their Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation Tokio Florist Project. Applications are open now for Jack Straw’s 2025 artist residency programs. Visit us on Submittable for more information: https://jackstraw.submittable.com/submit
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Gregg Dietzman‘s 2023 Jack Straw Artist Support Program project resulted in the soundscape album Sound and Light Signals. The sounds here were recorded at various locations along the Inside Passage of the Pacific Northwest, including “the Haida Náay I´waans (Whale House) in Kasaan, the cupola of Five Finger Lighthouse in Frederick Strait, a boathouse on […]
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