Jack Straw Writers Program

Jack Straw Writers at NW Folklife Festival
Narrative Stage, SIFF Cinema
Friday, May 24, 6:30pm

Kathleen Flenniken hosts 2013 Jack Straw Writers Kate Carroll De Gutes, Larry Crist, Josephine Ensign, Jay McAleer, Peter Munro, and Corry Venema-Weiss.

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Jack Straw New Media Gallery

Lost Long: a landscape An installation by Ruth Marie Tomlinson March 22 - May 22, 2013 Jack Straw New Media Gallery 4261 Roosevelt Way NE Seattle 98105 Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9-5 Also open during evening events at Jack Straw

Memory is malleable, but that doesn't mean it isn't true. In Lost Long the memories that fuel a long distance love affair with the horizontal landscape of Central Montana come together in a miscellanea of written words, gathered recordings, and reinvented visuals. The account holds dear to what memory believes; recounting days together, imagining reunions and making real what is distant.

More information on our New Media Gallery page.

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Jack Straw New Media Gallery

I love you, but you're too loud! An installation by meadow starts with p May 31 - July 12, 2013 Opening reception: Friday, May 31, 7pm Artist workshop: Saturday, June 22, 10am Jack Straw New Media Gallery 4261 Roosevelt Way NE Seattle 98105

Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9-5
Also open during evening events at Jack Straw

This marble-machine contraption integrates the percussive sounds of marbles rolling, dropping, skipping, shooting, striking, bouncing, rebounding, rattling, pinging, and knocking into a colorful, canorous cacophony.

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Spring 2013 Audio Workshops

Jack Straw Audio Workshops are the perfect opportunity to jump start that recording project you've been thinking about, to refine your digital editing skills, or to get that first hands on introduction to the world of audio recording and editing.

HOW TO SIGN UP: A nonrefundable deposit of $25 is required to register and hold a place in each class. Students are encouraged to pay in full at time of registration. For more information email workshops@jackstraw.org.

Discounts for the visually impaired are offered on Microphone Workshop and Basic Field Recording. Co-sponsored by Arts and Visually Impaired Audiences and Jack Straw Productions, with support from the Technology Matching Fund of the City of Seattle Department of Information Technology.

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Jack Straw Artist Project

Story Chairs Live Reading
Friday, June 7, 7pm
Jack Straw Productions

Featuring readers Kathleen Alcalá, Gwen Demombynes, Pamela Dodson, Gabriela Denise Frank, Willow Fox, Lily Garfield, Tina Hoggatt, Janel Kolby, Melissa Koosmann, Mark Nassutti, Judith Van Praag, Megan Vared, and Brenda Winter Hansen.
Music from Lucien La Motte.

See Art Zone with Nancy Guppy's piece on Story Chairs!

Story Chairs, a temporary audio installation by Jack Straw Resident Artist Tina Hoggatt featuring the work of over 30 writers and musicians, is now installed in Jack Straw's new lobby.

Originally conceived and designed for a 2008 installation in the Missoula Art Museum, the two chairs are artist-designed and crafted, in collaboration with Jeffry Mitchell and Ben Oblas. Audio plays through speakers hidden in the upholstery, triggered by the weight of the sitter. Tina Hoggatt received a Jack Straw Productions 2012 artist residency that supported audio production for this second installation of the Story Chairs. Nearly all of the audio was recorded at Jack Straw with the help of engineer and musician Moe Provencher.