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THE JACK STRAW ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAMS offer established and emerging artists in diverse disciplines an opportunity to explore the creative use of sound in a professional atmosphere through residencies in our recording studios and participation in our various presentation programs. Artists may apply to only one program per year.

Writers Program Deadline: Monday, October 31 Artist Support and New Media Gallery Program deadline: Monday, November 28

All residency applications are now online via Submittable! If this format is not accessible to you for any reason, please contact us at [email protected] or (206) 634-0919.

Questions? Check our FAQs or email us at [email protected].

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Jack Straw New Media Gallery

Tiffany Danielle Elliott | I promise I won't scream
August 26-October 14, 2022

Visits by appointment, M-F, 10am-5:30pm

Call 206-634-0919 or email [email protected] to schedule a visit

Jack Straw Cultural Center, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE

Artist Talk: Friday, September 30, 7pm

In person and streaming on YouTube and Facebook Live

The expectation of what a woman is and how she should be is a force that creates great pressure when applied to a body. In response, we (I! She!) create a private act of desperate release – a secret uttering kept as silent as possible. I promise I won’t scream brings attention to these silent sounds through an act of collective documentation.

Jack Straw Atrium Gallery

Mary Coss: Ghost Timbre

Extended! July 8-September 23, 2022

Visits by appointment, M-F, 10am-5:30pm

Call 206-634-0919 or email [email protected] to schedule a visit

Jack Straw Atrium Gallery, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle

Ghost Timbre is a sound collage produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program as a companion to Coss's enormous corten steel sculpture Ghost Log, which resides on commencement Bay in Tacoma. The sculpture will be represented through images that include fabrication and installation.

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We recently shared this poem by Concord Elementary School student Kianna, written with help from poet and teaching artist Vicky Edmonds.

Deep inside

I am like origami,

helping people fold kindness

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Jack Straw Podcasts

Jack Straw Artist of the Week

The current installment of our Artist of the Week podcast is our New Media Gallery interview podcast with Chanee Choi about her installation Remembrance: Magma.

Listen at jackstraw.org, or subscribe via Apple Podcasts.

SoundPages: The Jack Straw Writers Podcast

Our 2021 Series of SoundPages concludes with writer Michael Overa in conversation with curator E.J. Koh and reading his work.

Listen at jackstraw.org, or subscribe via Apple Podcasts.

Opening Doors

Opening Doors is a podcast about accessibility in arts and civic life, from Jack Straw and the Seattle Cultural Accessibility Consortium. Our second season continues to amplify the voices of outstanding individuals with disabilities of all kinds.

Listen and subscribe at soundcloud.com/OpeningDoorsPod - or wherever you get your podcasts.

Season two consists of four interviews:

Nasreen Alkhateeb: Universal Design in Film
Elsa Sjunneson: Defining Deafblind Intersectionality
Vince Medrano: Revealing Intersectional Identity through Art
Tatiana Lee: Blackness & Disability Intersecting with Art

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