Artist of the Week Podcast

Perri Lynch Howard’s “Ocean Avenue,” produced during her Jack Straw Artist Support Program residency, is an immersive audiovisual experience that transports viewers into the tranquil...

In Shadows, produced in part through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, is a multi-generational collaborative composition between composer Mako Kikuchi and the Omoide Project, a collective of Seat...

Sylvia Jones recorded the audio version of her poetry book Television Fathers at Jack Straw as part of her Artist Support Program residency. This excerpt includes the following poems from the book: &#...

Thomasa Eckert and The Bird Tribe Orchestra produced their album Red Ruby Palace during their 2000 Jack Straw artist residency. The post Thomasa and the Bird Tribe Orchestra – Prelude/Dance of t...

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 P...

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 Stimso...

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 wi...

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). ...

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 hea...

“LORA KROFT” is a sneak preview of Jack Straw New Media Gallery Artist Athr’s exhibit D BUTTERFLY EFEKT. The installation, opening Friday, November 1, is an extended reality music al...

Jack Straw artists Moonyeka and Heidi Grace Acuña of House of Kilig talk with Jack Straw producer Carlos Nieto about their Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation flourish like an ocean’s grie...

During their artist residency with Jack Straw, So’le Celestial composed and produced a 5 track soundtrack titled Numa’lo – meaning, “revive, do again, return” in Fina’ CHamoru (the CHamoru langu...

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, orga...

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 Cr...

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 To...

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 Pass...

Jack Straw resident artists Foleada released their new album of Brazilian Forró music, Eu Vou Pra Lua, this summer. Forró, a cultural mainstay of Northeast Brazil, describes not just a musical genre b...

Jack Straw resident artist Vibhuti Kavishwar‘s album Shraddhanjali is now available to listen to on YouTube. The album is a tribute to the  compositions of Vibhuti’s father, Pandit Lakshma...

Jack Straw artist Jeff Rice talks with Carlos Nieto about his Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation Pando Suite. The post Jeff Rice New Media Gallery Podcast appeared first on Jack Straw Cultural ...

“Juanita” is a new song from Jack Straw resident artist Nacha Mendez‘s forthcoming full-length album, produced with support from the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. Nacha writes, ...

The Skid Road podcast, produced by Josephine Ensign through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, amplifies a diversity of voices about homelessness in the Seattle area. This is the latest episode, f...

Jack Straw artists Wei Yang and Murphy Janssen talk with Carlos Nieto about their Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation now you are there when this happened. The post Wei Yang and Murphy Janssen N...

Jack Straw Resident Artists Sheila Fox and The Kosher Red Hots produced their album Our Songs in 2006 as part of their Artist Support Program residency.  The album is a compilation of Yiddish and Ladi...

Choreographer/dancer Maureen Whiting created this soundscape at Jack Straw as part of her 2001 Artist Support Program project, a collaborative installation with video artist Robert Campbell, which app...

The Post Office is a comic, surreal play, produced in 1995 through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, about a wildly narcissistic postal clerk, a weak, sniveling customer, and matters of the human...

Katharine Threat produced the audio version of her book anatomy of my mixed body through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. The full book will be available for listening soon. Visit Blue Cactus Pr...

Singer-songwriter, composer, and performer Kaley Lane Eaton releases her new album Lookout, produced in part through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, this Friday, March 15th. She celebrates the ...

This Artscapes radio piece was produced at Jack Straw in 2000 as part of a series highlighting the work of Jack Straw’s resident artists. The project Safarini: In Transit featured African immigrant ar...

Benjamin Hunter performed “Hold On” as part of his solo set the Jack Straw artist showcase in October 2021. You can find the archived video of Ben’s whole set on YouTube: https://www...

Slender Beams is a collection of recordings of Dave Hollinden‘s compositions by percussionist Andrew Spencer, representing eight years of collaboration between the two. The album was produced th...

Reggie Garrett performed this version of “So Far Away” with guitarist Paul Benoit at Jack Straw’s fall 2022 artist showcase. The song is included on Reggie’s album York’s...

Helen Lessick’s 1994 Jack Straw Artist Support Program project, Dreams, Deception and Skepticism, was a 2-channel audio sculpture comprised of a side table with a fish bowl holding live sea monk...

Robert Flor produced the radio adaptation of his play A Christmas in the Cordilleras, among other works, through the Artist Support Program at Jack Straw. KVRU 105.7FM will broadcast and stream two Ch...

Jack Straw artists Erin Slomski-Pritz and Jenny Lesser Holman talk with Carlos Nieto about their Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation Dream Motif. Music in this episode by Afterlife Giftshop, fro...

Circus Contraption,  a one ring circus with a versatile band led by music director/ringmaster Armitage Shanks, recorded their CD Gallimaufry through the 2001 Jack Straw Artist Support Program. Applica...

Gabriela Denise Frank‘s “( yubəč / chinook )” are paired concrete poems in the shape of salmon, one heading downstream to the ocean, the other heading upstream to spawn. They were pu...

“Sea Stacking” is the newest single from Medejin‘s album The Garden, produced in part through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. The Garden will be released October 20th, and is ...

This Artscapes radio piece was produced at Jack Straw in 1996 as part of a series highlighting the work of resident artists in Jack Straw’s Traditional Artist Support Program. Singer and songwri...

Peter Colclasure‘s My Lai, a new work for piano and string quartet based on the My Lai Massacre, was produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, and performed by Peter and Skyros Qua...

In May of 2010, Jack Straw presented a performance by a rotating cast of 30 pianists, playing through Erik Satie’s infamous “Vexations” theme 840 times, as suggested by the composer’s vexatiously enig...

Jack Straw artists Whitney Lynn and Jonathan Rodriguez of Till the Teeth talk with Carlos Nieto about their Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation TIME KILLS. The post Whitney Lynn and Till the Tee...

“P-Pop Blues” is the first single from Last of the RedHot Mamas’ forthcoming album Magick Black Woman, produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. Last of the RedHot Mama...

Leanna Keith performed this piece at Jack Straw’s 2022 Fall Artist Showcase as part of a  freely improvised set featuring the flute family and a looper pedal. The post Leanna Keith Live at Jack ...

Jack Straw artist Sasha Petrenko talks with Carlos Nieto about her Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation FOREST TIME WATER. The post Sasha Petrenko New Media Gallery Interview appeared first on Ja...

Jack Straw artists Ching-In Chen and Cassie Mira talk with Carlos Nieto about their Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation Breathing in a Time of Disaster. The post Ching-In Chen and Cassie Mira Ne...

“Residential School Requiem” is an audio excerpt from Jack Straw resident artist D.A. Navoti‘s multimedia work O’otham Rhapsode. The work will premiere on June 16th at Jack Straw as ...

This recording of an early version of Ran Park‘s “A Silkworm’s Thread” is from her December 2019 Artist Showcase performance at Jack Straw. You can hear the final version of th...

I Wayan Sinti produced several recordings at Jack Straw as part of a 2004 residency in the Artist Support Program. At the same time, he was in residency as a visiting artist at the University of Washi...

This story is excerpted from Grey Eagle’s audio collection Hear the Wolf: Native American & Sami Stories, produced in 1994, the first year of the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. Ken Jacks...

“Story-keeping—the UN-[TITLED] Oral History series” is a soundscape of music and oral histories heard during performances of the UN-[TITLED] Project. As a series of offerings and invitatio...