Jack Straw New Media Gallery

Erin Slomski-Pritz and Jenny Lesser Holman | Dream Motif

August 4-September 29, 2023

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

Jack Straw Cultural Center, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE

September 23, 2pm: Youth and Family Workshop

Free. E-mail [email protected] for information or to sign up.

Join us for a hands-on sound art workshop with artists Erin Slomski-Pritz and Jenny Lesser Holman. After an audio described tour of the exhibit, participants will work on translating dreams and perceptions into sound and tactile art forms.

Jack Straw Artist Support Program

Jack Straw Fall Artist Showcase

Sunday, September 24, 1-5pm

Jack Straw Cultural Center, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE

In person or streaming via YouTube and Facebook.

Free

Help us kick off the fall with an afternoon of music from Jack Straw Resident Artists Randal Bays and Clint Dye, Nic Masangkay, Medejin, Josh Nucci and friends, and Lindsey Strand-Polyak.

Jack Straw New Media Gallery

Wei Yang and Murphy Janssen | now you are there when this happened

October 6-December 8, 2023

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

Jack Straw Cultural Center, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE

Friday, October 6, 7pm: Opening Reception

In person at Jack Straw

Friday, November 3, 7pm: Artist Talk

In person at Jack Straw or streaming via YouTube and Facebook.

This interactive audio-visual installation deals with the poetics and uncertainty of memory. Sounds, colors—how are they recalled, reactivated, rebuilt, and reallocated? It asks, whose memory is it? Is the past yet to be made?

Apply Now! 

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.

Program deadlines:

Writers Program (Curator: Nisi Shawl): Wednesday, November 1

Artist Support and New Media Gallery: Monday, November 27

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].

Jack Straw Atrium Gallery

D.A. Navoti | O'otham Rhapsode

June 16-September 29, 2023

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

Jack Straw Cultural Center, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE

O'otham Rhapsode is a multimedia work by Jack Straw resident artist D.A. Navoti that depicts the lives and homelands of the Akimel O'otham, whose ancestral lands—named the Gila River Indian Community—are located south of Phoenix, Arizona. The word "O'otham" translates to people; the term "rhapsode" comes from Ancient Greece to describe an orator of epic poems. What orates these visual "poems"—a collection of three short videos—is atmospheric and symphonic music composed between 2022-2023.

Jack Straw Fall Audio Workshops

Jack Straw's audio workshops with engineer Tom Stiles are the perfect opportunity to improve your studio skills or get that first introduction to the world of audio recording and editing. 

To sign up or for more information, email [email protected].

Intro to Podcasting: Wednesday, October 11, 6:30-9:30pm

Fee: $50 (held on Zoom)

Learn the basics of creating and maintaining a podcast, from concept to planning, production, and distribution.

Intro to Digital Audio Editing: Thursday, October 12, 6:30-9:30pm

Fee: $50 (held on Zoom)

Learn the basic skills of recording and editing sound with audio editing software.

Join us on Social Media!

Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter to get regular doses of writing, art, and music from Jack Straw artists of all ages. 

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

Deep inside

I am like origami,

helping people fold kindness

into their heart.

Jack Straw Podcasts

Jack Straw Artist of the Week

The current installment of our Artist of the Week podcast features Roger Nelson's performance from our 2010 Vexations event, where 30 pianists played the Erik Satie piece 840 times.

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

Jack Straw New Media Gallery Podcast

Jonathan Rodriguez of Till the Teeth and Whitney Lynn talk with Jack Straw producer Carlos Nieto about their Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation Time Kills.

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

SoundPages, the Jack Straw Writers Program Podcast

The 2022 Jack Straw Writers SoundPages series concludes with a conversation between Ruth Schemmel and 2022 Writers Program Curator Michael Schmeltzer, and a recording of Ruth's live reading at Jack Straw.

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

Gratitude to the First People of Seattle

The staff, board, and artists of Jack Straw Cultural Center acknowledge that we are living, creating, working, and playing on the traditional land of the first people of Seattle and the Salish Sea - the Duwamish, Suquamish, and Muckleshoot nations and other Coast Salish peoples, past and present. We honor them and the land itself with deep gratitude.

Support Jack Straw Cultural Center

Jack Straw Cultural Center relies on the support of individual contributors to make our programs possible. Please help us continue to support the work of artists working with sound and all our art and technology education programs. Donate any amount by clicking the button below, or sending a check directly to us at 4261 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105.

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