Jack Straw New Media Gallery

Tiffany Danielle Elliott | I promise I won't scream 

August 26-October 14, 2022

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

Jack Straw Cultural Center, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE

Youth Sound Art Workshop: Saturday, September 24, 2pm

In person at Jack Straw or via Zoom

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

Join us in our studios or via Zoom for a hands-on sound art workshop with Tiffany Danielle Elliott in conjunction with this installation. Participants will tour the exhibit, then explore the concepts of silent screaming and the effect of sound vibrations on wood, and have the opportunity to record their voice and construct a wooden box of their own to store sound vibration, similar to those found in Elliott’s work.

Artist Talk: Friday, September 30, 7pm

In person and streaming on YouTube and Facebook Live

Tiffany Danielle Elliott discusses her Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation I promise I won't scream, which draws attention to the suppressed sounds that escape our bodies, asking what impact they have on our bodies and the world around us.

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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 

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

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.

Jack Straw Writers Fall Readings

Saturday, October 1, 4pm

Village Books, 1200 11th St, Bellingham

Registration recommended

With Ally Ang, Jessica Gigot, Erin Langner, Jory Mickelson, Emily Parzybok, Vincent Rendoni, and Ruth Schemmel. Michael Schmeltzer hosts.

Thursday, October 13, 6pm

It's about Time Reading Series

Streaming event

With Ally Ang, Danielle Hayden, Jory Mickelson, and Katharine Strange.

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

Truth feels like I’m riding my bike

and playing soccer!

Lies feel like my tummy hurts.

I’d rather ride my bike,

so I’ll tell the truth.

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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Jack Straw Cultural Center gratefully acknowledges the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, 4Culture King County Lodging Tax Fund, Washington State Arts Commission, The National Endowment for the Arts, Humanities Washington and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, The Seattle Foundation, ArtsFund, Raynier Institute and Foundation, Harvest Foundation, Jubilation Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, Lester and Phyllis Epstein Foundation, Tulalip Charitable Fund, School's Out Washington, and individual contributors for their support of our programs. Special thanks to our friends at Miller Nash LLP, and ORA (Owen Richards Architects), for their support.